Paul Nyathi
Zanu-PF secretary for Administration Dr Obert Mpofu says that envoys expected on the country from South African President Cyril Ramaphosan will exonerate the ruling ZANU PF party of human rights violation allegations against it.
The African National Congress (ANC) envoys are expected to come to Zimbabwe and meet with Zanu PF and all other stakeholders including opposition political parties, civic society and the church to hear on the situation in the country.
Mpofu however twists the intended visit claiming that the ANC will use the opportunity to strengthen relations with ZANU PF.
“The gesture by the ANC not only epitomises our shared nostalgic anti-colonial position, instead it reasserts a contemporary reproduction of our consciousness to the hidden but the ever-present hand of imperialism in the SADC region.
“In our view as a revolutionary powerhouse in Zimbabwe and in the region, this party-to-party dialogue convened at the urgency of the malicious deconstruction of the ‘Zimbabwean situation’ must expose the imagined desires of a political crisis as misrepresented in the cyber space. We are aware of the input of our opposition in this as its existence is only sustained by creating despondency and demonisation of our nation in a bid to justify its regime-change project. They have failed before and many more failures wait on their part,” said Dr Mpofu.
He said Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa were constantly in touch and the expected visit of the South African delegation would dispel any misconceptions of a crisis in Zimbabwe.
“They are expected as soon as possible, it’s an initiative that is being done by our principals, we are sister parties we should never allow a third party to divide us,” said Dr Mpofu.
“Therefore, this forthcoming party to party dialogue substantiates our timely response as liberation movements to the ever-changing complexities of the neo-colonial decimation of the SADC region.
“The only obtaining crisis in Zimbabwe is the continued demonisation of our Government by many forces opposed to the milestones of the Second Republic. In the face of this pro-opposition postured ‘political crisis in Zimbabwe’, this ZANU PF-ANC dialogue on Zimbabwe must reinforce our ideological convergences in as much as it should unpack the two nationalist parties’ shared existential threats.
“While there is a dedicated onslaught on Zimbabwe and ZANU PF in particular to disfigure the political situation in the country, we hope our ANC counterparts will be better acquainted with the genuine state of affairs in our country beyond the sinister propagandas of our detractors,” he said.
The meeting, Dr Mpofu said, is also expected to strengthen regional interparty solidarities through enhanced peer-reviews of the governance questions.
“The ultimate output of this dialogue should produce a determined resolution to move the agenda for our development in our own terms. As ZANU PF, we anticipate that the major resolution of this dialogue will see our shared anti-colonial political soul magnified towards strengthening our bilateral ties in the areas of commerce, industry, trade and the mutual exchange of sustainable political ideas to build a better continent whose tenets of state-craft are not determined by neo-colonial prefects and their proxies on the doorsteps of our continued fight for unity, development and freedom in Africa,” said Dr Mpofu.
Last month, President Mnangagwa hosted three envoys from President Ramaphosa who included former South African Minister of Safety and Security Dr Sydney Mufamadi, who was leading the team, the former Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete and former Minister of Public Service and Administration Advocate Ngoako Ramatlhodi.
Mnangagwa quickly dismissed the envoys before they could meet with other stakeholders. ZANU PF claimed that the envoys were not meant to meet with anyone else except Mnangagwa. The move necessitated the expected visit but a whole new team with specific instructions to meet all stakeholders in the country.
“The meeting was part of a peer to peer review of two brotherly nations, which have shared historical ties forged in their nations’ struggle for independence from the white colonialists who are now sponsoring mayhem in the region to install puppet regimes,” said Dr Mpofu of the first envoys.