By Lloyd Mbiba
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF has said it is too early to judge its performance in government.
Rugare Gumbo told the Daily News yesterday that it was unfair to allege that Zanu PF has failed to run the economy.
Exactly a year after the 2013 harmonised elections which were controversially won by Zanu PF, critics say Zimbabweans are worse off than they were before the elections.
Analysts say the much-touted economic blue-print, Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (ZimAsset), has failed to deliver.
But Gumbo insisted his party would fulfil all the promises that it made.
“That is nonsense! We haven’t failed, “ he said. “We said 2,2 million jobs by 2017 and seriously can you expect us to create the 2 million jobs in a year?
“We are working hard and doing all our best to revive the economy. Our harvest was better and it’s an improvement. All you want to do is note the negatives only.”
Asked how many jobs his party had created so far, Gumbo said: “We don’t have to do any mathematics. We said 2,2 million jobs by 2017. Let’s wait for 2017 and then we can talk.”
Meanwhile, Zanu PF’s central committee will meet tomorrow to deliberate on the forthcoming youth and women congresses.
“The central committee will meet on Wednesday to discuss about the youth and women conferences. Other than that, I don’t think there will be another agenda,” he said.
Gumbo said names of candidates would only be available after the meeting.
The youth league conferences will be held at the Harare International Conference Centre from August 7 to 10, while the women’s league conference will be held at the same venue from August 12 to 15.
