Zimbabwe: ZANU-PF, ZAPU raise concern over calls for Matabeleland's secession.

Text of report by Khanyile Mlotshwa entitled "Zanu PF, Zapu wary of secessionists" published by privately-owned Zimbabwean weekly newspaper The Standard website on 7 February

Zapu [Zimbabwe African People's Union] and Zanu PF [Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front] have warned that if the new constitution does not provide for the devolution of power, activists calling for the secession of Matabeleland will gain more ground.

Dumiso Dabengwa, the Zapu president and Callistus Ndlovu, a Zanu PF central committee member were reacting to renewed calls for Matabeleland to become a separate state.

A new party, the Matabeleland Liberation Front (MLF) was …