Women Seek election in Zimbabwe Than Ever Before.
Women's pressure groups are far from impressed with the numbers, though a significant feature in party manifestos are elaborate provisions for empowering women at the grassroots. ZANU-PF has resolved that a minimum quota of 50 seats in its central committee must be allocated to women. At the party's congress held at the end of last year, another resolution was passed that for every three positions, a woman must occupy one. But the resolutions are yet to be implemented. His party is fielding two women out of the 14 constituencies in his province and he said they have had to fight their way up through a largely male-dominated contest.