MEMBERS of Zanu PF’s G40 faction have threatened to demonstrate
in Harare today demanding that President Robert Mugabe fires former
Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa from the ruling party.
The demonstration is set to coincide with the ruling
party’s politburo meeting in the capital to seal Mnangagwa’s political fate.
Mnangagwa hitherto seen as a frontrunner to take over from
93-year-old Mugabe was unceremoniously kicked out of his government job on
Monday on accusations of disloyalty, disrespect, deceitfulness and
unreliability.
“The G40 group will stage a demonstration in Harare to push
for the expulsion of Mnangagwa and his colleagues. The purges maybe at the same
scale as we saw during the expulsion of (former Vice-President) Joice Mujuru
and her Gamatox faction (in 2014),” a Zanu PF source said.
But Zanu PF Harare provincial commissar Shadreck
Mashayamombe said the gathering had nothing to do with Mnangagwa’s issues.
“We have a programme tomorrow. It will just be a show of
support for the President. We want to thank him and the First Lady for
continuously discharging their duties diligently in both the party and
government.
“It will have nothing to do with that one (Mnangagwa) who
was fired,” Mashayamombe said, referring further questions to the youth league
leadership.
Zanu PF youth league political commissar Innocent
Hamandishe said they were meeting to plan for next month’s extraordinary
congress.
He claimed youths could not force Mugabe to take a
decision.
Mugabe cracked the guillotine on his long-time lieutenant
Mnangagwa this week after weeks of pressure from First Lady Grace and her
supporters in the G40 faction who accused the ex-VP of harbouring ambitions to
topple the soon-to-be-94-year-old leader from power. Newsday
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