After a lengthy closed-door meeting last week Grace said after consultations with party supporters she had discovered that the chair was no longer popular – so she stripped her of her post.
As some supporters began to grumble she hastily added “I have already talked with Uyoyo and she is not going to complain because I am going to give her a more senior post in the women’s league.”
But Uyoyo said she would not leave her post as it had been given to her by the electorate. “You have to understand that being a chair of a province is not easy. I was elected by the people and only the people have the mandate to remove me,” she said.
“After all when I was elected as chairlady of the province the first lady was not even there and who is she now to come and say she has fired me?” fumed Uyoyo.
Mahofa accepted her appointment and told party supporters she would work hard to uplift the lives of women.
Turning to the issue of cabinet ministers who were fanning factionalism in Masvingo, Grace said she would soon convince her husband not to retain some cabinet ministers who were causing trouble in the party, yet they were uneducated.
“We are going to make you jobless and this means you will no longer be able to get money to buy support,” she said, in apparent reference to Energy Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire and Provincial Affairs Minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti.
“Do you think we do not have young people who can take over your positions, after all if we look and your backgrounds you not educated,” said the first lady. “You do not have a single degree and even a diploma so you have to know that your days are numbered,” she added.
Mavhaire and Bhasikiti are believed to be loyal to vice president Joice Mujuru.
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“Do you think we do not have young people who can take over your positions, after all if we look and your backgrounds you not educated,†said the first lady. “You do not have a single degree and even a diploma so you have to know that your days are numbered,†she added.
Mavhaire and Bhasikiti are believed to be loyal to vice president Joice Mujuru.
The dog-eat-dog has started in earnest what is worrying here is that it is not a fair fight. Mugabe has placed a gag on everyone else, no one is allowed to go to the press to put the record right on defend yourself. Provincial meeting are banned too. Grace and those she has favoured and let lose to do as the please. This is like having all the other in one village tied on the leash at their homes and then have one pack visit one homestead at a time “educating” them on dog etiquette!
Poor Mavhaire; there is no good time to be unemployed but I cannot think of a worse time that when unemployment in the country is 90% plus and 16% or 2 million people are living in abject poverty!Before you ask; yes they will be coming after you to pay back all the money you have borrowed from the bank and never paid. Everyone has never been asked to pay back the money that is true but you are no longer one of chosen ones – you are in the enemy camp now!
All these years you have been in power you have never fought to end this Zanu PF juggernaut to create a just system. No the juggernaut you help create is turning on you and you have nowhere to run, no place to hid and no one to ask for help.
The purge has started and once started it must run its full course; that means almost half the Zanu PF members in the party, civil service, security sector, parastatals, everywhere; will have their loyalty questioned and many will be beaten and thrown into the abyss, “muchakasara” as one would say in Shona.
Thanks for such a knowledgeable post.
Thanks for such a knowledgeable post.