OPPOSITION ZAPU has resolved to dissolve its Bulawayo provincial executive following a door-to-door recruitment exercise in the city aimed at rejuvenating the party.
BY NQOBANI NDLOVU
Zapu regional director for information and publicity Iphuthile Maphosa told Southern Eye that elections to choose a new executive will be held on October 31.
Maphosa said the party resolved to dissolve the provincial executive to ensure it becomes representative of the composition of the new district structures.
“We felt it would be fair to dissolve the provincial executive and have new elections to select a new team that will be representative of the composition of the district structures. We will also be dissolving provincial executive structures across the country after conducting the recruitment exercise there. The recruitment exercise began in Bulawayo and we are almost complete and we are certain that come next month, we will be having a new executive to take the party forward,” Maphosa said in an interview.
Maphosa said Zapu will next month take its recruitment drive to either South Africa or Matabeleland North.
The recruitment drive is code named Masikhulumisane/Ngatitaudzane/Let’s talk.
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Recently, two party officials were hospitalized after they were involved in an accident coming from a recruitment exercise in Matobo North, Matabeleland South province.
The Dumiso Dabengwa-led launched the campaign in September in a bid to save the party from collapse. Zapu has fared badly in previous elections, the recent being the by-elections following the recall of the then MDC Renewal legislators from Parliament after they broke away from the MDC-T.
Zapu was expected to at least grab some seats, especially in Bulawayo where it commands support and party insiders said this jolted the party to consider injections inject new blood into the organisation.
