The Zanu PF Youth League has condemned machete-wielding
gangs that are terrorising small-scale miners and communities around the
country.
Machete gangs have been wreaking havoc at different gold
mining sites across the country, causing deaths and injuries and threatening
the entire gold mining industry.
Thieves are also taking advantage of the situation by
arming themselves with machetes and unleashing violence in towns, cities and
rural business centres.
In a statement yesterday, the Youth League’s secretary for
information and publicity, Cde Yeukai Simbanegavi, said they were deeply
concerned about the acts of terror.
“It is also a matter of concern that some police officers
have also fallen victim to these criminals. As a public service gesture, we
implore all peace- loving Zimbabweans to be on the alert and share any
information which may lead to the arrest of the gangs,” said Cde Simbanegavi.
She commended the police for hunting down the gangs. “As a wing of the party we do not condone such criminal
acts by the heartless, deviant and callous gangs,” she said.
Cde Simbanegavi implored the National ProsecutingAuthority
to ensure that any members of such gangs brought to court aree denied bail.
“We pray that any members of these gangs that are convicted
are given the maximum possible sentence,” she said.
This, she said, would act as a deterrent to those who might
be persuaded to commit similar acts.
“As a Youth League, we embrace the ethos of productivity,
peace and unity and we are in solidarity with progressive institutions which
are committed to end the wave of criminality by the machete-wielding gangs.”
Meanwhile, the Zanu PF United Kingdom district has
intensified its efforts to weed out infiltrators who have been causing problems
within the ruling party’s rank and file in the Diaspora, writes Wallace
Ruzvidzo.
Secretary for Administration Cde Xavier Zavare said there
was a flood of applications for membership in the wake of the New Dispensation
but most of these were rogue elements who were hell bent on destabilising the
operations of the district.
Cde Zavare said G40 remnants were behind attempt to
destabilitse the party’s Diaspora structures.
“For nearly a year and half, ZANU PF UK has been bedevilled
by internal instability as a result of G40 political players and some new
members who joined en-masse at the advent of the New Dispensation in particular
those who came from other political parties, anti-ZANU PF activists and former
asylum seekers.
“It all appeared to be in good spirit and the Diaspora
district was on a membership recruitment drive led by its Commissariat team.
However, . . . it soon became clear that some were joining
the party for the wrong reasons,” he said.
“Following Operation Restore Legacy in November 2017 and
the subsequent election win by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and ZANU PF in July
2018, there was an influx of applications to join ZANU PF UK/Europe District.”
He said that security personnel were working tirelessly to
deal with any potential threat to the operations of the party in the Diaspora.
Cde Zavare said some remnants of the G40 cabal were in the
UK with the sole aim of causing despondency but their efforts would come to
nought.
“Our security team are working hard to identify potential
infiltrators and to deal with the G40 cabal in the UK currently undermining our
party national leadership and denigrating the First Secretary of the party.
“All necessary measures shall be taken to maintain
discipline and the integrity of ZANU PF UK/Europe District before our leaders
and membership, without fear or favour,” he said. Herald
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