One of the most prominent war veterans who now does NGO work, Dr. Ibbo Mandaza has said it is impossible for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF to win the upcoming 2018 elections.

He said this is because the party has disintegrated. He made these comments at a symposium on peace and the 2018 harmonised elections organised by the Election Resource Centre (ERC) and the University of Zimbabwe on Thursday.

Mandaza said, “it’s a fair conclusion to make that the party of revolution is broken, tattered, fractured and cannot possibly win elections in 2018. It’s impossible.”

He added saying the freedoms being experienced by the povo at present are a result of this disintegration and not Mnangagwa’s benevolence

He said, “there is disintegration, therefore, the apparent freedom that you are experiencing in rural areas, the extent to which the opposition has been able to hold rallies in areas they have never been able to have rallies before is not through the benevolence of this new dispensation. It is because the state is disintegrated they are no longer able to control it. The State is divided army versus police, army versus CIO [Central Intelligence Organisation]. It’s a fractured State.”