Register to vote, Togarepi tells youths

ZANU-PF Secretary for Youth Affairs Cde Pupurai Togarepi yesterday urged young people to take advantage of the ongoing Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) mop-up exercise to register for the forthcoming harmonised elections.

He said this while addressing members of the Children of Zimbabwe War Veterans Association (Cozwa) at Zanu-PF Headquarters in Harare.

“Children of war veterans are also encouraged to register to vote in the ongoing Zimbabwe Electoral Commission voter registration exercise, as well as to contest as MPs and even councillors because they have strong revolutionary principles,” said Cde Togarepi.

War veterans, he said, were founders of the revolution and, as such, issues that dealt with their welfare had to be aligned to the Constitution.

“You need to form association structures in your zones and lead yourselves, not to have candidates imposed on you,” said Cde Togarepi.

“Choose each other well according to ability, not according to friendship. You have to preach principles of the revolution in your zones.”

Cde Togarepi urged youths to help guarantee the party’s victory during the forthcoming elections.

“Zanu-PF is born and founded on strong grounds, so our war vets’ children have principles of the revolution and we are not going to tolerate those who were not in line with the principles of the revolution, and those who despise the rights of war vets’ children,” he said.

Zanu-PF Harare youth chairperson Cde Godfrey Gomwe said the youths that will be chosen to lead the organs of the party should ensure that grievances of children of liberation war heroes were attended to.