The ruling ZANU PF party is on cloud nine celebrating the flop of a nationwide planned “national shutdown” protests which was being organised by South African based Promise Mkhwananzi leader of the now out of sorts #Tajamuka Movement.
Government yesterday scoffed at what they called “self-serving attention-seekers” who coordinated the flopped protests they were paid hefty sums of money through South African contacts.
The battling ruling political party claimed that the failure of the demonstration showed diminished returns of hostile activity as Zimbabweans warmed up to ongoing reforms.
The ruling party celebrates the flop besides knowing that the main opposition MDC-Alliance Youth Assembly together with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union and several other membership based organisations that may have impacted on the protest refused to partake in the so-called shutdown which Tajamuka leader, Promise Mkwananzi, instigated from Johannesburg, South Africa.
According to a state media report, a mercenary group, they would not mention, with offices in Johannesburg, South Africa, facilitated funding of the flopped Tajamuka protests.
The media claims that bsome of the Tajamuka activists behind the protest were booked at a hotel in Johannesburg.
“As I speak, some of these activists are staying at Palmer Hotel Croydon Kempton Park, Johannesburg (apartment number withheld).
“Over 81 Tajamuka activists received money ranging from US$2 000 to US$5 000. The money comes from Netherlands and Australia,” claimed the media sources.
A celebratory Permanent secretary for Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Nick Mangwana blasted the activists.
“Zimbabweans are tired of self-serving attention seekers trying to disrupt their lives. People are seeing through these efforts to unlock donor funds through antics whose ultimate effect is only to worsen a situation which is resolving itself.
“This is the fourth so-called shutdown that has flopped because people are busy dealing with the daily challenges that the country is experiencing through this transition,” he said.
Mangwana said Government efforts to turnaround the economy were beginning to bear fruit hence Zimbabweans should be patient.
“The people of Zimbabwe are also clear that the interventions put in motion by President Mnangagwa and his Government are already beginning to bear fruit.
“This is what the purveyors of anarchy are trying to disrupt knowing that a peaceful Zimbabwe on a recovery trajectory robs them of their relevancy.
“I don’t know how asking for people to be unproductive by calling for them to shut down the country is meant to improve their outcomes. How does that make people’s lives better?”