ZANU PF has denied claims by civil society groups and opposition parties that government-sourced food aid and farming inputs were only benefiting ruling party supporters.
BY NQOBANI NDLOVU
Party spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday said such accusations were bent on causing anarchy in the country.
He said contrary to the reports, all food-insecure families in drought-prone districts were receiving food aid regardless of their political affiliation.
“Zanu PF is a people’s party and the government is a people’s government. We don’t discriminate when it comes to the distribution of food aid because we never question people as to what party they belong and religion, or to what region they belong,” he said.
“Such allegations are meant to achieve anarchy within our nation. Nobody should ever starve and even the First Lady [Grace Mugabe] made it clear that food must go to the people . . . the food and agro-support is for all Zimbabweans regardless of political affiliation or on any descriptive grounds.”
The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) claimed in its September report that food aid was being distributed along partisan and factional lines, with Zanu PF members perceived as “Gamatox” left out.
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ZPP said Zanu PF had activated a “support-or-starve” agenda, where only diehard Zanu PF supporters were benefiting from the agro-support being doled out countrywide by the government.
“The ‘support-or-starve’ phenomena that has always been a driving mantra in a number of violations over the past 15 years, is claiming central stage as the cropping season starts. Across the provinces, members of the opposition, as well as members of the ruling party associated with dismissed former Vice-President (Joice) Mujuru are being denied access to input support programmes,” part of the report read.
