‘Tyson’ flexes muscle Mr Saviour Kasukuwere
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Patrick Chitumba Senior Reporter
ZANU-PF’s national secretary for the commissariat Cde Saviour Kasukuwere has dismissed the suspensions of five Hwange party members by the Matabeleland North Provincial Executive Council on Saturday as “null and void”.

Cde Kasukuwere said he was surprised to learn of the purported suspensions and has since spoken to the provincial chairperson, Cde Richard Moyo, regarding the matter.

He said Cde Moyo failed to respect the party position taken at last year’s Zanu-PF People’s Congress when he announced the suspension of the five members during a Provincial Coordinating Committee meeting held in Lupane.

Cde Kasukuwere said the commissariat was not going to sit back and watch a few individuals with ulterior motives decide and/or undo Politburo decisions.

“The Matabeleland North province suspensions are null and void. We won’t recognise them.

“The days of solo decisions are over and we won’t sleep and watch the revolutionary party provincial executives becoming a laughing stock,” he said.

Cde Kasukuwere said the Zanu-PF Hwange district issue was not new adding that all provinces and the entire membership should not make any changes to the existing structures of the party.

He said such suspensions would not be entertained whatsoever.

“What this means is that no changes will be entertained without the approval and sanctioning of the Politburo. We want to avoid confusion and disturbances in the provinces and any structures of the party,” said Cde Kasukuwere.

He said provinces should be advancing the Zim-Asset instead of using positions they hold to fix each other.

Cde Kasukuwere said party members should be united and fight for the socio-economic development of the country.

He said he was going to visit provinces starting with Mashonaland East this weekend to buttress the fact that no suspensions would be entertained.

The Zanu-PF National Secretary for the Commissariat said they also want to deal with issues to do with indiscipline in the provinces.

“We’ve noted that there is indiscipline taking place in the provinces after Congress and that needs to be addressed. We will also look at the party structures,” said Cde Kasukuwere.

Cde Moyo told The Chronicle that party members who include Cdes Rambanai Moyo, Hardman Mabanda, district deputy commissar Cde George Chipere and the deputy chairperson of the women’s league Sithembiso Mabhena and former provincial deputy chairperson, Cde Reeds Dube, had been suspended by their district and the PEC had ratified the decision.

Cde Moyo said a disciplinary hearing for the five was pending.

“We just adopted a decision by the DCC as the Provincial Executive Committee. So you can’t say the province suspended these members,” he said.

The mechanisms which the Matabeleland North executive tried to employ in suspending the five Hwange district party members are similar in nature with the failed attempt to suspend Cdes Jacob Mudenda and Sithembiso Nyoni.

Zanu-PF politburo member, Cde Obert Mpofu was caught in the eye of a storm towards the build-up to the party’s National People’s Congress last November after claims that he “unilaterally and unprocedurally” oversaw a plot to withdraw Cde Mudenda’s central committee nomination.

Other politburo members from Matabeleland North province did not attend the Lupane inter-district meeting where a hired crowd sought to also have Cde Nyoni recalled from the central committee.

Placard carrying demonstrators accused Cde Mudenda of sponsoring a demonstration during the congress accreditation process mid-November in Hwange at which Cde Obert Mpofu’s wife, Cde Sikhanyisiwe Mpofu, presided.

The Hwange protests of mid-November, The Chronicle learnt, were over the accreditation of Patrick Utete who is alleged to have stated that the party had lost because of President Mugabe, following the 2008 elections in which Zanu-PF suffered a first round defeat.

After the 6th National People’s Congress last year, Zanu-PF ordered all its 10 provinces to stop the suspension of officials.

The congress also declared that only structures that existed at the time of the Congress would be recognised.

Cde Kasukuwere said any changes to the provinces’ structures would be done with the ultimate approval of the party’s First Secretary and President, Cde Mugabe.

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