President Emmerson Mnangagwa has spoken following the violent internal polls in ZANU PF which ended today.

The polls were marred by violence, delays and serious vote rigging complaints.

In his statement, Mnangagwa said: “whatever teething problems we have experienced so far, we remain convinced that the democratic course we have started in the management of our party affairs is the correct one, indeed one befitting a party of our history, our strength and our stature.

“As the ruling party, the democratic content and standards of our processes define and preordain our national politics. We thus not fear to widen the scope and play of the elective ethic in our party affairs and processes. Whatever challenges we face in the interim must thus be in the direction of firmly rooting the democratic ethos which, after all, we planted in the land through our historical sacrifices as a party of the national liberation.” – state media