Online Reporter
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on ZANU PF’s top leadership to prioritise uplifting more Zimbabweans into a higher quality of life, urging the party’s Politburo to sharpen its strategic focus as the country advances towards Vision 2030.
Addressing the Strategic Seminar for Politburo Members at the Museum of African Liberation in Harare this Wednesday, President Mnangagwa said the party’s long-term vision must centre on transforming livelihoods and securing prosperity for future generations.
“The Party’s long-term vision should focus on uplifting more of our people into a higher quality of life,” he said. “Sustainability, accelerated rural industrialisation and modernisation, technological innovation, human capital development and environmental stewardship are essential areas that deserve our attention.”
President Mnangagwa said the seminar should serve as “a fundamental intervention to sharpen our capacity in the discharge of our duties”, adding that leaders must envision “the ZANU PF we want for both the present and future”.
He urged members to emerge from the workshop “re-invigorated to exercising collective leadership, which is anchored on integrity, honesty and humility as well as patriotism and unflinching loyalty to our revolutionary mass Party”.
The President said ZANU PF’s ideology, ‘Gwara reMusangano’, remained the bedrock of the party’s identity and direction. “At the centre of our revolution is our Party ideology… Ours is a mass Party, anchored on nationalism, people-centred development, Pan-Africanism, sovereignty, anti-imperialism, and social justice,” he said.
He warned against indiscipline and factionalism, stressing that ideological clarity was “not optional, but the lifeblood of our colossal movement”.
“It is imperative that the Party’s Politburo remains vigilant against retrogressive political vices which seek to weaken discipline and reverse the gains of our revolution,” President Mnangagwa said. “We must abide by the ‘correct line of the Party’ and never personal beliefs or preferences.”
He reminded the Politburo of its constitutional mandate under Article 9 of the party Constitution and Section 70, which designates it as the executive committee of the Central Committee.
“This demands a leadership that is loyal, patriotic, honest, resilient and disciplined,” he said. “We must demonstrate ethical conduct, a results culture and shared responsibility. The Party has a duty to leap-forward every facet of the lives of our people.”
He challenged members to assess their own performance and impact. “Ngatizvibvunzei kuti tiri kuiteyi kushandira musangano wedu nezvigaro zvatiinazvo,” he said, urging leaders to evaluate targets set within their departments and their effectiveness in mentoring lower party structures.
President Mnangagwa also called for sustained membership mobilisation. “We should continue to be an ever learning organisation, deploying our leadership capabilities to mobilise more people into the Party,” he said. “Ensuring that robust mechanisms are in place to sustain and consolidate the ongoing membership growth is equally a key priority area. Musangano wedu we ZANU PF ndewe munhu wose. Tose tinokwana.”
On governance, the President stressed the need for constitutional literacy and policy alignment between party and Government, saying the supremacy of the party must find expression through synergy with ministries, departments and agencies.
He underscored the importance of combating corruption. “The role of every Party leader… in combating corruption cannot be over emphasised,” he said. “ZANU PF should boldly promote the consistent implementation of resolutions on anti-corruption, strengthen accountability and transparency mechanisms, while enforcing clean governance without fear or favour.”
Turning to foreign policy, he reiterated Zimbabwe’s diplomatic stance. “Zimbabwe is a friend to all and enemy of none,” he said, urging senior party leaders to ensure their conduct and pronouncements safeguard the country’s image and national interests.
President Mnangagwa said the quest to realise Vision 2030 must not limit the party’s ambition. “As a revolutionary Party, we must plan beyond electoral cycles; we must plan for posterity; ZANU PF remains a Party for the future,” he said.
Declaring the seminar officially open, the President called for “robust and frank deliberations” grounded in unity and discipline.
“The future of our Party, the stability of our beloved motherland, Zimbabwe and prosperity of generations to come, depends on the quality of leadership and guidance we provide,” he said. “Forward ever, backward never. The development and prosperity of our nation is certain. Aluta continua.”
