Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s wife, Auxillia, is hunting down faction gangs deployed in the Midlands area.
Auxillia Mnangagwa was appointed by the ZANU-PF Midlands leadership among a seven-member taskforce moving around the province looking into the causes of rampant factionalism by members of First Lady Grace Mugabe’s G40 faction.
The decision was made during the first Midlands provincial coordinating committee meeting held at the weekend following the appointment of Joram Gumbo as the acting provincial chairperson.
Provincial spokesperson Cornelius Mupereri told the state media the holding of the PCC meeting was a move in the right direction towards returning to normalcy in the Midlands.
Members of two factions that were holding parallel meetings before the Politburo dispatched national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere to deal with factionalism in the province recently, attended the weekend’s PCC.
“We had a PCC over the weekend, the first after the intervention of the Politburo. All provincial members were present as we work for the greater good of the party,” said Mupereri.
He said a taskforce to find out problems bedevilling the province was set up and its findings would be presented before the Politburo.
Mupereri said the seven member taskforce was headed by Gumbo who was going to be deputised by Auxillia Mnangagwa.
“So the taskforce is made up of seven members from the central committee.
“They’re going to look into the root causes of the problem we’ve been experiencing as a province,” he said.
Mupereri said the taskforce was going to visit all the eight districts in the province to interview party members. ‘‘After their findings, they’ll report back to the Politburo,” he said.
Tapiwa Matangaidze, who had been acting as the provincial chairperson, reverted to his position as provincial secretary for administration, while Daniel Mackenzie Ncube remained as the deputy provincial chairperson.
Before Kasukuwere’s visit, Matangaidze was acting chairman.