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Post by MDC ZIMBABWE on Mar 10, 2004 9:29:31 GMT -5
What we need to do and how to do it, not just for MDC but for Zimbabwe. Vision
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Post by Ren on Mar 12, 2004 1:00:39 GMT -5
I get the sinking feeling that the MDC, just like the other oppositions parties before it in Zimbabwe, is losing it. Although I do not live in Zimbabwe at the moment, I am in costant touch with colleagues still at home and I get the clear feeling that the swing voters have started to swing the other way. The truth of the matter is that the MDC never had a large stable core of supporters, its fair to say a large potion of the the MDC votes in the last presidential elections were from people who were more driven by their disapproval of Mugabe rather than support for the MDC. The MDC strategy and leadership was not the issue nor was it questioned. However, over time people have started looking more closely at the MDC policies and even its leadership and I get the sense that the party has been found wanting on many fronts. The MDC has enjoyed a successful campgain outside Zimbabwe's borders, and at times would appear to be excessively focusing on its international image rather than the voting public in Zimbabwe, the UK media and public are not going to win the party any votes back home.
The MDC has certainly had a chance to shine, although argueably in a limited fashion, and unfortunately my take of it (obviously not from reading local Uk press) is that the party has been found wanting. The party runs all the significant local councils in Zimbabwe, and this was one opportunity for the party to prove its worth and unfortunately I get the sense that a number of residents are feeling short changed.
At the time of the last presidential election the country had just sufferred probably its worst ever economic shock, the knee-jerk reaction was quite evident as people turned out to vote in their numbers, now that has gone, things are still bad but the shock has disappeared, MDC will need to do a lot more than simply mouth opposition outside and put emphasis on things like sports boycotts (which by the way may make headlines here (in the UK) but I wonder if they are creating any new friends inside the country, black or white).
The UK media certainly does have a significant amount of spin when it comes to the reporting of Zimbabwean issues, something that is not necessarily evident to non-Zimbabweans, but something quite blatant to anyone who is aware of the situation on the ground back home. MDC should be careful to distant itself from this.
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Post by Courage Shumba on Mar 22, 2004 17:30:08 GMT -5
The MDC faces ahead of the 2005 elections a challenge greater than ever existed since its inception.Many people i talk to have begun to show a growing uneaseness about the suitability of the MDC to take on Zanu PF and bring to an end the anarchy brought to Zimbabwe by the careless,shabby and shody post colonial adinistration since 1980.Truthfully i do distaste Zanu Pf and will do anything to see it out of power evn if that included a resort to armed civil conflict.However i do wish to state emphatically that hatred for Mugabe,Zanu Pf and all institutions set up to perpetuate the lifespan of this retrogressive, criminal and barbaric gorvenment does not blind the mind to marry anything moving in opposition.The MDC needs to come out to the public and say with clarity what they really need to do as a party and not simply end at the already established disliked shared by all Zimbabweans for injustice.
I do believe that Zanu Pf has failed to put the people first.It has gradually reintroduced apartheid style of gorvenment.There is nothing one can admire about the situation of people in Zimbabwe.To say what is wrong would need a day ,to explain the noczim scandals,the tender awards,the drc wars and private interests,the corruption at state parastatals,the problems at colleges and all.Mdc needs to say what most politicals that lose elections dont say,what they will do when they have public mandate to gorven as gorvenment.
