Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has bemoaned the factional fights that have characterised his ruling ZANU PF party over the past year.
Addressing the party’s central committee in Harare ahead of the party’s people national conference in Masvingo, President Mugabe characterised the infighting which has openly played out between two major factions, one aligned to his wife Grace Mugabe and the other aligned to the Vice President Munangangwa.
2016 has also seen Mugabe fall out with the war veterans’ wing which have in the past been instrumental in his hold of power.
“For our party however, 2016 has been quite disturbing too. We failed as leaders to demonstrate the high levels of maturity and discipline expected of us at all times.”
Despite some of Mugabe’s ministers being implicated in high levels of corruption he did not address the matter but rather called on his party supporters to be vigilant and cautious of self-serving politicians.
President Robert Mugabe further said, “We should never listen to our detractors, we should not allow ourselves to be used as pawns by others seeking to advance their own narrow agendas at the expense of serving the larger interest of the party and people.”
Mugabe will on Friday officially open the ZANU PF conference in Masvingo where an estimated 7000 delegates are expected to attend.
