Harare (New Ziana)- Zimbabweans should expect the government to deliver bigger and better development this year, a senior Zanu PF official has said.
Zanu PF national spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa said this in a wide- ranging media briefing at the party headquarters on Friday, the first this year.
He said most of the Western detractors have acknowledged the progress that the government under President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made on the economic front despite the illegal sanctions that they imposed on the country, and are indicating a willingness to positively engage.
Mutsvangwa chronicled achievements of the Zanu PF government in attracting big investments that had breathed a new vitality into the coal mining town of Hwange and the entire Matabeleland North province, the Lithium processing plants dotted around the country as well as the establishment of the Manhize Steel Plant near Mvuma, the Midlands province.
The government is currently involved in the Chenesa Harare operation during which it is moving mountains of refuse that accumulated over more than two decades of opposition governance of the capital city and other urban areas.
The exercise needed the use of yellow machines to move the large quantities of garbage and has since been expanded to become the Chenesa Zimbabwe campaign, covering the whole country.
“Everybody sees the decay which the towns have fallen into. For two decades the opposition has enjoyed being in charge of towns and cities which was an opportunity to show that they are a party of governance and infatuated their outside supporters,” said Mutsvangwa.
“In those two decades they should have made the urban areas centres of excellence.”
The victory of ruling party victory in the 2023 harmonised elections, Mutsvangwa said, and the December by-elections in the urban areas of Mbare, Mabvuku in Harare, Chinhoyi and Banket in Mashonaland West, Bulawayo and Matebeleland North, are signs that the urban vote is slowly returning to Zanu PF as voters realize that it is the party which can make a difference.
“I want to highlight another area where the impact of investment by the President in conjunction with competent business people is beginning to bear fruit,” he said.
“There is a new vitality about Hwange town. Hwange town had died. The new vitality is coming from the big investments in our coal fields. We have new power stations being built, people are being employed, and the Binga surroundings are beginning to see their children go to school.”
Mutsvangwa said the empty promises of Non-Governmental Organisations, the false development missionaries to the people of Matebeleland North, are being discarded by the population, which sees the results of the big investments being made, that are beginning to change lives in the province.
He said the results of development initiatives in rural areas are evidenced by the achievement of food security with granaries full of grain, the Pfumvudza/Intwasa and irrigation schemes working smoothly, as is the case with most new mining ventures, he said.
The successes of the Second Republic in the rural areas have helped create resources which are needed in urban areas to run factories, creating employment for urbanites, he said.
“We will soon be having vibrant towns which will be enticing not only to our local young men and women who are disciplined, educated and hardworking as Zimbabweans have demonstrated everywhere they have been, including the Diaspora” said Mutsvangwa.
New Ziana