Mdc must rely on sanctions from Britain to try to get people to suffer so they turn against gorvenment.That approach lacks patriotism and sense.No person must lobby for action that increases the suffering of his countrymen being exactly the sort of political omen Zanu Pf is to all of us.Britain and the US have long lost any meaningful ground as human rights torchbearers.They are seen worldwide as savages.I would be happy if Zimbabwe had more publicity about developments from the region than from a colonial power that ha d to be fought hard battles to loosen the york of racial domination.Mdc needs to present itself as furthering the goals of a struggle which is ,was,and will always remain necessary which as things stand Zanu Pf abondoned at the proclamation of sovereign rule.MDC should state that it is not opposed to land ,mineral,wealth redistribution in a way thatmake of Zimbabweans their masters even if that policy does not please Britain its Western allies or economic preferences in Zimbabwe or Africa generally.History has never shown us acts of goodheartedness for blacks by whites through and through slavery,colonisation and the savagery of imperial missions in Africa.Nothing has changed .Whites will always be racists and selfish.Sometimes ,as the Liberation war proved such groups as white racist farmers need to really be dealt with if this is to improve ,or share fairly resources without etenally indebted to whites for good economies.I am not a racist but i will argue that if chasing selfish white farmers is a solution then whats wrong with that. Many people would want to have a gorvenment that is free from digital controlling by nasty minorities.Mdc must say this and come out ready to do what it takes to bring to Zimbabwe what the people expected from the liberation struggle.By sounding unsure the MDC loses the sympathy ,support of the majority of peoples who Zanu Pf has marginised from the gains that naturally associate with the cost and price of sovereign rule who still see and feel the yoke of racial domination.Being an agrarian economy Zimbabwe needs to place its land resource into the hands of its own loyal and indegenous patriots which is how it is all developed world. A political party that seems to be a gateaway for injustice to majorities will always fail to convert voters who themselves still feel victim to economic activties of such malicious minorities.Mdc must come out clear and not avoid questions like what Zanu Pf believes to be an art.
2005 can not see the indecision of this boycott and that.Five years have passed and no meaningful development has come of the ruling or opposition alike.I am sorry if this willturn some tummies but i have no shefs,no big madharas,no ana biggaz...it cant be said both in Zanu pf and Mdc.Both parties are an embarrasment to speedy political recovery and econmic equality.Unfortunately when two elephants fight its the grass that suffers.
Mdc needs a chance but it must create and work for one. Zanu pf is a joke and must lose any process that is designed to reflect on preferences to either continue to be ruined by Zanu pf or get a national purposeful rebirth.
Courage Shumba
Above petty political miniaturing
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Post by Courage Shumba on Mar 22, 2004 17:30:43 GMT -5
The MDC faces ahead of the 2005 elections a challenge greater than ever existed since its inception.Many people i talk to have begun to show a growing uneaseness about the suitability of the MDC to take on Zanu PF and bring to an end the anarchy brought to Zimbabwe by the careless,shabby and shody post colonial adinistration since 1980.Truthfully i do distaste Zanu Pf and will do anything to see it out of power evn if that included a resort to armed civil conflict.However i do wish to state emphatically that hatred for Mugabe,Zanu Pf and all institutions set up to perpetuate the lifespan of this retrogressive, criminal and barbaric gorvenment does not blind the mind to marry anything moving in opposition.The MDC needs to come out to the public and say with clarity what they really need to do as a party and not simply end at the already established disliked shared by all Zimbabweans for injustice.
I do believe that Zanu Pf has failed to put the people first.It has gradually reintroduced apartheid style of gorvenment.There is nothing one can admire about the situation of people in Zimbabwe.To say what is wrong would need a day ,to explain the noczim scandals,the tender awards,the drc wars and private interests,the corruption at state parastatals,the problems at colleges and all.Mdc needs to say what most politicals that lose elections dont say,what they will do when they have public mandate to gorven as gorvenment.
