Local Authorities Mayors, Chairpersons ordered to attend Chitepo School of Ideology
By Staff Reporter
LOCAL Authorities Mayors and chairpersons will next week attend a three days long Chitepo School of Ideology organised workshop ,the Humanitarian Post has learnt.
The Ideology institution was formed during Zimbabwe’s 1970s liberation war and was initially known as Whampoa Ideological College before getting its new name in 1977.
Named after the late Herbert Wiltshire Pfumaindini Chitepo , a lawyer who attended South Africa’s Fort Hare University and King’s College London, then went on to lead ZANU before independence and was assassinated in March 1975 in Zambia, the ideological school was discontinued at independence in 1980.
However, skeptics widely regard the institution as a brainwashing apparatus tilted towards whipping attendants into the Zanu-PF cultural system.
An invitation letter dated August 16 2024 seen by the HP and signed by the Local Government and Public Works Secretary K. Ncube has ordered mayors and chairpersons to attend the Ideology school.
He said in terms of Section 5 of the Constitution Local Authorities are a third tier of government with devolved service delivery mandates.
“In the regard , they are engines towards the attainment of Vision 2030 .His excellency ,the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe Cde E.D Mnangagwa launched the call to action No -Compromise to service delivery.
“It is pertinent for Local Authorities to be exposed to the ideals of national security and patriotism as espoused by the Chitepo School of Ideology.You are invited to attend a training by the Chitepo school of Ideology at Rainbow Towers from the 21st to the 23rd of August 2024 .Delegates are expected to sited by 7:30 am,” the letter ordered.
