Staff reporter
As the ruling party intensifies preparations for 2023 harmonised elections, it has appointed a five-member team led by national chairperson Cde Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri to oversee the re-establishment of a District Coordinating Committee (DCC) in Harare.
DCCs were dispersed in 2012 after it was felt that they had been hijacked by elements that sought to manipulate party structures to fuel factionalism and disharmony in the party.
Other members of the appointed team include the secretary for Administration Dr Obert Mpofu, Political commissar Cde Victor Matemadanda, Secretary for Finance and Economic Development Cde Patrick Chinamasa and Secretary for Security Cde Lovemore Matuke.
Addressing the media after the politburo meeting in Harare, the party’s secretary for Information and Publicity Cde Simon Khaya Moyo said the main agenda of the special Politburo session was on the preparations and election of the DCC for Harare Province.
“As you are aware, all the structures in Harare Province were dissolved and there was need to revamp the whole province. Furthermore, the party is continually remodelling and renewing itself in line with the constantly changing socio, political and economic environment. The thrust is in tandem with the dictates of a modern political party, therefore in pursuit of achieving fair, transparent and equitable participation by all the ranks and file of party membership,” said Cde Khaya Moyo.
He said the party will appoint six more party provincial members to assist the already appointed team.
“This exercise will exclude the rank and file of the Harare province membership to avoid issues of bias which the party is aware of and which, to a large extent has been fomented by our detractors. The Harare provincial restructuring exercise is a deliberate strategy of the party as it strategically prepares for the national harmonised elections for 2023. In other words, this exercise will not just end in Harare, it will also be extended to all other provinces later on,” he said.
The exercise presents an opportunity to determine the true membership of the party in the province’s six zones therefore he urged party members to desist from cheating during the exercise.
“The Politburo has therefore resolved that the DCC elections program commences today with the special Politburo meeting and will end on Sunday October 13, 2019. The full details of the program will be conveyed to the relevant officials in due course. The party will deal firmly with any form of cheating, vote buying, bussing of people polling stations, use of unofficial ballot papers and any other actions deemed to frustrate the process.”
“We want a clean party where discipline is the order of the day and we are not going to tolerate those who act otherwise because we are empowered by the constitution to deal with such characters. We want people who are honest, who are committed to the party and not pretenders,” he said.
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