20^th December 2019

Office of the President

I am delighted to write to you in my capacity as the President of the Economic Freedom Fighters of Zimbabwe.

I am fully aware that it has taken a very long time for me to directly reach out to you. This has been due to a number of factors of which I and the entire leadership team are working tirelessly to address. I am happy to report that we are making good progress. In the near future, we will advise you of the outreach programmes the party will embark on in order to build, support and consolidate your presence on the ground.

Although I have not met many of you yet, I have however travelled on many occasions to many areas in the country. I have met many of our people in the villages, towns and cities.

Depressingly, I have seen extreme poverty – children with little or no food to eat, mothers experiencing daily indignity of failing to provide basic essentials for their children, jobless young people loitering the streets, hardworking fathers in daily predicament about their situations.

It is clear that the government is not working for the people but is working against the people. Our people are experiencing extra ordinary daily challenges, amongst of which are:

1. Prices of basic food are beyond the reach for many.
2.  Serious cash shortages, with no viable plan by the government to end this situation.
3. Daily devastating power cuts which impact on people’s daily lives.
4. Healthcare system has collapsed putting millions of our people lives at risk.
5. Education system has collapsed condemning our children to eternal failure in life.
6. Corruption is rife, those in power or those connected to the rich and powerful are systematically plundering national resources.

The list of what is not working in our country is endless. What is clear is that our people are the victims of this man-made situation.  We have a duty as Economic Freedom Fighters to mobilise ourselves to stand with the masses to demand that the government starts working for the people. Our people must not continue to suffer perpetual indignity or eternal humiliation at the hands of those who are entrusted to be the custodians of peace and tranquillity amongst our people.

As the Economic Freedom Fighters, we have started the process of building a formidable political party which will fight for the poor masses, the downtrodden of our society and the dispossessed in our communities. We have so far moved forward with:

1. Formation of an interim national leadership structure with a crop of youthful, radical and revolutionary leaders drawn from the length and breadth of the country.
2. Provisionally adopted a constitution which clearly identifies party ideology of socialism placing radical economic transformation at the core of our objectives.
3. Building a solid alliance with the Economic Freedom Fighters South Africa – we share the same ideology however we do aim to find solutions to the problems affecting the people of Zimbabwe in the context of our own circumstances.
4. Conducting regular meetings of the Central Command Team to discuss policies and strategies.
5. Mobilising resources so that we can start outreach programmes on the ground throughout the country.
6. Registering the Economic Freedom Fighters as a political party within the meaning of the Electoral Laws of Zimbabwe.
7. Creating Structures in many areas across the country – we need to work more on creating more structures and consolidating the existing ones.
8. Recruiting and mobilising membership for the party.

It is my objective and that of the entire leadership of the party, that going forward into the next year and beyond, we need to do the following:

1. Increase our presence on the ground by embarking on a nationwide membership recruitment drive.
2. Participate in active political engagements on the ground from the cell, ward, district, provincial and national levels.
3. Speak up for the masses by engaging the government and challenging the dysfunctional political system in the country.
4. Expose the opposition parties who during the day deceive our people by making false pronouncements against the excesses and failures of the government whilst during the night they nichodemously wine and dine with the corrupt government officials.
5. Contest for political power and political positions in any coming elections.

In conclusion, I want to speak directly to you fighters and to the entire people of Zimbabwe. Economic Freedom Fighters of Zimbabwe is a radical and revolutionary movement seeking to galvanise and embark on a struggle for change. We believe that change in Zimbabwe must start with the economic emancipation of the masses.

Despite all the hardships we are enduring at present, I would like to wish you a Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year! I know fully well that for many, life is hard, and the festive season will be difficult and uneventful.

As your President, I promise that, we will radically mobilise of fighters until we have a government for the people by the people. I am therefore inviting you ,from across the length and breath of the country to join us to work tirelessly to hold the government to account and to work towards a democratic change of government – with a vision to usher in a radical economic change not for the few but for the many !

Everywhere EFF! EFF Everything!

Kwese Kwese EFF! EFF Kwese Kwese!

Yonke Indawo EFF! EFF Yonke Indawo!

Yours in the Revolution,

Innocent Gagu Lutshutsha Ndibali

President, EFF Zimbabwe