A surprisingly buoyant Didymus Mutasa says notwithstanding the machinations of Zanu PF hardliners and their purported expulsion of former vice president Joice Mujuru from the brawling ruling party, the 59-year-old widow of the late liberation war icon, General Solomon Mujuru, will one day lead both the party and the country.
Speaking in an interview yesterday, following Zanu PF’s announcement on Thursday that the party had expelled Mujuru, Mutasa — who maintains that he is still the ruling party’s bona fide secretary for administration — insisted that the former VP “remains the genuine and original Zanu PF vice president until a proper congress is convened”.
He said Mujuru’s purported expulsion from the ruling party was a clear manifestation of how popular she was both in Zanu PF and the country generally, and how much her political enemies “feared even her shadow”.
“We supported her before, during and after the illegal (December 2014) congress, not because we are a faction but because we are law-abiding members of the party who respected and recognised the official and elected officials of the party.
“We are certain that if all had gone well at the congress, she was going to be democratically elected into the same position again. We are confident that as time goes on, she will be the first democratically elected female president of Zimbabwe,” Mutasa said.
Mujuru, Mutasa and other senior officials were brutally removed from their party positions late last year and subsequently sacked from government after they were accused of plotting to oust and assassinate Mugabe — even though these serious allegations have never been taken to the courts.
The murky plot was first broached by controversial First Lady Grace Mugabe, with President Robert Mugabe himself later picking up the cudgels and ludicrously claiming that Mujuru had gone as far as importing witchdoctors from Nigeria to kill him.
Mutasa, the former Presidential Affairs minister in charge of the country’s spooks, said his support for Mujuru was not premised on factional grounds, but came out of conviction, principle and aq sense of doing the right thing.
He said that she is hailed not just for her “exceptional leadership qualities” but also for her “impressive” academic credentials that she had obtained against all odds and despite the machinations of many in the ruling party.
“She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in management and entrepreneurial studies from the Zimbabwe Women’s University. She has also graduated with a PhD from the University of Zimbabwe’s Faculty of Arts,” he said.
In addition, Mutasa said Mujuru had been a “consistently faithful and steadfast comrade” starting before Zimbabwe’s independence from Britain in April 1980 up to now.
He pointed out that the “motherly” Mujuru had advocated the advancement of women, adding that she always put other people’s interests and the party’s unity ahead of her own personal ambitions.
“Amai Mujuru is an upright and strong woman of the highest integrity and a good mother. She shies away from crass feminism, and always points out that men need women and women need men.
“Amai Joice Teurai Ropa Mujuru is a team player and a fine leader,” Mutasa said.
With the list of those purged from Zanu PF growing by the day, Mutasa said his Zanu PF faction embraced anyone within and outside the party who loved their country, and who believed in changing Zimbabwe for the better.
“We are happy to say that the majority of the deposed (Zanu PF) chairmen of provinces were tried and tested war veterans and upright members of our party. Our hearts are with them, and they are with us,” Mutasa said.
He added that failure to observe the party constitution as had been sadly observed in the disputed 2014 congress had created “anarchy, chaos and dictatorship as is currently happening”.
“We believe that the party constitution must be aligned to and not deviate from the national constitution. Any such deviation should be resisted and met with timeous, strong and resolute defiance,” Mutasa said.
He said that the illegal current party leadership betrayed the party’s democracy by “adopting dictatorship and bringing the country to its current state of suffering”, where “nothing is working”.
In an apparent swipe at Mugabe and his wife Grace, Mutasa said that the time had come for the ruling party to stop emblazoning party regalia with faces of individuals who began to think that they were above the party and the country.
He said the “real Zanu PF” cadres, Mutasa unlike the mafikizolos (Johnny-come-latelies), had seasoned members of Zanla, Zipra and Zipa among its ranks who were being marginalised in the country.
