DEFIANT Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans
Association (ZNLWVA) is going ahead with the planned indaba slated for Gwanzura
Stadium on November 18 despite political developments in the country.
War veterans, widely regarded as close allies of sacked
Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, said nothing would stop them from meeting.
Already they have reacted angrily to Mnangagwa’s sacking and
in retaliation; they purportedly fired President Robert Mugabe and his wife
First Lady Grace from Zanu PF.
The association’s secretary-general Victor Matemadanda said
they would go ahead as planned.
“I don’t see anything that can stop us from having our
meeting. We don’t have a plan as yet to stop the meeting,” he said.
The war veterans invited all cadres expelled from the
ruling Zanu PF to come and chart the way forward.
Sworn enemies of the Zanu PF G40 faction, the Christopher
Mutsvangwa-led ZNLWVA has had several brushes with the law over their
gatherings and hard stance against the First Family.
Last year, Mugabe ordered they be tear-gassed as they
prepared to meet at the City Sports Centre in Harare following Mutsvangwa’s
expulsion from Zanu PF.
Mnangagwa himself has warned that he will be coming back
from his South Africa base in “few weeks” time to lead Mugabe’s ouster. Several
youth organisations affiliated to the former VP have also expressed
disappointment over his sacking and threatened to campaign for him in next
year’s elections. Newsday
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