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Mugabe to chair tense Zanu-PF indaba
02 May 2012 at 18:34hrs | Views
President Robert Mugabe is expected to chair a potentially tense politburo meeting to mend fissures threatening to rip Zanu-PF apart following shambolic party district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections in some parts of the country.
Zanu-PF political commissar Webster Shamu has been ordered to submit a report to the Politburo on the extreme cases of intra-party violence and discontent that have dominated the party DCC elections in Masvingo and Manicaland provinces.
Party spokesperson Rugare Gumbo confirmed the DCC saga would be high on the agenda at the potentially explosive politburo meeting.
The issue of DCC elections will be discussed at the politburo meeting tomorrow. The political commissar was tasked to come up with a report on how the situation prevails and we will take it up from there, he said.
The politburo position on the matter follows reports of vote-rigging, imposition of candidates and a litany of other irregularities deemed inconsistent with democratic elections in the two provinces last month.
According to party insiders, the fissures centred on factions reportedly led by Vice-President Joice Mujuru and Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, who are said to be leaving no stone unturned to position their allies in strategic positions in all party structures.
The two are perceived as front runners to succeed 88-year-old Mugabe who has been in power since independence in 1980.
Zanu-PF political commissar Webster Shamu has been ordered to submit a report to the Politburo on the extreme cases of intra-party violence and discontent that have dominated the party DCC elections in Masvingo and Manicaland provinces.
Party spokesperson Rugare Gumbo confirmed the DCC saga would be high on the agenda at the potentially explosive politburo meeting.
The politburo position on the matter follows reports of vote-rigging, imposition of candidates and a litany of other irregularities deemed inconsistent with democratic elections in the two provinces last month.
According to party insiders, the fissures centred on factions reportedly led by Vice-President Joice Mujuru and Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, who are said to be leaving no stone unturned to position their allies in strategic positions in all party structures.
The two are perceived as front runners to succeed 88-year-old Mugabe who has been in power since independence in 1980.
Source - newsday
