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Zimbabwe Congress of Students’ Union (Zicosu) yesterday criticised Zanu-PF secretary for administration Cde Didymus Mutasa for allegedly fanning factionalism in the party.
The students’ body urged Zanu-PF to respect the dictates of the Unity Accord signed in 1987.
It supported President Mugabe as the ruling party’s presidential candidate for the 2018 harmonised elections ahead of the party’s congress set for December.
Zicosu national treasurer-general Tonderai Chidawa said at a Press conference held at the Media Centre in Harare that Cde Mutasa should not push for matters that negatively affect the Unity Accord.
“The Zimbabwe Congress of Students’ Unions would like to congratulate the Youths and Women’s Leagues of the revolutionary party for endorsing His Excellency and the First Secretary of Zanu-PF Cde Mugabe to continue with his wise leadership of the party and government at the forthcoming Zanu-PF congress and the 2018 presidential elections,” Chidawa said.
“We would furthermore like to congratulate Amai Grace Mugabe for being recommended to lead the party’s Women’s League. As students, we can now proudly say we are now under the wings of our gracious mother.”
The students’ body lambasted Cde Mutasa for allegedly causing irreparable damage to the operations of Zanu-PF. “We gather that Mutasa is pushing the people of Zimbabwe to tamper with the sacrosanct ideals of the Unity Accord.”
Chidawa said Cde Mutasa was campaigning to be the party’s national chairman in an attempt to upset the goodwill built by President Mugabe and the late iconic leader Cde Joshua Nkomo to engender peace and prosperity.
The students’ body said Cde Mutasa, who has been publicly condemned following deficiencies and incapacities in the party’s administration department, should apologise to the President.
“He (Cde Mutasa) threw his disrespectful charade to the President,” said Chidawa.
“We find his behaviour provocative to the students and we are demanding his unequivocal apology to the President, the party and the nation at large. He has to shape up or ship out.”
Cde Mutasa recently came under fire after bungling the party’s youth and women conferences this month for which he was supposed to mobilise resources as the acting secretary for finance and the substantive secretary for administration.
President Mugabe ended up bailing the youth conference by donating maize, meat and milk from his farm in Mazowe, while the women conference depended on well-wishers and a committee appointed to source resources.
The committee was made up of Politburo members Cde Saviour Kasukuwere, Professor Jonathan Moyo, Cde Patrick Zhuwawo and businessman Cde Philip Chiyangwa.
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