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Zanu-PF targets Bulawayo return
13 May 2014 at 06:45hrs | Views
ZANU-PF Bulawayo women's league provincial chairperson Ever Bitu says the party is already readying itself to win some seats in the 2018 general elections in the city.
Zanu-PF has never won any directly contested seat in Bulawayo since the united MDC started contesting elections in 2000.
Delivering a report on the state of the party in Bulawayo, and in particular the women's league, at an inter-district conference held at the Bulawayo Polytechnic on Sunday, Bitu attributed Zanu-PF's failure to secure a seat in last year's harmonised polls to "embarrassing and endless bickering among party followers and the leadership".
"Bulawayo was a laughing stoke because of the endless infighting and divisions," she said.
"We were disorganised and there was chaos in the province, that is why we failed to get even a single seat during the elections.
"The infighting was so much that at one time Davies Hall (Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial head office) was nicknamed Devils Hall by party members.
"I am, however, delighted that this is all in the past now.
"There is peace in the province now; the numbers are increasing.
"We need unity in the party and with the peace that we enjoy now, we will get seats in the 2018 elections.
"We do not want to continue being an embarrassment by not having any seats."
Bulawayo Provincial Affairs minister Eunice Sandi-Moyo, who is also the Zanu-PF women's league national deputy secretary, weighed in and pleaded for party members in the province to be united if it was to win seats in the next elections.
"There is no time for divisions now. Infighting is in the past. The leadership should also not divide the people," she said.
"We need peace. Peace is unity and there cannot be unity if there is no peace."
Veteran politician Calistus Ndlovu was roped in by the Zanu-PF politburo to stabilise the party in Bulawayo and was last year elected substantive provincial chairman.
However, reports of infighting still persist in the province.
Zanu-PF has never won any directly contested seat in Bulawayo since the united MDC started contesting elections in 2000.
Delivering a report on the state of the party in Bulawayo, and in particular the women's league, at an inter-district conference held at the Bulawayo Polytechnic on Sunday, Bitu attributed Zanu-PF's failure to secure a seat in last year's harmonised polls to "embarrassing and endless bickering among party followers and the leadership".
"Bulawayo was a laughing stoke because of the endless infighting and divisions," she said.
"We were disorganised and there was chaos in the province, that is why we failed to get even a single seat during the elections.
"The infighting was so much that at one time Davies Hall (Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial head office) was nicknamed Devils Hall by party members.
"I am, however, delighted that this is all in the past now.
"There is peace in the province now; the numbers are increasing.
"We need unity in the party and with the peace that we enjoy now, we will get seats in the 2018 elections.
"We do not want to continue being an embarrassment by not having any seats."
Bulawayo Provincial Affairs minister Eunice Sandi-Moyo, who is also the Zanu-PF women's league national deputy secretary, weighed in and pleaded for party members in the province to be united if it was to win seats in the next elections.
"There is no time for divisions now. Infighting is in the past. The leadership should also not divide the people," she said.
"We need peace. Peace is unity and there cannot be unity if there is no peace."
Veteran politician Calistus Ndlovu was roped in by the Zanu-PF politburo to stabilise the party in Bulawayo and was last year elected substantive provincial chairman.
However, reports of infighting still persist in the province.
Source - Southern Eye
