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Another big blow for Mnangagwa
07 Dec 2015 at 07:23hrs | Views
It appears as if it does not rain but pour for Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu PF camp, as well as the VP's mooted ambitions to succeed President Robert Mugabe.
Harare became the latest province yesterday to formally agitate for a return of a women's quota system in the warring ruling party, setting the stage for a stormy meeting when the former liberation movement meets for its annual conference this week.
Bulawayo, Mashonaland East, Mashonaland West and Mashonaland Central have already called for the re-incorporation of the women's quota system in the party's constitution - which was successfully used to hinder Mnangagwa's rise to power in 2004.
If the proposal sails through at the party's conference that is being held in Victoria Falls, it would most likely see Mnangagwa once again paving the way for a woman vice president as he did a decade ago - as the other VP, Phelekezela Mphoko, looks safe as he is the face of the Unity Accord signed between Zapu and Zanu PF in 1987.
The embattled Mnangagwa is said to be currently embroiled in a bitter fight with the ruling party's ambitious Young Turks, the Generation 40 (G40), in the bitter fight to succeed Mugabe - raising growing fears among his supporters that he may go down in the same manner that former Vice President Joice Mujuru was deposed from power late last year.
To that extent, insiders say this week could prove to be one of the most important and significant periods in the long political life of Mnangagwa as the war to succeed Mugabe gets hotter and nastier by the day.
"We have resolved that as the women's league, we would want to be well represented at all levels of the party in line with the national constitution," a Harare provincial executive member told the Daily News yesterday.
Mphoko unexpectedly attended Harare province's meeting yesterday and is said to have urged it to push for strict discipline in the party "to get rid of rotten apples" that were not supportive of Mugabe.
"Those who are insulting the first lady are insulting the president. When you say she is leading a faction, then you are saying the president is also leading a faction.
"Can you say because I support Mai Mugabe so I am a member of G40 even when I am 40 years? These are the things you must address in your resolutions chairman. Deal with these crimes, the treason that is being committed under the cover of darkness," Mphoko said.
The decision by the party's Harare province sets the stage for an explosive conference, amid revelations of plots and counterplots by the two antagonistic camps to outdo each other at the increasingly-important annual gathering.
Harare became the latest province yesterday to formally agitate for a return of a women's quota system in the warring ruling party, setting the stage for a stormy meeting when the former liberation movement meets for its annual conference this week.
Bulawayo, Mashonaland East, Mashonaland West and Mashonaland Central have already called for the re-incorporation of the women's quota system in the party's constitution - which was successfully used to hinder Mnangagwa's rise to power in 2004.
If the proposal sails through at the party's conference that is being held in Victoria Falls, it would most likely see Mnangagwa once again paving the way for a woman vice president as he did a decade ago - as the other VP, Phelekezela Mphoko, looks safe as he is the face of the Unity Accord signed between Zapu and Zanu PF in 1987.
The embattled Mnangagwa is said to be currently embroiled in a bitter fight with the ruling party's ambitious Young Turks, the Generation 40 (G40), in the bitter fight to succeed Mugabe - raising growing fears among his supporters that he may go down in the same manner that former Vice President Joice Mujuru was deposed from power late last year.
"We have resolved that as the women's league, we would want to be well represented at all levels of the party in line with the national constitution," a Harare provincial executive member told the Daily News yesterday.
Mphoko unexpectedly attended Harare province's meeting yesterday and is said to have urged it to push for strict discipline in the party "to get rid of rotten apples" that were not supportive of Mugabe.
"Those who are insulting the first lady are insulting the president. When you say she is leading a faction, then you are saying the president is also leading a faction.
"Can you say because I support Mai Mugabe so I am a member of G40 even when I am 40 years? These are the things you must address in your resolutions chairman. Deal with these crimes, the treason that is being committed under the cover of darkness," Mphoko said.
The decision by the party's Harare province sets the stage for an explosive conference, amid revelations of plots and counterplots by the two antagonistic camps to outdo each other at the increasingly-important annual gathering.
Source - Daily News
