The Sunday Mail
Our senior reporter Lincoln Towindo last week interviewed the Zanu-PF Women’s Affairs chairperson Cde Mabel Chinomona at the ruling party’s 2018 Election Manifesto launch. We publish Cde Chinomona’s responses in her on words.
I am happy because the President mentioned that there is going to be gender parity.
He is going to uplift women’s standards of living. The manifesto is very biased towards dealing with issues of women empowerment.
We are looking forward to have more women in Parliament and local authorities as well as other leadership positions.
This will help us in solving issues of women disempowerment.
While at the moment we are not in a position to ascertain the exact number of women who will represent the party in the forthcoming general elections, I am not that much satisfied because I have seen so many women having to compete in the just ended primary with men, who have so many resources, and (the women) ended up losing.
So, many of our women could not make it in the primary elections, though we are not yet certain of the number of women who have made it at the moment.
For our campaign strategy as the Women’s League, we will sit down with the leadership from the wards going up and take what the President has said and what is in the manifesto and spread that message to the people.
We will strive to convince all women to vote for the party, which is the only party that recognises the needs and rights of women.
We will hold mass rallies as part of our strategy as well as engaging with the grassroots at cell and ward level.
The door to door strategy may not be that easy to implement but going into the wards and villages can also be termed as door to door campaigning.
We may not need to knock on the doors of each and every individual because that might be seen as invading other people’s privacy, but we are going to have rallies and small meetings.
The women are the ones who encourage their children, spouses and close family members to vote for a particular party or a candidate, so our role in these elections cannot be overemphasised.
The woman is the one who looks after the whole family, so we will make sure that it is the women who do the grassroots campaigns through talking to their children, their husbands and the immediate family to vote for Zanu-PF.
This coming election it will be the women who will win it for Zanu-PF.
