{"id":34810,"date":"2021-02-14T20:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=34810"},"modified":"2021-02-14T17:55:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T15:55:25","slug":"mliswa-not-welcome-in-the-midlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mliswa-not-welcome-in-the-midlands","title":{"rendered":"Mliswa \u2018Not Welcome\u2019 In The Midlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Senior Zanu PF officials in the Midlands Province are reportedly worried over outspoken Norton independent MP Temba Mliswa\u2019s motives for commissioning various development projects in his village in Shurugwi.<\/p>\n<p>There are concerns that Mliswa may contest in one of the Shurugwi constituencies during the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Midlands ruling party leader who spoke to The News Hawks said even President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s allies, July Moyo and Owen Ncube are in panic mode, while Shurugwi South MP Edmond Murakatigwa is said to be the most vulnerable. The official is quoted as saying:<\/p>\n<p>The Zanu PF Midlands leadership is panicking over Mliswa\u2019s political moves and development activities, which are community-based yet clearly electoral at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Mukaratigwa is obviously the most affected, but even some national leaders from our province, including the President (Emmerson Mnangagwa)\u2019s allies like July Moyo and Owen Ncube, are panicking.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t want Mliswa here. They say he will cause divisions and chaos \u2013 the sort of problems associated with him when he was Zanu PF Mashonaland West chairman.<\/p>\n<p>So his political manoeuvres and development activities in Shurugwi South are not welcome by some political heavyweights here, although the community and villagers are happy.<\/p>\n<p>Mliswa originally comes from Shurugwi South under Gamwa Section, Shamba Circuit, Ward 5 in an area called Mliswa Village.<\/p>\n<p>He was previously Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial chair during the late former president Robert Mugabe\u2019s rule and is also a former Hurungwe West MP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Senior Zanu PF officials in the Midlands Province are reportedly worried over outspoken Norton independent MP Temba Mliswa\u2019s motives for commissioning various development projects in his village in Shurugwi. There are concerns that Mliswa may contest in one of the Shurugwi constituencies during the 2023 general elections. A senior Midlands ruling party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,704,1420,1525,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-34810","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-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-midlands","14":"tag-midlands-province","15":"tag-temba-mliswa","16":"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>Mliswa \u2018Not Welcome\u2019 In The Midlands - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Senior Zanu PF officials in the Midlands Province are reportedly worried over outspoken Norton independent MP Temba Mlis ...\" \/>\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\/mliswa-not-welcome-in-the-midlands\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mliswa \u2018Not Welcome\u2019 In The Midlands\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senior Zanu PF officials in the Midlands Province are reportedly worried over outspoken Norton independent MP Temba Mlis ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mliswa-not-welcome-in-the-midlands\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-02-14T18:24:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-02-14T15:55:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/img-602947cfd7e71.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"670\" \/>\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\/mliswa-not-welcome-in-the-midlands\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mliswa-not-welcome-in-the-midlands\",\"name\":\"Mliswa \u2018Not Welcome\u2019 In The Midlands - 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