Mugabe envoy wades into Zanu PF chairperson debate

 Former PF Zapu members are unlikely to retain the Zanu PF chairperson position with Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba saying the post could be contested by anyone.

Charamba in his weekly Nathaniel Manheru column published in The Herald said the 1987 Unity accord between President Robert Mugabe and the late Joshua Nkomo did not reserve the post of national chairperson for ex PF Zapu members.

Below is a paragraph on the matter from the Manheru column.

And don't get me wrong, I am not suggesting the incumbency of national chairman has anything to do with the Unity Accord. I happen to know it does not, and has never had any such connection in the past. It has always been founded on the intrinsic attributes of holders. That they happened to have been in PF-Zapu in the past has nothing to do with it. The point I am making is that the correct position of a ruling or governing party cannot be articulated through innuendos, through implications. Or left to pregnant, even divisive surmise as if we are a fragile, unsure item. Or worse, as if the matter is still pending. Is it not the prerogative of rulers and governors to make time, make the wind that blows all sails? Why broach a matter prematurely? Why does the Party sound like it is being forced into a conversation, unready, unsure? Ending up giving answers that raise more questions, more suspicions, when they should be settling matters? It is as if we don't control reality, even the reality inside the Party. The microenvironment, in other words.