THE just-ended Zanu-PF 13th Annual National People’s Conference confirmed President Mugabe as the party’s sole candidate for the forthcoming harmonised elections and resolved to adopt a scoring strategy, Bhora Mugedhi/Ibhola Egedhini, for the forthcoming elections to ensure resounding victory.
This was adopted at the end of the conference held in Gweru at the newly-built 5 000-seater conference and exhibition centre.
The conference confirmed the party’s President and First Secretary Cde R G Mugabe, who was elected at the last congress, to be the party’s presidential candidate in harmonised elections slated for next year.
It directed all structures of the party to earnestly and immediately prepare for resounding victory in the forthcoming elections by adopting a strategy to score, Bhora Mugedhi/Ibhola Egedhini.
Some members adopted “bhora musango” during the last harmonised elections, which saw members voting for the opposition or independent candidates resulted in the loss of a number of constituencies to the opposition.
The party says it wants to conduct primary elections in a free and fair manner and to stop the imposition of candidates.
“Exhorts every member of the party to be guided, instructed and bound by the vision, direction, ideals, values and the imperative for unity paying due regard to the enduring principle that we are our own liberators under the banner; Iwe neni tinebasa/Wena lami silom’sebenzi,” reads the resolutions.
The party resolved to make provisions for the adequate funding of all its programmes, including the impending primary elections and harmonised elections.
Party members were also discouraged from vote-buying.
On the economic front, the party resolved that all the sectors of the economy must fully comply with the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act.
It resolved that South African mining giant De Beers be investigated for illegal mining operations carried out in Marange under the guise of exploration and that the investigation should establish the quantity of the diamond-bearing soil scooped out of the area and transported to South Africa as well as determining the actual value of the diamonds thus illegally smuggled out of the country.
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