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ZimPF targets Zanu-PF strong holds
03 May 2016 at 04:44hrs | Views
Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) Chitungwiza co-ordinator Marakia Bomani, has said his party was targeting Zanu-PF strongholds in rural areas as urban voters had already rejected the ruling party since 2000 when the opposition MDC-T snatched its first parliamentary seats.
Bomani said ZimPF was aware that Zanu-PF was prone to using violence "as their policing tool" and that his party was peace loving although it was not going to be a stroll in the park campaigning in the rural areas".
Zanu PF, which is facing a plethora of economic and political challenges ahead of the 2018 elections, has hatched a plot to derail Joice Mujuru's Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) project by taking back most of its members that had been suspended or expelled from the party.
Senior party officials said that the recent decision by party leader, President Robert Mugabe to open appeal avenues for the lost members was instructed by the need to action the Mujuru derailment plot.
Many of the members expelled or suspended from Zanu PF are senior and influential politicians and a good number of them had shown inclination to join Mujuru's party— presenting a serious threat to Mugabe's Zanu PF.
Others were still sitting on the fence and the apparent welcome back to Zanu PF is likely to attract them. Following Mugabe's meeting with war veterans who warned him that the suspensions and expulsions had destroyed and exposed the party to defeat Mugabe immediately put together a committee to hear appeals against the expulsions and suspensions.
Bomani said ZimPF was aware that Zanu-PF was prone to using violence "as their policing tool" and that his party was peace loving although it was not going to be a stroll in the park campaigning in the rural areas".
Zanu PF, which is facing a plethora of economic and political challenges ahead of the 2018 elections, has hatched a plot to derail Joice Mujuru's Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) project by taking back most of its members that had been suspended or expelled from the party.
Senior party officials said that the recent decision by party leader, President Robert Mugabe to open appeal avenues for the lost members was instructed by the need to action the Mujuru derailment plot.
Many of the members expelled or suspended from Zanu PF are senior and influential politicians and a good number of them had shown inclination to join Mujuru's party— presenting a serious threat to Mugabe's Zanu PF.
Others were still sitting on the fence and the apparent welcome back to Zanu PF is likely to attract them. Following Mugabe's meeting with war veterans who warned him that the suspensions and expulsions had destroyed and exposed the party to defeat Mugabe immediately put together a committee to hear appeals against the expulsions and suspensions.
Source - newsday
