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DCCs undergo ideology training

07 May, 2021 - 00:05 0 Views
DCCs undergo ideology training Cde Machacha

The ManicaPost

Samuel Kadungure-Senior Reporter

ZANU PF district coordinating committees (DCCs) from Manicaland’s four political districts have undergone party ideology training to hone their critical thinking skills and interpretation of the socio-political and economic spectrum in their quest to give strategic direction to the grassroots.

The batch drawn from Makoni, Buhera, Mutasa and Zimunya-Marange underwent a three-day training which was also attended by heads of Government departments at Folkington Farm in Nyazura.

The DCCs were reintroduced last year following their disbandment in 2012 and are the conduits through which the ruling party seeks to mobilise 800 000 voters in the province as part of its contribution to the party’s national drive to garner five million votes and win the 2023 elections resoundingly. 

Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology principal, Cde Munyaradzi Machacha, said the courses are meant to foster national unity and ensure that the party is more effective in supervising the Government. 

He said the DCCs should coordinate and ameliorate developmental activities in districts under their purview, and serve as a mechanism to consolidate party structures at grassroots level.

“This training is meant to conscientise cadres about Zanu-PF ideology and bring back our political culture which will also encourage cohesion in the party,” he said, emphasising the need to take the party’s ideology to the lowest ranks within the party to foster discipline and correct orientation.

Makoni DCC chairman, Cde Albert Nyakuedzwa, said political ideology serves as a compass that gives direction and quality leadership skills to party cadres.

He said they will use skills acquired from the training to persuade citizens and voters to adopt and support Zanu PF policies. 

“Those with little interest in politics need to be mobilised with attractive proposals for policy action, and these proposals need to be derived from ideological constructions of the party that explain how the society has come to be and how it might be changed for the better. As we prepare for the 2023 elections, we have been taught to use persuasive politics, not transmission of fear to win voters,” said Cde Nyakuedzwa.

Another trainee, Mr Shepard Nyika, said political ideology helps sharpen critical thinking skills since no stable human association can exist and excel without an ideology. 

“Parties without defined and stable ideologies can be injurious and deceptive to representative democracy. The training helped the new DCCs to understand and appreciate Zanu PF values and such exposure need to be taken to the grassroots so that our people avoid supporting something they disagree with. 

“It is part of the capacity building and reinvigoration of the DCCs to enable them to entice virgin voters, especially out-of-school youths. 

“The party leadership was also challenged to give the grassroots strategic guidance and tangible empowerment programmes. This should assist and mould party cadres into disciplined people,” said Cde Nyika.

Cde Edmore Madhume said ideological analysis is relevant to understanding socio-political and economic events in the country.

He said ideas and ideology help to understand party behaviour and development. 

“This goes a long way in helping cadres to convince the general public, and specifically the youths, as we mobilise towards the 800 000 voters in Manicaland,” said Cde Madhume. 

The training involved basic orientation, cadre development, heritage studies, party ideology, party structures and leadership, international relations, national and party history, media communications, business and economics, defence and security, party and Government policy as well as current affairs.

The Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology was established after the revolutionary party recognised the need to impart foundational philosophies regarding the country’s history.

The school was established in honour of the late nationalist and Zanu chairman, Cde Herbert Chitepo, who was killed by a car bomb on March 18, 1975, in Lusaka, Zambia.

As a lawyer and distinguished politician, Cde Chitepo is hailed for his ideology upon which the ruling party laid its foundation.

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