Youth League lines up 7 rallies

ZANU-PF Masvingo Youth League has lined up a series of rallies across the province’s seven administrative districts to drum up support for President Mnangagwa, who is the ruling party’s presidential candidate in the forthcoming harmonised polls.

The provincial Youth League is targeting mainly youth voters as the revolutionary party pulls all the stops to make sure President Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF win resoundingly.

Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial youth chairman Cde Brian Munyoro challenged youths to be the vanguard of the ruling party and ensure the party records a crushing electoral victory.

Cde Munyoro said Zanu-PF youths were supposed to exploit squabbling within the opposition ranks to campaign vigorously and delivery victory to President Mnangagwa and the ruling party in this year’s election.

“We have drawn up a programme to go around all the districts in this province calling on youths to refrain from violence ahead of the coming elections,” he said. “We will be making it clear that Zanu-PF does not condone violence and those who promote the vice will be dealt with according to the laws of the land.”

Cde Munyoro said the eyes of the international community will be on Zimbabwe during the elections, hence the need to observe peace to ensure a free, far and credible plebiscite as promised by President Mnangagwa.

“The country’s top leadership has come out clean on issues of political violence,” he said. “President Mnangagwa has made it clear that the country wants free and fair elections and we should respect that call.

“Our rallies will be to drum up support for our President and the ruling party.”

Cde Munyoro said Zanu-PF was founded on principles of peace, unity and development, hence the need for party cadres to always uphold its core values.

He said it was important for the youth to rally behind the tried and tested Zanu-PF that has tangible projects that were rolled out since independence to benefit the country’s citizens.

“We want to remind our youths of the achievements of Zanu-PF in the past 37 years,” said Cde Munyoro. “The ruling party is different from other political parties that suffer from policy dearth, their manifestos are hollow and cannot change lives of Zimbabweans.”

Cde Munyoro expressed optimism that the ruling party will maintain its stranglehold on the Masvingo political landscape by retaining all the 26 National Assembly seats bagged by the ruling party in the last election in 2013.