ZANU-PF national commissar Cde Victor Matemadanda has said
the party and Government should pull in one direction to deliver the
revolutionary party’s election promises.
Cde Matemadanda also said heads of parastatals must toe the
party line so that what is contained in Zanu-PF’s election manifesto is
delivered.
He was speaking during the Zanu-PF Midlands Provincial
Co-ordinating Committee meeting at the Winery Convention Centre in Gweru on
Saturday.
Cde Matemadanda said Zanu-PF must fight nepotism to unite
people in all its structures.
“We have parastatals and we fail to control those people.
We don’t want that. If one is appointed to lead a board and then say I am a
professional, I have no political inclination; we don’t want a parastatal that
has opposition people,” he said.
“We won an election using the Zanu-PF manifesto which must
pay dividends. We can’t have a party going in one direction and Government
business the other direction. This should serve as a warning. If you are in a
board and ED approved your appointment you then need to toe the line. We will
not shy away from this mandate we got from the people. Democracy should
recognise the wishes of the majority.”
Cde Matemadanda also spoke on the decision to bury the late
ex-President Robert Mugabe at his rural home, Zvimba after the family had
initially agreed that he should be buried at the National Heroes Acre.
“When he was alive, Mugabe refused to honour the wishes of
the dead saying their wishes can’t be followed. Now what has changed? (Joshua)
Nkomo, Benjamin Burombo etc all buried at Heroes Acre. Now we have a coffin
being opened morning, afternoon and evening like a fridge. Julius Malema (EFF
leader) came and it was opened,” he said.
“My mother died and we buried her. Malema, dull, an ANC
reject was the one saying Mugabe was too old and today he is sent by G40.”
Cde Matemadanda said the late former President has no
influence on the direction of the country.
“Bob is dead and dead and nothing more. Those who think
that the governance of the country has to do with the dead, they must go to the
graveyard,” said Cde Matemadanda.
He said Zanu-PF has been winning council and Parliamentary
by–elections which shows that people have confidence in President Emmerson
Mnangagwa’s leadership.
He said there are
individuals who want to be bigger than the party. “Councillor how did you get
more votes than the MP? MP give us your strategy, how did you become popular
than the party and the President. There should be consistency. There should be
unity of purpose. We must all pull in the same direction as we go towards
2023,” Cde Matemadanda said.
“We need to identify our own cadres, our own people who
have the party at heart because we can’t afford to have people who use money to
destroy the party. Put that money into the party. We need that addressed and do
away with indiscipline.”
He said Zanu-PF has an ideology and structures and people
should shun regionalism, nepotism and corruption in assuming positions. “Now we
have some saying Harare is ours, Manicaland is ours. That must stop. We want
representation by a party member anywhere in the country. We must do away with
nepotism, we must do away with tribalism,” said Cde Matemadanda. Herald
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