“Those who are purporting to be war veterans’ “Elders” are not part of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association, neither were they part of our last elective congress held in March 2010,” said Terry Shumba, the Midlands war veterans’ leader.
“These comrades never accepted the current official leadership, therefore they cannot purport to pass a vote of no confidence in it. We will stand by our real leader Sibanda,” he added.
Mugabe accused Sibanda of snubbing the rallies conducted by his wife Grace. “Elders of the war veterans” George Mlala, Patrick Nyaruwata and Victor Matemadanda announced at a press conference in Harare that their group had expelled Sibanda.
“For the record Nyaruwata and Matemadanda are former chairperson and political commissar of the ZNLWVA respectively. When they were voted out, they refused to recognise the new national chairman Jabulani Sibanda and his executive. If they were good leaders and performed to expectations, they would have been given second mandates to lead the war veterans, but they failed. So what has changed now, that they want to unconstitutionally re-cycle themselves into leadership through the back door?” questioned Shumba.
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