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Joseph Madzimure and Yeukai Tazira, Harare Bureau
THE Zanu-PF Politburo has endorsed the newly elected Harare District Coordinating Committees (DCC) executive members as part of the restructuring exercise to strengthen the party ahead of the 2023 national elections.
Zanu-PF is starting from the DCCs as the basis of setting up the party structures in Harare and Bulawayo since the provincial structures were dissolved earlier this year by President Mnangagwa after reports of divisions that rocked the restructuring process.
The Politburo yesterday endorsed former Harare provincial chairman Cde Godwills Masimirembwa as the DCC chairman for (Zone 4), former provincial youth chairman Cde Godwin Gomwe (Zone 2), Cde Ephraim Fundukwa (Zone 6), Cde Kudakwashe Damson (Zone 5), Cde Mafuratidze Goodwell (Zone 1) and Cde George Chiminhi (Zone 3).
Addressing a press conference soon after the special session yesterday, Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration Dr Obert Mpofu said the Politburo endorsed the DCC election outcome.
“This is a special edition of an Extra-Ordinary session of the Politburo which was called by His Excellency President Mnangagwa to address the outcome of the DCC elections which took place here in Harare,” he said.
“We received a detailed report from the national Political Commissar Cde Victor Matemadanda and the report was comprehensive and identified areas that needed to be addressed.”
Generally, Dr Mpofu said the exercise was accepted in its entirety, including the results of that exercise.
“You will notice that the exercise was conducted by six provinces. There were six representatives who supervised the six zones that were restructured,” he said.
“We have chairpersons, in fact, the whole structure of DCC has got structures whose leadership has been fully endorsed by the Politburo. These are the outcomes of a very contested process which saw quite a number of comrades taking part.”
The newly elected DCC Harare executives will undergo the party ideological training to instil discipline.
“The Politburo has also directed that all the recently elected leaders in Harare for all the zones should be compelled to undergo ideological training as we reaffirm discipline and ideological understanding of our revolution,” said Dr Mpofu.
He urged party members to stop interfering with party processes, saying they risked expulsion.
“It was also observed that there was some mischief by certain elements who are prone to using money to cause confusion within the party and the Politburo has directed that in future such characters if found and proven that they are using money to interfere with our internal electoral process, this should warrant instant dismissal from the party,” said Dr Mpofu.
“We want to warn those who would want to use unorthodox methods in seeking for positions in the party to refrain from activities that are meant to divide or corrupt the system.”
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