ZANU-PF Conference Ushers Direction Before Zimbabwe Elections

Republic of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in Bulawayo for the 12th ZANU-PF National People's Conference. The agenda is set to discuss further indigenization for the Southern African state., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.

Zanu-PF conference ushers direction before elections

Friday, 09 December 2011 00:00
Zimbabwe Herald

THE 12th Zanu-PF Annual National Peoples Conference winds down today when it will be officially closed by the First Secretary and President of the Party, Cde Robert Mugabe at the Trade Fair Grounds in Bulawayo.

This Conference is unique in that it precedes the watershed election scheduled for early next year, a watershed poll that is supposed to bring to an end the long-running, albeit, dysfunctional inclusive Government that has constrained implementation of key government decisions.

Zanu-PF bears the burden of sustaining the aspirations of all cadres living and dead who laid down their lives so we could have ours.

This bids the party leadership to remain vigilant and address the fissures that brought near disaster in election 2008.

It is providential that Conference comes at a time the nation is emerging from the shocking exposes from WikiLeaks that have confirmed what the party leadership has been saying all along that there are some political leaders who went to bed with the erstwhile coloniser in a bid to sabotage the logical conclusion of the Second Chimurenga.

Zanu-PF found itself in circumstances necessitating a coalition with the same people who have been working to undo the gains of our independence that came at the cost of so many precious lives for the simple reason that some in leadership were self-defeating.

We hope the party leadership will discuss and resolve the conflicts that landed them in the current mess where, despite prevailing in the popular vote on March 29, 2008 and the subsequent runoff, they still had to compromise with an openly hostile opposition beholden to the country's common detractors.

We are, however, encouraged by the Conference theme ‘‘Defend National Sovereignty, Consolidate Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment'.

To this end we urge the nation to stand united in defence of the revolution, which sums the aspiration of every progressive Zimbabwean.
Zanu-PF is the party of the revolution and it can't afford the luxury of giving the enemy an easy victory.

We, however, take comfort in the theme that shows that the leadership is aware of the raison detre of the liberation struggle, which was to give us dominion over our country and all that reposes on and in it.

Through Zanu-PF's astute leadership, Government is seized with moving our independence from the political to the economic dimension.

The enemy is united at home and abroad and Zanu-PF can ill-afford division, for as the Bible tells us, a house divided against itself can not stand.

To this end we remind the leadership that expectations are high, among both party members and neutrals alike, that the Conference will come up with practical resolutions to resolve the multifaceted challenges confronting the people.

We are inspired by indications that indigenisation and economic empowerment, policies that are designed to create a genuine wealth-creating middle class, top the agenda along with strategies to boost the key economic drivers agriculture and mining.