“We constitute the nucleus that bore the brunt of the national struggle. We fought and spearheaded the liberation war that brought freedom and independence in 1980,” Mutasa said. -DailyNews
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Really saMutasa the real Zanu Pf recognizes Zipa!! But are you not the one who claimed not to know Cde Dzino when he died last year, yet you knew that he was one of the illustrious leaders of Zipa together with the legendary Nikita Mangena? You did not even bother to pay condolences to the legendary’s family, instead opting to ridicule him. You conveniently forgot that he rescued the liberation struggle from collapse when there was a leadership crisis after the death of the luminary Herbert Chitepo. You forgot that he wanted to unite all Zimbabweans, Shona, Ndebele, Nambia, Sotho, etc because they had a common enemy in the form of the illegal Smith regime. It was only madyira, Cde Rugare Gumbo, who went to Mbare to pay his condolences to Cde Dzino’s family. Noone in Zanu Pf leadership even cared to say a statement, including Cde Teurai Ropa. Now that you are on the receiving end I hope saMutasa you shall tell the nation who formed Zipa, what they stood for, their achievements, the suffering they went through and how they were pushed to the periphery of Zimbabwean politics before and after independence. Aaaa musadaro vakomana zvinorwadza. let us give credit where it is due. The liberation war was a national project, but vamwe vedu tinozvipa nyembe pane kuti tipiwe nevanhu. There are so many Zimbabweans who bore the brunt of the war but decided to take a backseat after independence and watch events from the terraces. They did not do it for self-aggrandizement, but to liberate the country, period. That is the spirit that should have been sustained in the country post-independence. Ingadai tisiri patiri nhasi.
Really saMutasa the real Zanu Pf recognizes Zipa!! But are you not the one who claimed not to know Cde Dzino when he died last year, yet you knew that he was one of the illustrious leaders of Zipa together with the legendary Nikita Mangena? You did not even bother to pay condolences to the legendary’s family, instead opting to ridicule him. You conveniently forgot that he rescued the liberation struggle from collapse when there was a leadership crisis after the death of the luminary Herbert Chitepo. You forgot that he wanted to unite all Zimbabweans, Shona, Ndebele, Nambia, Sotho, etc because they had a common enemy in the form of the illegal Smith regime. It was only madyira, Cde Rugare Gumbo, who went to Mbare to pay his condolences to Cde Dzino’s family. Noone in Zanu Pf leadership even cared to say a statement, including Cde Teurai Ropa. Now that you are on the receiving end I hope saMutasa you shall tell the nation who formed Zipa, what they stood for, their achievements, the suffering they went through and how they were pushed to the periphery of Zimbabwean politics before and after independence. Aaaa musadaro vakomana zvinorwadza. let us give credit where it is due. The liberation war was a national project, but vamwe vedu tinozvipa nyembe pane kuti tipiwe nevanhu. There are so many Zimbabweans who bore the brunt of the war but decided to take a backseat after independence and watch events from the terraces. They did not do it for self-aggrandizement, but to liberate the country, period. That is the spirit that should have been sustained in the country post-independence. Ingadai tisiri patiri nhasi.
Mutasa where your Office?….
Mutasa where your Office?….
Mutasa…… the bones of Christpower, burnt to where they are feather light, his flesh fine carbon powder …… cries out from the ground. Divine vengeance is poised above your greedy power craving head. You will fail in all of your machinations. You will meet your god and he will banish you to darkeness and fire forever. Your Vox populi rhetoric does not im[ress us as we remember the 12 year old, screaming in fear and pain as the flames of his hut licked up his flesh and you laughed while you drank another scotch wiskey.
Mutasa…… the bones of Christpower, burnt to where they are feather light, his flesh fine carbon powder …… cries out from the ground. Divine vengeance is poised above your greedy power craving head. You will fail in all of your machinations. You will meet your god and he will banish you to darkeness and fire forever. Your Vox populi rhetoric does not im[ress us as we remember the 12 year old, screaming in fear and pain as the flames of his hut licked up his flesh and you laughed while you drank another scotch wiskey.
The whimpering sounds of a useless running and barking toothless rabid tailless dog.
The whimpering sounds of a useless running and barking toothless rabid tailless dog.
The problem with the likes of Mutasa is hero worshipping they have shifted from Mugabe to Teurai Ropa.They cannot be themselves and stand for what they believe in without clinging even to the skirts of a frightened widow.
The problem with the likes of Mutasa is hero worshipping they have shifted from Mugabe to Teurai Ropa.They cannot be themselves and stand for what they believe in without clinging even to the skirts of a frightened widow.
Mutasa seems to be reading from a dissident note book that was picked up by the security forces after a battle in Dinyane in March 1982.If at all he had joined us that early,Zimbabwe would be a better country than it is today, politically,economically and socially.Silambe Over !
Mutasa seems to be reading from a dissident note book that was picked up by the security forces after a battle in Dinyane in March 1982.If at all he had joined us that early,Zimbabwe would be a better country than it is today, politically,economically and socially.Silambe Over !