Those who call for sanctions against Zim should be charged with treason
By Lovemore Chikova
Saturday, 18 December 2010 21:43
ZANU-PF has unanimously endorsed President Mugabe as its presidential candidate for the harmonised elections set for next year.
In resolutions passed at the end of the 11th National People’s Conference at Marymount Teachers’ College in Mutare yesterday, the party said the polls should be held next year without fail.
Delegates to the conference also resolved that any person who calls for sanctions against the country should be charged with treason.“ . . . directs the party to call upon the Government to enforce the law of treason against any individual, corporate body or entity which calls for the imposition and or maintenance of sanctions or any other measures harmful, injurious and or deleterious to the welfare of the people of Zimbabwe,” said the party.
The party resolved that foreign envoys who promote the West’s regime change agenda and interfere in the internal affairs of Zimbabwe be expelled.
It said Government should also take counter- measures against foreign companies, institutions and entities whose home countries continue to impose and maintain illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe.
Delegates resolved that the Government should improve conditions of employment in the civil service and urged the private sector to follow suit.
The new constitution, Zanu-PF resolved, should not reverse the land reform programme. Furthermore, the party resolved that land illegally sub-leased to former commercial farmers or their entities should be repossessed and redistributed.
Another key resolution was the deregistration of non-governmental organisations that act as conduits of regime change.
Zanu-PF condemned corruption and called on all its members “to conduct themselves honestly and honourably in their dealings with the party and the public”. The delegates also resolved that the party should hold early, democratic, transparent and credible primary elections in the spirit of its founding principles.
They also resolved against the imposition of candidates and advocated the acceleration and expansion of indigenisation and economic empowerment programmes.
They said the Government should only recognise foreign investment that is mutually beneficial.
On media, the delegates condemned the continued broadcasts of pirate radio stations, the peddling of falsehoods and divisive messages through hostile media.
The delegates implored Government to provide the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe with adequate resources to enable it to execute its mandate, including licensing community radio stations.
They also said the party and Government should prioritise upgrading schools, health facilities, the provision of water and sanitation and other infrastructure.
They called on the Government to avail antiretroviral drugs at affordable prices.
On women, the party called for the achievement of women’s quest to achieve equal representation in all decision-making processes.
It was also resolved that women should be given the opportunity to participate in all sectors of the economy, especially agriculture and mining.
The delegates resolved that all party members should educate the youth on its ideology and mobilise them to participate in party activities.
The national youth programme curriculum, the delegates resolved, should be enhanced.
The indigenisation and economic empowerment programme should incorporate youths.
Labels: SANCTIONS, TREASON, ZANU-PF, ZANU-PF NATIONAL PEOPLES CONGRESS, ZDERA
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Zanu PF to audit party structures
HR.
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:40:00 +0000
ZANU-PF will soon embark on a comprehensive audit of its structures from the cell to national level as part of preparations for the next elections. The audit will include the filling of vacancies left by members who were elevated to higher posts.
The resolution was agreed upon in a closed-door meeting at the just-ended Fifth National People’s Congress in Harare. In an interview after the congress, Dickson Mafios who tabled the report on the state of the party said they were ready to rejuvenate the party.
"We are geared to do a verification process of all our members from the cell to national level.
"We want to make sure that all members are in possession of membership cards and that their names appear on the voters’ roll," he said.
"The party also resolved to co-opt some members to fill vacancies that were left open by people who were elevated to various levels of the party.
All provinces are required to submit this information, which will be captured and kept in the computer so that we will know our membership base."
Mafios who is also the provincial chairman for Mashonaland Central said the party noted with concern the money charged for membership and resolved to engage the party’s finance department to reduce membership fees. — HR.
Labels: ZANU-PF, ZANU-PF NATIONAL PEOPLES CONGRESS
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Youth empowerment vital: VP Mujuru
Ray Utsiwegota
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:36:00 +0000
VICE-PRESIDENT Joyce Mujuru addressing delegates and invited guests at the Zanu PF 5th National People's Congress which ended at the weekend said that young people should be given special attention as they are the future custodians of the country's resources and heritage.
