The G40 cabal is slowly turning into a pale shadow of its former self, as founding leaders break ranks, while engaging in public political bickering.
Fresh revelations show sharp divisions in the faction aligned to the late former President Robert Mugabe, which are now evident to have existed from during his time.
Responding to reports that Professor Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao are running with MDC Alliance leader, Advocate Nelson Chamisa and not supporting their long time ally Saviour Kasukuwere, Jelousy Mawarire arrogantly says, “He doesn’t need the two, they have joined MDC-alliance. There is no need of taking them away from another pro-democracy movement. @Hon_Kasukuwere got into party politics years before the two, he can be his own man, simple!”
Washing more dirty linen in the public, Mawarire takes a swipe at “Toxic” Moyo and Zhuwao, “ I was never in G40 so have never touched G40. Your obsession with my person is colossal. I am NPF, Jonathan & Zhuwao were told by RGM never to spoil NPF by their toxicity.” He writes while responding to social media inquiries about his G40 links or association.
Mawarire, the National Patriotic Front spokesman, is running Kasukuwere’s campaign to challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the next election under the hashtag #SaviorWabantu#.
Responding to local media about his imminent return home Kasukuwere said,“Am I not Zimbabwean? I have a democratic right to participate in politics if people want me to represent them.”
To add oil to the fire, in the noticeable ructions, the late former Mugabe’s nephew Zhuwao has under unclear circumstances distanced himself from the G40 cabal he is famed to have been a key player in, prompting South African based businessman, Mutumwa Mawere to further probe the divisions on social media.
“Patrick Zhuwao distances himself from the so-called G40 self-serving political project,” writes Mawere quoting from a letter recently penned by Zhuwao.
He quotes from the letter written to South Africa’s opposition leader, Julius Malema last October by Zhuwao, in which he apparently sought to pacify Malema after his ‘maligning’ and ‘abuse’ by Mngangagwa’s administration, in his bid to honour the late Mugabe’s legacy.
In the letter to Malema, Zhuwao concludes by writing, betraying the divisions in his group, “It is also unfortunate that some individuals have also given hostage to fortune by injudiciously seeking to publicise the so-called Zimbabwe Generation 40 political party as being associated with some of us who are labelled as G40 stalwarts.”
“ Whilst I acknowledge that individuals have a right to harbouring and furthering their own personal political ambitions, I also have a right to dissociate myself from such ambitions as I hereby do. Apart from which, I am still mourning and grieving for my uncle, President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, to engage myself in such political shenanigans.”
Mawere also links Zhuwao’s denial to recent reports in the state controlled media, quoting Zanu PF officials who claimed that the G40 party linked to the late Mugabe is a security threat.
Furthermore, Mnangagwa has not hidden his disdain to this grouping as he recently fired warning shots to his party members suspected of interacting with members of the G40 faction, whose top leaders are now based in exile after the 2017 coup that removed Mugabe from power.
Mnangagwa is reported to have made the warning during the party’s politburo meeting.
Party spokesperson Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo is reported to have also made the announcement adding that G40 members are a National security threat.