Zanu-PF maintains dominance in Mat South MP-elect pledges to fulfil pre-poll promises

ZANU-PF has maintained its dominance in Matabeleland South province where Government is implementing a lot of development and economic empowerment programmes to improve people’s standards of living, an official has said.

Zanu-PF Matabeleland South chairman Cde Rabelani Choeni said although they had lost one parliamentary seat (Gwanda Central) out of 13 constituencies, the majority of people had shown confidence in the party under the able leadership of President Mnangagwa.

There were a total of 99 candidates in the race for National Assembly seats while 500 battled for local government elections in Matabeleland South.

In 2013, Zanu-PF had a clean sweep in the province.

“Although there were many political parties, which had fielded candidates for National Assembly and local government seats, we managed to collect everything except in Gwanda Central,” he said.

“This is a show of confidence in our party and its leadership led by President Mnangagwa. We will continue with our dominance and fulfilling the pre elections promise made by our party in line with our 2018 election manifesto.

“People should look forward to accelerate infrastructure development in areas around the provision of more schools, clinics, roads, communication facilities and irrigation NEWLY-ELECTED National Assembly member for Beitbridge East Constituency Albert Nguluvhe of ZANU-PF has pledged to fulfil his pre-elections promises that are in line with the party’s 2018 elections manifesto.

In an interview yesterday, he said he was already on the ground facilitating the upgrading of a road leading to Chief Matibe’s homestead in Madaulo area.

“I am not going deviate from my campaign promises made to people in the constituency. In addition I want to thank those who voted for ZANU-PF and its candidates during the harmonised elections.

“There is no excuse for one not to deliver,” he said.

He said he will work with incoming councillors to develop

development.

“At the same time, I want to urge people to embrace programmes, including command livestock, mining, and small to medium enterprises, women and youth empowerment initiatives among others”.

Cde Choeni said the party went into Monday’s elections with some its candidates for local government elections unopposed in Beitbridge urban areas.

“Beitbridge residents should be the winners, we need to engage with the local authority to stop issuing stands that do not have water and sewer facilities. Let’s focus on the outstanding projects before we start many others.

“Another matter, I will urgently take to Government is the release of the Beitbridge Development Fund to boost infrastructure development in our town. Other areas are benefiting from community ownership schemes, as such Beitbridge residents must also benefit from the revenue realised at the border post.”

Cde Nguluvhe said he was already pushing development agencies for the drilling of more boreholes in the rural component of the constituency.

He said he will engage the Beitbridge Rural District Council

East and Matobo South constituencies.

In addition, the MDC-Alliance failed to field a parliamentary candidate in Insiza North.

He said the party assembled strong campaign teams in the pre-elections period to ensure that they collected the maximum votes on offer.

“Everyone in the party including those from cell up to provincial over the disbursement of CAMPFIRE funds, which will be used on key community development projects.

He also said there was an urgent need to upgrade Beitbridge District referral hospital and equip it with more technology, staff and drugs among other resources.

“We have one referral hospital, which serves the whole district and therefore there is a need to resource it and we also need to build another major health institution at either Chaswingo (Ward 3) or Lutumba (Ward 5),” he said.

Cde Nguluvhe said he will soon be distributing breeding bulls to the community to boost the quality of their cattle.

He said it was also critical for Government and its partners to pool resources towards the construction of science labs in rural schools.

level were working very hard to ensure a continued dominance by the party in Mat South,” he said.

He said party supporters had also voted in their numbers to cement their relationship with Zanu-PF.

He said the party was very organised starting from grassroots level and had a strong following because its leadership have people’s interest at heart.

professional way. He said voting was fast and queues were quickly cleared at various polling stations.