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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe said on Sunday his ruling Zanu-PF party should go on an all-out campaign to mobilize the electorate to defend the country's independence and sovereignty in the presidential run-off election next month.
Addressing delegates at the official launch of the party's presidential election run-off campaign at the party headquarters, Mugabe said there was need for the leadership in both urban and rural areas to go back and organize the electorate to give them renewed vigor and determination to win the election, the state media New Ziana reported.
"What we want is to energize ourselves and have determination to win," he said. "It is now a struggle. A big one so we want the people to be given the understanding. To be organized," he said.
Mugabe urged party leadership at all levels to bury differences and unite to mobilize the electorate to ensure a victory in the run-off.
He said unity was important to ensure the common enemy, bent on reversing the gains of the liberation struggle, was defeated first. Internal differences could be sorted out later.
It was also important for members to follow defined party procedures to resolve differences instead of taking these outside, Mugabe said.
Turning to economic challenges facing the country, Mugabe urged the party leadership to ensure the people to understand their origins. He also urged the party leadership to explain to the electorate measures that the government was implementing to economically empower previous marginalized people.
Mugabe revealed that the government would soon be extending the indigenization and empowerment to the mining and manufacturing sectors.
The Zimbabwean government recently enacted a law that requires all multinational companies to cede majority shareholding to indigenize people.
