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ZANU PF stronger after new constitution

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THE biggest winner in the amendments done to the ZANU PF Constitution is not President Robert Mugabe as many have claimed, but the Party itself.
There had been many challenges with the previous Constitution chief among them the creation of two or more centres of power-one led by President Mugabe and the other fronted by former Vice-President Joice Mujuru and her allies.
With the Constitution willfully manipulated with parallel structures emerging, the scourge of factionalism that rocked the ruling Party in the run up to the 6th National People’s Congress had become the order of the day.
Armed with the loopholes in that Constitution, the Mujuru faction almost grabbed power from right under President Mugabe’s nose before the cleansing process that brought sanity to the Party commenced.
Factionalism reared its ugly head during the 6th Youth League and Women’s Conferences with the Mujuru faction, working in cahoots with the Commissariat department to rig the elections.
This was confirmed by a Central Committee Report tabled before the Congress that factionalism was inflicting ‘untold damage and injury on members and should be vigorously fought and annihilated.
“This could be the party’s undoing of monumental proportions,” reads the report in part.
Whereas in the now moribund Constitution, the Party’s Presidium would get in through nomination or election by the provinces, the new law states that the President appoints the Presidium.
Article 8 Section 39 of the new Constitution states that:
“There shall be a Political Bureau… which shall consist of the President and First Secretary of the Party, the two (2) Vice Presidents and Second Secretaries, the National Chairperson, the Heads of Departments and five (5) Committee Members appointed by the President and First Secretary under Section 40.”
During the Women and Youth League Conferences, there were widespread allegations of vote buying, coercion and manipulation of delegates to elect unfavourable candidates.
“While cadres are free to air their grievances, concerns and opinions to the leadership, the denigration of elders must never be countenanced. The cadres of the party are expected to exhibit a high degree of discipline and always observe party protocol, procedures, constitution and regulations,” the Central Committee report said.
To do away with these challenges, the Central Committee report noted that the party must among other interventions, embark on political education at all levels of the party structures.
“This is very important because some of the actions and misdemeanours by the cadres are a result of lack of revolutionary orientation. The youths are the future and the vanguard of the party and should be educated thoroughly, otherwise the ideals of the party will be obliterated,” reads the report.
Interesting is the point that the battle to deal with regime change agenda agents, in particular non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is far from over.
In previous times, Government had to deal with NGOs who were perpetuating the regime change agenda in the country.
There are growing fears that the NGOs were working with some elements within the party and Government.
The Central Committee report said there were more than 2 500 NGOs operating in the country which appeared to have gone down the drain following last year’s elections overwhelmingly won by ZANU PF,” says the report.
“But the truth of the matter is that it is a stratagem. It is anticipated that they (NGOs) will certainly resurface with much vigour at the opportune time and ratchet up their efforts as the year 2018 beckons.”
On Wednesday President Mugabe named the new Politburo, paving way for the ruling party to embark on a new path that is expected to tackle economic challenges bedeviling the country.
Cdes Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko were appointed as Vice Presidents both to the Party and Government.
On Monday, President Mugabe set the tone for the much anticipated implementation of the country’s economic blueprint, the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-economic Transformation (Zim ASSET) when he wielded the axe on VP Mujuru and her allies from Government.
The ouster of VP Mujuru signals President Mugabe’s intention of taking the country’s economy to dizzy heights amid reports that the former Vice President was working with hostile Governments to derail the country’s economy.
In his speech during the ZANU PF 97th Ordinary Session of the Central Committee on Wednesday last week, President Mugabe revealed that VP Mujuru had been promised billions of dollars by Western governments if she toppled him.
President Mugabe said he was accused by his former deputy of blocking her and allies from talking to whites and Western governments.
“Mazosara nevanhu vakadai party inoparara,” said President Mugabe.
“Todzokera kuvarunguzve hanzi vaMugabe vanotidzivisa kukurukura nevarungu kuti varungu vauye,” said President Mugabe.
With everything falling into place both in the party and in Government all that is left is the taking over of the economy.
There are Chinese and Russian mega economic deals to be implemented in case some among us have forgotten.

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