Former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s secretariat has suddenly dissolved her People First party structures. The move which comes way before the party has registered with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has seen leaders in the United Kingdom being humiliated while in the very act of planning party activities.
The action which leaves the organisation with only a Secretariat and one provincial coordinator(in each country), also comes after some members had begun engaging the British government for commiseration. Furthermore within days of its starting, two bitter factions had already emerged amid fighting with accusations and counter accusations while also biting against each other on the thorny issue of Mujuru’s political DNA (still a secret to date) since her ouster from government more than a year ago.
Interim chairperson Joshua Chigwangwa and his entire team have been disbanded by Mujuru’s secretariat, ZimEye can reveal. “All positions and roles previously assigned or elected are dissolved with immediate effect, and the only positions that shall be recognized henceforth shall be the Provincial Coordinators.
“All office bearers other than as stated above must cease forthwith,” an internal memo seen by ZimEye.com states.
“For the purposes of communication with Harare, only the Provincial Coordinator shall be the official channel of communication to Cde D.C Mavhaire and or Cde. S.R Nguni,” it further reads. [To read the full memo, jump to the bottom of the article.]
The development has seen the former chairman Josh Chigwangwa announcing: “Builders following communication that has been released by our Elders today, the work of the interim Committee has now ceased but there will be more ongoing work ahead and challenges leading up to the Party’s launch. We will continue to encourage mobilisation work.
“All the work was done using personal resources and there was no bank account opened. I would like thank members who used personal resources and time to make this possible.”
Meanwhile critics slammed the move saying it shows Mujuru does not have a sense of direction in her political career.
“While she herself remains underground, the party has not even begun, and there is no constitution at all part from that Build motivational document which means there is no party to talk about at all,” a disgruntled source said.
FULL TEXT People First memo:
Fellow Builders outside Zimbabwe.
Warm greetings from Harare.
Following various communications from various sources in the diaspora regarding our building initiatives, the National Steering Committee met in Harare to deliberate on the matters and now advises as follows:
- People First is at its formative stages and the key focus at this stage is to mobilise for new supporters. Your sole mandate therefore is mobilization and you should come up with a mobilization model that is suitable to your geographical setting.
- At this stage, the only recognized function is that of a Provincial Coordinator ONLY. For easy reference, each country, or region should be treated as a province and come up with a Provincial Coordinator.
- We are recommending that the identification of the Provincial coordinator be by consensus, and an election process is not encouraged since there are no regulations in place to guide such elections.
- In choosing your Provincial Coordinator, due care must be exercised to select an individual of unquestionable integrity, whose maturity is above petty personality issues to unify the membership in your region.
- All positions and roles previously assigned or elected are dissolved with immediate effect, and the only positions that shall be recognized henceforth shall be the Provincial Coordinators. All office bearers other than as stated above must cease forthwith.
- For the purposes of communication with Harare, only the Provincial Coordinator shall be the official channel of communication to Cde D.C Mavhaire and or Cde. S.R Nguni.
- All press releases should first be cleared through Harare by the Provincial Coordinator.
- All fund raising activities should cease immediately, until clearance has been granted through Harare, and all funds previously collected should be accounted for to the relevant regions and Harare by no later than 31 January 2016.
- If in any doubt please contact the undersigned for further clarification.
SECRETARIAT
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Its us who have formed the party for them.Mai Mujuru has been quite, and people are putting words into her mouth. We know that the State CIO machinery is full swing to distabilise Mai Mujuru and to make sure that her projects will not see the day.
So there is no confusion there,Amai chaivo is waiting for the right moment to launch her ambitions and as of now paperwork is being put into place.We dont want a rushed constitution which will receive several amendments in its infancy.
Musati mhanyire mberi!!
The people organising in UK should have carried on with their structures.How can an organisation function without a constitution or organisation structure.Even an interim committee needs an interim organisational structure.These people are already showing an inability to lead.I am very sad.
The people organising in UK should have carried on with their structures.How can an organisation function without a constitution or organisation structure.Even an interim committee needs an interim organisational structure.These people are already showing an inability to lead.I am very sad.
The outfit has already been infiltrated, the whole debacle smells of CIO at work.
The outfit has already been infiltrated, the whole debacle smells of CIO at work.
Oh dear!
Prophets of doom are quite good at twisting facts. It is only proper for any ogenisation to start with a constitution, and a proper membership participation guided by the constitution. That is how democratic processes operate, without taking anything away from the people who had organised themselves into a Povince. I think this is the right way to launch a political ogenisation that is ready to form a government. Don’t worry about the people who are trying to make a story out of a sensible democratic decision. Which doesn’t exist in zanupf or mdc for that master. ‘JOICE IS THE ONLY CHOICE ‘ and people first is the government.
Prophets of doom are quite good at twisting facts. It is only proper for any ogenisation to start with a constitution, and a proper membership participation guided by the constitution. That is how democratic processes operate, without taking anything away from the people who had organised themselves into a Povince. I think this is the right way to launch a political ogenisation that is ready to form a government. Don’t worry about the people who are trying to make a story out of a sensible democratic decision. Which doesn’t exist in zanupf or mdc for that master. ‘JOICE IS THE ONLY CHOICE ‘ and people first is the government.
A mirage will remain a mirage viva Save…ende musatombocheuka muridzo…
She knows how the machinery works. They can’t infiltrate a party that doesn’t formally exist.
She knows how the machinery works. They can’t infiltrate a party that doesn’t formally exist.
a party of shadows is already destroying itself before it is known kikiki!
A new party was formed to unseat Robert Mugabe. It was called AGAINSTO meaning against Mugabe
First of all they announced they were going to topple Mugabe with ease.
Then they started a press campaign.
Then people in the UK formed a structure composed of ambitious passionate self willed unteachable impatient people. Periodically they would fire memo’s to Zimeye and other popular publications claiming Mugabe was a gonner. last kicks of a dying horse they claimed.
Once donations began coming in all the AGAINSTO’S began being against each other, vying for publicity, positions and posts that had salaries. Soon the media focused more on againsto members fighting each other than about aganistos campaigning against Mugabe
Then the UK branch collapsed with angry members slandering one another, boycotting events, asking people to not support X or Y
Mugabe wins again kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
But somehow the CIO got blamed for ‘infiltrating the AGAINSTO fledgling party’. zanu pf members gave another yawn as they drank coffee in the MP lounge in parliament not even discussing the rapid rise and crash of yet another dissident party. kkkkkkkkkkk hahahaha cluck cluck. what a joke!
A new party was formed to unseat Robert Mugabe. It was called AGAINSTO meaning against Mugabe
First of all they announced they were going to topple Mugabe with ease.
Then they started a press campaign.
Then people in the UK formed a structure composed of ambitious passionate self willed unteachable impatient people. Periodically they would fire memo’s to Zimeye and other popular publications claiming Mugabe was a gonner. last kicks of a dying horse they claimed.
Once donations began coming in all the AGAINSTO’S began being against each other, vying for publicity, positions and posts that had salaries. Soon the media focused more on againsto members fighting each other than about aganistos campaigning against Mugabe
Then the UK branch collapsed with angry members slandering one another, boycotting events, asking people to not support X or Y
Mugabe wins again kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
But somehow the CIO got blamed for ‘infiltrating the AGAINSTO fledgling party’. zanu pf members gave another yawn as they drank coffee in the MP lounge in parliament not even discussing the rapid rise and crash of yet another dissident party. kkkkkkkkkkk hahahaha cluck cluck. what a joke!