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Zanu PF Women's League members hate Grace Mugabe - Mliswa

by Thobekile Zhou
15 Jan 2016 at 09:55hrs | Views
Former Zanu PF Mashonaland West chairman and Hurungwe West legislator Temba Mliswa  has said Zanu PF is heading down the slippery slope of self-destruction due to factional fights.

He said President Robert Mugabe should urgently address the succession issue which is now the preoccupation of Zanu PF at the expense of the economy.

The former legislator said there is nothing wrong with Mugabe's age  (91) so long as he is capable.

He told the Zimbabwe Independent in a lengthy interview.

Below are some of Mliswa's comments including that Grace Mugabe is hatred by most women in the country.

He was what he realised about Zanu PF from the time he was kicked out.

"Zanu PF is a violent party by its very nature; violence of which I came face-to-face with during the Hurungwe West by-election of June 2015 and that was subsequently reported as factual by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission.

"Zanu PF is an institution that does not respect the will of the people and I do not want to be part of it. You cannot have a situation where there is bloodshed every time there is an election or when people deem it fit to exercise their democratic right.

On the controversial succession issues he said "The issue of (President Robert Mugabe's) succession should be dealt with swiftly as everyone is focussing on it at the expense of the economy. It is important that the President, as the centre of power, makes this decision as he has the power to appoint and not elect a successor.

Because of a lack of a succession plan, Zanu PF imposed provincial chairpersons on the people against the mandate of the Zanu PF constitution. While Mujuru was in office, there was a natural succession plan which would see her assuming the leadership in the unfortunate event that anything befalls the President.

"Now the focus of all Zanu PF cadres is to fight amongst each other at the expense of the economy; to see who will succeed Mugabe as there is no succession plan in place".

"At the rate they are going, Zanu PF is heading down the slippery slope of self-destruction. When the ruling party indiscriminately chooses to violate its own constitution and instead be at the whim of the First Lady, it becomes dangerous for its longevity.

There is nothing wrong with Mugabe's age so long as he is capable.

However, when that capability is questioned or compromised and it becomes more and more apparent that decisions are being made from another quarter and that nobody is calling the First Lady to order, then things are likely to fall apart.

This is because whether we like it or not, the First Lady is not a politician and to all intents and purposes, should not have been allowed to have the power to expel Zanu PF members en masse or to insult and harass people as was witnessed (in 2014).

Moreover, the First Lady is generally not liked as a politician by the majority of women who are the backbone of Zanu PF.


Source - Byo24News