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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>THE ruling Zanu PF party\u2019s push for professionals and government employees to undergo re-orientation at the Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology is meant to create a one-party State, experts said this week.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s national political commissar Munyaradzi Machacha, who is also the head of Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology, on Wednesday told council mayors and chairpersons that the institution is no longer a Zanu PF project, but a national programme and re-orientation workshops will be extended to lecturers at Zimbabwe\u2019s institution of higher education.<\/p>\n

A Zanu PF central committee report in 2022 disclosed that some police officers attended the ruling party\u2019s Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology to \u201cre-orient\u201d them ahead of the August 2023 harmonised elections.<\/p>\n

Citizens Coalition for Change spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi yesterday said there had to be a distinction between Zanu PF party ideology and national programmes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a national programme, but a political partyabusing State institutions to indoctrinate and impose its ideology on the people. It will fail dismally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is unlawful and criminal to impose an ideology of one political party over national institutions. Citizens are advised to resist the imposition of a party ideology over national institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have no problem with Zanu PF educating their members on their ideology, but we have a problem when they frog-march our deployees on the threat of recalling them if they do not attend. In effect, the programme is duress.\u201d<\/p>\n

Political analysts also expressed concern over the Zanu PF project, arguing that party projects should not be forced on citizens.<\/p>\n

Analyst Rashweat Mukundu yesterday said the whole programme was meant to consolidate power.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a total disregard of constitutional provisions that seeks to separate the party from the State and depoliticise the civil service,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we are seeing from Zanu PF is a return to the 1980s project, which is a project of a one-party State.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll actions point to a one-party State. The starting point being the decimation of the opposition, the capture of the Judiciary and Parliament which answer to Zanu PF and now it\u2019s a capture of the whole civil service.\u201d<\/p>\n

He accused Zanu PF of perpetuating the one-party State project that was begun by the late former President Robert Mugabe in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

\u201cZanu PF never abandoned it. What we are seeing with this indoctrination is an attempt to fulfil the dominance of one political party against the wishes of Zimbabweans as stated in the Constitution,\u201d Mukundu said.<\/p>\n

Another political analyst Ruben Mbofana said the ruling party\u2019s project was not only unconstitutional, but also illegal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen someone is elected to be an office bearer, a public servant, you are supposed to be apolitical. You are now supposed to serve the nation rather than your party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is wrong to force someone elected on an opposition ticket to attend an ideological school and indoctrination school of another political party.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chitepo School of Ideology is a political institution named after Herbert Chitepo, a prominent Zimbabwean nationalist and former chairperson of the Zimbabwe African National Union.<\/p>\n

The school\u2019s curriculum focuses on topics such as patriotism, national security and the history of Zimbabwe\u2019s liberation struggle.<\/p>\n

Its primary objective is to inculcate a strong sense of national identity and loyalty among participants, mostly aligned to the ruling party\u2019s ideology.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe\u2019s top civil servants in 2022 were forced to undergo indoctrination lessons under the same programme.<\/p>\n

The Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology was mooted immediately after the country gained independence from British colonial rule in 1980.<\/p>\n

A push to operationalise the college gathered momentum in 2016 to allegedly instil a sense of patriotism and understanding of Zanu PF\u2019s ideology in civil servants and others, who did not participate in the liberation struggle.<\/p>\n

In 2016, a resolution was passed by Zanu PF that no candidate will represent the party in national elections without having passed through Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology.<\/p>\n

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