"There is need to give special attention to the youths as they are the future custodians of the country's natural resources and heritage," said the vice president.
Young people were urged to relate and identify with the country's history, liberation struggle and the deliberate empowerment policies being implemented by government.
The foregoing found resonance in President Mugabe's address who pointed out that for inclusive Government to succeed it should respond to the needs of its people, including young people.
President Mugabe noted that there were elements in the inclusive Government bent on subverting the current agrarian season.
"People need fertilizer which government cannot provide yet money is there.
"As a government we are not pulling in the same direction because others are calling for the freezing of funding.
"The Special Drawing Rights (SDR) received from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been frozen because someone thought that it should not be utilized by beneficiaries of the agrarian reform," said President Mugabe.
Labels: JOICE MUJURU, MUGABE, TENDAI BITI, YOUTHS, ZANU-PF NATIONAL PEOPLES CONGRESS
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Zanu PF Congress Resolution
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:38:00 +0000
THE following is the full text of the resolution of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu PF) party held at its 5th Ordinary National People’s Congress at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC), in Harare, from 09-13 December 2009.
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Zanu PF: United in Defence of Our National Resources and People’s Economic Empowerment
Resolutions Of The 5th National People's Congress
H.I.C.C. Harare - 9-13 December 2009
The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu PF) held its 5th Ordinary National People’s Congress at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC), in Harare, from 9-13 December 2009 in accordance with Article 5 (20-28) of the Party’s Constitution, as amended, under the theme ‘United in Defence of Our National Resources and People’s Economic Empowerment’.
The President and First Secretary, Cde R.G. Mugabe, officially opened the plenary on 11 December 2009. All the Party’s ten provinces attended. Congress received delegations and written solidarity messages from invited political organisations from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, the rest of the continent, Asia, the Americas and beyond.
After extensive deliberations touching on the internal and external factors affecting the Party and the people, Congress made the following resolutions:
A. On the State of the Party
Congress has acknowledged the hostile informational, diplomatic, economic and political environmental background against which it has taken place, which is characterised by the continuance of sanctions, the regime change onslaught, internal and external negative developments associated with machinations of the MDC Formations, their handlers and affiliate organisations as well as a number of debilitating internal challenges within the Party.
Congress, therefore:
1. Resolves that the Party’s national strategic objective for the next five years shall be the checking, containment and ultimate defeat of the West’s neo-colonial regime change agenda by securing a decisive and uncontested victory in the next Harmonised Elections.
2. Directs the Party to re-organise itself, rationalise its structures, re-introduce focused ideological education at all levels of its leadership and membership, shun factionalism and stop its current obsession with leadership positions to refocus on advancing the interests of the people and meeting their needs.
3. Resolves that the Party, in its mobilisation strategies, should streamline and enforce its ideological thrust and put the people first in order to reassert its preeminent position as the Party of Liberation and the champion of independence, empowerment, democracy, human rights and rule of law.
4. Calls upon the Party to improve its internal democratic culture, ensure the conduct of open, transparent and competitive selection and election processes to fill all leadership positions and allow the will of the people to prevail in all cases.
5. Directs the Party to develop a clear-cut leadership renewal and continuity policy at all levels in order to continually reinvigorate, renew and ensure the effective transfer of the Party’s ideological underpinnings, values, practices and the ethos of the Liberation Struggle between successive generations of leaders.
6. Directs the Party to adopt a new business culture that generates sufficient resources to sustain its programmes and activities.
7. Congratulates Cde R.G. Mugabe for being re-elected as President and First Secretary, Cde Joyce Teurai Ropa Mujuru as Vice President and Second Secretary, Cde John Landa Nkomo as Vice President and Second Secretary, Cde Simon Khaya Moyo as the National Chairman, all newly elected members of the Central Committee and all newly appointed members of the Politburo.
