Mliswa disrupts Zanu-PF meeting

Ousted Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson Temba Mliswa yesterday caused a furore at a provincial co-ordinating committee meeting when he insisted that suspended members should be allowed to attend the meeting.

He also disrupted the meeting after interjecting when a member made the "Pasi ne Gamatox" slogan, asking why people he appointed to the provincial executive were making the slogan.

"When thieves go to steal and one of them is caught can they say they are not thieves because they were not caught?" said Mliswa.

He said if he was a "Gamatox" then the entire Mashonaland West executive should be dissolved because he appointed them.

National political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, who was at the meeting, then asked Mliswa if he still wanted to remain part of the "Gamatox" gang which planned to topple President Mugabe using extra-judicial measures like assassination.

Mliswa did not respond to the question.

He went on to make several injections as acting chairman Ziyambi Ziyambi was addressing the meeting. He objected to the ejection of suspended youth commissar Jackson Chizanga who was ousted through a vote of no confidence.

"PC (political commissar Kasukuwere)," said Mliswa, "these people's suspensions were not taken before the Politburo and confirmed. So, they cannot be ejected from the PCC."

But Kasukuwere instructed all those with pending cases to go out as their cases were being finalised.

He said other suspended members like Webster Shamu were quiet as they had decided to let party processes take their course.

"They have accepted to be disciplined by the party while their issues are being looked into," said Kasukuwere.

He said members should not defile the party and its illustrious history.

Kasukuwere chided Mliswa saying the party would not brook discord and indiscipline within its ranks and those bent on destabilising it were free to form their own.

"We cannot have people disturbing the progress of the party because they have ulterior motives," he said. "You can go ahead and form your own party instead of trying to cause confusion."

Kasukuwere said the party had to take corrective measures as energy was being expended on building personal political castles on imagined power at the expense of the party and the people.

He said people should not be led astray by the likes of former secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa, who reportedly wants to form his own party.

"To those who are said to be planning to form their party like Mutasa they should go ahead, but I cannot follow him . . . going where?" said Kasukuwere. "To go for diesel here in Chinhoyi. We don't want it. People should not be led astray."

Kasukuwere said Zanu-PF was a mean political machine which had survived defections from people like Edgar Tekere, Margret Dongo, Simba Makoni and Dumiso Dabengwa who formed their own political parties.