Hails Command Agriculture programme
ZANU-PF provincial structures and organs must now look into the grievances raised by party cadres who demonstrated in various provinces against fellow party officials, instead of resorting to further demonstrations, President Mugabe has said.
e Zanu-PF First Secretary said demonstrations were destructive to the party, as they exposed it to the opposition and Western countries who wanted to see it disintegrate.
President Mugabe, however, said if any party officials were disobedient they should be brought before the disciplinary committee.
He made the remarks as he addressed the 105th Ordinary Meeting of the Zanu-PF Central Committee at the party’s headquarters in Harare yesterday.
The meeting came hard on the heels of demonstrations against party national political commissar, Cde Saviour Kasukuwere and Mashonaland Central provincial chairperson, Cde Dickson Mafios, by party members last week. The duo is accused of seeking to topple President Mugabe through capturing party structures.
There were also demonstrations against former Deputy Secretary for the Women’s League Cde Eunice Nomthandazo Moyo and former secretary of finance in the wing Cde Sarah Mahoka, for undermining the First Lady, Dr Grace Mugabe.
Said President Mugabe: “To all those who have been expressing displeasures through demonstrations in various provinces, we say fine, you have made your points, and your voices have been heard. But, please, the party has structures and organs designed to handle such matters in a dignified way. We must now give those organs time to look into the grievances that have been expressed and allow due process to be followed.” PRESIDENT Mugabe has said the Command Agriculture Programme that Government adopted this farming season is expected to be one of the rallying points for the ruling party ahead of next year’s harmonised elections.
The Head of State and Government and Commanderin-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces said the programme, together with the Presidential Input Scheme, helped the country regain its status of the breadbasket of Southern Africa.
President Mugabe said this while addressing the 105th Zanu-PF ordinary meeting of the Central Committee in Harare yesterday.
“Our flagship Command Agriculture Programme and the traditional Presidential Input Scheme, together demonstrated, not just our closeness to the people, but the correctness of our policies and programmes, in bringing about a quick recovery and turnaround in the
President Mugabe said grievances or contradictions in the party were inevitable, but must be dealt with through properly laid down Zanu-PF procedures.
He said opposition parties and their Western sponsors were celebrating at the demonstrations in the revolutionary party, hoping that it would lead to its disintegration.
“So, why should we give them that chance to smile, to laugh and to wish us death?” said President Mugabe. “How does that help us? We say we are from the same family. To go pivotal agricultural sector,” said President Mugabe.
“As a result, the prospects before us are decidedly bright, with a palpable sense of hope pervading our nation. There is hope everywhere. We have regained our status as a food-secure nation, once again, they call that a bread-basket of Southern Africa. I hope we remain like that.
“The promise of a good agricultural performance translates, quite naturally into even greater support for our party as we inch towards the 2018 harmonised elections.”
President Mugabe said Command Agriculture was about restoring food security in the country than just recovering from the El Nino-induced drought that hit the country in the previous farming season.
He said the programme would help fight hunger from this year going forward, as well as help in the country’s economic recovery.
The Zanu-PF First Secretary said a promising agricultural harvest would see farmers reap benefits in various forms, among them income from the sale of their
to the streets to insult each other?
“When we insult our leaders who are in the wrong, people like Morgan (Tsvangirai) will say just look and listen to what they are now doing. Those that are doing something bad and they are members of the party, you sit down with them and solve the problem. If the person is from a branch, you sit down and solve the problem. Not to go out shouting saying, aah this is what our chairman is doing, Talk about it and if there is a problem it should be referred to the top leadership crops, as well as feeding their families.
“The Command Agricultural Programme is about restoring food security in our nation and our nation in toto,” said President Mugabe. “More importantly, this agricultural recovery is a prelude to an integral part of our broader response to the challenges of illegal economic sanctions imposed on us by the spiteful West.
“Indeed, it is a key component towards a sustainable economic recovery and employment creation.”
President Mugabe said it was gratifying that cash crop farmers in tobacco and cotton were also getting good returns from their sales.
He said it were policies such as the Command Agriculture Programme and the Presidential Input Scheme that gave the revolutionary party an edge over the rest of opposition parties in Zimbabwe.
“The livestock facility under Command Agricultural Programme, coupled with measures Government is taking towards the resuscitation of the Cold Storage Company, should trigger sympathetic developments in the livestock sub-sector,” said President Mugabe.
and let it be solved there.
“If the problem is in the district, those from the district have no right to invite those from other districts to hear the case or to invite them to join them in demonstrations because they no longer want their chairman. No they must sit down and follow the procedure, the charges he is facing, what wrong he is doing and you forward the problem to the provincial leaders.”
President Mugabe said the provincial structures should
“All these programmes, we must always remember, emanate from our party, Zanu-PF, and thus ours to claim and build on as we mobilise grass roots support in readiness for the 2018 harmonised elections.
“We have material. We have definite exhibits to show to our people as we campaign. Tell our people, “well we don’t want to emphasise what Zanu-PF stands for, just look around and you will see the story, the story of what Zanu-PF stands for, lots of maize and lots of food”.
“The successes outlined above do not owe to any one person or any organ of the party or Government. They owe to all of us, they belong to all organs of the party and Government, which in combination and harmony, enabled this excellent result that is ours to reap.
“The policies came from the party, Zanu-PF, the execution was done by a Zanu-PF Government. The benefits rebound to our people and our nation in its entirety. This is what makes us the only national party of trust and record, indeed the author of policies that equate with people’s aspirations and well-being.”
not demonstrate, but listen to lower structures’ grievances and take them to the national leadership.
“If the person is a provincial chairman, haa, we no longer want him/her so who are you complaining to?” he said.
“You are the ones who chose him, sit down and have a meeting with delegates from other provinces and at the disciplinary committee you raise the issue, like what happened the other day.