“The select committee of COPAC should produce a report of the conference, summarise the views expressed by the stakeholders in particular the divergent views and submit it to the principals in government who will take the necessary steps to set up an appropriate mechanism to build a required consensus…..mindful that our major objective is the holding of harmonised elections in March next year under a new constitution,” President Robert Mugabe said, “There is now need for the government to assume the management of the process leading to the holding of a referendum”.
President Mugabe denounced political violence saying it was primitive.
“Let us shun violence in all it manifestations and latent forms especially as we look forward to our national elections’, said President Mugabe.
Calls by President Robert Mugabe for peace were erased by his party supporters in Chitungwiza who attacked Welshman Ncube led MDC officials.
The seven, who are said to be receiving medical attention at an undisclosed clinic in Harare we attacked while doing door to door political campaigns.
MDC parties have been rubbishing Mugabe’s peace calls saying they lacked practicality.
They said if the President was sincere he should order the arrest of perpetrators of political violence starting with those involved in Gukurahundi massacres.
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