Mutasa on a mission to 'cleanse' Zanu-PF

Sacked party stalwart Didymus Mutasa is going to court to get his job back and to restore Zanu-PF to "legality'. Didymus Mutasa, the embattled former minister in the Zimbabwe presidency and the ruling Zanu-PF's former secretary for administration, has staked his lifelong career in the party in a high-stakes bid to get his job back.

Mutasa (79), who has been with Zanu-PF for more than 40 years, is taking the party to court in an effort to get the decision taken at its congress in December to remove him reversed.

He was subsequently fired from government and accused of trying to assassinate President Robert Mugabe and former vice-president Joice Mujuru, who was also dismissed from the government and party.

Mugabe described Mutasa last week as a "fool" for taking him on.

Mutasa believes so, particularly if the courts concede to their request that the party should go back to the position where it was in August 2014.

His own position is that there is nothing that he will gain personally from this process, except to bring back legality to the party.

What they are doing is for the benefit of young people, who do not want to be led by a group of gangsters who simply come up one day and tell lies and say to the president: "You are going to be killed" and this is what this group is preparing to do. They feel that is evil and must be resisted.