Zanu PF seeks to reclaim urban centres

ZANU PF is rolling out a number of strategies to reclaim urban wards it lost in Matabeleland South Province during the 2018 harmonised elections.

This was said by the provincial party chairman Cde Rabelani Choeni on Saturday during an interface with Zanu PF supporters at Swereki Business Centre, some 110 kilometres west of the border town.

The meeting coincided with victory celebrations organised by Beitbridge West legislator Cde Ruth Maboyi.

Cde Choeni said the provincial leadership carried out a post-mortem of the last elections and was ready to address some of the issues which affected them in urban settlements.

He said though they had done well in the National Assembly and Presidential elections, it was time the party regained ground in wards in urban areas.

“We have taken stock of the last harmonised elections where we had landslide victory in National Assembly and Presidential elections,” said Cde Choeni.

“We need to address issues in urban settlements where we lost a few wards. In essence, we have the medicine to cure that ailment. We know the issues and we are going to address them, and for us to succeed, we need to work together from grassroots up to the national level.

“Starting this year, we are going to every corner of the province and whipping all our representatives in local authorities and Parliament to deliver in line with the party’s manifesto.

“The party President has made it clear that we must deliver in line with our different roles.

“We will also have a lot of feedback and consultative meetings from grassroots to the highest level in the party.

“It is critical that we roll out all our programmes with everyone on board with one vision.

“It’s not that we don’t have people in those urban local authorities we performed badly like Beitbridge. We just need to be constant in engaging the people.”

Cde Choeni said Zanu PF was still strong in Matabeleland South, considering that it won 12 constituencies out of 13 in parliamentary elections.

He said in 2013 they had a clean sweep of everything that was on offer.