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Cde Shamu

Chinhoyi Bureau
ZANU-PF will hold elections to choose new provincial executive committees in all the 10 provinces within the first half of November, while arrangements for accommodating delegates during the Annual People’s Conference have been made.Accommodation for the more than 5 000 delegates expected for the conference has been identified within Chinhoyi and surrounding areas and the responsible committee is now threshing out the finer details with owners of the facilities.

Addressing the Mashonaland West Provincial Coordinating Committee meeting at the weekend, party National Commissar Cde Webster Shamu said voting would be done in all the administrative districts with the 102 district members choosing the chairman while 34 would vote for the women’s league chairperson.

“Elections to constitute the provincial executive committees will start at the end of this month (October) and by the first week of November all provinces should have been constituted ahead of the Annual People’s Conference here in Chinhoyi in December,” he said.

Previously the people were nominated from the district and voting would be done at the province by members of the Provincial Coordinating Committee sitting as an electoral college.  He said the revolutionary party was also working on updating the electronic database of its members.

The meeting at the weekend also heard progress made so far in preparing for the conference. The committee on accommodation chaired by Cde Ray Kapesa said about 5 000 rooms and facilities had been identified and negotiations on the price are underway. “We have identified over 5 000 facilities that will accommodate delegates and we are currently negotiating with the facility owners for the prices,” he said.

Briefing the meeting, Mrs Millicent Mombeshora said the 6 000 seater multi-facility conference centre which will have lodges, a hotel and the party offices among other facilities will be completed in three-years.

She said a South African company has been identified to lay the concrete footing where a collapsible structure would be mounted for the conference.

Politburo member Dr Ignatius Chombo urged the various committees spearheading the hosting of the committees to work flat out so that nothing is left to chance. “We need to start working because time is not on our side. December might seem far off but in real terms we don’t have time. We are better off in a situation where we are ahead of time and that mean