Monday, 2 December 2024

REGIONAL WINDS OF CHANGE : WE ARE NOT BOTHERED, SAYS ZANU PF


Zanu PF national deputy secretary for youth affairs who is also Gutu West legislator John Paradza has said the revolutionary party will not allow the winds of change sweeping across Southern Africa to blow in Zimbabwe, saying they will safeguard Zanu PF and President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule at whatever cost.

Paradza was speaking during the party’s Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) meeting held at the party stand in Clovely in Masvingo recently.

He said no one will succeed Mnangagwa without the incumbent’s blessing so people needed to safeguard the party to avoid what happened in Botswana and Zambia.

“If we voted for a President in 2023, we have to follow him until he willingly says he is stepping down. Do you think there is someone who would come and replace President Mnangagwa without getting his blessing first? How will that happen?

“So let’s fix the Zanu PF party, we don’t want a repeat of what happened in Botswana and Zambia to happen in Zimbabwe. As a province we should remain focused, if we look at some of you, you don’t have grassroot supporters but you want to divide people,” said Paradza.

Zambia and Botswana saw the election of opposition parties marking a waterloo to the revolutionary parties’ control of Southern African countries.

In South Africa the revolutionary party ANC had to form a coalition with major rivals, the DA, after failing to secure majority vote, with a similar situation still causing unrest in Mozambique where the ruling party Frelimo failed to secure a landslide.

Despite President Emerson Mnangagwa’s repeated assurances that he will step down in 2028 at the end of his constitutional term, Paradza said that will not stop them from pushing for the extension of his rule saying anyone against that risks being expelled from the party.

“Everyone who is here is where he or she is because of someone, so what we are discussing here can be fulfilled whilst you are not there. If we see that you are no longer toeing the line we can sit aside and discuss then fire you.

“We follow President Mnangwagwa whether the constitution is there or not, because some would want to hide behind the constitution. Let’s wait for him to say I am going then we ask how we are going to proceed,” said Paradza.

He said they were supporting him because of the vision which he has to fulfil despite the constitutional restriction.

“When we say 2030 he will be there we are talking about his vision because it’s him who was shown the vision by God so we want to follow him with his vision. We hear some of you saying we don’t want so and so, how can we not want that person when all of us were given the posts by him.

“You will be shocked when the President leaves, I will be ahead supporting his successor and you will be surprised, it’s all about loyalty to the party,” said Paradza.

Masvingo party leadership has reignited debate by endorsing a slogan urging Mnangagwa to seek a third term in office saying they started with the slogan and no one was going to stop them.

Speaking at the same meeting, provincial chairperson Robson Mavhenyengwa said people were misleading others saying the slogan was banned whereas all the 10 provinces endorsed the resolution that Mnangagwa should go beyond 2028.

“We have a resolution that I have to share with you because it applies across board. I hear the 2030 resolution being distorted by some who have not understood it. All executives agreed in Bulawayo and all the 10 provinces agreed that since the President proposed the 2030 vision, we want him to continue as Zanu PF secretary and President until 2030.

“This resolution was read by Secretary for Legal affairs as it was. All the 10 provincial chairpersons agreed to it. So I wonder when we come back here some are saying there is one resolution that was dismissed simply because Cde Chinamasa read the procedure. TellZimNews

What he said was just the procedure but the resolution had already been passed,” said Mavhenyengwa.

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