ZANU PF attends Political Parties Plus Dialogue 2023

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By Margaret Kamba

A ZANU PF delegation led by the Secretary General Cde Obert Mpofu joins 54 other political parties attending the BRICS Political Parties Plus Dialogue currently underway in South Africa.

The dialogue is being held under the theme “BRICS and Africa: partnership for mutually accelerated growth, sustainable development and inclusive multilateralism.”

Speaking at the dialogue, Cde Mpofu welcomed the development of a BRICS bank which he said removes the dependency syndrome from the Bretton Woods.

“As ZANU PF we fully acknowledge and embrace that the New World Order which BRICS envisions in the promotion of the ideals of Multilateralism against Unilateralism is the way to go,” Cde Mpofu said.

“Therefore the establishment of the New Development Bank NDB or BRICS Bank augers well as an alternative to the Bretton Woods Institutions which have bled our developing economies and subjugated them to a dependency syndrome.”

He added that Zimbabwe under the leadership of President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is working hard to achieve the vision of an upper middle income society.

“It is this contextual background that as ZANU PF we appreciate the emergence of BRICS as a progressive formation to countervail the hegemony of the West and our detractors. In our country’s New Dispensation which His Excellency, the President and First Secretary of our Party ZANU PF Cde Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has coined the ‘Second Republic,’ our policy shift on economic prosperity aimed at achieving a middle income economy by 2030. In order to reach this sustainable goal, our mantra has also embraced the adage that ‘We are a friend to all and enemy to none.'”

The Political Parties Plus Dialogue 2023 is being held with the aim of determining the criteria to join the BRICS and reaffirms the role of political parties in global politics.

Issues around the development of Africa will be tabled with the view of making Africa not only have an alternative access to financing but become lenders.