By Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo- MDC Alliance is running a 1 million campaign ahead of 2023 elections,

My assessment is that the campaign targets potential voters from the age of 16-35, and the assumption is that these so called potential voters will be turned into a political dividend. I have few questions to the opposition movement :

1. Why is it all campaigns, press conferences, media briefings are done in urban areas, and why not in rural areas ?
2. Why is it that all your vibes during the campaigns you love photo shooting, and selfies and posting on twitter?
3. Have you seen Zanu PF posting images of their strategies, meetings and plans on social media?
4. Have you thought of those youths which you pose for photos with, after those meetings you can put their lives at risk? Why posting strategies on social media?
5. Does opposition really know what Zanu PF system is all about and their strategies in a war of elections?
6. Any rural penetration policy framework to address voter apathy?
7. Voters need food on the table, jobs, clothes and not images. Politics of today, is politics of the belly, if you don’t mobilize resources and expecting miracles in 2023 then you are out of the game
8. Do you understand the impact of Pfumvudza? Do you know what Pfumvudza means to rural voters than to urban voters?
9. Less tweets and social media vibes, go down to the roots and engage electorates
10. Cry baby mentality after electoral loss must stop, do the correct thing.
11. Voters are now open minded people, they want something in shona we call it ” chinobatika”
12. Do not bank on Chamisa’s popularity, most people ride on other people’s popularity and at the end, parliamentary representation will be reduced, like the 2018 scenario
13. You must come up with systematic findings, research evidence on what happened during the 2018 elections and 2008. In 2008 MDC had over 100 Mps, and 2018 MDC got around 60 MPS , and what happened?
14. What led to the con court loss? Where the V 11 forms available?
15. Where was the technical knock out on the Con Court case? Was the case strong? Did the lawyers represent the opposition properly?
16. Do you have a proper policy direction of the party on areas such as land, agriculture, mining, tourism, infrastructure development, taxation, industry etc
17. You got 2.5 million votes, and honestly you can’t turn the party into a commercial brand. For example if one single supporter can donate a dollar, it means you have 2 million USD.
18. This idea of addressing huge rallies and after that getting surprises on the vote counting must stop. Systematic findings are critical in every scenario
19. Zanu PF is already ahead , come 2023 , it will be another new song. People are tired of songs from the same hym book, there was generational ideas transformed into practicalities
20. Be an alternative as a party if you want to govern, the time you spent as supporters on social media must be turned into political and Economic dividend
21. Zanu PF PF, the governing party is not moved by social media, you can hang around social media for 24 hours, they are on the ground campaigning, and later you will get 2013 results scenario

2023 is around the corner, with the rate at which rural pfumvudza project is moving, command farming, I’m afraid to say your parliamentary representation maybe reduced and at the same time , YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT ZANU PF DOES NOT LOOSE ELECTIONS CONSECUTIVELY!

Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo is the Head of Zimbabwe Institute of Strategic Thinking and can be contacted at [email protected]