Zanu PF in Mashonaland East Province is appointing village heads into its structures.
The involvement of traditional leaders in politics is a breach of the Constitution which states that traditional leaders should neither be members of any political party nor act in any partisan manner.
One disgruntled Zanu PF official based in Mutoko who requested not to be named told ZimEye.com that a number of local village heads and their assistants are being incorporated into the party’s cells.
He said the latest case happened last week at Murewa centre at Zihute hall where Zanu PF held its provincial meeting which was presided over by Mabel Nkatazo (proportional representation MP for the area) and Daniel Garwe.
Both Zanu PF Mashonaland East Provincial Chairman Joel Biggie Matiza and MP Nkatazo could not pick up calls when ZimEye.com contacted them for comment.
Commenting to the development People’s Democratic Party’s Mashonaland East Chairperson Langton Matuku said they are aware of the inclusion of traditional leaders by Zanu PF in its provincial structures.
Matuku said his party was in the process of preparing some papers with the aim of suing Zanu PF for breaching the constitution.
“While they (Zanu PF) have a right to mobilise membership from ordinary people, we regard their targeting traditional leaders as going offside and would like to warn both the Zanu PF provincial members concerned and any traditional leaders who comply with such illegal orders that PDP will take legal action to stop this madness,” he said.