ZANU-PF has intensified its campaign on Churches
ZANU-PF has intensified its campaign on members of the Apostolic sect this time deploying officials from the Registrar General who are giving birth and national registration certificates at the church gatherings.
One such meeting where birth certificates were issued to the church members was at Gokwe Centre last week where President Mugabe’s Nephew Phillip Chiyangwa addressed and introduced officials from the registrar general’s office to issue the documents.
The move by ZANU-Pf is aimed at forcing the Apostolic sect members to vote for it in the next election.President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of MDC are calling for elections next year, despite the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s (ZEC)unpreparedness to conduct a free and fair poll any time soon because of resource constraints.
Chiyangwa who visited the church congregation last week introduced Birth and Registration officials to the church and
challenged all adults who had no Identity cards to get them throughout the week.
ZANU-PF has targeted Johane Marange Apostolic church because of its huge following. Since the beginning of the year when the party started talking about elections its senior officials have been visible at the church’s gatherings where they are telling them to vote for ZANU-PF come election time.
Sources said Chiyangwa also launched an ‘income generating’ loan project in which he gave every member of the church an interest free US$300 which will be returned in installments.(ZimEye, Zimbabwe)
Posted by Sakhile Malaba
on September 2, 2010. Filed under Politics.
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