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Mugabe ignores Unity Accord
09 Jul 2015 at 10:36hrs | Views
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's latest Cabinet reshuffle undermined Unity Accord between PF Zapu and Zanu-PF after he handed the Home Affairs portfolio back to his original party, analysts said yesterday.
Mugabe on Monday reassigned long serving Home Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi, a former PF Zapu official to State Security in his second Cabinet reshuffle inside seven months.
The Home Affairs portfolio headed by the likes of late Vice-President John Nkomo and Dumiso Dabengwa was a preserve of PF Zapu members since the peace accord to end the Gukuruhundi atrocities in 1987.
Paul Siwela, a 2002 presidential candidate now in self-imposed exile after escaping a treason trial, said the Unity Accord was always prone to manipulation by the 91-year-old leader.
He said PF Zapu policies and programmes were thrown into the dust bin including political friends.
Bulawayo-based political commentator Methuseli Moyo said there was no longer a substantive Unity Accord, but Zanu-PF wanted to pretend the deal still subsisted.
The Unity Accord only specified Zanu-PF and the government having two Vice-Presidents, one from PF Zapu and the other from Zanu PF. Its signing is still celebrated on December 22 annually.
Mugabe on Monday reassigned long serving Home Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi, a former PF Zapu official to State Security in his second Cabinet reshuffle inside seven months.
The Home Affairs portfolio headed by the likes of late Vice-President John Nkomo and Dumiso Dabengwa was a preserve of PF Zapu members since the peace accord to end the Gukuruhundi atrocities in 1987.
He said PF Zapu policies and programmes were thrown into the dust bin including political friends.
Bulawayo-based political commentator Methuseli Moyo said there was no longer a substantive Unity Accord, but Zanu-PF wanted to pretend the deal still subsisted.
The Unity Accord only specified Zanu-PF and the government having two Vice-Presidents, one from PF Zapu and the other from Zanu PF. Its signing is still celebrated on December 22 annually.
Source - newsday
