Samuel Kadungure
News Editor
ZANU PF’s cell mobilisation exercise in Manicaland recruited 500 000 members, but 254 486 membership records were rejected during system verification, leaving the party until November 30 to correct the anomalies.
This was revealed by ZANU PF Politburo member, Advocate Mike Madiro, who addressed an extraordinary Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) meeting at Mutare Teachers’ College today.
Cde Madiro, who was dispatched by the party’s National Commissariat, said the meeting was convened to facilitate the cleaning of membership records that had failed system verification during the ongoing digitalisation exercise.
“You are aware that the party has recently been conducting the membership data digitalisation programme across all provinces. While the programme has made significant strides, it has also faced its fair share of challenges. Chief among them are records that fail system verification. This is the main reason why we are all gathered here today, to conduct the data-cleaning exercise.
The task at hand is technical, and therefore will mainly focus on outlining the steps towards the implementation of the data-cleaning exercise. One of the main reasons for verification failure is the issue of incorrect national ID numbers during data capture and duplicate records, where the same members appear in more than one cell, resulting in system rejection.
“These errors are not an indictment on anyone; they are human errors that are bound to happen in a mass exercise. Our task is to ensure these errors are corrected. As Manicaland Province, the total number of errors that need correction stands at 254 486,” said Advocate Madiro.
He said the National Commissariat should receive the cleaned membership records by November 30.
Cde Madiro said district-level mobilisation will be spearheaded by District Coordinating Committee (DCC) chairpersons, who must ensure that relevant party structures are available to facilitate the exercise.
“At the district level, DCC chairpersons must take responsibility for mobilising the relevant structures and ensuring their availability during the exercise. This mobilisation must include party district chairpersons, political commissars and secretaries across all wings, branch chairpersons, political commissars and secretaries across all wings, and village cell chairpersons. These structures are particularly important because the cleaning exercise will ultimately be conducted at cell level.
The DCC leadership must therefore ensure that cell chairpersons are available with the relevant membership records and supporting information,” he said.
Earlier, Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Advocate Misheck Mugadza, delivered President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s speech presented at the 23rd ZANU PF National People’s Conference in Chinhoyi.
The address was intended to outline the party’s direction and guide the provincial leadership on the implementation of resolutions adopted at the conference.
Minister Mugadza said the party is supreme to Government and that its resolutions adopted at the Chinhoyi conference should be taken seriously.
