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Joseph Madzimure Senior Reporter
ZANU PF members who will seek nominations for the ongoing District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections outside the set guidelines will be disqualified from contesting for any position, the ruling party secretary for the Commissariat Cde Victor Matemadanda has said.
This comes after the commissariat department yesterday received reports of a district chairperson in Midlands province who conducted DCC elections outside party election guidelines.
“We received reports of nominations of candidates from a district in Midlands. Investigations are currently underway to verify if the reports are true. We are waiting for the Politburo to give us guidance on the election dates. We heard that there is a party district in Midlands province, which has already received CVs from prospective candidates. Anyone with evidence of such practices should bring it forward for disciplinary action and such people will be automatically disqualified.
“We have just sent a circular to inter-districts for the purposes of receiving CVs from prospective candidates, which will be carried at the weekend,” he said.
Zanu PF candidates who canvass for positions before the announcement of dates for DCC elections will be automatically disqualified, Cde Matemadanda warned.
“We have just sent a letter of procedure on how the DCC elections should be conducted. It is only the inter-district meeting that have got the mandate to receive the CVs, not an individual, not a provincial member, not a Central Committee member or a Politburo member,” said Cde Matemadanda.
He said electioneering amounted to indiscipline and in cases where it is proven, the members concerned will also be disqualified. Provincial party structures are expected to convene Provincial Coordinating Committees next weekend for the purposes of receiving CVs from administrative districts. The CVs will then be submitted to the party headquarters for vetting process by the security department.
After that the CVs will then pass through the Politburo, which will then give a nod for the DCC elections. Cde Matemadanda urged party members to use proper party channels to air their concerns. He warned some senior party members not to influence the outcome of the DCC elections. DCCs were disbanded in 2012, after it was felt that they had been hijacked by elements that sought to manipulate party structures to foment factionalism and disharmony in the party.
Meanwhile, the Zanu PF caucus meeting held at the party headquarters yesterday warned Members of Parliament from bunking sessions. In an interview soon after the caucus meeting, Zanu PF chief whip Cde Pupurai Togarepi said Cde Matemadanda implored members to take their deployment by the party seriously.
“He told members that the President is disappointed with some members who absent themselves from Parliament and members were warned of disciplinary action if they do not toe the line,” said Cde Togarepi.
The caucus also unpacked how the Government has put to bed the land question through compensating former white farmers for improvements on farms that were repossessed at the turn of the millennium.
Cde Togarepi also said that Cde Matemadanda and the secretary for Legal Affairs Cde Paul Mangwana reiterated the party position that land reform is irreversible and what Government is doing is following the constitution and putting the land issue to finality.
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