ZANU-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has accused Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga of attacking a new politically connected elite, the so-called \u201czvigananda\u201d, to boost his own presidential ambitions.<\/p>\n
Chiwenga recently revived the liberation-war term to criticise a small group of well-connected businessmen with links to state patronage and corruption.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a press conference at ZANU-PF headquarters in Harare on Thursday, Mutsvangwa defended the group and traced the word\u2019s origins.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe name Zvigananda generally refers to what is called the petty-bourgeoisie. In Marxist Class analysis, people are placed in classes, and there is a class struggle between one class and the other; the workers, the peasants, the middle class and the super rich,\u201d Mutsvangwa said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe petty-bourgeoisie was translated to Zvigananda. Now, because people were ambitious for power in the 1976 Vashandi Rebellion, they started labelling someone as a Chigananda in the war.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut being labelled in a class is in relation to ownership of property, and no one owned property in the war.<\/p>\n
\u201cBehind it was an attempt to grab power. If you start labelling other people, then out of that, you say this should happen to them, it is not right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mutsvangwa did not name Chiwenga, but given his past criticism and the Vice-President\u2019s perceived presidential ambitions, the reference to zvigananda left little doubt about who he was referring to.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is nothing wrong about acquiring property, about having a middle class,\u201d said Mustvangwa.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou abuse that term now and want to use it for political purposes because you have ambitions\u2026that is not the way to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf a black man makes money, there is a problem, but Indians and white people can make as much as they want?<\/p>\n
\u201cZimbabweans deserve better in terms of political leadership, especially leadership that went to war. We need to conduct ourselves in the correct manner.\u201d<\/p>\n
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ZANU-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has accused Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga of attacking a new politically connected elite, the so-called \u201czvigananda\u201d, to boost his own presidential ambitions. Chiwenga recently revived the liberation-war term to criticise a small group of well-connected businessmen with links to state patronage and corruption. Speaking at a press conference at ZANU-PF headquarters in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":117065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties"],"yoast_head":"\n