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Cde Chombo

Felex Share Senior Reporter—

Zanu-PF will hold provincial inter-district conferences this week to come up with resolutions that will form the basis of the discussions at the 16th Annual National People’s Conference slated for Masvingo next month.The conference will run from December 13 to 17 at the Masvingo Showgrounds.

Party districts met at the weekend and came up with resolutions which will be turned into provincial packages this week.

Resolutions dominating the district meetings held at the weekend include the endorsement of Zanu-PF First Secretary and President, Cde Robert Mugabe as the party’s candidate for the 2018 harmonised elections, need to punish officials fingered in corruption and deal with cadres who continue taking party issues to social media.

This comes as provinces have also started accrediting district party members to be at the Conference.

Zanu-PF secretary for administration Cde Ignatius Chombo on Sunday said the agenda of the Masvingo conference would be drawn from the resolutions being worked on.

“Almost all the districts had meetings yesterday. This coming week, we will hold provincial inter-district conferences meaning the whole province will meet to look at the resolutions in various sectors such as agriculture, health, transport, state of the party, state of the economy, Zim-Asset et cetera. This means the resolutions made by the various districts which met yesterday are going to be put together to provincial packages this week.

“The resolutions are then sent to my office together with the provincial report and that will now enrich the Central Committee report. I will pass on the resolutions to Cdes like (Patrick) Chinamasa (secretary for legal affairs ), (Saviour) Kasukuwere (secretary for commissariat) while I will handle administration issues. The various secretaries we have in the Politburo will come up with their own report which feeds into the Central Committee report. I will make sure that the Central Committee report is now complete then we print with a foreword from the President. That creates the contents of our discussions at the conference,” said Cde Chombo.

Politburo members are expected to preside over the provincial inter-district meetings.

Cde Chombo said people’s wishes had to be captured in the resolutions.

“Districts met because they are the grassroots, they are the ones with issues,” he said.

“They meet to ventilate those issues and after that, they put the issues together at provincial level. Nothing will be left out, the wishes and aspirations will be taken on board.”

The Masvingo conference will be held under the theme, “Moving with Zim-Asset in Peace and Unity”.

Accreditation of delegates at district level is underway in several provinces.

Central Committee, Politburo members and the media would be accredited at Masvingo Polytechnic College.

More than 6 000 delegates are expected to grace the event.

Zanu-PF needs about $4 million to successfully host the conference and has made significant progress in mobilising the resources.