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Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
There are but very few fulfilling things in this life. The ability to be in touch with the people, the real people that believe in the Party’s cause is one of them. Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of engaging with the people again and again and I say to you, there is no better feeling. This wave of by-elections necessitated by “cyclone Tshabangu” has led me back to the heart and core of the Matabeleland Province, Lupane, where I have spent many a day and night campaigning and mobilising for the Zanu-PF Lupane East Constituency aspiring National House of Assembly Candidate.
This has been quite a successful exercise as I have been able to connect with the people of this great Province once more. The desire by our people to win back this seat is amazing. Oh, how delightful it is that the mass-line people’s Party is well loved in Matabeleland North Province. Indeed, there are fewer pleasures in this world than being able to connect with one’s own, speaking the same language of great love for one’s nation and the desire to see it prosper.
This is what Zanu-PF stands for. This is the promise that Zanu-PF gives to the people of this great nation and this will forever endure.
The grassroots is truly where the people are. It’s shameful that other political parties shun the grassroots and do not value them or regard them as important. Only Zanu-PF has been able to understand this and harness the power of the grassroots. For it all began with the people and this must never be forgotten. My Party, Zanu-PF’s victories over the years have been guaranteed by its great love and respect for the grassroots. Our structures make it possible for us to be able to fully incorporate our people and have them take part in our movement. This makes it a people’s movement driven by and for the people.
In my recent exploits, I have picked on quite a few interesting things, chief among them how the people have grown tired of the endless and pointless politicking perpetuated by the opposition. The people have grown weary of the opposition’s theatrics. Any political party that distances itself from the people will never prevail.
For without the people then, there is no politics to speak of. This is why I have chosen to stay put where the people are and communicate my Party Zanu-PF’s message as well as His Excellency President ED Mnangagwa’s message throughout this by-election period. Our people need to be told of the Party’s and our leader’s commendable achievements and ongoing developmental projects. The message is indeed simple and straightforward, the promises of Zanu-PF and His Excellency President ED Mnangagwa are real and are for the people!
Let us not be distracted by side shows. Zimbabwe is at a crucial stage where we need to hold the sheep steady and push our economic developmental initiatives to see them to completion. So much has been done over these past five years that songs will be written in the future and tales told about how Zanu-PF in the New Dispensation forever changed Zimbabwe’s fortunes.
An interesting aspect is how my Party Zanu-PF has always been the one forging the country’s fate on more occasions than one. From independence to the land reform programme that empowered our people and now Vision 2030 that will turn our country into an upper middle-income economy, it has always been Zanu-PF at the centre of it. Yes, there have been challenges no doubt largely perpetuated by our detractors, but we have been able to overcome them and we will continue overcoming them through our unity of purpose. As we head to the polls this coming weekend, let us all remember the ruling Party, Zanu-PF’s great works, and its enduring legacy as the people’s movement.
Dr Obert Mpofu is an Academic and the Secretary General of Zanu-PF. He writes in his own capacity.
Bongani Ndlovu