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Joseph Madzimure
Zimpapers Politics Hub
ZANU PF Politburo members should be exemplary in strengthening internal party governance, enforcing discipline and ensuring that party structures are effectively coordinated, President Mnangagwa said yesterday.
Speaking at a Strategic Seminar for Politburo members in Harare yesterday, President Mnangagwa, who is the Zanu PF First Secretary, said members should emerge from the seminar refreshed to exercise collective leadership.
This should be anchored on integrity, honesty and humility as well as patriotism and unflinching loyalty to the party.
“This Strategic Seminar takes place at a defining moment in the party’s evolution as we accelerate the realisation of Vision 2030.
“The current development epoch of our nation demands political astuteness from the leadership as well as constitutional consciousness, ideological clarity and disciplined collective action.”
Commending the venue of the seminar, the Museum of African Liberation, the President said it embodies the values that gave birth to ZANU PF.
“It is, therefore, a befitting setting for the executive structure of the party to gather, as we re-commit ourselves to the sacred mandate, bestowed on us by our party constitution.
“This Strategic Seminar Workshop should be understood as a fundamental intervention to sharpen our capacity in the discharge of our duties. Let us envision the ZANU PF we want for both the present and future.
“It is my expectation that we emerge from the seminar re-invigorated to exercising collective leadership, which is anchored on integrity, honesty and humility as well as patriotism and unflinching loyalty to our revolutionary mass party, ZANU PF,” said President Mnangagwa.
Through the guidance of the provisions in the national Constitution and ZANU PF’s own rules, President Mnangagwa underscored that the Politburo is assured of organisational coherence, effectiveness and adaptability.
He said that the party’s ideology, shaped in the armed liberation struggle, remained the core of ZANU PF’s revolutionary identity.
“At the centre of our revolution is our party ideology. Gwara reMusangano, which was forged through the protracted armed liberation struggle and sustained by decades of resilience and principled leadership. Ours is a mass party, anchored on nationalism, people-centred development, Pan-Africanism, sovereignty, anti-imperialism and social justice,” he said.
The Politburo, he affirmed, is entrusted with upholding the party’s ideological heritage and institutional integrity.
President Mnangagwa reaffirmed that the ZANU PF constitution, conference resolutions, party principles and longstanding traditions must collectively serve as the unwavering moral compass for all members with strict adherence to collective leadership and the party’s correct line over personal preference.
“As we march forward with national transformation, we remain mindful that, at the core of the party’s policy decisions and actions, is the sacred duty we have to our national interests and ongoing quest to serve the people of our great motherland, Zimbabwe.”
Section 70 of the ZANU PF constitution designates the Politburo as the Executive Committee of the Central Committee, mandated to act as its administrative organ.
This, President Mnangagwa said, demands a leadership that is loyal, patriotic, honest, resilient and disciplined.
“Ngatizvibvunzei kuti tiri kuiteyi kushandira musangano wedu nezvigaro zvatiinazvo. I challenge us to honestly ask ourselves what targets have we set within our respective departments towards the performance and operational efficiency of our colossal mass party.”
