ZANU PF has pleaded with its members to be patient saying
prices of basic commodities will soon fall because government is working flat
out to address the situation.
Addressing scores of party supporters at a “thank you”
rally in Beatrice yesterday, Zanu PF Mashonaland East provincial chairperson
Joel Biggie Matiza said government was seized with the current price hikes and
had solutions to the problem.
“We are aware of the price hikes of basic commodities.
Government is seized with the issue and I assure you that the prices will soon
fall. Be patient. We are also aware of high transport fares and government is
going to avail thousands of Zupco buses that will ply these routes,” said
Matiza, who is also the Transport minister.
Seke legislator Munyaradzi Kashambe yesterday told Matiza
that high transport fares and unfavourable prices of basic commodities have
caused untold suffering on members of his constituency.
Zimbabwe is currently experiencing an economic meltdown
that has resulted in steep price hikes of goods and services.
The Zanu PF-led government has, however, kept promising
that it had solutions to the problems while pleading with people to bear with
austerity measures imposed on the nation by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube.
Opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has threatened to take
to the streets with his supporters to push President Emmerson Mnangagwa into an
early election claiming the people were suffering because the Zanu PF leader
lacks the legitimacy required to take Zimbabwe forward.
Matiza also said the current road rehabilitation programme
has seen 4 000 youths being employed.
“We are happy with the ongoing road rehabilitation
programme. A number of youths have benefitted in the form of employment.
Currently, about 4 000 youths are working on the country’s roads and more will
be joining soon,” he said.
The rally was attended by top Zanu PF officials from the
province, among them youth league political commissar Lincoln Matare, Zimbabwe
National Road Administration board chairperson Michael Madanha, secretary for
administration Kudzai Majuru and youth league chairperson Kelvin Mutsvairo,
among many others.
Meanwhile, Zanu PF national youth political commissariat
Godfrey Tsenengamu said those who think Mnangagwa will be removed by
demonstrations were day-dreaming.
Speaking at a Zanu PF Makonde inter-district meeting in
Chinhoyi yesterday, Tsenengamu said Mnangagwa’s removal require something more
than protesting.
“People fool themselves that Mugabe (former President) was
removed by the November 2017 march, that’s a lie, a lot was happening behind
the scenes, ask me…. Mnangagwa will not be removed by protesters” Tsenengamu
said.
He said besides, Zanu PF youths will not watch, while the
so-called protesters loot.
“We will not watch like we are holding eggs in our hands,
let’s meet on the streets . . . those who lost elections should wait for 2023,”
Tsenengamu said.
Tsenengamu was updating Zanu PF youths about the state of
the economy. Newsday
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