Zanu PF People’s Conference to focus on counytry’s prosperity

Harare (New Ziana) – The 20th Zanu PF National People’s conference to be held on Friday and Saturday will focus on bread and butter issues with the main aim of bettering the lives of Zimbabweans, a senior party official has said.

Zanu PF secretary for information and publicity Christopher Mutsvangwa said this on Tuesday soon after a meeting of the party politburo ahead of the conference to be held in Gweru, the Midlands province.

Mutsvangwa the meeting had been setting the agenda for the conference, which will be attended by more than 3 000 delegates from the ten provinces of the country.

He of concern was the need to address the impending Cyclone Elnino which the country should brace for and take mitigatory measures in case of drought.

“We will be given a full report by our experts from the Agriculture Ministry on how the people can prepare in a scientific manner the coming season so that we offset the effects of Elnino.

“This means more Pfumvuza/Intwasa holes and we are happy that more than 1 million have been dug and the people are getting seed. We are also diversifying into nutrition so that we have more crops beyond maize.

“We are also encouraging each village to have a farm and each school to have two hectares of gardening and horticulture. This means children can have a diversified nutritional diet and raise their cognition and abilities,” he said.

Mutsvangwa dismissed reports that the ruling party has been discussing prospects of having an election re-run, saying that issue had been done and dusted.

“As a party we are watching through the windshield fully looking up the highway as to where we are driving in front of us. We are not looking through the rear mirror,” he said.

“We never at any time in this meeting entertained any agenda item on elections being re-run. To us it’s over, we are now focused on delivering what the people of Zimbabwe want and that is prosperity.”

He said in future elections, more and more people will shift to Zanu PF because the rural areas will be prospering, creating raw materials for the urban centres to process, and in turn the industrialization process will pick up.

This, he added, was in stark contrast to the decadence of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change, who have failed to run the towns and cities.

“CCC cannot run cities. If you say develop the cities they will tell you they want to engage the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA) to look for money to build roads.

“In contrast when you tell the President that we want to develop cities he will go abroad to Dubai, Egypt, Russia, China or Singapore and tell businesses there that “look I have hard a working population and
resources, I have a stable country and we are now using gold to support our currency can you come and invest”. This is what a person who wants a country to move forward does,” said Mutsvangwa.

Turning to the Anti-Sanctions Day to be held in Mutoko on Wednesday, Mutsvangwa said the politburo was appraised that permanent secretaries will lead civil servants in the morning in a march from Munhumutapa building to Africa Unity Square where Vice President Constatine Chiwengawill be the guest of honor.

“We are very grateful to SADC and its support for the anti-sanctions drive in support of us against sanctions imposed on us,” he said.

Mutsvangwa said the country stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine several of whom have been heinously killed by the Israelites.

He said Israel was committing genocide and the hand of West in doing that has created an even more unfiar situation.

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