Mdc must rely on sanctions from Britain to try to get people to suffer so they turn against gorvenment.That approach lacks patriotism and sense.No person must lobby for action that increases the suffering of his countrymen being exactly the sort of political omen Zanu Pf is to all of us.Britain and the US have long lost any meaningful ground as human rights torchbearers.They are seen worldwide as savages.I would be happy if Zimbabwe had more publicity about developments from the region than from a colonial power that ha d to be fought hard battles to loosen the york of racial domination.Mdc needs to present itself as furthering the goals of a struggle which is ,was,and will always remain necessary which as things stand Zanu Pf abondoned at the proclamation of sovereign rule.MDC should state that it is not opposed to land ,mineral,wealth redistribution in a way thatmake of Zimbabweans their masters even if that policy does not please Britain its Western allies or economic preferences in Zimbabwe or Africa generally.History has never shown us acts of goodheartedness for blacks by whites through and through slavery,colonisation and the savagery of imperial missions in Africa.Nothing has changed .Whites will always be racists and selfish.Sometimes ,as the Liberation war proved such groups as white racist farmers need to really be dealt with if this is to improve ,or share fairly resources without etenally indebted to whites for good economies.I am not a racist but i will argue that if chasing selfish white farmers is a solution then whats wrong with that. Many people would want to have a gorvenment that is free from digital controlling by nasty minorities.Mdc must say this and come out ready to do what it takes to bring to Zimbabwe what the people expected from the liberation struggle.By sounding unsure the MDC loses the sympathy ,support of the majority of peoples who Zanu Pf has marginised from the gains that naturally associate with the cost and price of sovereign rule who still see and feel the yoke of racial domination.Being an agrarian economy Zimbabwe needs to place its land resource into the hands of its own loyal and indegenous patriots which is how it is all developed world. A political party that seems to be a gateaway for injustice to majorities will always fail to convert voters who themselves still feel victim to economic activties of such malicious minorities.Mdc must come out clear and not avoid questions like what Zanu Pf believes to be an art.
2005 can not see the indecision of this boycott and that.Five years have passed and no meaningful development has come of the ruling or opposition alike.I am sorry if this willturn some tummies but i have no shefs,no big madharas,no ana biggaz...it cant be said both in Zanu pf and Mdc.Both parties are an embarrasment to speedy political recovery and econmic equality.Unfortunately when two elephants fight its the grass that suffers.
Mdc needs a chance but it must create and work for one. Zanu pf is a joke and must lose any process that is designed to reflect on preferences to either continue to be ruined by Zanu pf or get a national purposeful rebirth.
Courage Shumba
Above petty political miniaturing
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Post by Courage Shumba on Mar 22, 2004 17:38:15 GMT -5
The MDC faces ahead of the 2005 elections a challenge greater than ever existed since its inception.Many people i talk to have begun to show a growing uneaseness about the suitability of the MDC to take on Zanu PF and bring to an end the anarchy brought to Zimbabwe by the careless,shabby and shody post colonial adinistration since 1980.Truthfully i do distaste Zanu Pf and will do anything to see it out of power evn if that included a resort to armed civil conflict.However i do wish to state emphatically that hatred for Mugabe,Zanu Pf and all institutions set up to perpetuate the lifespan of this retrogressive, criminal and barbaric gorvenment does not blind the mind to marry anything moving in opposition.The MDC needs to come out to the public and say with clarity what they really need to do as a party and not simply end at the already established disliked shared by all Zimbabweans for injustice.
I do believe that Zanu Pf has failed to put the people first.It has gradually reintroduced apartheid style of gorvenment.There is nothing one can admire about the situation of people in Zimbabwe.To say what is wrong would need a day ,to explain the noczim scandals,the tender awards,the drc wars and private interests,the corruption at state parastatals,the problems at colleges and all.Mdc needs to say what most politicals that lose elections dont say,what they will do when they have public mandate to gorven as gorvenment.
