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Youth group pushes for Kasukuwere as president
27 Jan 2015 at 21:06hrs | Views
Vana vaChaminuka, a Zanu-PF youth group, has started mobilising people to endorse newly-appointed National Commissar and Environment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere to take over as party leader after President Robert Mugabe.
"There is nothing to hide any more. The president is old and the party needs a capable leader to take it forward. Kasukuwere is the right person for the job," the group's chairperson, Eliard Mhangami, told The Zimbabwean this week.
"We have engaged our structures countrywide to push this drive and the response so far is very positive. Kasukuwere is still young and has a vision for a better tomorrow. He understands our grievances as young people and has good relations with party leaders and elders."
The group has dismissed vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa as a "factionalist and boot-licking leader" who is impotent in terms of leadership qualities. "Let us not forget that before the congress there were two factions. One (Joice Mujuru) has been destroyed but we still have to deal with the one headed by Mnangagwa. He has failed as a leader since 1980. We have to recall how he has been vicious from the days of Gukurahundi. Our country no longer needs such people. It needs visionaries who are prepared to deliver and the see a successful nation," added Mhangami.
During the build up to the congress last year the group called on Mugabe to clip Mnangagwa's wings, claiming he had become a "de facto Prime Minister". They said they would present a petition to Mugabe soon urging him to be wary of Mnangagwa's alleged underhand mechanisations to usurp power.
The group is further lobbying Zanu-PF founder members to hand over the party leadership to the Young Turks, among them Information minister Jonathan Moyo, Tourism minister Walter Muzembi, Mugabe's nephew Patrick Zhuwao, Makhosini Hlongwane, Philip Chiyangwa.
"There is nothing to hide any more. The president is old and the party needs a capable leader to take it forward. Kasukuwere is the right person for the job," the group's chairperson, Eliard Mhangami, told The Zimbabwean this week.
"We have engaged our structures countrywide to push this drive and the response so far is very positive. Kasukuwere is still young and has a vision for a better tomorrow. He understands our grievances as young people and has good relations with party leaders and elders."
The group has dismissed vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa as a "factionalist and boot-licking leader" who is impotent in terms of leadership qualities. "Let us not forget that before the congress there were two factions. One (Joice Mujuru) has been destroyed but we still have to deal with the one headed by Mnangagwa. He has failed as a leader since 1980. We have to recall how he has been vicious from the days of Gukurahundi. Our country no longer needs such people. It needs visionaries who are prepared to deliver and the see a successful nation," added Mhangami.
During the build up to the congress last year the group called on Mugabe to clip Mnangagwa's wings, claiming he had become a "de facto Prime Minister". They said they would present a petition to Mugabe soon urging him to be wary of Mnangagwa's alleged underhand mechanisations to usurp power.
The group is further lobbying Zanu-PF founder members to hand over the party leadership to the Young Turks, among them Information minister Jonathan Moyo, Tourism minister Walter Muzembi, Mugabe's nephew Patrick Zhuwao, Makhosini Hlongwane, Philip Chiyangwa.
Source - zimbabwean
