Mugabe urges party to follow regulations

President Mugabe has implored Zanu-PF members to dump those whom they are fed up with together with their backers at the party's elective congress in December.

Mugabe while lashing out at party misfits, said he could not hurriedly fire them as the party had procedures of dealing with such vices.

He said like in a marriage if party cadres were found on the wrong side, he would part ways with them.

Mugabe said the party had been infiltrated by people who were power hungry, a far cry from the virtues of the liberation struggle where cadres respected elected officials.

The Zanu-PF politburo yesterday banned its members from chanting unsanctioned and provocative slogans such as "Down with Gamatox" and "Down with weevils".

Party leader President Robert Mugabe was also tasked to appoint a commission of inquiry to probe factionalism that has ripped the former liberation movement through the middle.