Mdc must rely on sanctions from Britain to try to get people to suffer so they turn against gorvenment.That approach lacks patriotism and sense.No person must lobby for action that increases the suffering of his countrymen being exactly the sort of political omen Zanu Pf is to all of us.Britain and the US have long lost any meaningful ground as human rights torchbearers.They are seen worldwide as savages.I would be happy if Zimbabwe had more publicity about developments from the region than from a colonial power that ha d to be fought hard battles to loosen the york of racial domination.Mdc needs to present itself as furthering the goals of a struggle which is ,was,and will always remain necessary which as things stand Zanu Pf abondoned at the proclamation of sovereign rule.MDC should state that it is not opposed to land ,mineral,wealth redistribution in a way thatmake of Zimbabweans their masters even if that policy does not please Britain its Western allies or economic preferences in Zimbabwe or Africa generally.History has never shown us acts of goodheartedness for blacks by whites through and through slavery,colonisation and the savagery of imperial missions in Africa.Nothing has changed .Whites will always be racists and selfish.Sometimes ,as the Liberation war proved such groups as white racist farmers need to really be dealt with if this is to improve ,or share fairly resources without etenally indebted to whites for good economies.I am not a racist but i will argue that if chasing selfish white farmers is a solution then whats wrong with that. Many people would want to have a gorvenment that is free from digital controlling by nasty minorities.Mdc must say this and come out ready to do what it takes to bring to Zimbabwe what the people expected from the liberation struggle.By sounding unsure the MDC loses the sympathy ,support of the majority of peoples who Zanu Pf has marginised from the gains that naturally associate with the cost and price of sovereign rule who still see and feel the yoke of racial domination.Being an agrarian economy Zimbabwe needs to place its land resource into the hands of its own loyal and indegenous patriots which is how it is all developed world. A political party that seems to be a gateaway for injustice to majorities will always fail to convert voters who themselves still feel victim to economic activties of such malicious minorities.Mdc must come out clear and not avoid questions like what Zanu Pf believes to be an art.
2005 can not see the indecision of this boycott and that.Five years have passed and no meaningful development has come of the ruling or opposition alike.I am sorry if this willturn some tummies but i have no shefs,no big madharas,no ana biggaz...it cant be said both in Zanu pf and Mdc.Both parties are an embarrasment to speedy political recovery and econmic equality.Unfortunately when two elephants fight its the grass that suffers.
Mdc needs a chance but it must create and work for one. Zanu pf is a joke and must lose any process that is designed to reflect on preferences to either continue to be ruined by Zanu pf or get a national purposeful rebirth.
Courage Shumba
Above petty political miniaturing
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Post by Courage Shumba on Mar 22, 2004 17:55:17 GMT -5
The MDC faces ahead of the 2005 elections a challenge greater than ever existed since its inception.Many people i talk to have begun to show a growing uneaseness about the suitability of the MDC to take on Zanu PF and bring to an end the anarchy brought to Zimbabwe by the careless,shabby and this shody post colonial adinistration since 1980.Truthfully i do distaste Zanu Pf and will do anything to see it out of power evn if that included a resort to armed civil conflict.However i do wish to state emphatically that hatred for Mugabe,Zanu Pf and all institutions set up to perpetuate the lifespan of this retrogressive, criminal and barbaric gorvenment does not blind the mind to marry anything moving in opposition.The MDC needs to come out to the public and say with clarity what they really need to do as a party and not simply end at the already established dislike shared by all Zimbabweans for injustice.
I do believe that Zanu Pf has failed to put the people first.It has gradually reintroduced apartheid style of gorvenment.There is nothing one can admire about the situation of people in Zimbabwe.To say what is wrong would need a day ,to explain the noczim scandals,the tender awards,the drc wars and private interests,the corruption at state parastatals,the problems at colleges and all.Mdc needs to say what most politicals that lose elections dont say,what they will do when they have public mandate to gorven as gorvenment.
