Zanu PF provincial youth executive members have been threatened with expulsion if they fail to each raise $30 000 for President Robert Mugabe’s 92nd birthday bash set for drought-stricken Masvingo next week.
This came as it emerged that Zanu PF youths in Manicaland had so far managed to raise $3 000 just a few days before the event.
Zanu PF national youth league political commissar Innocent Hamandishe told a Manicaland youth executive meeting in Mutare on Tuesday that it was unacceptable for any province to fail to raise funds for Mugabe’s bash while also issuing a stern warning against any attempts to disturb the event.
Acting Zanu PF Manicaland youth chairman Mubuso Chinguno assured the national executive that the province would raise the required amount through a dinner dance to be held at a hotel tomorrow.
But some of the youths accused the provincial executive led by Samuel Undenge of sabotaging their fundraising initiatives by not forcing companies to make donations towards the event.
Meanwhile, Zanu PF national deputy secretary for youth Kudzi Chipanga during the Mutare meeting backtracked on the issue of making February 21, Robert Mugabe Day, saying it should be instead Youth Day.
- NewsDay
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