Terrence Mawawa | Zaka| A Zanu PF meeting ended prematurely in commotion last week, after a senior party official announced that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s sympathisers would be expelled from the party.
As the Zanu PF factional battles escalate to unprecedented levels, senior party officials warned at the meeting that members sympathetic to Mnangagwa would be fired from the party.
Party members sympathetic to the Vice President are being systematically eliminated from the party structures as the G-40 battles to take control of party affairs.
Zanu PF National Youth Secretary for Administration and Central Committee member Severino Kazizi, warned that party members successionists would be thrown out of the party.
Kazizi made the remarks at the party meeting held at Jerera Council Hall. “I want to urge you to unite and those who cannot respect President Robert Mugabe will be expelled from the party.There are misguided elements who are already talking about succession. There is no one who can replace the President. All those who are dreaming of elevating someone else to the President’s post will be fired,” said Kazizi.
He also defended the government’s decision to ban the importation of goods. He accused South Africans and western governments of sponsoring the protests that were successfully staged across the country. “The South Africans and western governments masterminded the protests because they relied on Zimbabwe and the decision to ban imports was a blow to them. Hence they tried to counter it by organising the protests,” said Kazizi.