Transcript
President Robert Gabriel Mugabe's speech to the Central Committee at the
ongoing 15th National People's Conference yesterday.
*President Robert Mugabe
Cde Vice President and Second Secretary Emmerson Mnangagwa,
Cde Vice President and Second Secretary Phelekezela
Mphoko,
The Secretary for Administration Cde Ignatius Chombo,
All Politburo members, and members of the Central
Committee here present.
Ladies and
gentlemen, Comrades and friends
May I welcome you
all to the 15th National People's Conference's Central Committee meeting, which
we are holding after our Politburo on Monday.
Comrades, as we
meet today, all our departments have been hard at work mobilising people and
other resources towards this year's annual people's conference.
We thank the
party leadership in Matabeleland North for taking the lead and all the other
provincial leaderships for co-operating closely with the host province. We all
realise that the responsibility for ensuring an effective conference falls on
all of us especially those of us in leadership at various levels of the party.
Matabeleland North deserves all our support especially given the background on
drought which has affected most of the country.
Cdes, we meet
today as the Central Committee to review the party's performance in the year
about to end, the year 2015. We are happy to note that there is ample evidence
that the party is getting stronger and stronger by the day. What with the
resounding victories that we have been scoring in all the recent by-elections.
I want to say congratulations.
Those
by-elections have been key to testing the strength of the party from the point
of view of its membership, the efficacy of its organs, rules and mobilisation
strategies and we can say for now, anyway, and I hope for the future also, for
now we rule the roost and I hope we do so in the future.
We have gained
foothold, nay embedded ourselves, in those areas hitherto perceived as the
domain of the opposition. However, we should never allow complacency to set in.
We must remain on our toes, remain on the road with meetings taking place in
different parts of the country every week.
While credit for
the good image and standing of the party is shared by all of us, allow me to
single out the Women's League and the Commissariat for working tirelessly in
mobilising and keeping the party alive. That is as it should be and should be
all the time.
