By Nomore Chinoda
Harare – There has been continuous unrest in recent weeks in Zimbabwe’s main political parties amid fears that the parties are slowly being hardened into factions who are fighting for supremacy through the media.
The so called renewal faction of the MDC-T led by former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirayi says there is no unity within the party contrary to party leader’s remarks recently that the group aligned to deputy treasurer general Elton Mangoma and others has come back home.
Mangoma insists that this is the right time to get rid of Tsvangirai, who he claims is a dictator.
And to ZANU-PF; Amid reports of factionalism in ZANU PF, President Robert Mugabe on Monday said neither Vice President Joice Mujuru nor Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa have an automatic ticket to take over leadership of Zimbabwe.
Mugabe said presidential aspirants would be elected through the ZANU-PF congress.
This comes after ZANU-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman and Hurungwe West National Assembly member Temba Mliswa openly told journalists that there were factions in ZANU-PF.
“Can I be honest, ZANU PF, there is no secret and there are factions in that party and I am sure the Minister of Information belongs to a certain faction so he will also attack another faction and I say this boldly without even anything. And if you also trace his record, he has also been implicated to a faction before it’s not a secret. So that is very clear and I will not mince my words on that. Don’t use
the state media to attack the people appointed by the President at the end of the day. It is not good. It must stop at some point,” Mliswa to reporters.
Meanwhile, the MDC led by professor Welshman Ncube says the party has been re-energized following the reshuffle of its top leadership posts yesterday.
Positions left vacant by members who resigned or defected to other political parties were filled.
This rounds up the current political situation in Zimbabwe.
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