Own Correspondent|ZANU PF will soon force all senior Civil Servants to attend their Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology as a requirement for them to work for government.

Addressing ZANU PF members during an inter-district meeting at Njube suburb in Bulawayo on Sunday, Zanu-PF Director in the Commissariat, Retired Colonel George Nare who is also the Director of Administration and Finance at the School of Ideology, said there was a need to instill a sense of patriotism by training youths and prospective Government employees before they are admitted into the civil service.

“As Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology, we have come up with a programme to train our members on the history of the liberation struggle.

“We are even proposing that before one is appointed a Permanent Secretary or Director in a ministry, they should first go through the ideological college and pass an examination and this is because we have noticed that some of these people occupying these Government offices are working against the Government and the ruling Zanu-PF party.

“They are sabotaging our programmes by closing Zimbabwe for business yet we are saying our country is open for business,” he said.

Rtd Col Nare said the Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology is expected to open more learning centres in the country’s 10 provinces as part of its expansion drive.

The school started offering an array of courses in January last year and was opened after a realisation that some people were joining Zanu-PF and even occupying leadership positions without enough knowledge of the party’s founding principles and the history of the liberation struggle.

“Zanu-PF wants to make sure that all of its members receive political orientation starting from cell level right up to national and that is why we are working on setting up schools in all the country’s 10 provinces and very soon Bulawayo will get one,” said Rtd Col Nare.