{"id":31114,"date":"2020-12-11T18:37:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T16:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=31114"},"modified":"2020-12-11T18:37:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T16:37:25","slug":"rugare-gumbo-implores-ed-to-disband-zanu-pf-dccs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/rugare-gumbo-implores-ed-to-disband-zanu-pf-dccs","title":{"rendered":"Rugare Gumbo Implores ED To Disband ZANU PF DCCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Some senior members of the ruling ZANU PF have accused eliminated Generation 40 (G40) and Gamatox factions of causing chaos during the recently held party district coordinating committee (DCC) elections.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, liberation war icon and one of the remaining Zanu PF founders, Rugare Gumbo, upon president Emmerson Mnangagwa to disband the DCCs which he says will fuel growing factional and tribal wars.<\/p>\n<p>Zanu PF secretary for security in the politburo, Lovemore Matuke, told the Daily News on Thursday that the remnants of G-40 and Gamatox continue to attempt to weave their way back into Zanu PF. He said:<\/p>\n<p>They (alleged G40 and Gamatox remnants) want to come back to Zanu PF because it\u2019s cold out there. People struggle to survive outside Zanu PF.<\/p>\n<p>G40 was allegedly being led by the former first lady, Grace Mugabe while some of the kingpins include exiled ministers, Jonathan Moyo, Patrick Zhuwao and Walter Mzembi.<\/p>\n<p>The Gamatox faction was reportedly being led by the former Vice President, Joice Mujuru and it became defunct with her ouster from the ruling party in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Daily News, ZANU PF political commissar, Victor Matemadanda who is also the deputy minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs said:<\/p>\n<p>If someone was G40, it doesn\u2019t mean that he is not going to come back to the party \u2026 for now, I am busy with DCC elections and can\u2019t comment further.<\/p>\n<p>Both G40 and Gamatox fought against Mnangagwa\u2019s Lacoste faction which eventually won.<\/p>\n<p>Other Zanu PF insiders who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said ruling party bigwigs were worried about the resurgence of the two factions.<\/p>\n<p>TheY claimed that the G40 and Gamatox factions wanted to bounce back into Zanu PF and rekindle their yester-year fights with Mnangagwa from within.<\/p>\n<p><b>More: Daily News<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Some senior members of the ruling ZANU PF have accused eliminated Generation 40 (G40) and Gamatox factions of causing chaos during the recently held party district coordinating committee (DCC) elections. Meanwhile, liberation war icon and one of the remaining Zanu PF founders, Rugare Gumbo, upon president Emmerson Mnangagwa to disband the DCCs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":31113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,10,15],"tags":[1493,1644,1960,370,1958,1959,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-31114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-parties","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-g40","13":"tag-gamatox","14":"tag-grace-mugabe","15":"tag-joice-mujuru","16":"tag-rugare-gumbo","17":"tag-zimbabwe"},"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>Rugare Gumbo Implores ED To Disband ZANU PF DCCs - zimbabwe<\/title>\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\/rugare-gumbo-implores-ed-to-disband-zanu-pf-dccs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rugare Gumbo Implores ED To Disband ZANU PF DCCs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. 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