Mdc must not rely on sanctions from Britain to try to get people to suffer so they turn against gorvenment.That approach lacks patriotism and sense.No person must lobby for action that increases the suffering of his countrymen being exactly the sort of political omen Zanu Pf is to all of us.Britain and the US have long lost any meaningful ground as human rights torchbearers.They are seen worldwide as savages.I would be happy if Zimbabwe had more publicity about developments from the region than from a colonial power that ha d to be fought hard battles to loosen the york of racial domination.Mdc needs to present itself as furthering the goals of a struggle which is ,was,and will always remain necessary which as things stand Zanu Pf abondoned at the proclamation of sovereign rule.MDC should state that it is not opposed to land ,mineral,wealth redistribution in a way thatmake of Zimbabweans their masters even if that policy does not please Britain its Western allies or economic preferences in Zimbabwe or Africa generally.History has never shown us acts of goodheartedness for blacks by whites through and through slavery,colonisation and the savagery of imperial missions in Africa.Nothing has changed .Whites will always be racists and selfish.Sometimes ,as the Liberation war proved such groups as white racist farmers need to really be dealt with if this is to improve ,or share fairly resources without etenally indebted to whites for good economies.I am not a racist but i will argue that if chasing selfish white farmers is a solution then whats wrong with that. Many people would want to have a gorvenment that is free from digital controlling by nasty minorities.Mdc must say this and come out ready to do what it takes to bring to Zimbabwe what the people expected from the liberation struggle.By sounding unsure the MDC loses the sympathy ,support of the majority of peoples who Zanu Pf has marginised from the gains that naturally associate with the cost and price of sovereign rule who still see and feel the yoke of racial domination.Being an agrarian economy Zimbabwe needs to place its land resource into the hands of its own loyal and indegenous patriots which is how it is all developed world. A political party that seems to be a gateaway for injustice to majorities will always fail to convert voters who themselves still feel victim to economic activties of such malicious minorities.Mdc must come out clear and not avoid questions like what Zanu Pf believes to be an art.
2005 can not see the indecision of this boycott and that.Five years have passed and no meaningful development has come of the ruling or opposition alike.I am sorry if this willturn some tummies but i have no shefs,no big madharas,no ana biggaz...it cant be said both in Zanu pf and Mdc.Both parties are an embarrasment to speedy political recovery and econmic equality.Unfortunately when two elephants fight its the grass that suffers.
Mdc needs a chance but it must create and work for one. Zanu pf is a joke and must lose any process that is designed to reflect on preferences to either continue to be ruined by Zanu pf or get a national purposeful rebirth.
Courage Shumba
Above petty political miniaturing
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Post by Owebutho on Mar 24, 2004 8:34:42 GMT -5
Challenges are challenges, strategies are strategies, Zanu PF is evil and MDC is freedom. We must not at any time delude ourselves into believing that the MDC strategies could be successfully implemented in local governments as long as the central government is still under the unreasoning regime of Robert.
Structure follows strategy, strategies are curved by the leadership but their implementation is a different story. Now the questions we are supposed to be asking ourselves are: Is it worth to stick to a failed strategy, in this i mean the "election system as a strategy to attaining freedom" from ZANU PF, everybody knows that ZANU PF will never loose elections. It is an open secret to all politically conscious Zimbabweans, ZANU PF will always rig elections, it will always brutalise innocent people into voting it, it will always promulgate evil and unjust pieces of legislation to unlevel the playing field. But for one even to abondon a useless strategy one must have an alternative, what is an alternative in Zimbabwe? If democracy can not come our way through democratic means, we have to be prepared to break the rules of democracy in order to fight for its existince in this country. Some suggest that "combined" demonstrations will do the trick, but my warning is that, "Zimbabwe is not Yugoslavia nor is it Georgia but it is Haiti". a wise and serious strategy is the answer. In a country with partisan civil servants like the police and the army, working under a worst dictator, demonstrations will always be quashed with force and bear no fruits at the end of the day. In short let us not stick to a strategy that has failed and that stands to fail again and again. It does not pay to say that we are democratic and we are going to win power through democratic means, the thing is we are dealing with a shameless dictator, who will take advantage of our good intentions and abuse them. For how long would we keep on deceiving ourselves to reality. What one man is capable of doing so should be the other person, no one has a sole right to use whatever means to attain his freedom, no, but others also must do as he did to attain their freedom. freedom denied by a white man and freedom denied by a black man is the same, freedom is freedom, what ever means possible must be used to achieve total freedom.
