Zanu PF explodes – Demos rock provinces

Spates of potentially violent demonstrations have broken out in at least five Zanu PF provinces as battles for the control of the party are intensifying ahead of elections the party wants as early as this year.

Yesterday, party factional supporters fought running battles in Mutare and Masvingo where intra-party demonstrations fuelled by vote-rigging and position machinations threatened to tear the party’s grassroots structures.

Zanu PF political commissar Webster Shamu has been traversing the length and breadth of the country in an effort to quell possible violence which some disgruntled party cadres have blamed on his office.

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