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'Mujuru must be expelled,' says Zanu-PF youth
15 Mar 2015 at 09:08hrs | Views
Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central Youth League chair Godfrey Tsenengamu says former Vice-President Joice Mujuru should be expelled from the revolutionary party as a way of dealing decisively with factionalism.
Tsenengamu said this yesterday to hundreds of Zanu-PF supporters at belated 21st February Movement celebrations to mark President Mugabe's 91st birthday at Centenary Country Club.
Tsenengamu said Mujuru's continued Zanu-PF membership gave remnants of her faction hope of re-grouping to launch another attempt to unseat President Mugabe.
"We expelled Didymus Mutasa, Rugare Gumbo and Themba Mliswa for belonging to the faction that wanted to assassinate the President but nothing has happened to Mai Mujuru despite confessions by all these people we have expelled that she was their leader . . .
"The people who belong to Mai Mujuru are regrouping and until we deal with the leader of the faction we will face similar problems in the future," Tsenengamu said.
"Everything we have done and are doing will come to naught if she remains in the party because they will continue to plot against the President. So we are saying as youths we want the party leadership to deal with this matter urgently, or as the vanguard of the party we will take matters into our hands."
Mujuru lost her Central Committee and Politburo seats in December 2014 after it emerged she was leading a cabal that wanted to carry out a coup against the President.
She was then fired from Government along with 16 ministers and deputy ministers.
Tsenengamu said President Mugabe's visionary leadership was the reason Zanu-PF had withstood attempts from within and outside to destabilise it.
"As youth we promise that we will continue to fight to maintain his vision for Zimbabwe based mainly on our sovereignty and empowerment of the indigenous people," he said.
Tsenengamu said this yesterday to hundreds of Zanu-PF supporters at belated 21st February Movement celebrations to mark President Mugabe's 91st birthday at Centenary Country Club.
Tsenengamu said Mujuru's continued Zanu-PF membership gave remnants of her faction hope of re-grouping to launch another attempt to unseat President Mugabe.
"We expelled Didymus Mutasa, Rugare Gumbo and Themba Mliswa for belonging to the faction that wanted to assassinate the President but nothing has happened to Mai Mujuru despite confessions by all these people we have expelled that she was their leader . . .
"The people who belong to Mai Mujuru are regrouping and until we deal with the leader of the faction we will face similar problems in the future," Tsenengamu said.
"Everything we have done and are doing will come to naught if she remains in the party because they will continue to plot against the President. So we are saying as youths we want the party leadership to deal with this matter urgently, or as the vanguard of the party we will take matters into our hands."
Mujuru lost her Central Committee and Politburo seats in December 2014 after it emerged she was leading a cabal that wanted to carry out a coup against the President.
She was then fired from Government along with 16 ministers and deputy ministers.
Tsenengamu said President Mugabe's visionary leadership was the reason Zanu-PF had withstood attempts from within and outside to destabilise it.
"As youth we promise that we will continue to fight to maintain his vision for Zimbabwe based mainly on our sovereignty and empowerment of the indigenous people," he said.
Source - sundaymail
