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A faction in Zanu-PF is allegedly canvassing President Ernest Mnangwangwa to serve a third term.

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Sizwe sama Yende

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A fledgling political party in Zimbabwe has warned that the country would be plunged into a civil war if President Ernest Mnangwangwa extended his term to 2030.

The People’s Progressive Party of Zimbabwe (PPPZ) president, Timothy Chiguvare, said that many Zimbabweans were against this.

Although Mnangwangwa has denied this, Zimbabweans remain concerned that he may be harbouring ambitions of a third term as president as a faction within Zanu-PF appears to have been canvassing him to stay longer.

“We are totally against President ED Mnangwangwa extending his presidential term to 2030 while both inflation and corruption are in a competition of skyrocketing day and night in Zimbabwe. If he does bulldoze and extend his presidential term to 2030, automatically Zimbabwe will be turned into a war theatre.

War veteran and expelled Zanu-PF central committee member, Blessed Geza, has been turning up the heat on Mnangangwa’s presidency.

Geza called for nationwide marches against Mnangwangwa on March 31 but the public only stayed away from work, apparently in fear heavy action from the police.

He has since gone into hiding. A journalist who interviewed the war veteran is awaiting trial for allegedly spreading information that is likely to cause violence.

Chiguvare said that Zanu-PF had been using money to silence opposition parties.

“In Zimbabwe we also have people who are masquerading as leaders of opposition political parties who are selfish and ignorant, who are without common sense, who are remote controlled to hamper progress on accelerating change in Zimbabwe,” Chiguvare said.

“They are sell outs, they don’t see all these efforts we are making to bring the desperately needed change in Zimbabwe as a worthy cause.  All they want is money. They get paid about US$30million just for misleading the electorate to keep this regime in power. So far, they got a share from the looted state funds and from the looted mineral resources.”

Chiguvare said that PPPZ demanded the release of political prisoners and journalists who were arrested for exposing massive corruption , crimes against humanity and the looting of state funds and Zimbabwe’s mineral resources.

“Why arresting and persecuting those who are exposing massive corruption, when its corruption that has brought Zimbabwe’s economy on its knees , as a result women and children are the most suffering millions of Zimbabwe’s working class are all over in the diaspora being victims of cheap labour, many of our daughters and sisters are victims of sexual abuse there.”

He accused the ANC of betraying the suffering people of Zimbabwe. He said that the ANC was benefiting illegally from Zimbabwe’s minerals resources and could not call its ally to order.

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