Norton legislator Temba Mliswa and Zanu PF Director of Information Tafadzwa Mugwadi are currently engaged in a Twitter war over their allegiance to Emmerson Mnangagwa with Mliswa accusing the former ZINASU leader of working against the party.

Mliswa started the war when he commented on Mugwadi’s attack on opposition MDC Alliance vice President Tendai Biti over his comments on COVID-19 killing Zanu PF chefs, urging the young politician to be calculative on when to speak or not

It’s tragic to find a young man, whom I have previously defended in the ANC fiasco, doubling down fomenting baseless claims. These are instances where as a politician @TafadzwaMugwadi should know when to speak and when to be quiet. Mbanje ngadziite shoma.

This did not go down well with Mugwadi who hit back saying he never solicited for Mliswa’s defence when he was under attack over comments he made against the South African African National Congress (ANC).

“I have no trajedy of belonging. I have never solicited for defence frm anybody. You have done well to win as an independent by playing 2 political parties one against the other & when it is convenient, u claim to be supporting the other. In this case u want to recover sympathies,” said Mugwadi.

Mliswa then followed up with a thread of posts attacking Mugwadi whom he said was an opposition plant in the ruling, while sharing a message about the Zanu PF Information director’s arrest during his day when he was the Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) president.

Any politician of repute& sense should have that intelligence to know when to speak and when not to, so as to avoid finding themselves on the wrong side of history, logic and progress.

These are some of the things which we have said reveal how this current crop& creature isn’t the @ZANUPF_Official that we know. It is infested with people whom we know are very much against @edmnangagwa and in due time we shall be naming and shaming.

Some of us worked for the assumption of power by ED&have the inside knowledge of the true status of many who are now faking to be his allies. This current @ZANUPF_Official is an alien creature far removed from the real party we know and it showed its colours by kicking ED out.

It is the War Veterans who mobilised and worked to have him come back. The rest in that party are just opportunists out for self-aggrandisement but very much against the leadership and administration of @edmnangagwa.