Grace Mugabe initiated programme rolls into Bulawayo

THE Grace Mugabe initiated programme to equip the Zanu-PF's women league provincial executive members with leadership skills, kicked off in Bulawayo yesterday.

According to the Chronicle, the programme is aimed at equipping members with leadership and administrative skills in preparation for the forthcoming 2018 harmonised elections.

Women's League Provincial Executive Council members from Matabeleland South, North and Bulawayo yesterday attended a leadership workshop which was held at the Bulawayo Polytechnic. The Matabeleland South induction workshop was held at Esigodini while Lupane Hall hosted the Matabeleland North province workshop on Wednesday.

Speaking at the workshop, deputy secretary for women affairs Eunice Nomthandazo Moyo, who is also the Bulawayo Provincial Affairs Minister said the women's league was the vanguard of the party, which was expected to support and sustain it.

Moyo added that it was important to empower women so that they can work with the people at the grassroots level, growing the party and mapping the way forward as they approach the 2018 elections.