A person named Bombshell set fire to Zimbabwe’s succession battle

A long convoy of tanks of armored personnel rolled through a Harare neighborhood expressed concern for a brief moment – that a military coup was faced in Zimbabwe.

“What’s going on in Zimbabwe?” One person posted on social media. Another said: “The last time it happened when there was a coup.”

Government spokesperson Nick Mangwana was in a hurry to overcome the fear of the public, stating that the tanks were in the capital as part of a prescribed practice to test the equipment for a prescribed practice in the morning and “nothing”.

Nevertheless, nonsense and speculation continued, stating a lot about the situation of the country.

Next to regular military drills, President Amsarson Mangagwa faced harsh criticism about his leadership from within his Zanu-PF party for the first time after becoming President in 2017, in which he was called to step down.

The allegations developed the memories of the lead-up of the coup, which topped his predecessor, long-time leader Robert Mugabe.

He came to power in 1980 as a revolutionary hero, who had abolished the white-paralyzed rule for decades. But he died when the veterans of the 1970s withdrew their support for him by the veterans of the war of freedom.

He was a war giant and senior Zanu-PF member, named Blessed Geza, also known as “Bombshell”, who launched an oral aggressive against Mannagagwa.

He became angry when some people within the party started insisting to change the country’s laws to seek the President for a third term.

Often in a series of explain-laden press conferences, with a gritty-voice and a forehead, he repeatedly called for the 82-year-old President to go or face the face.

“I should apologize for helping him come to the office,” Gaiza broadcast about the President on social media at a press conference, who goes with the surname “The Crocodile”.

“As soon as he (Mannagagwa) got the taste of power, he increased corruption, forgot the people and remembered his family,” said the veteran of the vocal war, who was then a member of the powerful Central Committee of Zanu-PF.

“Mannagwa has also surrendered the power of the state in front of his wife and children. We see the unhappy history repeating ourselves. We cannot allow this to happen.”

Zanu -PF was angry with his “dislikes” comments – later described as “zodiac sign of treason” – from where through his representatives, he continues to taunt through social media, which indicates the protests.

He is wanted by the police in four allegations, in which vehicle theft, reducing the President’s rights and provoking public violence.

Blessed Mhlanga, the journalist who first interviewed the bombing in November, The violence has also been arrested on charges of broadcasting the message that provokes violence,

Last year, during Zanu-PF rallies, there was trouble on Mangagwa’s ambitions to stay in the office. The President is currently serving his second and last term, which is ending in 2028.

The slogan “2030 he will still be the leader” began to be spoken despite his supporters limited the presidential post in two -five years of words despite the Constitution of Zimbabwe.

He argued that he would need to remain in the office to complete his “Agenda 2030” development program as he was doing such great work.

Then a proposal was unanimously adopted at the Zanu-PF conference in December, which did not clearly talk about the third term, but demanded to expand the current word of Mannagwa by 2030.

Despite the recent assurance of Mnangagwa that he intended to step down in three years, the impressive Roman Catholic bishops have joined.

In a rustic paper last week, Zimbabwe’s Catholic Bishop Conference warned that the 2030 debate was a distraction from things that really matched – trade shutdown, high unemployment, large -scale corruption and economic policies that favor rich at the expense of ordinary zimbabens.

President’s spokesperson George Charamba expressed his disappointment about the pronunciation of the clerics, told the state -run Herald newspaper that the matter was now “dead and buried”.

However, Bombshell’s message seems to be landed. This resulted in a purification in Zanu-PF, with the expulsion of Giza and some of his colleagues.

Nevertheless, political analyst Takura Zhangza says that Giza’s outbreak is unlikely to galvanize the crowd for her reasons.

These days people are less interested in such political glasses, they say, unlike the time of Mugabe’s collapse, when the opposition party supporters, including Zimbabwe, excluded N Masses to support the coup – thanks to military and war veterans.

“Even attempts by Geza to talk about corruption and the plight of workers – it is not going to instigate, organize, gather people. He does not have that ability or interest,” he tells the BBC.

“I can promise you that there is no repetition of 2017 before 2028,” he said Zimbabwe feels that he was used to exit Mugabe and will not be brought back to the streets again for the internal battle of Zanu-PF.

This is also because there are partitions in the political scenario with a weak opposition.

Even the stalwarts of war do not represent a united front, saying Mr. Zhangjaha.

Geza has supported the first 68 -year -old former Army Chief, Vice President Constantine Chivenga in a succession debate, but other war giants are known to return the 2030 agenda.

Political analyst Alexander Rusro says that it is important to understand the impressive role of war giants in both Zimbabwe and Zanu-PF.

“They see themselves as a career, so you cannot overcome their feelings,” he tells the BBC.

However, he believes that the current complaints broadcast from Bombshell’s choice are indicated more than the self-relationship than public interest.

“They feel as if they are excluded from the cake that they should enjoy otherwise,” he tells the BBC.

Mr. Zhangaza agrees that those who show loyalty within the governing party are likely to benefit from tenders, government contracts, housing, land and agricultural inputs like fertilizers and seeds.

For Jameson Timba, the leader of a faction of the main opposition party, the Citizen Alliance for Change (CCC), it all enhances the politics of politics in Zimbabwe.

“You have a country where the economic situation is deteriorating. People can hardly eat more than one meal in a day,” they told the BBC.

“We have major supermarket chains that are truly shutting down,” he said, referring to the economic crisis facing OK Zimbabwe, one of the country’s largest retailers, who have been forced to close several large branches with vacant shelves in others.

Mr. Zhangza said that the forecast for the delicate economy is even more serious for the decline from the recent suspension of USAID.

Timba is still recovering from a five -month tenure in jail, spending most of its chaos sitting on a solid floor, sharing a cell and toilet with 80 people.

He was arrested along with more than 70 others in June, hosting the “illegal meeting” at his private residence when he held a barbecue to mark the international day of the African child.

His treatment – and from his fellow prisoners – reflected how opposition politics is being criminalized, he told the BBC.

He said, “The country is facing challenges. Any leader or government is worthy of its salt, in fact it will call for an initial election, to investigate and determine if they still have the mandate of the people,” he said.

“The opposite essentially represents a joke (when) you are talking about expanding a word of the office.”

However, the initial vote is very less likely.

For now, Bombshell is hidden and elections are years away – but the succession debate will maintain cooking.