ANALYSIS|Expelled Vice President Joyce Mujuru has effectively dislodged President Robert Mugabe as heads begin rolling at the beleaguered Shake-Shake building that houses ZANU PF, following leaked information that there are a good number of legislators, cabinet ministers and service chiefs who are working hand in glove with the ousted Mujuru.
Sources close to the goings on at the ruling party’s headquarters, who refused to be named revealed that they have a cache of documents that show that many current cabinet ministers, service chiefs, senior government officials, legislators and war veterans around the country were fully behind Joice Mujuru.
According to the sources many of the people who now claim to have been against her are actually at the forefront of supporting Mujuru as future leader.
This has also led the hatching of a plan to reschedule the 2018 general elections, which the ruling party is hoodwinking Tsvangirai with a vice president post.
Some of the leaders named include Ignatius Chombo, Douglas Mombeshora, and Prisca Mupfumira. Already several war veterans the likes of Rugare Gumbo, Nicholas Goche, Jabulani Sibanda, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti and Marvelous Mkwebu have stuck by their guns to stand by Mujuru, while others such as Joseph Chinotimba are said to be sitting on the fence.
“There is no denying at all that Mujuru has badly affected the party. As we get into December, there will be more purges because many in the party are still silently supporting Joyce Mujuru,” a source close to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa said.
They added:
“What adds to hurt is the fact that Mujuru is celebrated by your media guys in the same way you once did Tsvangirai. This does not go well in the President’s favour, ” the source said.
According to Temba Mliswa’s last Bulawayo press address, many cabinet members and legislators are afraid to come out in the open, but will do so when the time is appropriate, that is before the 2018 elections.