Zanu-PF national chair Cde Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri
yesterday mocked embattled MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa and his party
supporters for their propensity to stage demonstrations saying they were being
pushed by poverty after shunning empowerment programmes initiated by the
Government.
Addressing Zanu-PF leaders drawn from across Masvingo
during a provincial inter-district conference held at Masvingo Polytechnic
College to adopt resolutions to be tabled at the 17th Zanu-PF National Annual
People’s Conference, Cde Muchinguri-Kashiri also said the Zanu-PF Government
was against wanton price hikes that were hitting the pockets of ordinary people
hard.
Cde Muchinguri-Kashiri exhorted Zanu-PF leaders and
ordinary Zimbabweans from all corners of the country to use locally-available
resources to uplift their lives. The Zanu-PF national chair tore into the
MDC-Alliance for trying to use unnecessary demonstrations to disrupt the ruling
party from successfully governing the country.
“The demonstrations led by Chamisa that have been taking
place are a sign of poverty, if those people were masters of their own destiny
and self-sufficient they would not be easily fooled to go into the streets,
they will actually be in a position to pay those who want to coax them to
demonstrate. Some people are easily misled to go into the streets because they
have nothing,” she said.
“Let us use our locally available resources, be it land or
even water bodies around us, to develop ourselves. My challenge to Zanu-PF
leaders here is that please you must lead from the front and be good
ambassadors of the party by initiating projects to produce things like fruits
and food crops that can be exported and earn the country foreign currency,” she
said.
Cde Muchingiri-Kashiri decried the unjustified hiking or
prices saying ruling party leaders should see to it that businesses do not make
super profits from the suffering of ordinary people.
She lamented corruption saying the vice had no place in the
Second Republic led by President Mnangagwa, who Cde Muchinguri-Kashiri equated to
the biblical Joshua tasked with leading Zimbabwe into a new epoch of
prosperity.
“It is not enough to just shout the slogan, “2023 ED
Pfeee”, when we are not doing anything on the ground for the people who voted
for us.
“Come 2023 the people who voted will ask us what we did for
them so the best way to show our support for President Mnangagwa is through,
implementation of things that we promised our people,” she said.
She said Zanu-PF senators, National Assembly members and
councillors ushered into office after the July 30 harmonised elections were
supposed to be at the forefront of fulfilling the party’s election promises to
make sure the revolutionary party retains the trust of voters.
Cde Muchinguri-Kashiri said Zimbabwe was lucky to have a
humble and listening leader in President Mnangagwa who should be allowed to
execute his vision of a prosperous Zimbabwe during the full course of his
five-year mandate.
She said President Mnangagwa was openly harangued and
ridiculed prior to the advent of Operation Restore Legacy which reached its
climax after Zimbabweans spilled into the streets forcing ex-president Mr
Robert Mugabe to resign.
“There is no vacancy at the top (Presidium). There is the
big man (President Mnangagwa) and his two young brothers. Those who are
thinking otherwise are only dreaming,” said Cde Muchinguri-Kashiri.
President Mnangagwa deserved praise for remaining humble
and calm, said Cde Muchinguri-Kashiri, even in the face of a barrage of attacks
fronted by former First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe at the instigation of her
husband.
She said other leaders like VP Chiwenga even put their
lives at stake by spearheading Operation Restore Legacy that ushered the new
dispensation last year.
Present at the conference was Zanu-PF National Political
Commissar Cde Engelbert Rugeje, Secretary for Security Cde Lovemore Matuke,
Secretary for Production in the Politburo Cde Josaya Hungwe, Mines and Mining
Development Minister Winston Chitando and Masvingo provincial chair Cde Ezra
Chadzamira among others. Herald
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