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The ruling party, Zanu-PF, has started restructuring its cells in the Midlands Province to strengthen its membership at grassroots level and ensure transparency within its structures.
The party’s provincial spokesperson Cde Cornelius Mupereri said last week that the cell restructuring is an annual exercise.
“We are currently running an aggressive cell restructuring exercise across the province,” he said. “The cell comprises our membership at the grassroots and each cell has 21 office bearers and 29 members. The cell is a very important structure as it helps us to know the party’s total membership.”
Cde Mupereri said the restructuring exercise was a rigorous and thorough exercise which seeks to flush out ghost members and rogue elements who may have or want to infiltrate the party structures.
“We take this as a very serious exercise bearing in mind that all Zanu-PF office bearers must be real cadres who are development oriented,” he said. “It becomes easy for enemies of the party to infiltrate at cell level if we do not plug the loopholes.”
Cde Mupereri said the party was aligning itself to the vision of President Mnangagwa of transforming the country into an upper middle income economy by 2030.
“As a party, we are aligning our aspirations to those of our leader Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa,” he said. “The restructuring exercise will affect wards, district, province up to national level so that the party ultimately positions itself to embrace the vision of the Government of the day.”
Cde Mupereri said the province was still making preparations to host the President when he comes to Shurugwi for his Meet the People rally.
“We were scheduled to host the rally at Chachacha Growth Point in Shurugwi in March, but it was moved forward as the President took time to deal with the Cyclone Idai situation. We now wait to be given a new date hence we are still making preparations,” he said.
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