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🇿🇼 Published: 02 October 2025
📘 Source: NewsDay

Opposition People’s Unity Party (PUP) leader Herbert Chamuka has criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s recent politburo reshuffle, arguing that the demotion of Obert Mpofu disregards the historical agreements of the 1987 Unity Accord. The politburo is the party’s highest decision-making body, and its resolutions are binding. Chamuka said the move undermined the legacy of the Unity Accord and diminished the standing of one of the most prominent ex-ZAPU leaders.

“The reshuffle which was done by the president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa wasn’t good to the history of the country. “There are individuals within the government and ZANU-PF who are respected, who hold the strongholds of the party, and who were devalued by being taken from respected positions and appointed to posts that should be given to younger members. Obert Mpofu is one of them,” Chamuka said.

He added that Mnangagwa should “give Obert Mpofu respect and his actual party position” in line with the Unity Accord. The Accord, signed between Robert Mugabe’s ZANU and Joshua Nkomo’s ZAPU in 1987, guaranteed that senior ZAPU figures would hold influential posts, including one of the two vice-presidential seats. When Vice-President John Nkomo died in 2013, discussions within ZANU-PF reportedly pointed to Mpofu as a possible successor.

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At the time, his stature as a Matabeleland leader and former ZAPU cadre positioned him as one of the natural beneficiaries of the agreement. “According to history, one of the vice-presidential posts was reserved for ZAPU. “After John Nkomo’s death, Obert Mpofu was supposed to be considered.

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Originally published by NewsDay • October 02, 2025

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