In recent months Zanu (PF) leaders have being going around the country holding meetings with members and coaching them on what they should tell COPAC outreach teams. However, some Zanu (PF) members in Gwenombe village in Mazvihwa area of Zvishavane defied the party leaders and told a COPAC outreach team that the current president had too much power and should be reduced in the new constitution. This did not go down well with war veterans and other party members who were present at the meeting.
Serious clashes erupted between Zanu (PF) members soon after a COPAC meeting at Gwenombe primary school. Some members of that party led by a war veteran Obey Moyo accused youths of having insulted President Mugabe by requesting that the presidential term should be reduced in the new constitution, said Faina Hove, a villager who was present at the meeting.
The police had to be called from Zvishavane town to control the situation as Zanu (PF) members continued to fight.
Another villager said: We were very happy to see these people fighting among themselves, because these are the same people who were terrorizing us in past elections campaigns
Zanu (PF) leaders have always come out in open in support of the Kariba Draft which gives the president more powers. The party has been campaigning for the draft to be adopted as the new constitution.
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