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Harare Bureau
The Zanu-PF Politburo on Sunday ordered all its provinces to conclude nominations and election of Central Committee members by mid week.The meeting also agreed on a raft of changes to the party’s constitution including increasing number of Central Committee members to 300 and empowering the party’s First Secretary to appoint his or her deputies together with Politburo members.

The changes, though agreed in principle, still require ratification by the Central Committee which is likely to meet before the end of the week.

Sources that attended the meeting told our  Harare Bureau yesterday that names of those  that win in the Central Committee elections would be submitted to the Politburo on Wednesday for approval.

“It was agreed that election of Central Committee members for all the provinces should be completed by mid week,” said the source.

“After the elections, the names still have to come back to the Politburo for approval.”

Some of the provincial chairpersons that spoke to our Harare Bureau yesterday said they would be able to meet the deadline set by the Politburo.

Mashonaland East acting provincial chair Cde Phenias Chihota said his province would conduct the elections today.

“Everything is now in place and tomorrow we will conduct the elections. At the end of the day tomorrow we should have the final list,” he said.

In Mashonaland Central the elections will be held tomorrow.

Acting provincial chairman Cde Wonder Mashange said they received and vetted CVs of all aspiring Central Committee members yesterday and elections would be conducted tomorrow.

“We will conduct the elections on Tuesday,” he said.

Acting provincial chair in Harare Cde Christopher Chigumba said they would meet as the provincial election directorate today to finalise the list of prospective Central Committee members.

“We are meeting tomorrow as the PED,” he said.

“We hope to conduct the elections this week and we will submit the list of winners to the National Elections Directorate.”

The final list will be endorsed by the party’s Congress which is starting next week.