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Post by Courage Shumba on Mar 26, 2004 14:11:14 GMT -5
Yes repression is repression but again poor opposition is poor opposition.The answer as i have said and repeatedly suggested and emphasized is not just opposition but realistic vibrant and patriotic opposition.I live in England and here when they do discuss the issues of their country they always and only refer to the welfare ,needs and views of the english people,irish sometimes and once in a while the welsh which is what makes the United Kingdom.Zimbabwe opposition parties need to refer to and convince the people of Zimbabwe.I do not care if this is along the lines of a coup,or assasination,or simple demonstarations in which nothing but placards are raised carrying a message that has been said too many times and ignored.I believe as i have always stated that Zanu Pf and MDC both leave the centre stage open and unexplored.Or is it fear ?
I see that Zanu Pf will never allow freedom to prevail in Zimbabwe in the sense that people need to be able to remove and replace regimes at will.I cannot support their arguement and do not believe it.I do see however a belief in MDC that seems to ignore that there ever was a war of liberation against white minority rule that dumb folds the Mdc to extent that it fears to state with precision its policy on what was chief among the causes of the first and indeed second chimurenga wars,-the land issue.To the MDC i say what ever their fears no injustice can be prolonged in the fear that upsetting the minority white farmers would derail an economy.I would sooner assassinate a president who wishes to perpetuate the disadvantages forever of a minority because they have over time used that unfair economic leverage to make a whole economy depended on them and themselves inspite of the injustice indespensible.That to me is bull nuts....
Anyone given land and skills will till the land and produce .The people who buy and need the products will always need these farm products whether they are the produce of indians,coloureds,greens,blacks or whites.Milk is milk,butter is butter,maize is maize,and so the list goes.People in any country of their origin must be the driving force of that economy.That is how things are and that is how it should be in Zimbabwe.Tsvangirai must open his eyes and see this reality that instead of shacking about hte land programme he must come in support of redistribution but emphasize how his gorvenment will ensure supply of resources,training,monitoring and marketing not just stand and wish the programme as a whole never was initiated which to me is silly to say.Any person who wishes to live in an economy which is dominated by a minority ,preserves good schools for minorities,and wishes to mantain that state of relations is a fool.Injustice of that nature breeds war and hatred and hence after the 1896 there was still the urge to obliterare the level of sad and inferior reasoning until 1980.
Mugabe did the right thing to fight the regime of Ian Smith and though he failed to live to the expectations and will of justice it will remain positive that economic,social and political domination was challenged.Tsvangirai must come in to reiterate the causes of that struggle not to challenge them. There is nothing in the world like international community,there is Britain and the U.S.A thats that,perhaps with france ,germany and russia doing as they please from time to time.I do hate and distaste Zanu pf to the extend that it defended,purified and concealed corruption since independence.There is as much nothing to like about Zanu pf as there is nothing to like about the MDC.
There is a truth between Zanu pf and Mdc.It is the fact that people can control their resources without relying on selfish racist priviledged minorities yet without living in a dictatorship where they are compelled and flogged like to sheep to meaningless empty propaganda rallies. Justice is justice.Economic justice is a part of justice as is political justice.A free nation is one with economic and political justice combined.What this means is that resources must be equally distributed even if this means violantly regaining from an obdurate and sarcastic colonial minority and freedom must be seized even if this involves violence from those who seek to apportion it like a concotion.
I shall say no more for now.Liberation must be followed by freedom.
Courage Shumba
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Post by Godfrey Rukanda on Mar 27, 2004 6:31:36 GMT -5
The MDC leadership should be weary of sending conflicting signals. I read with digust that some MPs within the party sometimes tells the public what should not be said
I underscore that the opposition should work harder day and night over compaigns to ensure that the message is heard before elections next year.
