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Jethro Makumbe Correspondent
The ongoing 15th ZANU-PF National Peoples’ conference is not going to be turned into a gladiatorial arena for factional and egoistic skirmishes, but it will rather mark the genesis of a new dispensation of unity of purpose and discipline within the party.

It is a common fact that enemies of the party have been working round the clock to wreak havoc and unnecessary acrimony ahead of, and at the conference.

Like always, ZANU PF has proven to be a permanent edifice of peace, resilience and leadership excellence. President Mugabe’s political invincibility and physical immortality are clear testaments of a man with a calling and a man on a grand mission.

This enlightens one that it’s not only priests and pastors who receive extraterrestrial callings to their positions, political leaders also do.

Purveyors of acrimony and disorder, disobedience and mutinous behaviour within organisations, and within the party, have always been there since time immemorial, yet Zanu-PF continues to bloom and fare in the overwhelming presence of its enemies. There is never a time in history where evil has ever triumphed over good. Villains and betrayers have always been known as losers, though some are unrepentant losers.

The conference will create a dialogue platform on which the party will concertedly and categorically discuss issues of national importance and strategise sustainable channels for national development. The setting of the congress venue in the resort area of Victoria Falls in itself serves a symbolic significance of setting a new and refreshed image of the party after a stressful weeding exercise which saw the down-plunging of most witch-weeds in the party.

The December conference is not an elective congress as many doom wishers anticipate. Officials will be driven by ungovernable energy and desire to railroad Zimbabwe back on its wheels and nothing next to the so-called leadership renewal.

President Mugabe is still the peoples’ darling and un-divorceable choice. The conference will be used to review progress on the programmes of the party.

Enough high-sounding-for-nothing hullabaloos about leadership change and succession are just but a witch’s wishes and shouts in the woods.

Week in week out people have been falsely tortured by screaming headlines in news dailies saying Mnangagwa this, Mnangagwa that . . . G40 this and that ad infinitum. These are mere devil’s ploys to stir unnecessary tension within the party ahead of the conference. ZANU-PF is a peoples’ project and not a cauldron of self-seeking interests.

One would wonder what the unholy trinity of Joice Mujuru, Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo would do for the people of Zimbabwe that they failed to do when they were still in ZANU PF.

It’s rather insipid for this cabal to spew volumes of poppycock allegations against ZANU-PF which in the yesteryear they were part of.

Maybe one would view this as a desperate rampage of a divorced wife, gallivanting around for charms and goblins to destroy the husband. They’re now mere relevance seekers.

It is common knowledge in politics that as soon one feels he is now bigger than the party he belongs to and forms his own, he will no sooner than later fling himself into political oblivion where he will only be remembered in the books of history.

Not as a hero but rather an unremorseful villain. This is not unique to ZANU-PF alone, even in the opposition parties. Simba Makoni, Tendai Biti and Arthur Mutambara are some of the long forgotten cadres, and gradually Joice Mujuru and her cabal are exponentially becoming synonymous with the past.

Judas Iscariotism is everywhere, but the result is a predetermined one.

Neither a sword nor a kiss will ever betray the peoples’ struggle under Cde Mugabe and ZANU-PF, and surely not People First.

It’s not about succession but success and excellence. It’s not about Robert Mugabe or ZANU-PF, it’s about the people of Zimbabwe. The 15th National Peoples’ Conference must address national success and not succession.

The question must not be: What is Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF doing for us, but rather what are ‘We the People’ doing for our country?