War veterans have hijacked the one million men march being planned by Zanu PF’s youth league in Harare in support of President Robert Mugabe.
The former war liberation fighters who had initially threatened to boycott the pro-Mugabe march sniffing it out as a G-40 plot to denounce vice President Emerson Mnangagwa on Monday said they are to the contrary now going to participate “actively” and “effectively” in the march.
“We are not going to organise another march, but we are going to join and attend the one which has been organised and we are going to participate actively and effectively,” Zimbabwe National War Veterans Association secretary general, Victor Matemadanda told reporters in Harare Monday.
Matemadanda said the war veterans initially had not been consulted when the march was being organised and now that they have been invited they were going to take charge of the event.
“The question then was about misinformation. People were not given information and they were saying that we cannot join if we do not know the purpose of the event because there was a lot of speculation and this is what has been rectified, and they have given us the information that we wanted; and we have no doubt that the march is in support of President Mugabe and we have no reason of not to attend(sic),” he said.
“These are our children and yes they might have their own position but they remain our children. When we get there  we are parents and parents do not necessarily lead but they advise; and advice is leadership because you are giving knowledge which is new to them but which you have used before,” said Matemadanda.