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Cde Simon Khaya Moyo

Herald Reporter
Zanu-PF legislators are expected to submit their first performance appraisal reports by the end of May in line with the party’s objective of fulfilling its election promises. As such the party has set up terms of reference for its MPs in the Eighth Parliament to ensure it delivers to the electorate after it resoundingly won the July 31, 2013 harmonised elections.

This is in line with its election manifesto and the Government’s economic blueprint, Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation.

Zanu-PF national chairperson Cde Simon Khaya Moyo said the focus was on performance and delivery in the immediate and short- to long-term periods.

“Accountability to the electorate is indispensable. In this respect and in spite of limited resources, all Zanu-PF Members of Parliament from henceforth will be expected to produce performance reports on their operations in their constituencies,” he said in a memo to the party’s provincial chairpersons.

On the political front, Cde Khaya Moyo said, the reports were expected to outline what the concerned legislator did in mass mobilisation, meetings with chiefs and various leaders including opinion leaders and attending cell, district and provincial meetings.

In development, the legislators would be expected to tell the party their performance in terms of roads, bridges, dams, rural electrification programmes, hospitals/clinics, schools, water and sanitation among other infrastructural projects.

On the social front, legislators would have to spell out the performance in terms of child-headed families, orphans, the elderly, people living with disabilities, food supply, registration of children failing to raise fees and registration and documentation.

The legislators would have to spell out their operations on the economic front especially in agriculture, mining, industry and housing.
On agriculture, they would have to explain their performance around the issue of inputs, irrigation schemes, projects, land redistribution and mechanisation while in mining they would cover big projects and types of resources.

They are expected to inform the party of what they would have done in industry especially small to medium enterprises for youth and women.

The MPs would also be expected to tell the party of what they would have done in housing, for instance, the number of people on housing lists, land available for housing, application of the building brigade model and peri-urban land for agriculture.

They would also be expected to cover community share ownership schemes, youth games, women’s programmes and cooperatives.
“The reports must be addressed to the provincial chairperson for presentation to the provincial co-ordinating committee meetings.
“Thereafter, the provincial chairperson must forward consolidated reports to the national chairperson’s office at party headquarters for scrutiny by the presidium.

“For this year, the reports must be presented to provincial co-ordinating committees) by end of May, August and November,” said Cde Khaya Moyo.

Inspection teams from the party would be set up to verify the authenticity of the reports submitted by the MPs.
President Mugabe trounced his rivals in the presidential election after garnering 61,09 percent of the votes with his nearest challenger Mr Morgan Tsvangirai managing 33,94 percent .

while in the National Assembly Zanu-PF won 160 seats to the MDC-T’s 49 while the other seat was won by an independent candidate.