War vets flay Kasukuwere

War veterans yesterday strongly criticised the Zanu-PF commissariat department and called for its complete overhaul, saying it should be led by a person with liberation war credentials.

The commissariat is under the leadership of Cde Saviour Kasukuwere, who was a pre-pubescent youth at independence in 1980.

The freedom fighters said the department, as currently constituted, was spending time and energy suspending and expelling party members instead of concentrating on its primary role of mass mobilisation and political education.

Presenting their thematic reports during a frank exchange of views with their patron, President Mugabe in Harare yesterday, the war veterans also took a dig at the revolutionary party's National Disciplinary Committee saying it was surprisingly "the police, prosecutor and judge" at the same time.