Zimbabwe taxpayers are paying for ZANU-PF factionalism

The ZYC is supposed to be a government council for youths, but it is really a conduit of funding and patronage from government to the ZANU-PF youth league. It is doubtful any such “audit of youth skills” was ever carried out.

Those who wondered how a party that repeatedly reports losses in its financials was able to organise the “Million Man March”, a massive parade of thousands of party youths in support of Mugabe, got their answer.

Some of that ZIMDEF money went to organise the march, Moyo’s deputy Godfrey Gandawa told investigators.

It was all part of ZIMDEF’s corporate social responsibility programme, he claimed.

Moyo helpfully volunteered on Twitter: “It was not a ZANU-PF event. It was a national event in solidarity with the President as Head of State and Government.”

We now also know that it was ZIMDEF money that funded First Lady Grace Mugabe’s rallies, sponsored Mandi Chimene’s war vets splinter group, and even used to print ZANU-PF membership cards.

ZANU-PF has no money of its own. Many of its leaders have no legitimate businesses viable enough to sponsor the party. ZIMDEF will therefore, sadly, not be the last state fund to be looted to fund ZANU-PF activities.

It is most likely that different ministers are looting state funds under their parastatals to drive the agendas of their factions, and curry favour with Mugabe or whoever they are loyal to.

In 2015, parastatals illegally forked out over $12 million dollars to fund broke parent ministries, according to the Auditor-General. Much of that money, without doubt, sponsoring ZANU-PF factional battles.

We had always known that ZANU-PF factionalism, by distracting government, was costing the economy. However, what we did not know enough was that the factional fighting is actually costing us money, directly.

The Zimbabwean taxpayer is paying for ZANU-PF factionalism, literally.-The Source

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