The issue of bank closures should be a topical issue coined in such a way that it brings in a voters to the party support. There should be a strategy to exploit that!
If I can tell you that I lost $3,500000.00 ment for University fees for my brother it does not make me happy therefore there is a host of depositors who lost through the government's inefficiencies and the failure of Mugabe to govern and this should be reflected in the election strategy.
Also note new appointments to cabinet which were not budgeted for and the post what they mean to the common men, your startegy should be critism and offering pledge for change
You need real market people who can coin goes messages
During the last parliment election I spoke to a gentleman who was contesting in Murewa South about accessibilty of rural areas were there was violence I tell my startegy was used and it worked
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Post by Courage Shumba on Apr 6, 2004 3:09:27 GMT -5
Zanu Pf anti corruption move is an electoral gimmick as was land in all previous elections from 1980 to 2002.Mugabe is not serious about anything that goes on in Zimbabwe than to die in power.That is his cheap trick and he will use anything from voodoo to his secret service to ensure that only that is what happens.The best and only weapon against Mugabe's rampage and ruin lies within our capacity as nationalists and reformists to settle down and organise ourselves purposefully for the sake of our own lives who one man and a few lunatics are holding at ransom.Mugabe is a not a coward though he is resident to evil and the strategies we employ must prove above else that we have studied the behaviour of the bloodsucking lamprey Mugabe is. I left Zimbabwe in a hurry owing to the the threats on my personal life that had started to pour with mid night raids,beatings in police cells,harrassment and death threats and attempts.It pains me that this still goes on and may be with us for as long as intolerance runs supreme in Zimbabwe's political party's and forms the basis of silencing dissenting political approaches.In my last national editorial at www.geocities.com/homeofactivism i attempted to point out the magnitude of terror in Zimbabwe.That was two years ago before i went into exile.The view i have today fellow comrades is radical.If our opposition under Tsvangirai is not taking us anywhere and we keep him leader in the movement how different are we as compatriots in the struggle for freedom different from Zanu Pf still rallying behind liar and killer Robert Mugabe even after 24 years of abuse ,inaction and economic plunder.I do not wish to be drawn to believe that failure and incompetence are a partisan issue.Democracy is knocking at the door in Zimbabwe and all we need to do is upen the door.We have never been closer to throwing away post colonial dictatorship and we can not wait for Tsvangirai if he can not do it.Unlike Zanu pf the majority of Mdc supporters are made of people who do like freedom and dvelopment in thr practical sense.Practically too if anybody disillusions the process or impedes the momentum then that person must be relieved of the responsibilities of the revolutionary organ to save its agenda I do not seek to sponsor disorientation but its time someone asked Tsvangirai to make way if he can not lead the movement to victory which is what every Zimbabwean can no longer wait for. Ian Duncan Smith ,british conservative former leader was ousted for poor perfomance and in his place is someone who seems to do a little bit more.Tsvangirai must work hard or quit.The Movement can not disintergate like Zimbabwe because one inefficient man.There are people in Zimbabwe who can do a beter job than end at bravery which we all know Tsvangirai possess.He has done his best and must give way to another person who can humiliate Mugabe stand up to him and teach him a thing or two about Zimbabweans. I have nothing against Tsvangirai.I do respect his courage .I believe however it is time that if he can not control the declining allegiance to the party given mounting resignations he moved on. I will continue to speak my mind regardless and unreservedly.We need a leader that boosts the confidence of the people and accelerate the already existing restlessness for political freedom and economic equality For justice i will fight. Courage Shumba
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Post by Jabulani on Apr 6, 2004 7:43:16 GMT -5
MDC must learn to abuse the ZANU strategy. For Instance ZANU is good at informationn discemination because of its having liars like Shamuyarira, and Mugabe himself who was NDP's information secretary in 1960. MDC must learn to handle information and hit out its facts continuously in the papers- in the Independent papers weekly- let it buy space in those papers and campaign. As well, it needs to restore its former 1999/2000 moves where it always made use of fliers which were usually dropped everywhere on the road at night. This helped popularise the party a lot in that time, and we liked it. Certainly i was on of the first members of theParty in 1999 at the UZ, but those in the extremely rural areas only joined it because they saw that sort of information in the bush- where the herald could not reach, or was too expensive to be bought.
