Zanu-PF urged to build cadre database

Zanu-PF's provincial leadership has been urged to establish and maintain a comprehensive database of qualified party cadres for deployment into key State institutions, in a move aimed at strengthening governance and ideological alignment within government structures.

The call was made by the party's secretary-general, Jacob Mudenda, while addressing delegates at a provincial outreach programme held at Bulawayo Polytechnic.

Mudenda, who was accompanied by Zanu-PF national political commissar Munyaradzi Machacha and Bulawayo provincial chairman Jabulani Sibanda, said provinces must play a more strategic role in identifying and grooming individuals for public service.

"Provinces must play a deliberate and strategic role in cadre development and placement into national institutions," Mudenda said.

He challenged party structures to ensure that loyal, competent and ideologically grounded members are channelled into key sectors such as the police, intelligence services, defence forces, national parks, as well as teacher and nursing training institutions.

"We must ask ourselves, what are we doing to ensure that loyal, competent and ideologically grounded cadres are being recruited into Government and State agencies?" he said.

Mudenda emphasised the importance of maintaining a detailed database tracking cadres' academic qualifications, professional skills and readiness for deployment.

"This ensures that the State is continuously served by patriotic, disciplined and capable citizens who are ideologically grounded, understand and will defend the ruling party and its programmes," he added.

The senior party official also called on provincial leadership to support academically gifted but underprivileged students, urging the creation of pathways to ensure they access further education without barriers.

The outreach programme forms part of Zanu-PF's broader mobilisation and capacity-building efforts at provincial level, as the ruling party seeks to consolidate its structures and influence across key sectors of the economy and public service.