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The decision follows a meeting of the party’s hierarchy with provincial chairpersons and affiliates in Harare yesterday.
The meeting attended by provincial chairpersons, the party’s women and youth wings, ex-combatants and ex-detainees was chaired by Secretary for Administration Cde Didymus Mutasa.
“We have been instructed to go back to the provinces and dismiss all DCCs members,” said one of the provincial chairpersons who attended the meeting.
“A new office comprising four individuals would then be established to coordinate work between the provinces and the grassroots.
“It is not a structure, but just an office. This new office reports directly to the province.
“There would be new recruitments of highly educated personnel to run the said offices soon. The offices will be located in each and every province.”
Cde Mutasa is said to have briefed the meeting on the Politburo and the Central Committee’s decision last week to disband the DCCs.
He advised the meeting that he would be visiting the provinces soon to further explain the party’s decision to do away with DCCs.
Zanu-PF spokesperson Cde Rugare Gumbo would not give details of the meeting citing confidentiality.
“We have met with provincial chairpersons. They were briefed by Cde Mutasa. It was a closed door meeting and I cannot give you more information besides that Cde Mutasa would soon visit the provinces,” he said.
Zanu-PF resolved to disband the DCC structure last week after realising some powerful individuals within the party were manipulating the organ causing unnecessary divisions and tension.
Addressing the party’s Central Committee in Harare last week, President Mugabe said instead of coordinating party activities, the organ had become an instrument of division.
There have been reports of imposition of candidates during DCC elections, especially in Masvingo and Manicaland.
The DCCs elections sparked demonstrations and complaints from the party’s structures in some provinces.
The DCC was the party organ between the branch and the province tasked with coordinating party activities countrywide.
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