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“Why should we allow the suburb where the revolutionary party was formed to remain in the hands of the MDC-T?
“This is a mockery to the party of our independence. I have told my people that this is the time, this is the year, let us deliver the present to our father and leader Cde Mugabe,” Zanu-PF Highfield West Constituency candidate Cde Emmanuel Juta declared.
Cde Juta said he is in the elections to challenge the myth that urban areas were an MDC-T stronghold.
“I am in this election to dispel this myth that MDC-T controls Harare and all urban areas.
“Yes, they have been winning most constituencies in urban areas, but that is because of the protest vote.
“Now that our people have seen that the MDC-T is nothing more than a talk show, they have realised their mistakes.
“They now know that MDC-T and Tsvangirai will deliver nothing to them.
“Zanu-PF has been correcting its mistakes and is now geared to claim the cities and towns.
“I saw that the people of Highfield are lagging behind and they needed someone who knows their concerns and thus can help them institute real development.
“Since 2000 the MDC Members of Parliament and councilors have done nothing for the people of Highfield. Our concerns as people have not been addressed as MDC-T wanted to use this stagnation in development to fan hatred for Zanu–PF among the people.
“That has failed as the people now have seen through the western sponsored plan.
“Their plan has been exposed as the four years that they have been in government have helped expose their agenda.
“They are not in politics to develop the country but destroy everything that Zanu-PF has done over the years,” he said.
Cde Juta said the sharp decline in service delivery in the area had prompted people to retrace their support to Zanu-PF.
He said in Highfield West infrastructure had deteriorated, roads had developed big potholes while refuse is not being collected as the MDC councilors looted council coffers taking houses of poor people who cannot pay council rates because of the illegal sanctions.
“I have so many people who have come to me complaining that council was threatening to repossess their homes over unpaid rates.
“In my area I have a former councillor who was actually fired from council after taking an elderly couple’s house over non-payment of rates.
“We need to stop this rot. That is the reason why I accepted to contest in the harmonised elections as a Zanu-PF candidate for the constituency,” Cde Juta said.
On July 31, 2013, Cde Juta will be contesting with Moses Manyengavana, Mariam Zengeni of the MDC, and Puture Sekayi of Zanu Ndonga and Glen Dhliwayo an independent.
Cde Juta was born in 1975.
He attended Chegutu’s Hartley Preparatory Primary school before proceeding to Chemukute Secondary in Kadoma
He did his advanced level at Chikore High School in Chipinge.
He holds an Institute of Marketing Diploma and Institute of Insurance Brokers of Zimbabwe certificate from a local private college.
Cde Juta is married to Cleopatra Sekai Juta and the couple has three kids, with the eldest child doing Grade Five.
He grew up in Matsvaire Village, Mhondoro, and later went to Empress Mine before relocating to Harare.
It was in Mhondoro where Cde Juta began his involvement with Zanu-PF and has spent his entire political life in the revolutionary party.
Cde Juta cut his teeth in political activism as young boy just like most of the boys in the area in the early 1990s working with a councillor Cde Everisto Matsvaire and Zanu-PF Women’s League chairperson in the area Mai Matsvaire.
He said he would attend political rallies as a youth and loved going around the villages announcing rallies or the visit of important political persons to the area.
From Mhondoro, Cde Juta went to Chegutu were he was co-opted into the Zanu-PF structures.
He was to leave Chegutu for Harare where he is currently the Ward 26, Jongwe District deputy secretary for security.
“It was at that time in Mhondoro that I also joined the Zanu-PF structures at the cell and branch levels of the party.
“When I moved to Harare in the mid 1990s, I again joined the party structures and am still in the party.
“I enjoy attending political rallies and would always tell my friends that one day I would be a politician or a Member of Parliament.
“I am grateful to the people of Highfield for giving me this opportunity to represent them,” he said.
Cde Juta worked for Old Mutual as sales agent for five years before joining a safety footwear company.
He briefly joined Impact Solar Energy before moving to Classic Super Foods as manager.
“My promise to the people of Highfield West is an open door policy. I will not shut my door on anyone, even well known members of the MDC formations because I am a people’s representative.
“That is what has been missing in the outgoing MP Mr Simon Hove and I am happy that even MDC-T supporters saw it and did not vote him in their primaries.
“We have people at Gazaland who are being forced to work in the open because the MDC-led council and MP have failed to put up proper structures for them,” she said.
Cde Juta said the MDC-T-led council had threatened to outlaw all car parks, remove vendors and repossess houses of those unable to pay rentals after the harmonised elections.
“But if I may ask who doesn’t have a debt in this country?
“Why do they want to punish our parents and brothers yet they want their vote?
“This requires a strong leadership that can say no to this rubbish and that can only be found in Zanu-PF.
“It is not Zanu-PF policy to punish its people and I will not listen to that.
“In fact President Mugabe has already said the Zanu-PF Government will not entertain such nonsense.
“This is my promise to the constituency,” he said.
The 38-year-old politician and businessman said when elected his concern would remain the underprivileged.
Cde Juta is running various programmes for orphaned and underprivileged children.
These have been left at the mess of the economy by the MDC-T leadership.
“I have well laid out programmes for youth empowerment that are ready to be launched.
“This will be in addition to youth programmes already running in the constituency.
He said come July 31, Zanu-PF would emerge victorious.
Online Reporter