Staff Reporter

The ruling ZANU PF party is gearing up for the 2023 Harmonised General Elections and is rejuvenating Party structures to achieve the targeted five million votes.

In a statement yesterday, the Party’s National Political Commissar, Cde Mike Bimha said the Party had introduced a National Cell Day to afford the ruling Party a chance to take stock of its structures.

“The Party has introduced a new program called the National Cell Day in the calendar of its activities. The program puts emphasis on the importance of the Cell or Village structure as the basic grassroots organisational and mobilisation unit of the Party. On the day, all Party members including the Presidium would attend meetings at their respective Cells,” said Cde Bimha.

Cde Bimha said that this year’s National Cell Day would be celebrated on 11 June 2022 and President Mnangagwa would set the tone by attending a Cell meeting in Kwekwe.

The National Political Commissar further directed that all Party activities should be put on hold on that day to afford the members a chance to attend the meetings. He added that these meetings would be chaired by Cell or Village chairpersons.

According to Cde Bimha, the agenda of the Cell meetings would be to conduct a verification and inspection of Cell registers, confirmation of Party members who had registered to vote and to explain the role of the Cell structure as a key organ of the ruling party, among many other issues.

Cde Bimha further directed Cell Political Commissars to capture and compile a data base of members in their respective Cells and send it to District Coordinating Committee coordinators (DCC) for onward transmission to the Provincial and Party headquarters for a compilation of a national membership data base.

Cell verification exercise is in line with the ruling Party’s mantra of ‘Musangano wakasimba kuma Cell’ where each Party member is expected to be a member of a Cell as it is the backbone of the Party.