Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent
Zanu-PF candidate for Masvingo Urban House of Assembly seat Major Taguma Benjamin Mazarire (Retired) on Tuesday donated food hampers to over 300 elderly men and women.

Maj Mazarire (Rtd) urged the people of Masvingo to rally behind Zanu-PF and its presidential candidate President Mnangagwa in the forthcoming elections saying the revolutionary party had a track-record of improving livelihoods of the                  majority.

Addressing beneficiaries, among them inmates from Mucheke Old People’s home, during a ceremony at Roger Howmen in Mucheke suburb, Maj Mazarire (Rtd) decried the tendency to leave out the elderly from ruling party programmes.

He said the elderly should not be forgotten in Zanu-PF programmes as they were instrumental in making the revolutionary party what it is.

“We are giving our elderly parents some food hampers as an appreciation for their support to the revolutionary party, Zanu-PF, which brought independence,” said Maj Mazarire (Rtd).

He said elderly people were a fountain of wisdom and an integral part of the community who deserved to be appreciated, every time.

“Our elderly parents deserve to be respected due to their wisdom. If we listen to them some of the challenges we are facing today can be easily tackled. They are wittingly or unwittingly left out of a number of Government and party (Zanu-PF) programmes that benefit the community yet a community was not complete without them.”

“We should always be grateful that we have the elderly in our midst because they constitute a big percentage of people who have always voted for Zanu-PF since independence in 1980,” said Maj Mazarire (Rtd).

The Zanu-PF Masvingo Urban House of Assembly candidate appealed to the elderly to teach the young generation the full history about the country’s liberation struggle to enable them to vote wisely in the forthcoming harmonised polls set for July 30.

Maj Mazarire (Rtd) promised to commemorate the Old People’s Day through the provision of food hampers, clothes and holding a luncheon for the elderly every year.

He urged residents in the country’s oldest town to rally behind President Mnangagwa in the coming polls.

A fortnight ago, Rtd Major Mazarire mobilised 19 doctors, including specialists, for a two-day free medical outreach programme that saw residents receiving free treatment and check-ups at council-run clinics.

In the July 30 polls, he will slug it out with Mr Jacob Nyokanhete of MDC Alliance and seven independent candidates in the race for the Masvingo Urban parliamentary seat, which Maj Mazarire (Rtd) is confident of winning resoundingly.

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