adminthey should be voted for.
The party’s national political commissar, Cde Webster Shamu, said this would be part of the process of holding transparent primary elections.
Addressing delegates to the two-day Mashonaland West inter-district conference in Banket at the weekend, Cde Shamu said leaders should come from the people after clearly articulating their vision.
“All people aspiring for positions this time around will have to face the people together to explain their programmes of action,” he said. “This applies to the incumbent and the aspirant, so that they are chosen on the basis of how well they articulate and hope to address people’s needs.”
The position and other parameters for holding primary elections, said Cde Shamu, would be set and agreed upon by the Politburo and endorsed by the Central Committee.
He warned Zanu-PF members against campaigning as election dates have not yet been set.
“People should stop campaigning and give the incumbents and the shadow MPs the chance to carry out their programmes without hindrance and other pressures until such a time that the election dates have been set,” he said.
Cde Shamu, who is also the Information, Media and Publicity Minister, said the party would hold elections to fill some of the vacant posts in the Mashonaland West provincial executive in both the women’s league and the main wing.
He said the Provincial Coordinating Committee had, after turning itself into a Provincial Election Directorate, agreed that the posts of chairperson, deputy chairperson and secretary of the main wing as well as that of the chairperson of the women’s wing should be filled through elections as the posts were vital and needed the mandate of the districts.
The positions were left vacant either because of death or dismissal after a vote of no confidence was passed on some of the executive members including Cde John Mafa and his deputy, Cde Franco Ndambakuwa.
“When someone is in an acting capacity, they are limited and so it is imperative for the provincial leadership to come up with dates to fill the posts, so that party programmes are implemented without hindrances,” he said.
The conference resolved to defer elections to fill the vacant posts in the provincial executive to a date to be determined soon.
It resolved that no one would be co-opted into any structure without going through the normal channels of coming from the grassroots.
A total of 1 074 delegates from the province’s six districts attended the conference, including members of the Politburo, Central Committee, National Constituonal Assembly, representatives of war veterans, war collaborators and ex-detainees.
Cde Shamu also challenged the conference to come up with a practical progamme of action to support the indigenisation and economic empowerment exercise.
He said the conference should heed President Mugabe’s exhortation when he said: “Resources belong to the people of Zimbabwe and the people of Zimbabwe have the final word as to how these resources will be controlled, owned and distributed.”
He noted that the President had said Zimbabweans must organise themselves in terms of the production that was needed, the management of the resources and getting them to yield the value the people wanted.
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