Online Reporter
Raymond Jaravaza, [email protected]
ZANU-PF provincial leadership must maintain a comprehensive database of qualified and eligible cadres for deployment into Government, ensuring the country is served by patriotic and disciplined citizens ready to defend the nation against its detractors.
Zanu-PF secretary general, Advocate Jacob Mudenda, said this while addressing delegates at a ruling party provincial outreach programme recently held at the Bulawayo Polytechnic.
Adv Mudenda was accompanied by national political commissar Cde Munyaradzi Machacha, Bulawayo provincial chairman Cde Jabulani Sibanda, among other high-ranking officials.
“Provinces must play a deliberate and strategic role in cadre development and placement into national institutions,” he said.
“We must ask ourselves — what are we doing to ensure that loyal, competent and ideologically grounded cadres are being recruited into Government and State agencies such as the police, intelligence services, defence forces, national parks, teachers training colleges and nursing training institutions?” he added.
“Provincial leadership must maintain a comprehensive database of qualified and eligible cadres, tracking their academic qualifications, professional skills and readiness for deployment into these institutions.
“This ensures that the State is continuously served by patriotic, disciplined and capable citizens, who are ideologically grounded, understand and will defend the ruling party and its programmes,” he said.
Adv Mudenda called upon the party’s provincial leadership to ensure that academically gifted but underprivileged students are identified and assisted to further their education without hindrance.
“The province must, therefore, actively facilitate access to scholarships, Government support programmes and empowerment initiatives, including ensuring that children of Veterans of the Liberation Struggle and other deserving cadres benefit from programmes such as the Basic Education Assistance Module (Beam) and other protection mechanisms,” he said.
Ruling party cadres, Adv Mudenda emphasised, should ensure that the Zanu-PF remains ideologically grounded, politically conscious and organisationally coherent.
“Ideology is the guiding compass that defines where we are traversing as a party, who we are, what we stand for and how we relate to the people. Without ideological clarity, our structures become hollow, our programmes lose direction and our members become vulnerable to political manipulation,” he added.
Turning to economic transformation across all provinces, Adv Mudenda said that provinces must proactively propose the establishment of Special Economic Zones.
“A province such as Matabeleland North can leverage Gwayi-Shangani Lake to anchor agricultural transformation, water scarcity and industrial growth.
“Provincial leadership must ensure that natural resources benefit local communities. They must hold private sector actors accountable on issues such as environmental protection, land use, youth employment and corporate social responsibility,” he said.
