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Nduduzo Tshuma in Masvingo
THE First Family yesterday expressed good wishes for Zimbabweans ahead of the Christmas and New Year’s celebrations and called for zero tolerance to road carnage.
Officially closing the Zanu-PF 16th Annual National People’s Conference in Masvingo, President Mugabe called on drivers of buses ferrying delegates to their respective areas to exercise serious caution on the roads to preserve life.
The First Family also gave every female member, Central Committee and Politburo members at the conference the new fabric for party regalia designed by the First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe.
Delegates were also given 5kg of rice each and Christmas cards with the pictures of President Mugabe and the First Lady on the cover.
President Mugabe called on those travelling to the rural areas to take advantage of the rains experienced in the country to till the land and plant crops to mitigate the effects of drought experienced in the last agricultural season.
“As we approach the Christmas and New Year celebrations, I want to wish you overwhelming happiness. We experienced drought in 2016 but we have high hopes that as we enter 2017 and with the rains we are receiving, we won’t experience the drought we saw in the last season,” said President Mugabe.
“So I say, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas again and a prosperous New Year.”
President Mugabe called on families to go out of their way to bring joy to their families in the coming holidays.
He went down memory lane and shared with the delegates how his late mother Bona would rear chickens all year for slaughter during the Christmas holidays to be eaten with sadza cooked from ground rice (sadza remupunga).
President Mugabe also called on male heads of households to limit the intake of alcohol and spare money to buy goodies for their wives and families.
Online Reporter