By Own Correspondent.
Harare. (News Of The South) – More ministers are reportedly in sixes and sevens after it emerged that President Robert Mugabe will soon fire them for ‘inconsistency in doing prescribed duties.”
Panic has gripped some of the ministers who were allegedly linked to the dismantled Mujuru faction.
According to an impeccable source, Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Lazarus Dokora and Arts, Sport and Culture Andrew Langa are reportedly living on ‘borrowed’ time.
“All the ministers who were closely linked to former Vice President Joice Mujuru are in panic mood. Most of them are waiting for their day of reckoning,” said the source.
President Mugabe early last month showed that his axe is not yet ready to rest when he fired Masvingo Provincial Minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti.
Bhasikiti was fired for belonging in the ‘wrong basket’.
The source said that government activities were being hampered by the constant axe hovering on some cabinet ministers’ head.
“The ministers cannot formulate and implement policies because they do not know what will happen to them next. There are reports that some of the ministers are shivering in cabinet meetings that are held every Tuesday,” said the source.
Panic has already gripped government heads of department and parastatals.
“A lot of people are going to lose their jobs. We are not safe at the moment and indications are that the purges will affect us, in parastatals. We are operating in panic mode. It’s well-known that one way or the other every parastatal supported programmes initiated by VP Mujuru or those aligned to her,” said the source.
President Mugabe is likely to announce a cabinet reshuffle which will see some of the old horses belonging to Mnangagwa faction taking influential ministry.
Minister of Defence Sydney Sekeremai is likely to be demoted to a less influential post because of his involvement in the Mujuru faction.
Towards the build up to Zanu PF congress, War Veterans from his Mashonaland East Province demonstrated agitating for his ouster.
His wife, Tsitsi was heckled, harassed and physically abused by rowdy youths at the party’s headquarters.
Sekeramayi has been a member of the ruling party since the 1960s and has held several high-profile posts in both the party and the government since independence in 1980.
Former Vice President Joice Mujuru together with seventeen ministers including some deputies have been fired from the government since the purging started four months ago.
Some of the ministers who have been fired so far include Flora Buka, minister of State for Presidential Affairs; Sylvester Nguni, minister of State in the Vice President’s Office; Paul Chimedza, Deputy minster of Health and Child Care; Tongai Muzenda, deputy minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Services and Tendai Savanhu, deputy minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement.
Petronella Kagonye, deputy minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development and her Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs counterpart Fortune Chasi have also been showed the door.
Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa, Labour minister Nicholas Goche, Indigenisation minister Francis Nhema, Higher and Tertiary Education minister Olivia Muchena, ICT minister Webster Shamu and Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs minister Simbaneuta Mudarikwa were also send into political dustbin.
Energy minister Dzikamai Mavhaire and his deputy Munacho Mutezo were the first to fall on the rope.
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