Thread by @TembaMliswa

1/ ZANU PF is currently undergoing a stressful time as a party. There is a lot of tension and suspicions. However I would like to explain the genesis of this and how if this situation is not rectified the party has no redemptive moment anytime ahead.

2/In 2018 @edmnangagwa got 50.8 votes& his votes were fewer than the 2/3 for the MPs. It's safe to argue his win was based on outsiders who were giving him a chance due to the prevailing political sentiment at the time. They are not from the party structures.

3/Foremost among the reasons is the abiding wound and rupture within the party from the Gamatox debacle which resulted in the expulsion of Mai Mujuru and a host of Provincial Chairpersons. The electorate within the party has remained attached to those leaders.

4/ It should be put on record that at no time was there a plot to unseat Mugabe by Joyce Mujuru. I never sat in any such meeting and there was nothing like that. She simply had support from a lot Provincial Chairpersons.

5/However she was hounded out on lies together with people like Didymus Mutasa, Dzikamai Mavhaire, Rugare Gumbo, Jabulani Sibanda, Andrew Langa, Luke Mushore, John Mvundura etc.
Notable at this point is the fact that G40 and Lacoste worked together to expel the alleged Gamatox.

6/However, whilst Gamatox was hounded out, it had the people on its side unlike the two factions, G40 and Lacoste which only had control of the top hierarchy.

7/Gamatox was the real @ZANUPF_Official as it stood with the party position. It had control of the party structures. The other two factions incorporated the military because they did not have the people on their side.

8/The CIO, Police, Prisons, Airforce were said to be supporting Mujuru yet the fact was that they were supporting Mugabe. Kasukuwere was sent to Mai Mujuru to assure her that she should not worry about the negative reports being spread about her.

9/However, what angered Mugabe later were the lies that she was actually aiming to remove him from power. Grace Mugabe was one of the people used to strengthen this lie. I challenge her to tell the truth about this. Mugabe was getting old and was being swayed erratically.

10/There is need for this truth otherwise we will keep hating each other. When we had youth elections, won by Chipanga, all the winners were alleged to be allies of Mai Mujuru and because the Youth elections set the tone, the Women’s Elections were stopped.

11/It was stated that there was consensus that warranted no need for elections. The idea was to block what was perceived as a chance for Mai Mujuru to cement her control across the party wings.

12/ I raised the issue and said this is wrong.Kasukuwere called me& Mugabe wanted to see me and I dodged him. The next day on the 15th of August 2014 at State House we had a meeting which set off the destruction of @ZANUPF_Official .

13/In retrospect it’s clear that Tongai Kasukuwere was representing G40 and Matutu was representing Lacoste. What then happened to their relationship? Here they contrived to fight Gamatox. I will say more later but for now pick on this.

14/ The Youth leaders were used to attack Mai Mujuru. Didymus Mutasa asked Mugabe why he had told Mai Mujuru the sky is the limit if he was now attacking her again. To show that they were strong they kicked out Rugare Gumbo and the purges began.

15/The moment Mugabe lost people like Gumbo, Mutasa and began associating with the young excitable ones that is when he lost both the plot and control of the party.

16/After the expulsion of the 6 chairpersons allegedly allied to Mujuru, @Hon_Kasukuwere, as Political Commissar, then led the process to put new chairpersons allied to him. The likes of Ziyambi Ziyambi and Kazembe Kazembe are all subjects of Kasukuwere through his appointments.

17/This is one of the chief reasons why today there is a lot of consternation and angst at the signs that @Hon_Kasukuwere may be seeking to return. He still has control through the chairpersons he installed during his time.

18/@Hon_Kasukuwere used to be the chief coordinator, he controlled them. He never went to war but he controlled a host of the old guys& they did not like it. As the clique of three, Zhuwao& Jonathan Moyo, the others were academics whilst Kasukuwere was the actual politician.

19/He has his faults but to see his influence and power what Kasukuwere said is what Mugabe said. So before people see threats everywhere else, what have you done with the people who were appointed by Kasukuwere and are still in the structures?

20/At one time I wanted to be Mash West Chair and they blocked me. Him, the late Rati Gava and Zhuwao blocked me despite my having the support of the people& Shamhuyarira who was even a senior Politburo member. That allowed Yotamu to be the Chairperson.

