President Robert Mugabe says former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s People First party is to explode into factions.
Speaking at his birthday party yesterday, Mugabe indicated a bomb of confusion is soon to hit Mujuru’s organisation.
Mugabe who is blamed for splitting many parties using notorious spies, on Saturday boasted that some entities have dissipate beyond recognition and you “can’t even patch them up together”.
“People showed us in 2013 that they are behind us. Some parties have split beyond recognition and you can’t even patch them up together anymore. Those who split from MDC-T, you can’t even tell what they call themselves now. There are also those who came from us. They have tried taking our name but modified it a little bit and called themselves People First. Soon they will split and you will soon hear there is a people second, people third and people fourth,” said Mugabe.
He paid tribute to Zanu-PF Secretary for Youth Affairs Pupurai Togarepi for the successful hosting of the party.
“I’m proud of you but be strong because there are some wayward youths, we want to see discipline, direction and principles,” said Mugabe who also described Togarepi’s deputy Kudzai Chipanga as dynamic and jokingly spoke about how he was on the news for allegedly threatening war veterans before clearing the air that the youth leader actually did not threaten the former freedom fighters. The said the youths have to work harmoniously with the former freedom fighters.
Mugabe attempted to unite youths and war veterans. “Now together, we must find our way to the problems that we face together. They will have a lot to learn from the war veterans of course because they are war veterans, they fought the war but I don’t want them (youths) to be bullied,” he said.
“Let us use that principle, take advantage of that principle of sitting down to discuss our differences. They call it the principle of dialogue. We should remain united and use proven channels to solve our differences.”
Mugabe said while people embrace Information Communication Technology (ICT) particularly social media in broad areas of research and communication, there was a need for responsible use of those platforms as they should not be used to carry anti-social and divisive activities.
Commenting on the choice of the historically rich Great Zimbabwe Monuments, Mugabe said, “We have come to this special place. There were our fathers, our ancestors, the likes of Munhumutapa. Your decision to host this party here was no coincidence. It’s a decision that has a lot of intrinsic significance. We get the inspiration from our ancestors and ancestral spirits will inspire us to leave this place with a new spirit to work for Zimbabwe.