Electronic cards for Zanu PF members in the pipeline

Robin Muchetu, Senior Reporter

THE ruling Zanu-PF party will soon avail electronic membership cards for party members in a bid to ensure that they are easily identified.

The party has experienced challenges in rolling out the modern membership cards but said plans were underway to ensure they are available in the shortest period of time.

Addressing party members at Davis Hall in Bulawayo at the weekend, national political commissar Cde Victor Matemadanda said they party was seized with the matter.

“We have a problem with party cards, we have been trying to have electronically produced cards but we still don’t have any, it was proposed in the Politburo that we revert to our old cards but with added security features so that people have something to show their membership,” he said.

He said the party was going avail for their members, cards that they can use in the interim.

“It is important that members also have party cards with contact details just like a business card that they can share when they meet with other people and to also show that they are members of the party.

“We will do that in the shortest possible period of time to avail these, while we await the electronic membership cards,” said Cde Matemadanda.

During the same meeting Cde Matemadanda said party cadres must also embrace concepts such as Pfumvudza.

Pfumvudza promotes climate proofing agriculture by adopting conservation farming techniques and involves the utilisation of small pieces of land and applying the correct agronomic practices for higher returns.

Under the Pfumvudza concept, farmers will have to practice conservation agriculture for them to benefit under the Presidential Inputs Scheme which has since been transformed into the Climate-Proofed Presidential Inputs Programme.

The concept, which will be applied to maize, traditional grains and oil seeds, will also commercialise smallholder agriculture.

“We cannot be a party that preaches productivity when we do not practice the same. We should be leading and taking part in Pfumvudza, leading from the front by practicing them and not only understanding them,” he said.

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