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Bulawayo Bureau
ZANU-PF national secretary for the commissariat Cde Saviour Kasukuwere has dismissed the suspension of five Hwange party members by the Matabeleland North Provincial Executive Council on Saturday as “null and void”.
He said he was surprised to learn of the purported suspensions and has since spoken to the provincial chairperson Cde Richard Moyo regarding the matter.
Cde Moyo, Cde Kasukuwere said, failed to respect the party position when he announced the suspension of the five members during a Provincial Coordinating Committee meeting in Lupane.
Cde Kasukuwere said the commissariat was not going to sit back and watch a few individuals with ulterior motives decide and/or undo Politburo decisions.
“The Matabeleland North Province suspensions are null and void. We won’t recognise them.
“The days of solo decisions are over and we won’t sleep and watch provinces becoming laughing stocks of the revolutionary party.”
Cde Kasukuwere said the Zanu-PF Hwange District issue was not new, adding that all provinces and the entire membership should not make any changes to the existing structures of the party.
He said such suspensions would not be entertained whatsoever.
“What this means is that no changes will be entertained without the approval and sanctioning of the Politburo.
“We want to avoid confusion and disturbances in the provinces and structures of the party,” said Cde Kasukuwere.
He said provinces should be advancing Zim-Asset instead of using positions they hold to fix each other.
Cde Kasukuwere said party members should be united and fight for the socio-economic development of the country.
He said he was going to visit provinces starting with Mashonaland East this weekend to buttress the fact that suspensions should stop henceforth.
The Zanu-PF National Secretary for the Commissariat said they also want to deal with indiscipline in the provinces.
“We have noted that there is indiscipline taking place in the provinces after Congress and that needs to be addressed. We will also look at the party structures,” said Cde Kasukuwere.
Cde Moyo told Chronicle that party members who include Cdes Rambanai Moyo, Hardman Mabanda, district deputy commissar Cde George Chipere and the deputy chairperson of the women’s league Sithembiso Mabhena and former provincial deputy chairperson Cde Reeds Dube had been suspended by their district and the PEC had ratified the decision.
Cde Moyo said a hearing was pending for the five.
“We just adopted a decision that had been made by the DCC as the Provincial Executive Committee. So you can’t say the province suspended these members,” he said.
After the 6th National People’s Congress last year, Zanu-PF ordered all its 10 provinces to stop the suspension of officials.
Congress also declared that only structures that existed at the time of the Congress would be recognised.
Zanu-PF’s Mat North Province becomes the second province after Manicaland to attempt overriding Congress resolutions.
Manicaland Provincial Coordinating Committee adopted a motion imposing a five-year suspension on all party officials who had votes of no confidence passed on them towards the build-up to the People’s Congress.
The commissariat led by Cde Kasukuwere quickly moved in to stabilise the revolutionary party.
Cde Kasukuwere made pronouncements that any changes to the provinces would be done with the ultimate approval of the party’s First Secretary and President, Cde Mugabe.
Online Reporter