8. Hails and commends the Party, the President and First Secretary and all its leadership and membership at all levels for having, under Cde R.G. Mugabe’s able and wise stewardship, nurtured, preserved and maintained the national unity of Zimbabwe as entombed in the Unity Accord of 1987 during the last five-year review period and, therefore, reminds those who have been placed at the helm of the Party by the people of the heavy responsibility they bear in carrying forward this national unity and steering the Party towards a resounding victory in the next Harmonised Elections.
B. On the State of the Economy
Congress has noted that the national economy continues to be under siege from the machinations of the Western detractors and their internal MDC surrogates, in particular, the impact of declared and undeclared Western sanctions and the resultant low capacity utilisation in all sectors.
Acknowledging Zimbabwe’s abundant natural resource endowment, its favourable climate, high quality human resource base and advantageous geographical location, Congress, therefore:
1. Commends and heralds the economic stabilisation measures instituted by the Party well ahead of the formation of the Inclusive Government, which are responsible for the first signs of recovery that are now evident in the economy.
2. Condemns, in the strongest of terms, the reckless actions of the Minister of Finance, T. Biti, in particular his abuse of constitutional authority to prevent the release of the US$510 million IMF Global Financial Crisis mitigation facility, his systematic denial of seasonal support to the agricultural sector and his peanut budget for the year 2010 in pursuance of petty personal ambitions and the parochial reactionary agenda of his MDC Formation.
3. Calls on the Inclusive Government to identify sectors of the economy in which key investments should be focused in order to reap maximum benefit from the country’s comparative advantage in mining, agriculture, tourism and human capital.
4. Resolves that the Inclusive Government must institute measures to retain skilled manpower and stem or reverse the brain drain as a way of promoting the people as the country’s most precious resource.
5. In sensitivity to the difficulties that people, especially the majority rural and urban vulnerable, are facing in generating and accessing foreign currency, Congress calls on the Inclusive Government to institute measures to address the problems associated with the current multi-currency induced liquidity crunch through the enhancement of productivity, leading, as soon as key fundamentals in the economy permit, to the reintroduction of a sovereign national currency.
6. Urges the Inclusive Government to take full advantage of the emergence of new economic powerhouses (vis Brazil, Russia, India, China, etc) and the resurgence of South-South cooperation. Concurrently, the country should also edify and deepen its economic relations with the traditional cooperating partners so as to maximize national benefit.
C. On Land Reform, Resettlement and Agriculture
Congress notes that the Land Reform Programme represents the successful transfer of property rights over land from the white colonial settler community to the rightful indigenous owners of the nation’s God given resources.
Recognising the unrelenting machinations of its detractors to reverse the land reform programme through the current constitution drafting process, deliberate denial of resources to enhance agricultural productivity by ministers from the MDC Formations in the Inclusive Government and the deliberate encouragement and entrenchment of donor dependency/dependency syndrome amongst the people as opposed to their empowerment.
Congress, therefore:
1. Castigates the MDC Formations and their Western handlers for orchestrating efforts that are aimed at reversing the Land Reform Programme and undermining agricultural productivity amongst resettled farmers.
2. Instructs the Party to ensure that the new constitution and the current Post-Maputo Inter-Party Negotiations do not reverse the Land Reform Programme and instead ensure security of tenure which entrenches ownership and control of the indigenous population over the nation’s land and natural resources.
3. Resolves that the Party should resolutely champion and defend policies and programmes that enhance assured funding of agriculture, agricultural productivity and promote reform of institutions that serve agriculture such as the agricultural banks, marketing agencies, suppliers of inputs, agro-processors, insurers and research, training and extension facilities.
4. Calls on the Party to spearhead the re-introduction of production side agricultural subsidies with in-built mechanisms to determine their appropriate entry-point and cost recovery mechanisms.
5. Urges the Inclusive Government to conclude the Land Acquisition Exercise by expediting the remaining components of land allocation, distribution and security
of tenure.
6. Calls on the Inclusive Government to resuscitate and continue past programmes that promote increased agricultural mechanisation and irrigation development, on farm infrastructure and agro-processing.
