Zanu PF monitoring regional polls
ZANU PF is following with interest upcoming elections in Mozambique, Namibia and Botswana to assess the capacity of revolutionary parties in the region to withstand infiltration by detractors, the ruling party’s Secretary-General, Cde Obert Mpofu, said in an interview.
SADC’s former liberation movements would soon meet to come up with ideas on how they could insulate themselves from “colonial infiltration, irrational and detractive countries”.
Dr Mpofu said the resulting democratic processes within the region were providing key learning points and insights on how Zanu PF and other former liberation movements could work towards the preservation of their ethos and credentials.
Mozambique, Namibia and Botswana are having elections this year. This follows elections in South Africa that saw the African National Congress losing its majority for the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994.
The ANC, without an outright majority, then formed a government of national unity with the traditional opposition, the Democratic Alliance, and other smaller parties.
The DA is believed to be a remnant of the apartheid regime.
“That is really one area which seems to be of great concern to us. We have been meeting as former liberation movements and coming up with new ideas of really protecting ourselves from infiltration and from the colonial, irrational and detractive countries which are against us. We are also worrying about the developments that are coming up now as a result of the democratic processes within the region,” Dr Mpofu said. It was becoming “very clear that the enemy’s hand” is now in the region and expressed that leaders of former liberation movements were aware of these issues and were currently attending to them.
Revolutionary parties had to be careful that such developments do not stir problems within the region.
“We just had some elections recently in South Africa. We expect some elections in Mozambique, Namibia, and Botswana.
“We have learnt and will be learning from those elections. But it is becoming very clear that the enemy’s hand is really into the region.”