Staff Reporter | The Matabeleland South ZANU PF provincial executive has undertaken to bus in at least 100 000 people to attend an upcoming President Robert Mugabe election campaign rally.

The rally to be held at Pelandaba Stadium in Gwanda on a day to be announced next week will be the first of the ten provincial rallies which Mugabe will address ahead of the 2018 elections.

In a meeting held at the party’s offices in Gwanda last week, the party members agreed that they will go out in full force to ensure that they deliver the 100 000 people from within the province to listen to Mugabe speak.

According to the minutes from the meeting Gwanda town and district with a population of about 80 000 people is expected to bring in 50 000 people while the rest of the districts will share the other 30 000.

Mugabe will kick off his 2018 election campaigns with the Gwanda rally where he will also preside over the official opening of a youth information centre which was completed five months ago but has still not been opened to the public awaiting Mugabe’s visit to the town.

In the run up to the 2013 elections at least 60 000 people attended a similar Mugabe rally in the same venue and remains the most attended rally in the town since Joshua Nkomo’s historic rally in 1984 where nearly 100 000 people attended a rally which was hosted at a local cricket Ground as the stadium could not accommodate the huge turn up.