All eyes on ZANU-PF Conference
…..as ED set the tone for industry, economic revival
ANESU MASAMVU
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a slew of industry, economic instructions at a time all eyes are on the ZANU-PF’s Annual People’s Conference in Bulawayo.
The latest message from President Emmerson Mnangagwa was conveyed at the ZANU-PF’S Politburo meeting this week, setting the tone and direction that the governing party should take in its attempts to revive industry and the fragile economy.
The conference runs until Sunday.
President Mnangagwa, who also serves as the ZANU-PF First Secretary, is expected to preside over the conference’s official opening tomorrow.
“As we set our focus on the conference, it is critically important that the party locates the overarching need to support, revitalise, and recalibrate our manufacturing sector as an agent and central task for the development of our motherland,” President Mnangagwa said.
He added: “The necessity to steer the party towards debating and considering a broad array of interventions to propel industrial growth anchored on local value addition and beneficiation of resource endowments cannot be overemphasised.”
With the vast mineral resource base, President Mnangagwa said the country cannot continue to miss out on utilising the resource to grow the economy.
“This is more so given the abundant reserves of key minerals that support the development of electrical vehicles and other new energy solutions. This is an indispensable guarantee, ensuring that our efforts to modernise, industrialise, and grow our economy to success are a burden on our own shoulders,” President Mnangagwa said.
On resolutions at the conference in Bulawayo, the President said solutions should speak to the future.
“It is important to note that this year’s conference beckons us to rally our energies and capabilities and abilities with regard to crafting responsive and futuristic resolutions. This will go a long way in fostering broad and collective responsibilities to realise a modern and industrialised Zimbabwe that benefits all our people,” he said.
Moving onto the agricultural land, the President said the latest policy pronouncements in the sector are key in ensuring that land is fully utilised to the benefit of the economy.
“Our land reform program is irreversible and is protected. Section 292 of the Constitution, complimented by sections 289, 293, and 294, obligates the state to give security of tenure to all seasons, including war veterans, their children, and other dependents.
“The ZANU-PF government is implementing a land tenure policy to ensure that our agricultural land is bankable, registrable, and transferable among indigenous Zimbabweans only. This will ensure certainty and enable farmers to conduct their farming activities as a business,” President Mnangagwa said.
