{"id":2990,"date":"2014-06-22T10:29:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T03:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2014-06-22T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T03:30:08","slug":"zanu-pf-showing-true-colors-as-organisation-of-selfish-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zanu-pf-showing-true-colors-as-organisation-of-selfish-people\/","title":{"rendered":"ZANU PF showing true colors as organisation of selfish people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when the ZANU PF government is failing to service Zimbabwe&#8217;s domestic debt and to pay civil servants it has emerged that the ruling party is instead on a fund raising drive to revive its own businesses, ahead of addressing the serious challenges facing the country.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary for information and publicity Rugare Gumbo told the state media that a politburo meeting Thursday \u2018spent most of the time looking at mobilization of resources for the party.\u2019 The politburo is the party\u2019s supreme decision making body and is said to be more powerful than cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Gumbo\u2019s comments came as reports said the party has already embarked on an elaborate door to door membership recruitment exercise in preparation for the 2018 election, something which observers say confirms ZANU PF\u2019s \u2018misplaced priorities.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Rugare said the politburo looked at subscriptions of members and a \u2018dedicated system\u2019 of fund raising and how the party companies could assist in that regard. He said business secretary Sithembiso Nyoni was tasked to look into how the party could prop up its businesses like Tregers Holdings and Jongwe Printing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zimbabwe News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swradioafrica.com\/2014\/06\/20\/zanu-pf-prioritizes-own-businesses-ahead-of-government-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when the ZANU PF government is failing to service Zimbabwe&#8217;s domestic debt and to pay civil servants it has emerged that the ruling party is instead on a fund raising drive to revive its own businesses, ahead of addressing the serious challenges facing the country. Secretary for information and publicity Rugare Gumbo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,1354,1353,257,1352,254,4693,334,1351,4686,421],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-door-to-door-membership-recruitment","tag-looking-at-mobilization-of-resources-for-the-party","tag-news","tag-rugare-gumbo","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zanu-pf","tag-zanu-pf-government-is-failing-to-service","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}