ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ (a) to acquire by lease, purchase, or otherwise, immovable property and to construct buildings thereon; (b) to buy, take in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire movable property, including vehicles, necessary or convenient for the performance of its functions; (c) to maintain, alter and improve property acquired by it; (d) to mortgage or pledge any assets or part of any assets and, with the approval of the Minister, to sell, exchange, let, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise deal with any assets or part of any assets which are not required for the exercise of its functions for such consideration as the Commission may, with the approval of the Minister, determine; (e) to open bank and building society and post office accounts in the name of the Commission and to draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and issue for the purposes of its functions, cheques, promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of lading, securities and other instruments; (f) to insure against losses, damages, risks and liabilities which it may incur; (g) to enter into contracts and suretyships or give guarantees in connection with the exercise of its functions and to modify or rescind such contracts or rescind suretyships or guarantees; (h) to enter into, renew, cancel or abandon arrangements with the Government or any local or other authority within Zimbabwe, or, with the approval of the Minister, any foreign government or authority, that may seem conducive to the exercise of its functions or any of them and to obtain from such government or authority rights, privileges and concessions which the Commission thinks desirable to obtain and carry out, exercise and comply with such arrangements, rights, privileges and concessions; (i) with the approval of the Minister, to raise loans or borrow money in such amounts and for such purposes and under such conditions as may be approved by the Commission; (j) to employ, upon such terms and conditions as the Commission may think fit, such persons as may be necessary for conducting its affairs, and suspend or discharge any such persons; (k) subject to section 47 of the Public Finance Management Act [Chapter 22:19] (No. 11 of 2009), to pay such remuneration and allowances and grant such leave of absence and to make such gifts and pay bonuses and the like to its employees as the Commission thinks fit; (l) to provide pecuniary benefits for its employees on their retirement, resignation, discharge or other termination of service or in the event of their sickness or injury and for their dependants, and for that purpose to effect policies of insurance, establish pension or provident funds or make such other provision as may be necessary to secure for its employees and their dependants any or all of the pecuniary benefits to which this paragraph relates; (m) with the approval of the Minister, to purchase, take in exchange, hire and otherwise acquire land or dwellings for use or occupation by its employees; (n) to construct dwellings, outbuildings or improvements for use or occupation by its employees on land purchased, taken in exchange, hired or otherwise acquired by the Commission; (o) to sell or let dwellings and land for residential purposes to its employees; (p) with the approval of the Minister, to guarantee loans to its employees or their spouses for the purchase of dwellings or land for residential purposes, the construction of dwellings and the improvement of dwellings or land which are the property of its employees or their spouses; (q) to provide security in respect of loans guaranteed in terms paragraph (p) by the deposit of securities; 149