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Move
to empower women politicians
The Herald
(Zimbabwe)
February 20, 2008
http://allafrica.com/stories/200802200087.html
A women empowerment
group has started holding training workshops for aspiring women
parliamentarians. Women's
Trust began the programme to empower women candidates yesterday
in Harare with 65 aspiring Zanu-PF women MPs in attendance.
The organisation's campaign
manager, Ms Lydia Mavhengere, said they had embarked on training
programmes to empower women politicians.
She said her organisation
would soon be holding a similar workshop for aspiring MDC women
MPs. Speaking at the workshop, the aspiring Zanu-PF MPs urged the
Government to put effective measures in place to deal with corruption,
saying the vice was militating against efforts to revive the economy.
They were agreed that corrupt elements in the society had to be
dealt with irrespective of one's status. Mutasa-Nyanga Senate constituency
candidate Cde Mandi Chimene said no meaningful economic development
could be achieved without addressing the scourge of corruption.
"What pains us is
that while a few greedy individuals are involved in corrupt activities
the majority of Zimbabweans are suffering. "We must expose
all those who are behind corruption without fear or favour,"
she said. Cde Chimene said there was need to recruit more staff
for the Ministry of State Enterprises, Anti-Monopolies and Anti-Corruption
as currently it was understaffed.
The aspiring MPs urged
Government to address challenges facing the country that included
shortage of medical drugs and the poor state of roads in the rural
areas. Drought also came under the spotlight with the aspiring MPs
calling upon the Government to ensure that food was readily available
to those areas, which might have poor yields owing to excessive
rains. Participants also urged employers to pay workers salaries
above the poverty datum line as currently most workers were struggling
to survive.
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