Staff Reporter | The Morgan Tsvangirai led MDC party, has dropped the “big brother” mentality and said that it will submit to other opposition political parties which are forging a coalition against President Robert Mugabe.
Once the country’s strongest opposition political party to ever emerge since independence, people have lost hope in the Tsvangirai led MDC, after its defeat by Zanu PF in the 2013 elections, failure to chat an alternative agenda for an increasingly restive population, fed up with Mugabe’s continued stay in power.
Power wrangles within the movement have also fragmented its support base and diminished public confidence against it.
MDC-T, has been reluctant to join more than 17 opposition political parties trading under the banner of the National Electoral Reform Agenda, NERA, which is challenging Mugabe to institute electoral reforms before next elections, until recently when it appended its signature on the process.
In a statement issued Monday, MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu said they had now swallowed their pride.
“Although the MDC is a big political party with massive grassroots support, we have consistently stated that we will never adopt “a big brother” attitude and thus, treat other opposition political parties as minions and fringe political operators,” said Gutu.
“In our quest to establish a new, democratic and developmental state in Zimbabwe, we are always willing to collaborate and synergise with all other democratic political parties, big or small”.
Gutu said there was strength in uniting; adding that uniting against Mugabe has also been supported by war veterans.
“The MDC is going to forge sustainable and workable alliances with all organisations that cherish the creation of a new Zimbabwe that will abhor autocracy, corruption and dictatorship,” he said.
“We are pleased to note that genuine war veterans, with solid and impeccable liberation war credentials, have,of late, openly shown their appreciation and indeed, respect for the role that Tsvangirai and the MDC have played over the past seventeen years, in peacefully and bravely confronting the brutal Zanu PF regime” .
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Read and understand English. The writer is not saying “currently””. The writer is saying the MDC-T is the largest opposition party ever to emerge in Zimbabwe since independence, and that is a lie. PF ZAPU was the largest.
Lets be realistic currently MDC-T is by large and far the largest party ever emerged in Zimbabwe to challenge Mugabe regime,its really true.
You’re the liar”THE TRUTH”. 1980 Zapu won 20 seats against Zanu’s 57 seats. Year 2000 MDC got 47 to Zanu’s 48 seats. In 2008 Zanu lost the election to MDC. So MDC is biggest opposition since independence.
Liars. MDC-T is not the biggest opposition party to ever image since independence. The first biggest opposition party in Zimbabwe was PF-ZAPU. That is why Mugabe had to invent Gukurahundi in order to crush it, since it stood in the way of his grand one party state idea for Zimbabwe.
Why would he go to the extent he went to absorb PF – ZAPU if it was a none entity of a political party? Even the MDC-T that the writer is bragging about; it has never been subject to the massive violence of a similar scale to what PF ZAPU was subjected to.
This is why Zimbabweans cant beat ZANU PF; you like to live a lie and most of you have very short memories. You are also very selective in your understanding of history and like exaggerating issues. The fact that, for reasons best known to yourselves you probably like Morgan Tswangirayi more than Joshua Nkomo does not mean twisting history will validate your claims of today. A lie remains a lie no matter how you tell it.
So now, events of the 1980s are suddenly like its a 100 years ago and have to be forgotten? Shame!!