ZANU PF’s suspended chairman Rugare Gumbo has been given the boot by the ZANU PF Congress currently underway in Harare.
The decision will mean Gumbo’s earlier 5 year suspension is now superseded by the expulsion.
Sitting in the Central Committee, members voiced they were collectively excommunicating Mr Gumbo forever. A source told this reporter following the decision, “We will deal in this way (navo vose) with all who work to destroy the party. Hakuna kwavanosvika vese ava vana Jabu navana Joram – They will not get anywhere,” he said. It was confirmed by spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo who said, “suspended spokesperson, Cde Rugare Gumbo has been expelled from the party by the central committee.”

Mr Gumbo was expelled following his recent criticism of President Robert Mugabe in which he announced that ZANU PF is facing a leadership crisis, making reference to his boss Mugabe.
“We have a serious leadership crisis and the whole world is aware of that. We have a leadership that is disjointed, a leadership that has no focus on how to resolve major issues. We have a leadership that is power-hungry and will do anything to subvert the will of the people,” Gumbo said.
“They want to remain leaders forever at the expense of the suffering majority. It is an unfocused leadership that is concerned with its own interests, not addressing the concerns of the people.”
Gumbo, a prominent veteran of the liberation struggle, said Mugabe (almost 91) has virtually lost control of the party as he has allowed power-hungry opportunists to push for illegal party constitutional amendments and purges to accommodate themselves.
“Mugabe has lost direction and he is being used by power hungry people. He has practically lost control of the party. He should not have allowed the First Lady to attack long-time comrades like that; and that on its own shows he is no longer in control. He has no vision. You cannot bulldoze amendments to the constitution so that it fits into what opportunists want.
“He has to respect the constitution. How can a leader who is in charge allow illegal purges of elected provincial executives like that. It means he is detached from the people. He is not the one controlling those provinces anymore and this should ring a bell that it’s time for change of leadership.”
Before his suspension Gumbo demanded that congress must resolve the succession issue