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Zanu-PF campaign set to roar into life after party conference
24 Nov 2011 at 07:49hrs | Views
The Zanu-PF election campaign will roar into life soon after the party's 12th National People's Conference to be held in Bulawayo next month.
The conference is slated for December 6 to 10.
National chairman Simon Khaya Moyo told Algerian and Nigerian ambassadors who paid a courtesy call on him yesterday that the conference was going to be the last before the next harmonised elections.
In separate meetings with ambassadors Lazhar Soualem (Algeria) and Mamman Nuhu (Nigeria), Khaya Moyo said the inclusive government had outlived its lifespan.
"After the conference we will go to the people to ensure that we prepare for the harmonised elections and naturally we are looking forward to winning the elections resoundingly," Khaya Moyo told ambassador Soualem.
He said Zanu-PF was also going to pursue the indigenisation and economic empowerment drive after the conference to empower indigenous Zimbabweans.
Khaya Moyo said it was a good thing that Algeria had not been affected by the North Africa uprisings because their citizens were united.
Ambassador Soualem said his country was going through reforms, which sought to democratise the country.
"We have made it compulsory for all political parties that there should be a 30 percent women representation for all political parties during elections.
"In our country we have strict regulations that there is no connection between business and politics, that is if one wants to be a politician they should have nothing to do with business because there are conflicts of interests between the two," he said.
He said they were having problems with non-governmental organisations in their country, which sought to interfere with the country's politics.
He said there were over 100 000 NGOs in Algeria.
Ambassador Soualem said his country had given refuge to slain former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's children.
He said the National Transitional Council had approached his country to have the children released but his country refused for humanitarian purposes.
In the meeting with Ambassador Nuhu Khaya Moyo said the party's provincial leaderships were not endorsing President Mugabe as the party's presidential candidate but re-affirming the resolutions of the 2009 Congress where President Mugabe was endorsed.
The conference is slated for December 6 to 10.
National chairman Simon Khaya Moyo told Algerian and Nigerian ambassadors who paid a courtesy call on him yesterday that the conference was going to be the last before the next harmonised elections.
In separate meetings with ambassadors Lazhar Soualem (Algeria) and Mamman Nuhu (Nigeria), Khaya Moyo said the inclusive government had outlived its lifespan.
"After the conference we will go to the people to ensure that we prepare for the harmonised elections and naturally we are looking forward to winning the elections resoundingly," Khaya Moyo told ambassador Soualem.
He said Zanu-PF was also going to pursue the indigenisation and economic empowerment drive after the conference to empower indigenous Zimbabweans.
Khaya Moyo said it was a good thing that Algeria had not been affected by the North Africa uprisings because their citizens were united.
Ambassador Soualem said his country was going through reforms, which sought to democratise the country.
"We have made it compulsory for all political parties that there should be a 30 percent women representation for all political parties during elections.
"In our country we have strict regulations that there is no connection between business and politics, that is if one wants to be a politician they should have nothing to do with business because there are conflicts of interests between the two," he said.
He said they were having problems with non-governmental organisations in their country, which sought to interfere with the country's politics.
He said there were over 100 000 NGOs in Algeria.
Ambassador Soualem said his country had given refuge to slain former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's children.
He said the National Transitional Council had approached his country to have the children released but his country refused for humanitarian purposes.
In the meeting with Ambassador Nuhu Khaya Moyo said the party's provincial leaderships were not endorsing President Mugabe as the party's presidential candidate but re-affirming the resolutions of the 2009 Congress where President Mugabe was endorsed.
Source - Herald
