Affiliates of 4ED have come under fire from ZANU PF for allegedly targeting its members and portraying them as new recruits to the political party.
Over 60 4ED affiliates were registered by ZANU PF to drum up support for Mnangagwa. ahead of national elections scheduled for this year
ZANU PF Political Commissar, Mike Bimha, said 4ED groups must target individuals who are not yet members of the ruling party. Bimha is quoted by The Herald as saying:
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Your task is to lure members who are not in the structures of the party. You should not come to us and claim members who are already in our structures. Whenever you have new members, they should be integrated in the party structures.
We don’t want affiliates who fish our members from our structures and claim them to be theirs.
The party is targeting to mobilise more than 5 million members for President Mnangagwa and the party to ensure a resounding victory in the coming elections.
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Recently, Bimha criticised the affiliations for demanding funding from the ruling party.
Men believED, Miners for ED, Teachers for ED, Health workers for ED, Councillors for ED and Driving Schools for ED are among the structures aligning with the ruling party.
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ZANU PF Confronts 4ED Groups Over Members

Celebration Church Ministries International leader, Tom Deuschle, has said the ZANU PF-affiliated group of pastors, Pastors for Economic Development (Pastors4ED) is an abomination because it supports an oppressive system that abhors righteousness.
In a recent sermon at his church in Borrowdale, Deuschle criticised what he considers the seduction of the church by politicians. He said:
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We call ourselves a Christian nation. I saw a report the other day that we are supposedly 85 percent Christian and yet we allow a flood, and I mean a literal flood, of non-christian activity to seduce the church, to seduce the nation.
Politics; we are seeing today pastors being manipulated by the state to support political ideologies that often speak and do things contrary to the word of God. 
This pastors for ED is an abomination I dare to say it out loud. It is ridiculous. You cannot be a pastor 4ED.
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He argued that it is wrong for pastors to identify themselves with political ideologies instead of wholly following Jesus Christ. Said Deuschle:
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You can only be a pastor for our great shepherd Jesus Christ. I am not a pastor and I will not be a pastor for a political party.
Political parties may govern. There was an article that says Christians are supposed to obey the governing authority, yes until the governing authority violates their governing authority which is almighty God and the word of God.
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The year 2022 witnessed the proliferation of several ZANU PF affiliates claiming to be championing economic development (ED) for the attainment of Vision 2030.
These organisations include Pastors4ED, Vapostori4ED, and Teachers4ED among others.
Pastors4ED national chairperson Idiraishe Dongo said the initiative is aimed at grooming pastors who love their country. | <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/pastors-for-ed-is-an-abomination-says-tom-deuschle-of-celebration-church-ministries/">NewZimbabwe.com</a>

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