7. Commits the Party to fine-tune and rationalise its socialdemocratic ideology to sponsor the launch of a deliberate developmental economic paradigm rooted in the following:
• Promotion of household food self-sufficiency;
• The generation of excess production in order to stimulate aggregate demand;
• Value addition through agro-processing at the household level;
• Stimulation of domestic savings as a vehicle for growing wealth at the household level;
• Entrenching the control of the indigenous people over the country’s natural resources through the consolidation of such policies and programmes as the Land Reform Programme and the 51:49% local-foreign ownership indigenisation benchmark legislation.
D. On the GPA and the Inclusive Government
Congress acknowledges that the Party entered into negotiations with the MDC Formations mandated by the SADC Extra-Ordinary Summit held in Dar–es-Salam on 29 March 2007, which culminated in the signing of the Global Political Agreement on 15 September 2008 and the inauguration of the Inclusive Government on 13 February 2009.
In this regard, Congress conveys the profound gratitude of the Party and people of Zimbabwe to former President Thabo Mbeki and his Facilitation Team for the patient, humble and skilful manner in which they handled the protracted Zimbabwe Inter-Party Dialogue from March 2007 until the Kinshasa SADC Summit in August 2009 and, therefore, takes note of the new Facilitation Team headed by President Jacob Zuma in the Post-Maputo rounds of the Dialogue.
Congress has noted that the Inclusive Government brings the Party into partnership with ideologically incompatible MDC Formations from which it must extricate itself in order to retain its mantle as the only dominant and ascendant political party that is truly representative and determined to safeguard the aspirations of the people of Zimbabwe.
Congress, therefore:
1. Castigates the continuance of the illegal declared and undeclared Western sanctions which remain a paramount and decisive outstanding issue in the Inter-Party dialogue on which the nation must speak with one voice and challenges the MDC Formations to undergo fundamental mind frame change (KUCHINJA PFUNGWA) in calling for their immediate and unconditional removal.
2. Expresses confidence that the new Facilitation Team will continue with the same diligence, patience and understanding that the Zimbabwe issue has delicate, sensitive and fundamental concerns on both sides that cannot be resolved overnight.
3. Instructs the President and First Secretary and the Party negotiators to ensure that all outstanding issues, once agreed, must be implemented concurrently. This means there should be no movement on the concerns of the MDC Formations without corresponding and simultaneous redress of Zanu PF’s concerns such as the illegal Western sanctions, Western Funded pirate radio broadcasts and Western interference in Zimbabwe’s internal politics through the funding of parallel government structures and the sponsoring of political activities of NGOs as a force multiplier for the MDC Formations.
4. Resolves that the President and First Secretary and the Zanu PF negotiators should not countenance any introduction or inclusion in the ongoing Inter-Party Dialogue of provisions or agreements, which seek to reverse or undermine the gains of the Liberation Struggle.
5. Signals its determination to reject any outcome of the Constitution-making process that is not home grown. An acceptable outcome would be a Constitution made by Zimbabweans for Zimbabwe, which entrenches the ethos and gains of the Liberation Struggle and is not the product of any external interference. No foreigners, individual, corporate or national in whatever capacity they may from time to time find themselves involved in aspects of Zimbabwe’s bilateral dispute with Britain, have the right to dictate or impose a Constitutional order on Zimbabwe.
6. Declares that the raising and maintenance of Security Forces tailored to specific threat perceptions is an inalienable right of every sovereign state. Zimbabwe’s
Security Forces are a product of the National Liberation Struggle, belong to the people and are mandated to defend the country’s territorial integrity, independence and sovereignty. Zanu PF, as the Party of revolution and the people’s vanguard, shall not allow the Security Forces of Zimbabwe to be the subject of any negotiation for a so called ‘security sector reform’ that is based on patent misrepresentations of Zimbabwe’s heroic history and for the mere purpose of weakening the state so that it can be easily overthrown.
7. Directs all Party members and organs to fully participate in the constitution making process in order to prevent it from being hijacked by those who wish to effect regime change or to undermine the gains of the Liberation Struggle.
E. On Media and ICT
Congress reaffirms the Party’s commitment to promote access to information, media freedom, freedom of expression and the enhancement of Zimbabwe’s ICT profile while recognising that this is one of the main areas that are being manipulated by the MDC Formations and their Western handlers in furtherance of their anti-Zimbabwe propaganda blitz.