21/My challenge to this new administration is how many are clean here but Mugabe used to forgive you. Who did not steal and who was not stealing? However, today it’s all about kumakana and makuhwa. Why can’t you also have forgiveness as Mugabe did?

22/They used to work together& should not create havoc today when they know each other. They know the truth. They have now created havoc for innocent people& now see everybody as a threat. Jonathan Moyo used to get information from themselves; same with Kasukuwere who was...

23/...in the security structures. The lack of sincerity has brought this country to this position.
I went and won an MDC constituency and gave it to @ZANUPF_Official yet I could have stood anywhere. Yet today they see everybody as a threat.

24/Chinotimba, Jabulani Sibanda were all part of 2004. Chinotimba was the Vice and Sibanda the Chairman and they were never rewarded. Chinotimba then moved and he is accused of being G40. People move to the centre of power. It’s a fact of life.

25/You must always question your ascendancy to power. Is it through the people or is it through the military. There is also the spiritual realm, God and the spirits of the country. If there is no synergy there, then you are in trouble.

26/If you cannot convert military power into people power you are in trouble and will continue having problems. Military power isn’t people power but people power can be military power.

27/Some of us believed that it was fateful that ED got in because he had earlier lost an opportunity after 2004 when Mugabe played the gender card to put in Mai Mujuru.

28/However, today ED is surrounded by people who have no history, people who never stood with and for him. They have no coordinates. The actual people who fought with him have been discarded themselves, people like Daniel Shumba.

29/The likes of Mudha and July Moyo are upstarts in the rise of ED. We actually fed them information ourselves.
Mugabe realised that he needed people to consolidate his power so he brought back people of influence.

30/Thus he readmitted Mike Madiro (Manicaland), Daniel Shumba (Masvingo), Themba Ncube (Bulawayo), Jacob Mudenda (Matabeleland North), July Moyo (Midlands), and Lloyd Siyoka (Matabeleland South).

31/Mugabe was stubborn but he realised the importance of the various chairpersons who had been expelled after Tsholotsho. The current leaders have failed to master that trick. That is why they have been constant frictions.

32/There have been incessant purgings in the CIO, in the Police, in the Army etc.
War veterans were critical in the mobilisation but today where are they? So there is no longer military support and no support from war veterans.

33/The Youth have never been dependable again. They have always been divisionists. Matutu, Tsenengamu were all part of the youth that contrived to fight against Mai Mujuru based on lies.

34/@GTsenengamu has repented but many other youths out there need to tell the truth. The likes of Vengi Musengi, Matutu, Tsenengamu were all once on one side and worked to attack the leaders based on lies. These young boys must learn not to be used in politics.

35/Today the threat to ZANU PF is the resurgence of Gamatox& not G40 or Lacoste. The latter 2 had no people but Gamatox had them. That's why it’s important for ED to reconcile everyone if the party is to be strong. Those expelled leaders remain out there& ZANU PF is a shadow.

36/If the leaders need the truth they should call us& we tell them where the problem lies. They took the party but have failed to restructure it properly. That is why the party is forever entangled in the conspiratorial web of G40 allegations& alleged threats from everywhere.

37/The enormity of the rot is apparent when you find people like Webster Shamhu being accused of being factionalist. A respected and verified leader who was able to run Mash West as the best Province in the country and today you say he is factional. That’s hogwash.

38/As an elder he just ignores it and sits back but the young ones won’t sit back, they resist.

39/The easiest thing is to say sorry& receive back all those expelled. Some of us worked in these provinces such that if we are to stand today all we need is to simply state, I’m contesting. I went through all the 311 Districts in Mash West& have enough political capital.

40/How does having worked hard in the party make me a security threat? You cannot contrive to make us an opposition or enemies. I’m not opposition but I’m Zimbabwean. The youths in @YardscOfficial once pushed me to create a party but I said no, that is not the agenda.

41/I objectively criticise whatever is not working but I don’t insult anyone. You cannot create stories& expect to succeed. I have survived this long because of God and I’m good where I’m with or without security. So don’t waste time sitting down over silly agendas.

We are all Zimbabweans, even the opposition. There is no need to see shadows everywhere.