{"id":27630,"date":"2020-09-13T19:29:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T17:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=27630"},"modified":"2020-09-13T19:29:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T17:29:27","slug":"biti-rubbishes-zanu-pf-banditry-training-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/biti-rubbishes-zanu-pf-banditry-training-claims","title":{"rendered":"Biti rubbishes Zanu PF banditry training claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE latest outburst by Zanu PF acting national spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa alleging MDC Alliance youths were undergoing banditry training to destabilise the country, is an indication the ruling party is decomposing, the opposition party has said.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the media last Friday, Chinamasa warned MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa and his co-vice-president Tendai Biti to stop behaving like \u201clittle children playing with fire\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chinamasa ordered the two opposition leaders to immediately close the party\u2019s violent youth cells before state security agents dismantled them and made arrests.<\/p>\n<p>However, responding to Chinamasa, MDC Alliance co-vice president Biti said the Zanu PF acting spokesperson\u2019s threats were a sign the ruling party was decomposing and had become a national threat to ordinary Zimbabweans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the liberation movement decomposes under (President) Emmerson (Mnangagwa), its latest rants on the church, on the ANC, citizens and MDC Alliance leaders smacks of pathological desperation and vacuous idiocy. They have become a national threat to the people,\u201d Biti said.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Chinamasa also said the government was aware the MDC Alliance had seconded party youths for militia training in Serbia and Moldovia.<\/p>\n<p>However, MDC alliance secretary-general Charlton Hwende also dismissed the claims saying Chinamasa\u2019s allegations were coming from a regime that was running scared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a sign of a man speaking on behalf of a regime that is afraid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Also responding to Chinamasa, exiled former Zanu PF Politburo member and ex-cabinet minister, Walter Mzembi said; \u201cInstitutional schizophrenia has gripped Zanu PF. Everyone is an enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE latest outburst by Zanu PF acting national spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa alleging MDC Alliance youths were undergoing banditry training to destabilise the country, is an indication the ruling party is decomposing, the opposition party has said. Addressing the media last Friday, Chinamasa warned MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa and his co-vice-president Tendai Biti to stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":23832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[458,113,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-27630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-parties","9":"tag-biti","10":"tag-chamisa","11":"tag-mdc"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Biti rubbishes Zanu PF banditry training claims - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE latest outburst by Zanu PF acting national spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa alleging MDC Alliance youths were undergoing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/biti-rubbishes-zanu-pf-banditry-training-claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Biti rubbishes Zanu PF banditry training claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE latest outburst by Zanu PF acting national spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa alleging MDC Alliance youths were undergoing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/biti-rubbishes-zanu-pf-banditry-training-claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-13T17:29:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/06\/Chamisa-in-office-678x381-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"678\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"381\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/biti-rubbishes-zanu-pf-banditry-training-claims\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/biti-rubbishes-zanu-pf-banditry-training-claims\",\"name\":\"Biti rubbishes Zanu PF banditry training claims - 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