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Speaking after a provincial co-ordinating committee meeting in Masvingo last Thursday, provincial chairman Cde Lovemore Matuke said there were several disputes after the DCC elections in various districts.

“After looking at all the complaints from the districts, the PCC sat down and agreed for elections to be re-run in the three districts of Bikita, Mwenezi and Chiredzi,” said Cde Matuke.

He said they reached the decision to ensure that everyone was allowed an opportunity to participate in the elections as some people were found to have been unfairly left out.

“Zanu-PF is a democratic party, therefore we found it appropriate to re-conduct these elections in areas where we realised major anomalies, which are not consistent with the dictates and guidelines of Zanu-PF.”

The elections come at a time when Zanu-PF has stepped up preparations for fresh polls this year to end the inclusive government.

Zanu-PF has been holding DCC elections in all the country’s districts to choose new office bearers and galvanise its members ahead of primary elections to choose both Lower and Upper House candidates to represent the party in the national elections which President Mugabe has said should be held this year without fail.

The DCC elections have been going on in all parts of the country setting the stage for primary elections.

President Mugabe has already set the stage for a bruising Zanu-PF primary election by warning party stalwarts against imposing candidates because no one was immune from being contested.

Zanu-PF spokesman Cde Rugare Gumbo last week said the party’s supreme decision-making body outside congress, the Politburo, would sit to discuss guidelines for the primary elections to choose candidates.

Cde Gumbo said the party would deliberate on a national report from the commissariat that would give direction on how and when the primary elections would be held.

The countrywide elections were also necessitated by the need to strengthen the party ahead of fresh polls to end the wobbly inclusive government.

“Certainly elections will be held this year and we will be meeting this week to come up with guidelines that will determine the holding of primary elections to choose our candidates for fresh harmonised elections. We will get a report from the commissariat department and the Politburo will come up with the guidelines, but obviously we will make sure that we check against imposition of candidates,” he said.

Cde Gumbo said Zanu-PF was now more than ready for fresh general elections.

“We are more than ready for the elections and we have been always ready for them and we want them to be held this year,” he said.

At the party primary elections Zanu-PF will choose 210 Lower House candidates and another 66 candidates who will vie for the Senate seats at stake.