I also think we need a strategy to counter violence. You cant defeat violence by peace, or cowing down. When you are beaten, you must also beat- if we think silence will work we are joking. MUgabe said we are in a war situation, and we must not take that forgranted. We are beaten and then arrested- it is better we be arrested for something real, than to be arrested for being victims! There must be a counterviolence move so that ZANU guys fear us as well. I know this works. Last time in 2000, I was in my former constituency Zvishavane when the ZANU pple came to beat us in town. MDC had organised youths to counter that and you know what, we carried the day, and MDC got around 10 000 votes. Now I do not think it will get that if it does not counter violence.
Lastly, please discipline the Harare councellors,a nd if there be money, give them incentives to keep heads up against Chombo- and as well, I think MDC is too slow to help Mudzuri fight his war which is collectively ours. It must stage mass action, using the Harare pple simply to show its force in that town which is its stronghold.
Bye for now
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Post by Godfrey Rukanda on Apr 10, 2004 5:20:59 GMT -5
After Zengeza friends we need to work harder together STOP blaming Morgan the critical question should be:
Where did we go wrong and how are we going to improve
The people in the party must not and should not suffer from the mad cow disease like in Zanu Pf
How are we going to be there (GT) I will give you the answer
We need more underground organisations that can beat the repression in Zimbabwe.
Demonstrations does not work but we need organisations like Zvakwana to be available to all provinces undercover.
I was undercover during the last election and Masaiti won I never asked the MDC that can I be an under cover but personal conviction led me to do that.
EVERY DAY I USED TO DISCUSS POLITICAL ISSUES WITH ZANU PF YOUTH AT GROWTH POINTS DURING THE DAY AND AT NIGHT
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Post by Owebutho on Apr 11, 2004 10:45:05 GMT -5
Education is a good thing, but institutions that confer worthless degrees on people have one or two things to apologise to the people. It is a disgrace that a man who purpotes to be educated is in actual fact the worst and most uneducated man in our land. I have always said that Mugabe must take his degrees back to the universities that have misled or unschooled him. Leadership has nothing to do with education, but it has to do with the ability to work with people, to respect people's abilities and differences.
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Post by Gorbachev on Apr 13, 2004 7:22:00 GMT -5
MDC will not go anywher without decisive planning,and educating their politicians in the art of pure politics.Coming out simply and stating the truth is not enough,they should try to beat Zanu to the goal-such that we dont get any soundbites when MDC members speak-they appear stupid on foreign television, wheras the Zanu politicians are articulate,have a broad vocabulary and able to twist the topic to their advantage eg George Shiri,Jon Moyo,even Augustine Chihuri appears more eduacted than Moragn and his cabinet.Mdc must wake up,ditch the West and collaborate with the government for progression,mdc is not right on everything,neither is Zanu,but Zanu is the government,hence they can pass legislation through without the consent of the opposition.MDC are indeed ready for burial,their name will never be etched in history.
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Post by nkala on Apr 13, 2004 16:00:39 GMT -5
Yes it is true that MDC may face the same fate as its predecessor oppositions. It seems to me that Bob might control some Evil or maybe Holly spheres of the universe.Now that the harvest is good and food queues will dissappear people will no longer have the stimulus for our vote in the last elections(ie the empty stomach).But bob will credit this to himself (and hondo yeminda of course).Whither MPAMA?Cant we find another blind corner to use for our attack?
Food for thought (For morgan )
cheers okankala in diaspora
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