Speaking at the ZANU PF, Bulawayo PCC meeting at Davies Hall in the city on Sunday, party Secretary for Administration Dr Obert Mpofu confirmed that the ruling party will have a closed door meeting with the South African envoys sent to Zimbabwe by President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Dr Mpofu revealed that the party’s supreme decision-making body, the Politburo will be meeting with the envoys in Harare on Wednesday.

A 10-member delegation is expected in the country tomorrow to meet various stakeholders in the country to address the issue of human rights abuses inflicted on citizens by President Emmerson’s government.

“President Mnangagwa and his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa including myself and my ANC counterpart Ace Magashule are in constant touch, which is why we are meeting at party-to-party level on Wednesday. In fact, as Zanu-PF, we raised our concern about the issue of alleged gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe being discussed at government to government level. We then agreed as Zanu-PF and ANC to first discuss it at party-to-party level,” said Dr Mpofu.

“Presidents Mnangagwa and Ramaphosa agreed on the date, and we are now meeting as Zanu-PF Politburo and ANC NEC to discuss. We are aware that there are G-40 elements who are actually peddling lies about the situation on Zimbabwe and they are hiding in South Africa.”

“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.