President sets Youth League rallies in motion President Mugabe
President Mugabe

President Mugabe

Felex Share, Harare Bureau
ZANU-PF Youth League secretary Cde Kudzanayi Chipanga has warned other party members that the youths’ meeting with President Mugabe in Mashonaland East province today is not a platform to settle personal scores.

President Mugabe sets in motion his provincial interactive meetings with the youths this morning in the province, where he is expected to get an appreciation  of the challenges facing young people across the country.

The highly billed event is slated for Rudhaka Stadium in Marondera.

Cde Chipanga called for unity and discipline and warned those with other intentions to stay away.

“We are encouraging our delegates to exercise maximum discipline because this meeting will be graced by the Head of State and Government,” he said.

“We are not going to tolerate a situation whereby people try to settle personal scores at our meeting. If there is anyone who feels they have some scores to settle, they might create their own forum. This is not a disciplinary meeting, but a provincial interface meeting. To those thinking they can interfere with our operations or think they can have a leading role at the event, we say hands off the Youth League. We only welcome guidance and support.”

War veterans said yesterday that they were in support of the meeting.

Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association (ZNLWVA) chairperson Mr Christopher Mutsvangwa said all freedom fighters in the province would attend the highly billed meeting.

Cde Chipanga said the youths welcomed the support from the war veterans. “We have good relations with war veterans, war collaborators, ex-detainees and the Women’s League as organs and affiliates of the party,” he said.

“Individualism should not prevail over these  organs.”

The President’s meetings with the youths would be held in all the country’s 10 provinces, with Manicaland and Masvingo being the next in that order.

The meetings, dubbed “Provincial Youth Interface Meetings”, effectively mark the launch of the Zanu-PF Youth League’s campaign for the 2018 harmonised elections, with emphasis being on voter registration.

Cde Chipanga said the stage was set for the first meeting in Marondera.

“At the venue, all is now in place,” he said. “On the human resource aspect, the province has assured us that they have mobilised as many youths as they can.

“We are grateful to the leadership in the province, the Government leadership led by Provincial Affairs Minister Cde Ambrose Mutinhiri and the party leadership led by provincial chairperson Cde Bernard Makokove and senior members Cde Sydney Sekeramayi and Cde Chinomona. Together with other Central Committee members, they have gone out of their way to ensure the event becomes a success. We feel we are going to use Mashonaland East as a template to be used by all other provinces.”

Cde Mutsvangwa said the meetings were important ahead of 2018 elections and war veterans would be part of them. “ZNLWA welcomes the public invitation extended to war veterans by the secretary for the Youth League, Cde Chipanga,” he said.

“It marks a further thaw in the relations between the two complementary wings of the ruling party. The pernicious diatribes spawned and promoted by the errant G40 cohorts are being cast by the way side. This should come as a great sense of relief to President Mugabe and the party leadership as the 2018 general elections loom. The great mission of the Chimurenga Revolution is passed on like a baton from each generation to the next for the eternal benefit of posterity. We urge all war veterans in Mashonaland East to attend this important event.”

Mashonaland East has secured over  200 buses to ferry party supporters to the venue.

Among other issues, the Youth League is advocating for young people to have access to land, agricultural inputs and participate in mining activities.

 

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