You are a dead man (or woman) as soon as you walk out on Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.
Addressing a small crowd in Hurungwe, Mnangagwa warned saying people risked losing their lives the moment they decide to leave the party. His words appeared badly out of taste as they came within twenty four(24) hours of the death former ZANU PF Harare Province Chair Amos Midzi who died of circumstances still being investigated by police.
Mnangagwa was addressing people at the National Fire Week launch in Nyamakate, Hurungwe.
He said some party cadres were failing to discern the political wind blowing in the country ending up being axed from Mugabe’s party.
“We see, but cannot see well, and hear yet cannot hear well,” he said.
He continued, “there is no life that can be obtained if you are not with those who are ruling the country.
“Once you get out of Zanu-PF, your life starts deteriorating and becomes shrivelled like a leaf. Do not seek unhappiness in life, but go with the winning team.”

It was convincingly clear Mnangagwa was referring to numerous stalwarts purged by the party(including those who lost their lives) and in this area, former Mashonaland West provincial chairman Temba Mliswa who was defeated by Zanu-PF candidate Keith Guzah in the just ended Hurungwe West by-election.
Guzah garnered 5 961 votes against Mliswa’s 4 239 votes.