The district covers the sprawling Johannesburg residential suburb of Yeoville and its outlying areas.
After weeks of postponement due to a low turnout of members, the party finally managed to raise quorums in the five districts, but fell short in the remaining three, in which the elections were postponed by another week.
Party spokesman, Luke Sayi, told The Zimbabwean that the elections had gone well in the five branches, which are now preparing themselves for the district elections.
I am very happy that we have managed to hold these elections, which are very crucial for us as we prepare for our national congress later this year, said Sayi soon after the voting process.
The five branches that held their elections this week are already working hard on the ground to prepare for the district elections, while we will hold elections in the remaining three branches next weekend.
After Sundays polls, the party now has substantive leaders in eight branches in the neighbouring country, after three other branches voted in its Insukamini district, which comprises Hillbrow, Berea and Joubert Park.
The revived opposition party, which pulled out of a 1987 Unity Accord it had signed with President Robert Mugabes Zanu (PF), is pressed for time to elect substantive leaders in all its branches, districts and provinces within the next two months, in preparation for its national congress in Zimbabwe, slated for August.
The congress will see the election of a substantive National Executive Committee (NEC) to take over the running of the party on a four-year term.
The party is currently being run by interim leaders, with the NEC being led by former Home Affairs Minister, Dumiso Dabengwa as its interim chairman.
Dabengwa, one of the original Zapu members who led the pull-out from the 21-year-old alliance with Mugabe in December 2008, is also widely tipped to become the partys President after the August 2010 congress, whose actual date and venue are yet to be confirmed.
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