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Joseph Madzimure, Zimpapers Politics Hub
ZANU-PF will next year hold strategic seminars to equip Central Committee and Politburo members with key tenets of National Development Strategy-2 (NDS2) and other matters related to leadership duties and obligations, President Mnangagwa has said.
Addressing the 129th Ordinary Session of the Central Committee in Harare yesterday, the President, who is also the ruling party’s First Secretary, said the Central Committee and Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology needed to scale up continuous ideological training to acquaint members with the core tenets and character of the revolutionary party.
Resources, he said, must be channelled to the Central Committee, leagues as well as affiliate organisations to advance the ideals of Zanu-PF and consolidate the growth of the party membership base.
President Mnangagwa commended provinces for establishing permanent party offices at provincial and district levels.
“They (permanent offices) also enhance the visibility, physical presence and image of our revolutionary mass party throughout the country.
“We applaud Matabeleland North Province for completing the provincial party offices in Lupane. Amhlophe. Makorokoto. I challenge other provinces to follow this good example,” he said.
The President congratulated provinces that secured victories for the party in the local authority by-elections held since the last meeting.
This, he said, is testimony that the vision, policies and projects of Zanu-PF resonate with the hopes and aspirations of the people.
“Let us do more to win the people’s trust and support. Focus of the party machinery must now shift to mobilising, particularly the youths and women in Nkulumane Constituency, so that Zanu-PF wins back that vacant parliamentary seat.
“Zanu-PF ihomwe inokwana munhu wose. We are a people’s party. Zanu-PF is the true political home of every Zimbabwean. As such, all structures are called upon to keep arms outstretched to receive more citizens of our country into our mass party,” President Mnangagwa said.
Zanu-PF, he said, is a constitutional party with clearly laid out rules, procedures, values and principles.
“In our individual and collective capacities, we are custodians of the Constitution, party decorum, discipline and order.
“Let us, therefore, preserve and safeguard these fundamental identity traits of our party for future generations. Zanu-PF takaiwana iriko; yakabatana; ine gwara. Ngatiyichengetedzei tiyisiire vamwe vachawuya yakabatana, yakasimba, uye ine gwara,” President Mnangagwa said.
He said party leaders have a duty to give the necessary guidance to those who seek to undermine the constitution, rules, systems and long-held political infrastructure.
“Nguva dzose tinosungirwa kutevedza gwara redu remusangano. Hatidi vanoita mavato mumusangano wedu we Zanu-PF”, said President Mnangagwa.
Zanu-PF is set to hold a National Consultative Assembly meeting in the capital today.
