‘Zanu PF factional wars have put nation on the edge’

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ZIMBABWEANS should be worried over Zanu PF’s factional wars that have put the nation on the edge, and on the brink of anarchy, People’s Democratic Party leader Tendai Biti has said.

ZIMBABWEANS should be worried over Zanu PF’s factional wars that have put the nation on the edge, and on the brink of anarchy, People’s Democratic Party leader Tendai Biti has said.

BY NQOBANI NDLOVU

Biti told South African channel ANN7TV that the “volatile” situation had been made a lot worse by President Robert Mugabe who he said appeared to have somewhat taken a back seat, leaving the nation in “limbo.”

Mugabe on Friday last week addressed the nation on Zanu PF’s internal wars, urging different factions reportedly angling for his post to be disciplined.

tendai-biti Tendai Biti [/Caption]

The 92-year-old leader took War Veterans minister Christopher Mutsvangwa to task for mobilising ex-combatants to attend a meeting in Harare in a show of force against the G40 faction.

War veterans were, however, severely beaten by cops, and forced to abort their meeting.

According to Biti, this showed a nation racing towards implosion.

“All of us Zimbabweans must be very worried about the implosion of Zanu PF because Zanu PF and State are now one.

“So the splintering of Zanu PF is the splintering of the State. That is why police and war veterans were fighting in the streets. And very soon it will be the army fighting the police in the streets,” Biti told ANN7TV during its Africa Tonight programme.

Biti said Mugabe’s wife, Grace, had also made matters worse by declaring at her recent rally that she is in charge, a situation that has seen top ministers fawning “before her as if she is a God”.

“You see grown men and women fawning before her as if she is a God. Grace has said it in public that she is in charge and quite clearly a constitutional coup has taken place within matrimonial confines.

“…Mugabe is 92 years old and physically, mentally and spiritually the man is exhausted. So the State is in limbo,” Biti added.