A SPECIAL PF Zapu congress to formalise its breakaway from Zanu PF will take place in Bulawayo tomorrow.
The congress will be held at Macdonald Hall in the populous suburb of Mzilikazi with delegates expected from the country’s 10 provinces.
PF Zapu national spokesperson Smile Dube yesterday said: “Everything is in place and come Saturday (tomorrow) the special congress will kick-off. We have delegates from all the country’s 10 provinces and some of them have started arriving in the city.”
Dube said the congress was expected to endorse PF Zapu’s withdrawal from the Unity Accord it signed with Zanu PF in December 1987.
“We have called for a special congress to endorse our official pullout from Zanu PF and there are no elections to be held during this special congress,” Dube said.
The revival of PF Zapu has caused rifts in Zanu PF in Bulawayo. Some senior Zanu PF members in the province have since left the party for PF Zapu.
Former cabinet minister and Zanu PF politburo member Dumiso Dabengwa is the interim leader of PF Zapu and is set to take over on a substantive basis once elections are held later this year.
Dube said delegates to the congress would set a date for elections of substantive leaders of the party.
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Former PF Zapu stalwarts led by Dabengwa last December pulled out of the Unity Accord alleging that Zanu PF had failed to honour its part of the bargain 22 years after the deal was consummated.
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