EXILED former Zanu PF national political commissar Saviour
Kasukuwere, who is being linked to a new plot to bounce back and challenge President
Emmerson Mnangagwa in the 2023 elections, has generated a fierce political
storm after accusing serving ruling party elites of spending time on trivia
instead of addressing the country’s worsening political and economic crisis.
Kasukuwere was the national political commissar when the
late former President Robert Mugabe was toppled in a military coup in November
2017, and is reportedly launching a comeback bid.
A movement under the banner “Tyson waBantu” is taking shape
amid reports the former Youth minister is angling to take Mnangagwa head-on and
is enjoying the support of trained youths from the Zimbabwe National Youth
Service, some youths in Zanu PF and disgruntled ruling party officials, among
others.
But the Zanu PF national political commissar Victor
Matemadanda at the weekend described Kasukuwere as a baby whose movement had no
capacity to dislodge Zanu PF.
“All of a sudden you find babies like Kasukuwere being
introduced and referred to as veterans of the struggle. How can they be
veterans of the struggle while only 45 years old?” Matemadanda told a Zanu PF
provincial meeting in Mashonaland West.
Kasukuwere hit back saying: “It was a tragedy that
Matemadanda, a senior official in the governing party was focusing on trivia
while the country was burning.”
“At least I was not a taxi driver like him while others
were fighting in the liberation struggle. He must not lie to us. Just because
he has an ugly face it doesn’t mean he went to war,” Kasukuwere fumed.
“He wants to use his ugly face kuvhundutsira vanhu (to
scare people). He must tell people who he went to war with, who he reported to
and what he did during the war. In any case, there is no need for trivia when
the people are suffering like this,” the former Local Government minister said.
“We have a serious challenge on our hands. The health
sector is in a crisis, people are dying and the country is on its knees. We
can’t bury our heads in the sand and start focusing on issues that do not help
the people.
“We need to focus on real issues on the ground and how to
save the people from the crisis.” Newsday
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