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WE salute the Zanu-PF Politburo for finally baring its teeth by suspending national party spokesperson Rugare Gumbo and ousted renegade war veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda who had become the voices and faces of the underground lobby working to unseat President Mugabe despite the overwhelming mandate he received from millions of Zimbabweans countrywide, only last year.

What is more, President Mugabe launched and drove his own campaign. He mobilised his 61,09 percent and the party’s 73 percent share of the vote on the back of his appeal and charisma, only to have a certain clique of people that had been opposed to that polls after becoming too cosy with the MDC-T emerge and want to claim a mandate they did not earn, from an election they did not want.

Election 2013 was termed bhora mugedhi for a reason, it was the anti-thesis of the bhora musango that Vice President Mujuru and her Mavambo project drove in 2008. Bhora musango nearly drove the revolution off kilter as Zanu-PF was only saved by the constitutional requirement that set the threshold of 50 percent plus 1 for one to prevail in the presidential contest.

That is what necessitated the runoff that allowed the party to reconstitute itself outside its compromised structures to deliver the runoff.

It is was actually amazing that despite those subversive activities manifest in the self-defeating bhora musango in the run up to election 2008, nothing was done to the perpetrators.

While bhora musango condemned the country to four years of a dysfunctional inclusive Government, the sponsors of the self-destructive move were enjoying themselves as they warmed up to the MDC-T which is why they wanted to prolong the dysfunctional inclusive Government in the hope of stretching President Mugabe and progressive cadres in Zanu-PF for selfish ends.

These are the ‘moderates’ MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai said he was in talks with for ‘a new Zimbabwe’.

We can’t, for the life of us, understand where Zanu-PF can be deemed to converge with the quisling MDC-T as currently constituted except for the purposes of political expediency.

Such shameless opportunism can never be tied down to a desire to consolidate the gains of the revolution, but a brazen wish to assuage the wishes of westerners who have been fighting to depose President Mugabe without success over the past 14 years.

The same forces again employed all manner of dirty tricks to influence the provincial elections last year which they somehow got the Politburo to uphold in the face of glaring shortcomings.

They employed the same modus operandi during the Youth Conference and got their way and appeared on course to do the same with the Women’s League before the timely entrance of First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe into mainstream politics.

This is why the First Lady’s nomination and endorsement to lead the Women’s League was met with such resistance from the bhora musango crew, and their media embeds orphaned by Tsvangirai’s fall from grace.

The bhora musango crew hoped to use their ill gotten influence to try to depose President Mugabe. This is why Rugare Gumbo came out saying succession (read regime change) was the critical issue facing the elective Congress.

They had become that daring, that brazen which is why the Politburo’s decision to suspend Rugare Gumbo and Enoch Porusingazi, and expel Jabulani Sibanda was telling and progressive.

Though it was six years too late, it came at the right time.

What the party leadership has started should morph into a full clean-up operation that takes out all the bad apples so that the post-Congress period can see the party dedicate its attention and energy towards fulfilling the noble objectives of Zim-Asset.

Zanu-PF can ill afford the luxury of sparring with internal and external enemies as Zim-Asset requires the spirit of not only Team Zanu-PF but Team Zimbabwe with every citizen doing their bit to contribute to the collective in line with the Gestalt philosophy that holds that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.