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Mutasa's letter not yet delivered to Zuma
19 Jan 2015 at 07:41hrs | Views
The axed Zanu-PF secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa, wrote to Sadc leaders and the chairman about his grievances with the party and its conduct of the December congress.
However, South African President Jacob Zuma's spokesman, Mac Maharaj, said he had not seen the letter Mutasa had written to his principal complaining about the congress.
"I can't tell you anything at the moment, I am still checking," he said.
Maharaj said he could not promise when he could give a definitive response to Mutasa's letter, as he was yet to see it.
Responding to reports that he had been expelled from Zanu-PF, Mutasa said he did not recognise the meeting that deliberated on his fate.
"I don't belong to the sixth congress of Zanu-PF," he said.
"That is illegal, but I belong to Zanu-PF prior to the sixth congress.
"They are not members of that, so they cannot expel me."
Mutasa is expected, in the coming few days, to launch a court appeal, challenging the Zanu-PF congress.
Zanu-PF insiders believe Mutasa is doing former Vice-President Joice Mujuru's bidding and that she may be the one behind the court process.
Mutasa becomes the fourth high-ranking Zanu-PF official to be expelled from the paty since the purging of perceived Mujuru allies began last October.
The next Zanu-PF politburo meeting is expected to endorse Mutasa's expulsion.
Former party spokesperson Rugare Gumbo, war veterans' leader Jabulani Sibanda and Chipinge South legislator Enoch Porusingazi are others that have been booted out.
Zanu-PF officials who attended the Manicaland meeting said Mutasa was expelled from the party for writing a strongly-worded letter to Sadc leaders in December 2014, imploring them to intervene in the country's deepening political crisis spawned by the party's internal fighting.
The Manicaland provincial leaders accused Mutasa of being disrespectful of Mugabe and the party in the statement he released last week on Monday.
However, South African President Jacob Zuma's spokesman, Mac Maharaj, said he had not seen the letter Mutasa had written to his principal complaining about the congress.
"I can't tell you anything at the moment, I am still checking," he said.
Maharaj said he could not promise when he could give a definitive response to Mutasa's letter, as he was yet to see it.
Responding to reports that he had been expelled from Zanu-PF, Mutasa said he did not recognise the meeting that deliberated on his fate.
"I don't belong to the sixth congress of Zanu-PF," he said.
"That is illegal, but I belong to Zanu-PF prior to the sixth congress.
"They are not members of that, so they cannot expel me."
Mutasa is expected, in the coming few days, to launch a court appeal, challenging the Zanu-PF congress.
Zanu-PF insiders believe Mutasa is doing former Vice-President Joice Mujuru's bidding and that she may be the one behind the court process.
Mutasa becomes the fourth high-ranking Zanu-PF official to be expelled from the paty since the purging of perceived Mujuru allies began last October.
The next Zanu-PF politburo meeting is expected to endorse Mutasa's expulsion.
Former party spokesperson Rugare Gumbo, war veterans' leader Jabulani Sibanda and Chipinge South legislator Enoch Porusingazi are others that have been booted out.
Zanu-PF officials who attended the Manicaland meeting said Mutasa was expelled from the party for writing a strongly-worded letter to Sadc leaders in December 2014, imploring them to intervene in the country's deepening political crisis spawned by the party's internal fighting.
The Manicaland provincial leaders accused Mutasa of being disrespectful of Mugabe and the party in the statement he released last week on Monday.
Source - Southern Eye
