ZANU PF Grassroots Back Mnangagwa Term Extension Ahead of Party Conference

14 October 2025

Nokusa Masuku

As the ruling ZANU PF party prepares for its upcoming annual conference, senior party officials have reiterated that the push for President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term extension is being driven by grassroots voices, not the leadership alone.

Speaking to media ahead of the conference, ZANU PF Director of Information and Publicity, Cde Farai Marapira, emphasized that the message for Mnangagwa to extend his rule is not a top-down directive, but one emerging from the base of the party structure.

“The people that come to conference cannot convey a message except the message which comes from the grassroots.

“So if the people in the grassroots have said that the president should extend, they will convey that message as they did in Bulawayo and they are already conveying the same message through their chairman who are the rightful people to communicate this message so the people continue to say this message up because the President himself has said the voice of the people is the voice of God,” he said.

Marapira added that the message is already being relayed through party leadership, particularly through provincial chairpersons.

It is a party resolution, it is a party decision. So as we’re going to conference what we’re mainly focused on is to see and understand how far this resolution has moved and this is what most delegates will be looking to question and get the answer from.

“All other questions involving the resolution are not from within the party l, once the resolution is passed the party is asking how far has it moved, where are we now,” he added.

ZANU PF conference in Mutare began on the 10th of October and is scheduled to end on the 23rd of October, 2025.