Zanu-PF to hold Provincial Co-ordinating Committee meetings

the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Programme.
Politburo members will address the meetings.
In a statement the party’s department of indigenisation and economic empowerment said the launch was in line with the aspirations of the majority of people for total economic empowerment.
“Pursuant therefore to the people’s aspirations for total economic empowerment, Zanu-PF, the revolutionary party, will be holding nationwide Provincial Co-ordinating Committee meetings to launch the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Programme on 16, April 2011,” reads the statement.
The meetings will commence at 10 am at different venues in the 10 provincial capitals and speakers drawn from the women’s and youth leagues and officials from the National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board will also address the meetings.
In Bulawayo, the meeting will be held at Davis Hall with Cde Cephas Msipa being the guest speaker, in Harare Professor Jonathan Moyo will address delegates at the Harare Zanu-PF provincial offices.
In Mashonaland Central people will meet at Bindura Municipality Hall and will be addressed by Cde Oppah Muchinguri while in Mashonaland West Cde Olivia Muchena will be the guest speaker at the meeting to be held at the Public Service Training Centre.
Delegates from Mashonaland East will be addressed by a team led by Cde Ignatius Chombo at Zanu-PF provincial offices while Cde Patrick Chinamasa and his team will meet the people at Chiefs Hall in Masvingo.
In Matabeleland North Cde David Parirenyatwa will lead a team at Lupane Community Hall while in Midlands the meeting will be held at Senga Public Service Training Centre with Cde Absalom Sikhosana being the leader of the speakers.
Matabeleland South held its launch meeting on April 1.
In the statement, Zanu-PF said a number of initiatives to empower the people had been implemented since the attainment of independence.
These include the transformation of social sectors like health, education and infrastructure rehabilitation and resettlement. The party added that the country had been at the mercy of the Western countries’ onslaught with the imposition of illegal sanctions after embarking on the fast track land reform programme.
It said the indigenisation programme was aimed at empowering people in the various sectors of the economy that include mining, tourism and hospitality, finance, energy, agriculture, telecommunications, manufacturing and engineering and construction.