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Mugabe's name has been sucked into the bitter fight within Zanu-PF
10 May 2015 at 11:06hrs | Views
President Robert Mugabe's name has been sucked into the bitter fight within Zanu-PF over the contentious Harare East by-elections where two candidates from the ruling party are contesting against each other.
Documents in The Standard's possession show that Mugabe made the final call to have Zanu-PF aspiring candidate for Harare East constituency Terrence Mukupe's candidature withdrawn at the 11th hour, moments before the nomination court sat in Harare last month ahead of the June 10 by-election.
The documents chronicle the events leading to the ruling party pulling the plug on the career banker, even though Mukupe had won the Zanu-PF primary elections for the constituency against former Zifa Women's Football boss Mavis Gumbo.
In a hard-hitting letter to party political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere on April 30, Zanu-PF acting Harare provincial chairperson Goodwills Masimirembwa raised damning allegations on the Water and Environment minister, coming short of openly accusing him of imposition.
Mukupe however thanked Mugabe for making Zimbabwe a truly democratic nation with a legal system that works.
Documents in The Standard's possession show that Mugabe made the final call to have Zanu-PF aspiring candidate for Harare East constituency Terrence Mukupe's candidature withdrawn at the 11th hour, moments before the nomination court sat in Harare last month ahead of the June 10 by-election.
In a hard-hitting letter to party political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere on April 30, Zanu-PF acting Harare provincial chairperson Goodwills Masimirembwa raised damning allegations on the Water and Environment minister, coming short of openly accusing him of imposition.
Mukupe however thanked Mugabe for making Zimbabwe a truly democratic nation with a legal system that works.
Source - Standard
