AS ZANU-PF\u2019s internal ructions continue to escalate, suspended youth league official Godfrey Tsenengamu, pictured, has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of failing to live up to the promises he made before his late predecessor Robert Mugabe fell from power in late 2017.<\/p>\n
This comes as the former liberation movement is once again battling ugly factionalism and tribalism \u2014 twin demons that almost completely destroyed the ruling party in the last few years in office of Mugabe, with his erratic wife Grace playing a starring role in the chaos then.<\/p>\n
It also comes as the government is facing increasing pressure to end the country\u2019s worsening economic rot, which has triggered restlessness and anger among long-suffering Zimbabweans.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Tsenengamu \u2014 who is facing expulsion from Zanu-PF, after his home province of Mashonaland East called for his ouster \u2014 threw barbs at Mnangagwa for having allegedly failed to \u201clive up to his promises\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was looking at what the president wrote in November 2017 after he had been expelled. He spoke against party capture, vindictiveness \u2026 about ideas of making Zimbabwe great again \u2026 and against corruption.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere has he gone wrong? Maybe it is premature to judge him because he has been in power for a short period of time.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I am worried because he has not delivered on his vision. I am hoping that he will deliver,\u201d Tsenengamu said.<\/p>\n
He also said that his recent suspension from Zanu-PF, as well as that of former youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu, was also contrary to the promises Mnangagwa made in his 2017 speech while he was in short-lived exile in South Africa, after fleeing from Mugabe and his goons.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2017, we said expulsions were wrong and this is exactly what they (Zanu-PF and the \u2018new dispensation\u2019) are doing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been suspended for a year without a hearing and now they are threatening to expel me, again with no reason.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look at the letter that was written by the president when he was in exile, he spoke against corruption and blasted the former president for pursuing his family interests,\u201d Tsenengamu added.<\/p>\n
In November 2017, following his dramatic sacking from both the government and Zanu-PF, Mnangagwa fled to<\/p>\n
Pretoria where he stunningly hit back at Mugabe by declaring that he would come back in two weeks to take over both the reins of the country and the ruling party.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remain firm and resolute against those who plunder public funds and are used by foreign countries to destabilise the party.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese same people (ostensibly \u2018criminals\u2019 around Mugabe) are brazenly protected in public by the First Lady, thereby making a mockery of our public institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AS ZANU-PF\u2019s internal ructions continue to escalate, suspended youth league official Godfrey Tsenengamu, pictured, has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of failing to live up to the promises he made before his late predecessor Robert Mugabe fell from power in late 2017. This comes as the former liberation movement is once again battling ugly factionalism and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":19188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,12],"tags":[38,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-20317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-policy","10":"tag-zanu-pf","11":"tag-emmerson-mnangagwa"},"yoast_head":"\n