THE new National Appeals and Review Committee of the ZANU-PF Central Committee tasked with considering appeals from party members aggrieved by either their suspension or expulsion by the National Disciplinary Committee (NDC) is set to deal with 36 cases, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday.
VP Mnangagwa told mourners at the burial of former Zanu-PF Women’s League secretary for administration Esphina Nhari, who was conferred with liberation war heroine status and buried at Gweru Provincial Heroes’ Acre that the committee would execute its mandate without reproach.
Nhari, who got a three-year suspension for chanting a slogan “Down with G40”, had lodged an appeal.
The new tribunal, chaired by Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, has 10 other Central Committee members, one from each province.
The Central Committee is the party’s highest decision-making body between congresses.
The committee — set up at the instigation of President Mugabe – comes after some party members expressed misgivings with the NDC, whose officials sometimes brought cases as complainants and at the same time arbitrated over them without giving the alleged offenders an opportunity to defend themselves.
The members of the new committee are: Jacob Mudenda (Matabeleland North), Paul Mangwana (Masvingo), Ellen Gwaradzimba (Manicaland), Absolom Sikhosana (Bulawayo), Tabitha Kanengoni (Mashonaland Central), Sydney Sekeramayi (Mashonaland East), Douglas Mombeshora (Mashonaland West), Tambudzani Mohadi (Matabeleland South), Melody Dziva (Midlands) and Sabina Thembani (Harare).
Patrick Chinamasa now chairs the NDC while Mike Bimha comes in to fill the vacancy left by Mphoko.
Reports say dozens of party members had lodged appeals against their suspensions and among them are former Politburo members Webster Shamu and Nicholas Goche.
- Herald
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