500 delegates for Congress

MORE than 500 delegates from Manicaland are expected to attend the ZANU-PF Extraordinary Congress to be held in Harare next month.

Manicaland provincial chairperson Cde Mike Madiro said they were planning to mobilise a third of each district’s administrative members to come up with the total number of people to attend the Congress.

He said about 120 of the delegates would come from the joint provincial council.

“We have placed them into categories. The delegates will come from the district chairpersons, from Women’s League, youths and the main wing. It therefore, means that we are going to take a third of the total number of district administrators, which gives us about 405,” he said.

Cde Madiro said members of the provincial coordinating committee (PCC), which comprises the Politburo, Central Committee and the joint provincial council (JPC) would also attend.

“The JPC would have about 120 members. There are also Members of Parliament who are categorically not in PCC, Senators and other members of the House of Assembly. We have also members of the National Consultative Assembly who are party elders,” he added.

Cde Madiro said war veterans, war detainees and restrictees and other ordinary party members would also attend the Congress.

“On top of that, various allocations have been made so that we come up with the actual number of people to attend the Congress,” he said.

The Extraordinary Congress has been called to make a number of decisions, chief among them to ratify the resolution that President Mnangagwa be the First Secretary and President of the party.

It would also ratify the resolution that President Mnangagwa be the revolutionary party’s candidate for the 2018 harmonised elections.