Three candidates are running for the top position in the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) electoral congress: Cde Victor Matemadanda, Cde Christopher Mutsvangwa, and Cde Joel Mureremba.
The date of the congress is July 12.
At the association’s most recent conference, which took place in Masvingo in 2013, Cde Mutsvangwa and his executive were chosen to serve as its leaders.
The association’s outgoing chair is Cde Mutsvangwa, the Zanu PF Secretary for Information and Publicity, while Cde Matemadanda was the organization’s former secretary general.
Currently serving as Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Mozambique, Cde Matemadanda was previously the country’s deputy minister of veterans’ affairs and defence.
The association’s departing political commissar, Cde Mureremba, declared that if elected, he would advocate for giving combat veterans complete access to land and resources.
As a means of empowering them, we will make sure that veterans of war have access to land. Through educational initiatives, skill development programmes, and targeted economic initiatives, we will empower veterans and marginalised groups, extending our reach to all members in the spirit of “leaving no one behind,” according to Cde Mureremba.
He claimed that the nation has abundant resources provided by God to ensure that every combat veteran would have a respectable quality of life.
According to Cde Mureremba, “We will work to ensure that war veterans have a shareholding in mining companies in their areas.”
Cde Matemadanda promised to remember the dead comrades’ sacrifices and make sure their role in securing the nation’s liberation was never overlooked.
“I pledge to preserve and document our struggle’s history, as well as to memorialise our cadres’ specific and general contributions by having monuments built in their honour,” Cde Matemadanda declared.
Additionally, he promised to ensure that all memorials and sites of solitary rest for dead soldiers, whether inside and outside the nation’s boundaries, are properly identified, maintained, and recognised.
He also pledged to strengthen pan-Africanism and Zimbabwean sovereignty.
Re-electionist Cde Mutsvangwa stated he was awaiting a secondment from the party leadership before running for office.
“I want to keep carrying out a few of the decisions made at the elective congress in 2013.” It was the party that used me to run for chairman in the last election.
“As veterans of war, I wish to finish some of the initiatives that we started. The decisions made during our congress in Masvingo produced some of the initiatives that are currently being implemented around the nation, he stated.
According to Cde Mutsvangwa, war veterans decided during the 2013 congress to formalise small-scale gold miners’ operations in order to boost the nation’s gold output.
In order to control inflation, we also demanded the adoption of our own currency backed by gold. We also decided that in order to strengthen the nation’s economy, steel production was a necessary endeavour. This is the situation that exists throughout the nation.
In addition, Cde Mutsvangwa pledged to guarantee that veterans of war could access land, participate in gold mining, and own shares in other projects.
Last Monday, Cde Douglas Mahiya, the Zanu PF Secretary for War Veterans, Ex-Political Prisoners, Detainees, and Restrictees, revealed the congress date.
Five representatives from each administrative district and recently elected provincial executives will make up the electoral college of the congress.
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