Zanu-PF wants to recall non-preforming ministers

Zanu-PF is set to introduce a policy that will see non-performing ministers recalled from government during its annual conference to be held in Bulawayo this December, the party's national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo announced Friday.

He was speaking at a Zanu PF conference coordinating meeting at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair Grounds, the venue for the party's conference.

"One thing which has cost us heavily since independence to date is that we have allowed a situation whereby government is above the party. Everyone in government is deployed from the party.

We will have a provision of recalling a member if they are not performing. Take for example, in the African National Congress of South Africa, you smell power and in the Union Building government offices, you smell deployments," said Moyo, who is a former Zimbabwean Ambassador to South Africa.

"I was minister for more than 10 years and answerable to myself, which is dangerous. Some ministers do not know where the party headquarters are.

We are going to get into this matter and at the conference, we will come with a decision on how this can be done."

Meanwhile, Zanu-PF national disciplinary committee is expected to meet in Harare today to determine whether businessman Philip Chiyangwa is eligible to contest in an election for the party's Mash West provincial chairmanship.

This comes as 8 candidates, including Chiyangwa and suspended chair John Mafa, are set for an intriguing battle ahead of the impending poll. Mafa, who was suspended last year on allegations of misrepresenting   provincial co-ordinating committee resolutions, will also learn of his fate this week.