The Sunday News
Munyaradzi Musiiwa, Midlands Correspondent
ZANU-PF will take the ongoing provincial restructuring exercise, which saw the revolutionary party dissolving its provincial structures in Bulawayo and Harare, to all the provinces, National Political Commissar, Lieutenant-General Engelbert Rugeje (Retired) has said.
In an interview after touring the venue of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s planned thank you rally in Chachacha, Shurugwi yesterday, Rtd Lt-Gen Rugeje said restructuring was being done in compliance with the party’s constitution which prescribes for a restructuring of provincial structures after every four years. He said the revolutionary party started with the two metropolitan provinces and will soon go to other provinces.
“What happens in our party is that in our constitution, we are stipulated that every year, we restructure our cells (village structures) and there will be elections. After two years there is branch restructuring and then after three years we restructure our districts. In the fourth year, we will then restructure provinces and then the fifth year we have the Central Committee and then we go for a congress.
“However, because we got into the new dispensation there are some things that we failed to do because there were other pressing issues and programmes such as the harmonised elections, our primary elections and the national people’s conference. We then failed to conduct our provincial elections due to the tight schedule.
“As we speak we have a programme of training 10 000 facilitators for the Chitepo School of Ideology and we are going to send them to all provinces, districts and branches to train our people. After that we will start the restructuring of all provinces. For now we did Harare and Bulawayo and we hope that we will go to other provinces,” he said.
Rtd Lt-Gen Rugeje said every Zanu-PF member and those aspiring to become members should go through the Chitepo ideological training.
“As a party, however, we now have a new way of doing things. Whoever
