The ZANU PF National Youth Executive held its second national executive council meeting this Friday at the party headquarters in Harare, where Acting Deputy Secretary for Youth Affairs, Tendai Chirau called for Zimbabwe to stand “against subversion of their will.”

“As ZANU PF Youth league, we register our preparedness to stand in resolute defence of legitimate national interests, in defence of innocent breadwinners and their dependents who are being threatened with disruptive, senseless violence and injury. We further reiterate our conviction that the only acceptable path to political power in Zimbabwe is through the plebiscite.

“In the 2018 elections, the voice of the majority emphatically spoke in favour of ZANU PF running the country until 2023. The threats to remove the Government that we hear are unconstitutional and we remain ready to defend the constitution of Zimbabwe and accordingly warn all putschist elements to hold their peace,” he said.

Chirau also raised concern that the people who are agitating for a demonstration are the same people who bad mouth the country to foreigners and then come back to lay blame on the government.

“We will therefore not entertain any form of retrogressive opportunism, which is in many predictable ways, similar to the coordinated anarchy of 1 August 2018 and January 2019, which should never be repeated. We are tired of merchants of regime change abusing the universal right to demonstrate and wish to remind them that such right is subject to limitations in defence of national security,” he said.