Clarence Madhuku, Godfrey Costa and Sally Mlambo from the party’s Department of Organising and Party Building were arrested a t the MDC T offices in Gwanda alongside Limukani Nyoni the party’s Gwanda North district Chairperson were they were conducting a leadership training workshop.
In Beit bridge police arrested Morgan Ncube the party’s provincial youth chairperson and ten others who had convened for a similar purpose.
In both meetings police detectives allegedly disrupted proceedings and arrested facilitators.
Under Zimbabwe’s draconian laws it is illegally to convene a meeting without notifying the relevant authorities.
The arrested members are most likely to spend the weekend behind bars and may appear in court on Monday.
In Gwanda Thompson Mabhikwa stood in for the suspects while in Beit Bridge Winston Tshakalisa appeared for the accused.
In December last year police here arrested media monitors for allegedly holding an unsanctioned meeting; however magistrate Sheila Nazombe dropped the charges last month.
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Zanu PF can’t believe it’s lucky as MDC continues to throw lifelines at the flaccid former liberation movement.
MDC needs to minimize mistakes and seize political opportunities in order to burry Zanu PF. The gorillas have nothing in store except to capitalize on MDC’s misjudgments.
The recent arrest of MDC’s Director-General Toindepi Shonhe over his alleged conspiracy to murder Morgan Tsvangirai’s aide Dennis Murira is not the kind of internal development which is health to the welfare of
the populous party. What make it worse is that the MDC officials approached the police and opened a case against Shonhe. Even a day-dreamer will not expect the ZRP to fairly investigate the case.
Instead MDC is inviting the CIO to further destabilize an already loaded and tense situation at Harvest House. It is quite clear that the case will be assigned to CIOs in ZRP uniforms. Their mission will
be nothing other than to equip themselves with details of the infightings before devising a relevant spot-one strategy to deliver a fatal blow.
MDC must be complex enough to confuse its detractors. Glaring omissions by the top leadership speaks volumes of how the Chinjas might not be as intact as everyone is made to believe. One can not understand why the Youth Chairman Solomon Madzore is being allowed to
rot in jail without any contestation from the sleeping members of the Standing Committee. People are tempted to believe that internal squabbles are at play, something that should not be allowed to surface.
Honestly who expect the law to take its proper course when it is clear that Madzore is being politically persecuted by Zanu PF?
Madzore drew the ire of Zanu PF when he declared that his youths will apprehend Mugabe with their hands if Zanu PF turns violent in the next elections. It is fatuous for anyone to expect justice from the trial
of Madzore. At worst it would not be surprising if Solo fails to walk out of Chikurubi alive. Zanu PF hyenas and vultures are daily salivating on the most convenient way to squeeze life out of their
“captive.†And guess what MDC is doing about it? Nothing! And Zanu PF can’t believe how easy it is to infinitely incarcerate anybody in MDC,
including the leader of the supposed militant youth wing. One would have expected MDC to display a rare unison on Madzore’s detention.
Madzore’s continued detention should be a topical situate of contestation in the frictional GNU. The MDC President should be issuing daily statements in protest to the continued detention of his Youth leader. The Stand committee members should stand up and demand Madzore’s unconditional release from jail. Is it not shocking that neither Tsvangirai nor his minister of Home affairs, Theresa Makone never visited the holed young leader? When Roy Bennett was arrested,
Tsvangirai threatened to disengage “our partners (Zanu PF) in government.†When a Zanu PF stalwart ’son Didymus Mutasa was arrested Makone stormed Matapi Police Station demanding his release. The same cannot be said about the duo’s reaction to Madzore’s arrest. Mufana avakuchekereswa?
The MDC seems to have surrendered power and legitimacy to The Herald and ZBC. The MDC leadership is forever complaining about how
negatively they are depicted by The Herald and ZBC as if they draw some authenticity from the two discredited media outlets. What MDC is not realizing is that it is a darling to the international media?
Zimbabwe is a very literate society. People have access to internet sites and foreign newspapers. Anything that MDC says is viewed in the positive light by most media outlets of this world with the exception
of The Herald, The Chronicle, Manica Post and ZBC. This is simply because MDC has a legitimate cause and Tsvangirai is speaking the language of the people of Zimbabwe. Which log should be scared of
fire: a green one or a dry one? In this analogue MDC is a green and ice coated log whilst Zanu PF is a dry and petrol soaked one. The readily flammable Zanu PF is supposed to be the one scared of MDC’s media match-sticks and not the other way round. Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF have been attracting stinging international headlines since time immemorial. Only the Herald and ZBC are praise signing Zanu PF.
Not because there is anything to clap hands about Zanu PF, but Zanu PF is praising and congratulating itself through The Herald. Editors of both The Herald and ZBC do not even believe an itch of what is carried
or broadcasted by the media outlets they are supposed to be in charge of. People are rational beings who are able to make intelligent judgments. Ian Smith’s regime had the Herald and ZBC at its disposal, but Zanu PF managed to out-shine the colonizers by resorting to other channels of mass communication. Zanu PF never had access to the internet, face-book and mobile phones and many other resources that are at the disposal of MDC. MDC must shape up its media strategy and stop playing subservient to an ailing Zanu PF.
MDC has power, but is scared of exercising it. Is MDC aware that Zanu PF is scared of them? MaChinjas seem not to realize that they won elections. They are behaving as losers even though they are victors.
The only MDC minister who seems to be an authority in government is Tendai Biti, Minister of Finance. He refused to extend the contract of the Zimra Commissioner and is denying funds to Zanu PF’s bogus
operations. And Zanu PF’s point-man Gedion Gono is frothing and breathing hot air as Biti displays his muscular political power.
Minister Makone romanticized Augustine Chihuri too much for too long since she took over from the equally clueless Giles Mutseyikwa.
Chihuri was allowed to do as he pleases while business continued as usually in the police force, yet MDC has a minister in that ministry whose duty was to make sure that Augustine was behaving well. Members of ZRP continued to conduct themselves like Zanu PF militia under the nose of Makone.
Chihuri and Chiwenga should be history by now after the expiry of their contracts. Robert Mugabe is not empowered by the GNU constitution to unilaterally make senior appointments in the civil service without consulting the Prime Minister. Bob is not a normal
Head of State, occupying office after wining elections, but is a President through a vague arrangement after loosing the plebiscite.
No amount of arm-twisting should have coerced Tsvangirai to okay extension of their contracts even by two minutes. The two men are the greatest threats to the people’s project of regime change and there is
no justification whatsoever for extending their contracts. What was the rationale for compromising this? How in all fairness could anyone hire a personal cook who is clutching poison?
MDC must avoid falling prey to luxury life associated with being in government. Can anyone imagine that some MDC MPs and ministers are facing charges of embezzling the $50 000 community development funds?
MDC can’t afford to sacrifice their moral uprightness. With the clock ticking towards the election date more MDC leaders’ muck will be racked out.