Didymus Mutasa Returns To Zanu PF After Years In Wilderness – Eduzim News

Tinashe Sambiri– Former ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa has been appointed to the ruling party’s Elders’ Council, marking his return to a senior advisory structure within the party after years in the political doldrums.

Mutasa was expelled from ZANU-PF in 2015 for allegedly undermining the party leadership under the late former president Robert Mugabe.

Announcing the development at a press conference held at the party’s headquarters in Harare on Wednesday, 11 March, ZANU-PF Secretary for Information and Publicity Christopher Mutsvangwa said Mutasa’s appointment to the Elders’ Council was in recognition of his long political career and his contributions during and after the liberation struggle.

“President Mnangagwa has opened the door to accommodate all comrades who may have gone in another direction during the armed struggle, even after independence,” said Mutsvangwa.

“We might have argued here and there, but that does not separate us.”
He added that Mutasa, a long-time figure in Zimbabwe’s liberation politics, had now been brought back into the party’s advisory structure.
“One of the stewards of the Zimbabwe revolution who has been on the margins has been brought back to the party to become a member of the ZANU PF Elders’ Council,” said Mutsvangwa.

“I am here to inform you that former ZANU PF Secretary for Administration, Didymus Mutasa, has joined the Elders’ Council.”

Before Zimbabwe gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1980, Mutasa served as Chairman of the Cold Comfort Farm Society, a non-racial cooperative community.
Following independence, he held several senior political positions, including serving as Zimbabwe’s first Speaker of Parliament from 1980 to 1990.

Mutasa also served as the Member of Parliament for Makoni North, a member of the ZANU-PF Politburo and the party’s Secretary for Administration.

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