By Deborah Harry | 2023 is around the corner and if we do not start organising in wards, towns and cities in Zimbabwe, we will heard into a shocking election just like what happened in 2013. Let’s not be overconfident that people will vote for us. Not only that but the votes need to be protected. Which is why we need to organise ourselves with the goal of having our own electoral monitors watching over everything.

As we all know, many of our people in Zimbabwe who all cannot wait to see Zanu of gone, are not in a position to fund the party to the extent required because of the poverty Zanu continues to hit them with. As such, all of us in the diaspora who are fed up with Zanu and can’t wait to see them out, should come in and raise funds for the election.

Elections need money, everyone knows that. The problem is that a lot of people take this fact for granted. Even in America, Obama, Trump, Biden all of them carried out fundraisers. These are people in peaceful countries, imagine us who are being ruled by a military . We need to raise funds. Many of the activists in Zimbabwe are willing and able to campaign for the party, but they need support with travel and food. Fundraisers can be done, we just need to organise and ensure that we involve the women. In the UK, in my experience, the most successful fundraisers have been the ones that were led by women organisations. In the diaspora, several women organisations including those from within the MDC Alliance have a king tradition of raising funds for various causes in Zimbabwe. We need this spirit on a larger scale going into this election if we are to have any chance of winning the 2023 election.

By Deborah Harry
MDC Alliance Reading Branch Organising Secretary