His Excellency, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, has challenged the Central Committee members to be vigilant custodians of the revolutionary heritage.
Speaking during the 130th Ordinary Session of the Central Committee, President Mnangagwa noted that discipline should continue to guide the Party.
"I am pleased and honoured to welcome you to this One Hundred and Thirtieth Ordinary Session of the Central Committee, which is the first Constitutional meeting of the Central Committee in 2026. It affords us yet another opportunity to review and recalibrate our plans for the year ahead. It is most opportune that we convene after the successful High-Level Strategic Workshop held in Gweru. The importance of our Party ideology, policies and programmes as well as discipline, conduct and decorum, which were amplified during that Seminar, should continue to guide the work of the Central Committee and Party leadership, going into the future,” President Mnangagwa said.
“The responsibility to implement the decisions of the 22nd National People’s Conference, along with the National Development Strategy-2 remains the key pre-occupation of the Party. This Session should, thus, see us aligning our programmes and priorities with the evolving aspirations of our people. At the same time, we should also respond decisively to the demands and opportunities presented by a rapidly changing national and global socio-economic environment.
“I urge us to keep our membership well mobilised and informed towards increasing production and productivity at community level upwards, in all sectors. We all bear the duty and responsibility to improve our quality of life, household by household and community by community.
“ZANU PF should lead from the front and ensure that our people keep being focused, vigilant and resilient. The determination, hard work and willpower that saw us achieve our targets under NDS1 should be scaled up as we implement NDS2. To do so, it is critically important that we remain united, unwavering in our focus, bold and decisive towards comprehensive progress in every aspect of our economy. I, further, call on the Party to raise our national consciousness and patriotism, particularly against the wider shocks of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.”
“Let us ensure that our people remain motivated to implementing the ongoing national development agenda. I am deeply encouraged by the sound support prevailing in the Party and the leadership’s ideological clarity that continues to define our great Party. Our collective decisions, which are strengthening governance, unity and peace within both the Party and nation should never be compromised. Together, let us advance our national interests. Zimbabwe inyika yedu. Tisu vene vayo. Nyika inovakwa, inotongwa, inonamatigwa nevene vayo/ ilizwe lakhiwa, libuswe, likhu-le-ke-lwe ngabanikazi balo.”
President Mnangagwa added that the ruling Party must find means to verify its membership.
“ZANU PF remains a dynamic, forward-looking, adapting, and innovating Party, firmly rooted in the quest to realise the aspirations of our people. Similarly, the ongoing meetings of Party structures, including those addressed by the Secretary General, are applauded. Such initiatives must refine ideological clarity and improve organisational unity. In doing so, I challenge us to always ensure efficient Party administrative systems, promote sustainable resource mobilisation and establish robust membership verification systems, as led by the provincial leadership. Across the rank and file, all Party cadres have a duty to demonstrate strict discipline and to remain aligned to the correct line of the revolution. More is demanded of us, the leaders of the Party. We are vigilant custodians of the revolutionary heritage; hence, I urge us to guard against complacency, division and ideological drift,” President Mnangagwa said.
“We are a Party of order and rules, which must be adhered to, at all times. Hakuna mazvake mazvake mumusangano. Tinotevera gwara reMusangano. Mweya wa-rigioni mugwara ngautame, ngaupere, ngaupere-tu. The Party has no room for malcontents and traitors who are bent on advancing self-seeking behaviours.
“The journey ahead demands unity, discipline and unwavering commitment. As the Central Committee, we remain the vital cog of our Party, ZANU PF. At this critical stage of our socio-political and economic era, let us continue to provide pivotal leadership, and guidance. Our individual and collective patriotism, loyalty to the Party ideals and clarity of vision, must be unquestionable. Let us preach unity, peace, hope and development, among our membership and across the communities we serve. These values are central and enduring to our revolutionary mass Party, ZANU PF.”