The Sunday Mail
Tinashe Farawo
Undisciplined Zanu-PF members who do not abide by principle will destroy the party if allowed to continue with their unruly behaviour, President Mugabe has warned.
Addressing thousands of party supporters at a Presidential Youth Interface in Marondera last Friday, President Mugabe counselled restraint and advised senior officials against criticising each other publicly. His warning follows Zanu-PF Politburo member and Cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo’s sustained criticism of the Special Maize Production and Import Substitution Programme (Command Agriculture), and more recently his attempts to drive a wedge between Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi.
At the rally, President Mugabe highlighted Command Agriculture’s successes, and the major roles played by First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe and VP Mnangagwa in that success story. The President said, “Vanhu vaiita meeting yehusiku, vanhu vanoenda kun’anga. . .haa, ipapo ndipo pandiri kuti anaChipanga (Zanu-PF Secretary for the Youth League), ndimika munenge muchinzi tisapoteyi.
“Ndimi vadiki munenge muchinzi mukauya tokuitirai zvakati, tokuitirai zvakati. “Ko membership yedu imembership yakaitasei? I just made reference to it. Nhengo yega yega yemusangano inosungirwa kuva nehunhu, hunhu hwakakwana hunobva mugwara remusangano nekuti kana usina hunhu ihwohwo uri muorgan yemusangano yema youth kana yemadzimai, unopandutsa vanhu. “Tinoda discipline, kuve munhu anozvidzora. . .Kana uri member yeZanu-PF yakakwana, the truth is don’t undermine your party.
“Iyezvino tiri kutambudzika tichiti kumapepa uko kune marticles ekushorana nekushorana, kutaura hurukuro dzatinenge taita muCabinet. Ndiyani ari kuburitsa mashoko aya kuendesa kumapepa? Zvirikubva munhengo dzedu dzePolitburo.”
On Command Agriculture, the President said: “Makaona zvatakaita pagore rino, Mwari akabva atipembedza. Kwakange kwarukwa mazano, ndichiudzwa kuti aaaah. “Akabva kuna Mai Mugabe oenda kuna Vice-President wedu, VaMnangagwa, vakagobatana vakati ngatiiteyi tsika isati yaitwa yekuti vanhu vedu varipadhuze nemvura tivabatanidze tivape rubatsiro, asi ivo vachiratidza chido chavo chekuti vabatanidzwe. “Tigorima tavapa rubatsiro vabatana kudaro, vapihwa mafertiliser, mbeu, vapihwa zvekurimisa, asi vachitungamirirwa, vachiratidwza zvekuita, tiri shure kwavo.
“Ndosaka yakanzi Command Agriculture. Kwakanga kusiri kunzi ive command sekumauto ekuhondo. “Aiwa. Yaiva yekuratidzana kuti itai makadayi, rimayi makadayi, shandisayi mbeu makadayi, dyarayi mbeu yacho panguva tigoidiridza.” He continued: “Mwari akati aaah maita uchenjeri hwakadaro, mvura heyo. Chiregayi kushandisa madhamu, mungatoishandisa apa nepapa.
“Matsvo nematsvo emvura nevanenge vasina kuzopinda muprogramme iyi, vese vakapundutswa nemvura yegore rino. “Vamwe vanga vasina madhamu awo takanga tati vanopihwa rubatsiro runobva kuhomwe yaPresident, although tinoti kana mvura yanaya, vanoita zvakanaka. Kana isina kunaya, hapana zvatingaite. Tinongochema. “Zvino maprogramme maviri aya akabva abatana pamaitiro.
“Akava maitiro akashamisa vamwe vaifunga kuti zvichakona. Chionayi kupundutswa kwatakaita; bumper harvest. Hapana kwatafamba pakutenderedza kwandinoita dzimwe nguva nemamwe maprogrammes. “Vese varikuti President, hachisi chibage ichocho, haisi fodya iyoyo. Gore rino, tirikurova matundundu. . .haisi cotton, shinda, donje iroro. “Kana nesuwo kumusoro, takashamisika: Tingabva taita mavambo akadayi chete. . .Tikaita zvakare Command Agriculture iyi, mbeu chaiyo tinoda varimi varime vakabatana.”
At the same occasion, Amai Mugabe castigated corrupt party members, saying the law would soon catch up with them. “Party yedu inoshanda neideology, uyezve ine mukuru ane hunhu. “Simba redu riri mubrand not zvimabrand zvinongomuka pese pese; brand rakamirira zvido zvevanhu. “Party yedu haidi corruption. Taramba corruption kumayouth uko. Isusu tichatora advantage yemadivision arikuitika kuma opposition. “Hazvina kunaka kutuka vakuru semayouth pasocial media. Ngatiitei zvinotipa pundutso.”