Congress further notes that, the MDC Formations, through their negative and polarising disinformation campaign, are undermining national cohesion.
Congress, therefore:
1. Condemns, in the strongest terms, the continuing violation of Zimbabwe’s airwaves by the Voice of America Studio 7, Voice of the People, Short Wave Radio Africa and a myriad of Internet based platforms in blatant breach of the GPA.
2. Condemns, unequivocally, the ECONET Wireless Network, for launching an electronic warfare attack against Zanu PF during this Congress by broadcasting falsehoods and hate messages designed to cause alarm and despondency in violation of Zimbabwe’s laws and the letter and spirit of the GPA.
Congress, therefore, calls upon the Security Ministries and the mother ICT Ministry of the Inclusive Government to locate, arrest and take deterrent punitive
action against the perpetrators of this dastardly attack.
3. Directs the Party to institute measures and programmes to enhance its ICT and media capabilities in order to counteract this threat to national cohesion.
F. On International Relations
Congress acknowledges, with gratitude, the solidarity and support for the Party’s principles, ideology and cause that continue to come from friendly progressive countries and political organisations worldwide.
Congress further notes, with grave concern, the continued efforts by Britain and its allies to undermine the GPA and the Inclusive Government through the continuance of sanctions, coordination of politically motivated humanitarian support and investor resistance through the so-called ‘Fishmonger Group’ as well as the West’s unrelenting efforts to shrink Zimbabwe’s diplomatic space.
Congress, therefore:
1. Resolves to direct the Party to pursue prudent and innovative diplomacy which seeks to retain its existing friendships and cultivate new ones in all regions of the
world based on equitable partnerships, mutual respect and sovereign equality.
2. Instructs the Party to increase the tempo and content of its diplomatic leveraging, lobbying and engagement with political parties and countries of interest.
G. On Social Services
Congress recognises the poor state of social services in the country, in particular in the areas of education, health delivery, water and sanitation, energy and electricity and public transportation, caused by the decline in the economy as a result of the Western imposed sanctions and the deleterious effects of the regime change onslaught.
Congress attributes this poor delivery of social services to the undue encroachment of foreign funded NGOs into this traditional domain of Government.
Congress, therefore:
1. Directs the Inclusive Government, even as it may welcome the support and partnership of other wellmeaning non-governmental players, to reassert itself as
the primary provider of social services to the population as one of the key deliverables of Zimbabwe’s Millennium Development Goals.
2. Instructs the Party and the inclusive Government to set benchmarks for all local authorities, when setting their budgets, to remain sensitive to the needs and the limited savings of the people under the current adverse economic environment.
Labels: LAND REFORM, MUGABE, SANCTIONS, ZANU-PF, ZANU-PF NATIONAL PEOPLES CONGRESS, ZDERA
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Zanu PF Congress blasts MDC's insincerity
TSM/TZG
Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:07:00 +0000
THE 5th Zanu PF National Congress has resolved that
the party should no longer give in to any of the MDC formations' demands until they reciprocate by calling for an end to illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe and until the MDC has succeeded in stopping the broadcasting of hate messages by pirate radio stations run by Zimbabweans abroad.
Delegates say the President and First Secretary of the party, Robert Mugabe, should ensure that negotiators quickly settle all outstanding issues under the Global Political Agreement signed by the country’s three major political parties which form the inclusive Government.
Reading the party’s resolutions at the end of the congress late last night, Zanu-PF’s Secretary for Administration, Cde Didymus Mutasa, said there should be no more compromise on the part of Zanu PF as the MDC formations had failed to remove sanctions against the country.
“There should be no movement on the concerns of the MDC formations without corresponding and simultaneous redress of Zanu PF’s concerns such as the illegal western sanctions and western funded pirate radio broadcasts,” said Mutasa.
The party also decried attempts by foreigners to get involved in the constitution making process and subsequently resolved to maintain a homegrown constitution making process that preserved the gains of the liberation struggle.
