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Case against Kasukuwere collapses
12 Nov 2017 at 05:15hrs | Views
Zanu PF's national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, who was facing allegations of setting up parallel structures to dethrone President Robert Mugabe, is now technically off the hook following the dismissal of former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Kasukuwere's case had been referred to the ruling party's presidium for determination, but ever since it was extensively debated in the party's highest decision-making organ outside congress, the politburo, more than four months ago, the decision has taken long in coming.
Kasukuwere's political career hanged in the balance after ruling party structures in his home province, Mashonaland Central, turned against him and staged a demonstration in Bindura demanding his expulsion from the ruling party, but President Robert Mugabe seemed to offer him a lifeline.
About 1 000 demonstrators, comprised mostly of Zanu PF youths, women and war veterans, brought the small mining town to a standstill, as they accused Kasukuwere of plotting Mugabe's ouster, setting up parallel structures, fanning factionalism and regionalism.
Eight Zanu PF parliamentarians from the province - Nicholas Goche, Kenneth Musanhi, Remigious Matangira, Christopher Chitindi, Joseph Mapiki, Kazembe Kazembe, Walter Kanhanga and Monica Mavhunga - participated in the procession that snaked through the town's streets before the demonstrators were addressed by different speakers at Bindura Showgrounds.
Similar demonstrations were held in Gweru, where party supporters accused Kasukuwere of turning Zanu PF into his private project.
The political drama, however, later took on another twist when Mugabe told Cabinet ministers in the capital that demonstrations were not a panacea to party problems.
More to follow....
Kasukuwere's case had been referred to the ruling party's presidium for determination, but ever since it was extensively debated in the party's highest decision-making organ outside congress, the politburo, more than four months ago, the decision has taken long in coming.
Kasukuwere's political career hanged in the balance after ruling party structures in his home province, Mashonaland Central, turned against him and staged a demonstration in Bindura demanding his expulsion from the ruling party, but President Robert Mugabe seemed to offer him a lifeline.
About 1 000 demonstrators, comprised mostly of Zanu PF youths, women and war veterans, brought the small mining town to a standstill, as they accused Kasukuwere of plotting Mugabe's ouster, setting up parallel structures, fanning factionalism and regionalism.
Similar demonstrations were held in Gweru, where party supporters accused Kasukuwere of turning Zanu PF into his private project.
The political drama, however, later took on another twist when Mugabe told Cabinet ministers in the capital that demonstrations were not a panacea to party problems.
More to follow....
Source - dailynews
