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Zanu-PF 'million man march' set for May
01 Apr 2016 at 10:25hrs | Views
THE Zanu-PF Youth League has drawn up ambitious plans for a "one million man march" in Harare to show support for President Robert Mugabe.
Kudzai Chipanga, the Zanu-PF deputy youth secretary, said they planned to bus in 100,000 youths from each of the country's 10 provinces for the march which is scheduled for May.
"The Youth League is going to have a one million man march in solidarity with the President in May, at a date to be advised. We're encouraging all members of the party to come in their numbers and we're targeting 100,000 youths in each province to come to Harare so that we have this march," he said.
"This march is meant for the youth to reaffirm its support for the President RG Mugabe, not any other business which is being purported by so-called media which are saying we're trying to mobilise youths targeting some certain leaders within the party, that's not true, that's wrong."
The Daily News claimed yesterday that Zanu-PF youths were planning a massive demonstration against Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The newspaper claimed it was a grand plan by a purported Zanu-PF faction called "G40" to force Mnangagwa out of the party.
Chipanga said the march was only in solidarity with President Mugabe, insisting there were systems to get rid of individuals who are not wanted in the party, which do not need people to march in huge numbers.
"The [Zanu-PF] constitution is very clear, if the party needs to suspend some members you just need to follow proper constitutional procedures whereby the appropriate organ of the party will execute such a mandate," he said.
"We're going to have this march, a peaceful one and a constitutional one."
He said the Youth League was empowered by the party constitution to have such programmes as part of their mobilisation strategy.
Chipanga urged the main wing, Women's League, war veterans and war collaborators to join in their programme.
The first "million man march", inspired and led by the American preacher Louis Farrakhan, was held in Washington DC on October 16, 1995. On that day, more than a million black men gathered to "convey to the world a vastly different picture of the black male" and to unite in self-help and self-defence against economic and social ills plaguing the African-American community.
Kudzai Chipanga, the Zanu-PF deputy youth secretary, said they planned to bus in 100,000 youths from each of the country's 10 provinces for the march which is scheduled for May.
"The Youth League is going to have a one million man march in solidarity with the President in May, at a date to be advised. We're encouraging all members of the party to come in their numbers and we're targeting 100,000 youths in each province to come to Harare so that we have this march," he said.
"This march is meant for the youth to reaffirm its support for the President RG Mugabe, not any other business which is being purported by so-called media which are saying we're trying to mobilise youths targeting some certain leaders within the party, that's not true, that's wrong."
The Daily News claimed yesterday that Zanu-PF youths were planning a massive demonstration against Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The newspaper claimed it was a grand plan by a purported Zanu-PF faction called "G40" to force Mnangagwa out of the party.
Chipanga said the march was only in solidarity with President Mugabe, insisting there were systems to get rid of individuals who are not wanted in the party, which do not need people to march in huge numbers.
"The [Zanu-PF] constitution is very clear, if the party needs to suspend some members you just need to follow proper constitutional procedures whereby the appropriate organ of the party will execute such a mandate," he said.
"We're going to have this march, a peaceful one and a constitutional one."
He said the Youth League was empowered by the party constitution to have such programmes as part of their mobilisation strategy.
Chipanga urged the main wing, Women's League, war veterans and war collaborators to join in their programme.
The first "million man march", inspired and led by the American preacher Louis Farrakhan, was held in Washington DC on October 16, 1995. On that day, more than a million black men gathered to "convey to the world a vastly different picture of the black male" and to unite in self-help and self-defence against economic and social ills plaguing the African-American community.
Source - chronicle