Zanu PF also condemned attempts by the Minister of Finance Mr Tendai Biti to prevent the release of US$510 million from the International Monetary Fund.
“Congress condemns in the strongest terms, the reckless actions of the Minister Biti’s in particular his abuse of constitutional authority to prevent the release of the US$510 million IMF Global financial crisis mitigation facility and his systematic denial of seasonal support to the agricultural sector and his peanut budget for the year 2010.”
The congress also called for the Government to conclude the land acquisition exercise by expediting the remaining components of land allocation, distribution and security tenure.
The poor state of social services in the country, particularly in the education, health delivery and water reticulation sectors a result of western imposed sanctions, were viewed as the major cause of economic decline.
Congress delegates said while they welcomed the support and partnership of other well-meaning non-governmental players, the inclusive Government was supposed to be the primary provider of social services to the nation.
They said the inclusive Government should set benchmarks for all local authorities, when setting their budgets, to remain sensitive to the needs and the limited savings of the people under the current adverse economic environment.
Labels: MDC, ZANU-PF, ZANU-PF NATIONAL PEOPLES CONGRESS
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Don't tamper with Defence Forces, says Mugabe
TSM/TZG
Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:01:00 +0000
President Robert Mugabe gestures as he addresses party supporters at the official opening of the Zanu PF's 5th National People's Congress at the Harare International Conference Centre December 11, 2009. President Mugabe condemned internal fighting over leadership posts, saying this was tearing apart the Zanu PF party and emboldening its opponents. REUTERS
THE inclusive Government should never tamper with the Defence Forces as they are the only group that can protect and guarantee Zimbabwe's sovereignty, said President Mugabe.
Speaking at the closing of the Fifth Zanu PF National People's Congress in Harare on Saturday, President Mugabe, who is also the Commander in Chief of the Defence Forces, said the Zanla and Zipra Forces made up Zimbabwe's army and were the most dependable to protect Zimbabwe's sovereignty.
“Zipra and Zanla forces constituted the basis of our national army and air force,” he said.
“That is the most dependable force and it shall not be tampered with.
"The enemy wants to see it disintegrated, but any tactics to tamper with it will never be tolerated.”
The president said party supporters should brace for tough work ahead to ensure the progress made by Zanu PF was not reversed.
He also said there was a need to avoid complacency, to stop imposing candidates and desist from factionalism.
Regarding the elections President Mugabe said they are not far away, as the inclusive Government, which is supposed to be the benchmark for the plebiscite, has served over half of its life.
The elections are expected at the expiry of the inclusive Government, which was given about 24 months starting from February this year by the negotiators of the agreement which led to its formation.
“Elections are not very far off. The inclusive Government was given a short life — 18 months, 24 months — and then it goes. The remaining part is very short. Perhaps it has outlived its life.”
President Mugabe said Zanu PF must remain focused even if it was in the inclusive Government, as there were some characters who wanted to reverse its objectives.
“We are the authors of the present turnaround through the pre-inclusive budget which ushered in multiple currency,” said President Mugabe.
“We thought about the multiple currency before the inclusive Government and when it came it merely took up the ideas.”
The President said Zanu PF members should not be too ambitious in a bid to make themselves gurus of the party.
“We are going to drive the engine now at top gear,” said President. “You should be ready for it. It is now uphill. You must go uphill, uphill.”
President Mugabe said Zanu PF must not be divided along ethnic lines as this made it easy for the enemy to penetrate.
He said there were some in the inclusive Government who wanted to sabotage land reform by failing to provide funds for inputs.
“The inputs are nowhere,” he said.
“Yesterday we were told that there will be money, but it is not there.”
President Mugabe announced to the delegates that the party had received US$10 million from donors, which would be used to purchase inputs to be distributed in various parts of the country.
He said the congress had been a success despite predictions by the party’s enemies that it would be a failure.
“We have dealt with all matters on the agenda, tackling even those areas where angels would have feared to tread,” said President Mugabe.
“We go back a stronger, better focused party, ready and raring to take on the enemy who sought our ruin.”
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