Paul Nyathi

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has made an astonishing call on war veterans and ZANU PF structures to compile a list of all Non Governmental Organisations perceived to be working against the government.

Mnangagwa made the call while addressing chairpersons of Zanu PF provincial women, youths and war veterans at the party headquarters in Harare on Monday.

Mnangagwa assured his followers of his earlier threats to deregister Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) operating outside their mandates.

“There are lots of registered NGOs in the country and through the Home Affairs and Social Welfare Ministries, we are going to look at the mandate of each NGO,” he said.

“So, the Minister of Home Affairs and Social Welfare, they will depend on you war veterans, youths and women party chairpersons to give them list of NGOs operating in your areas and their mandate because you are the ones on the ground.

“So, if we discover that it is operating outside its mandate. it will be deregistered.”

Mnangagwa has repeatedly said that his government will deregister civil society organisations which stray from their mandates to dabble in national politics.

He has also issued similar threats to western embassies accredited to the country warning them stop meddling in his country’s internal affairs by working with the NGOs.

The Zanu PF led government has not had the best of relations with both civil society and western embassies which have maintained close scrutiny on the excesses of the under-fire administration.