Staff Reporter
In the last five years, ZANU PF has been fulfilling its 2018 election promises to make it the only electable party in this year’s harmonised elections.
Indeed, the promises made during the last election have been fulfilled, with the few outstanding ones being addressed at the moment.
Some of the most glaring election promises made by the ruling party include fighting corruption, engagement and re-engagement with the world, employment creation and constructing world-class infrastructure.
All these promises have been fulfilled considerably, with thousands of jobs created in the manufacturing, mining, tourism, services and infrastructure development sectors.
The Beitbridge Border Post, together with the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway modernisation, which are the signature infrastructure development projects of the Second Republic, have been done with distinction.
The border upgrade has since been commissioned by President Mnangagwa after all the three terminals; freight, buses and light vehicles and pedestrian terminals, have been concluded.
With over 75 percent of supermarket shelf space taken up by locally produced goods, more jobs have been created by the Government, while mining houses are also expanding their operations, hiring more labour in the process.
As the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has presented the final delimitation report to President Mnangagwa, who has since gazetted it, parties have started campaigning although no concrete date has been announced for the holding of the elections.
ZANU PF wants a big win to allow President Mnangagwa to finish off the mouth-watering infrastructure development and agriculture projects he started in 2018.
For a long time, Zimbabwe had lagged behind its regional peers in terms of infrastructure development in part due to the unjust sanctions imposed by the West, mainly the United States, and failure to craft a way out of the sanctions that have been in place for over two decades.
But the Second Republic led by President Mnangagwa, elected to look inward to steer national development, under the mantra, “Nyika inovakwa, nekutongwa nevene vayo/ Ilizwe lakhiwa, libuswe ngabanikazi balo”.
To deliver a resounding victory for President Mnangagwa and ZANU PF, the party has come up with a cell verification programme to establish the exact number of its supporters who are registered and where they will vote from.
In a wide-ranging interview, ZANU PF Secretary for Information and Publicity and party spokesperson, Cde Christopher Mutsvangwa, said the cell verification exercise was testimony to the scientific voter mobilisation strategy of the ruling party.
“We are a structured party from the days of the war; we are masters of organisation. Organisation is the DNA of ZANU PF. To fight and win a war, we needed to be organised and scientific,” said Cde Mutsvangwa.
“So, confirming our structures at cell level like we are currently doing, is part of our scientific way of mobilising as we are relating each cell to the polling booth.
“We are having a huge voter education drive and the results coming from the teams on the ground across the provinces are pleasantly surprising and show what will come out on election day.”
Cde Mutsvangwa said they have gone to the village level and are dealing with the real people, while those in the opposition are sampling on social media.
ZANU PF, said Cde Mutsvangwa, has put in place sufficient ingredients for an emphatic victory in the harmonised elections.
The PVO Bill
Turning to the PVO Bill that has sailed through Parliament and now awaits Presidential Assent, Cde Mutsvangwa said ZANU PF was thrilled that the Bill will soon become law and thwart external interference in local politics.
A number of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are disappointed over the PVOs Bill, saying it would result in most NGOs being closed. But Cde Mutsvangwa said no country has ever developed on the strength of NGOs.
“There is lot of gnashing of teeth by the NGOs over the PVO Bill. But most of them are given money by George Soros who thinks he can change the democracies of the developing countries, in particular Zimbabwe.
“I went to the USA and did my education there and I saw business funding development but I did not see a single NGO developing America. So why are we expected to think NGOs can develop our economy?
“I want to congratulate the President on his impending assent of the Bill. He must not shake when signing it. We don’t need the majority of these NGOs and surprisingly they become active towards elections.”
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