Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (Zanu PF) has had a year dominated by reports of factional strife over a successor to Robert Mugabe. But in Masvingo, divisions were set aside. Support for the incumbent leader was total.
Delegates are expected to confirm President Mugabe as the ruling party’s candidate 2018 elections in 2018, when he’ll be 94. Robert Mugabe believes the party will prevail again.
“The party remains strong there is no doubt about it, in-fact very strong and formidable by any account, we have had all our opponents prostrated, thrown down flat onto the ground.” Said President Mugabe
Opponents are both local and foreign.
“Countries that have been hostile to us and have all this time expected that ZANU PF and ZANU PF government shall listen to them and that there shall be regime change, have failed to achieve that. There has not been regime change and there shall not be regime change.” Adds Mugabe
But the President also urged supporters to respect party channels.
“We do not run or organize matters of the party or settle our grievances through twitter and those facebook, whatever happens.” President Mugabe
The conference closes Saturday. It’s expected to pass resolutions for the accelerated implementation of an economic turnaround strategy, ZIMASSET, which the ZANU PF Government adopted soon after winning elections in 2013. The party has just one year left to deliver promises of millions of jobs, revived industries and improved social service delivery.
