ZANU-PF Youth demand a return to Gwara Remusangano

The ZANU PF Youth League's latest statement, delivered under the stewardship of Tinoda Machakaire, is less a ceremonial New Year greeting than a calibrated intervention into a moment of visible internal strain. Against the backdrop of public spats, social media outbursts, and factional signalling, the communiqué reads as a corrective memo to cadres who have mistaken visibility for authority and noise for influence.  

Its central argument is unmistakable: discipline over spectacle. By explicitly condemning "reckless hate speech," "inflammatory statements," and "public grandstanding," the League draws a sharp line between legitimate internal debate and conduct that corrodes organisational coherence. The invocation of gwara remusangano is deliberate - it recentres power within formal party structures and procedures, implicitly delegitimising the parallel centres of commentary mushrooming online.  

The message reframes loyalty not as blind praise but as productive conduct aligned with development, unity, and stability. In this, it echoes President Mnangagwa's long-standing preference for quiet consolidation over theatrical confrontation. Yet the undertone is unmistakably disciplinary: dissenters are cast as "miscreants pursuing narrow self-interest," their actions framed as threats to collective survival. The statement thus functions as a loyalty test, equating obedience to the President with the endurance of the Party itself.  

Ultimately, this is a reassertion of hierarchy. The Youth League positions itself as the vanguard enforcer, signalling that the leadership's patience with performative infighting has run out. The warning is subtle but firm: internal battles fought in public timelines do not strengthen the Party - they weaken it. In a period of heightened sensitivity, the League's intervention is both a crack of the whip and a call to return politics from the chaos of social media back to the discipline of structures.