ANC delegation jets in

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ANC delegation jets in Cde Ace Magashule

The Sunday News

Kuda Bwititi, Harare Bureau
A 10-member delegation from South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) is expected in the country on Tuesday to meet its Zanu-PF counterparts, as part of the two revolutionary parties’ efforts to strengthen mutual cooperation and apprise each other of developments on either side of the Limpopo.

Zanu-PF director for information and publicity Cde Tafadzwa Mugwadi confirmed the visit.

“I can confirm that the delegation will arrive on Tuesday. I am not sure of the full names of the team, but obviously it is going to include the top brass of the ANC. I understand that ANC secretary-general Cde Ace Magashule will lead the team.”

ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe acknowledged receipt of enquiries from our Harare Bureau but could not respond by yesterday. The latest engagement comes as the two liberation movements are being targeted for attacks by forces that want to oust them from power. Last week, ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa came under vicious attack at the National Executive Committee (NEC) — the party’s highest decision-making body — where he was told by some members to resign.

In a statement after the virtual special meeting between August 28 and August 30, the NEC said their leader was clearly under attack from a “well-choreographed” campaign.

“The NEC emphasised that what seems to be a well-choreographed campaign against the President will not distract the movement from undertaking an intensified programme against corruption and state capture . . .” it said in a statement after the crucial weekend meetings.

The party is also battling allegations of corruption against senior party officials over procurement of Covid-19 personal protective equipment.

Similarly, Government has also been under coordinated attack from some opposition political parties and organisations, including some Western missions, especially following the abortive July 31 demonstrations, which were touted as an uprising. The attacks were concentrated on social media, where old and rehashed videos and pictures were recycled to give an impression of a political crisis in Zimbabwe.

The contrived footage also found its way on SA television channels.

Cde Mugwadi, however, said the meeting will deliberate on mutual challenges that the two parties are facing.

“It should be made clear that this meeting is not based on the so-called notion that there is a crisis in Zimbabwe. There is no crisis in Zimbabwe and our position as Zanu-PF is that the only crisis that is there is actually in the opposition, which has been torn into smithereens because of the issues that they took to court.

“We now have a scenario whereby the opposition now wants to frame their crisis as a national crisis. It is not the duty of Zanu-PF to assume that the crisis in the opposition should be turned into a national crisis.”

Zanu-PF, he added, expects the ANC to lend its muscle to regional efforts to lobby for the removal of sanctions.

Addressing the ANC’s NEC meeting last week, the South African President said he had agreed with President Mnangagwa that is was important for the ANC to get a clear picture of the situation in Zimbabwe.

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