Raise $30 000 for Mugabe bash or face boot, youths told

Zanu PF provincial youth executive members have been threatened with expulsion if they fail to each raise $30 000 for President Robert Mugabe's 92nd birthday bash set for drought-stricken Masvingo next week.

This came as it emerged that Zanu-PF youths in Manicaland had so far managed to raise $3 000 just a few days before the event.

Zanu-PF national youth league political commissar Innocent Hamandishe told a Manicaland youth executive meeting in Mutare on Tuesday that it was unacceptable for any province to fail to raise funds for Mugabe's bash while also issuing a stern warning against any attempts to disturb the event.