Zimbabweans were first confronted not with solemn news, but with a grotesque political fabrication: a politically charged statement issued in the name of Blessed Geza on his X account, as if he were still alive, when by then he had been dead for at least three hours. That act was not an error of timing; it was cheap, cynical politics. It bears the unmistakable fingerprints of account handlers suspected to be aligned with Saviour Kasukuwere and his cohorts, who chose manipulation over decency. To weaponise a corpse for factional messaging is not activism. It is moral bankruptcy.

Only thereafter did the country receive confirmation of the passing of Blessed Geza, a liberation war veteran whose life intersected with Zimbabwe’s most consequential struggles and whose final years exposed the unresolved tension between revolutionary history and present-day responsibility. More …

ZanuPF, a revolutionary political party built through sacrifice and sustained by discipline, cannot afford to turn internal disagreements into public combat. That was the sober warning issued by Cde Lovemore Matuke, the party’s Secretary for Security in the Politburo, as he addressed rising concern over how differences are being handled within the movement.

Cde Matuke urged members to “desist from having a go at each other in public” and to “learn to resolve their differences amicably,” cautioning that unchecked public quarrels carry a far more serious consequence. When internal disputes are performed in the open, he warned, they risk disembowelling the party from within – stripping it of cohesion, authority, and moral centre. More …

The expulsion of Blessed Geza and Gifford Gomwe is not a forgotten footnote in the Party’s long march; it is a warning flare fired into the night sky. It signals, unmistakably, that indiscipline – especially when amplified through the reckless megaphone of social media – carries consequences in ZANUPF. Their removal was not an attempt to silence thought or debate. It was an act of institutional self-defence, meant to preserve order, hierarchy, and the coherence of the Party’s central brand.

That brand is His Excellency, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa.

Every durable political party functions like a solar system: it survives because all bodies orbit a single, stable centre. In ZANUPF, that centre is President Mnangagwa. He is not merely the Head of State; he is the Party’s face, anchor, and reference point. Strategy, messaging, and mobilisation must revolve around him. Self-appointed unaligned spokespeople, freelance ideologues, and online gladiators are not exhibiting initiative; they are drifting into insubordination. More …