President Chamisa was addressing a tumultuous crowd at the Morgan Tsvangirai lecture hosted at a city hotel by the MDC’s Harare province in conjunction with the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai School of Leadership and Ideology Development (SOLID).“We are the best because we learnt from the best. Morgan Tsvangirai taught us that we must use peace to confront guns and violence.
This is the year of action. They will try to shoot us and whenever you see anyone using guns, you must know that they are cowards,” the people’s President told the teeming crowd. He said Zimbabweans were ready to peacefully confront the dictatorship, said President Chamisa, who frequently interspersed his speech by questioning the crowd whether they were ready for action, to which there a deafening din as the mammoth crowd responded in the affirmative. The guest speaker at the memorial lecture, Dr Ibbo Mandaza, said the late people’s icon, Dr Tsvangirai, left a rich legacy of service and sacrifice.
He said through the MDC, formed by the late icon and others, President Tsvangirai taught Zimbabweans of the glaring limitations of the glaring limitations of the liberation struggle. He said while the liberation movement had brought political independence, it had glaringly lacked the capacity to govern and to turn around the economy. “In government, especially this government, we have men and women with absolutely no clue,” Dr. Mandaza said to rapturous applause. He said President Tsvangirai’s legacy of courage and bravery was second to none.
The late icon’s brother, Manase Tsvangirai, said his brother was a torch-bearer and urged the MDC leadership to remain united until victory was achieved. He said the democratic struggle must not be betrayed and urged elected deployees of the party, particularly MPs and councilors, to remain grounded in the people and not to abandon the people who voted for them. The party’s chairperson for Harare province, Hon. Wellington Chikombo walked the crowd through the life of the late icon, which showed that he was a man of tenacity and courage. He said the late icon was brutalized, harassed and charged with treason but remained focused on the struggle.
President Chamisa said apart from the Morgan Tsvangirai Memorial Lectures, which would become an annual event, the party was consulting with the family with a view to forming the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai Foundation so that the icon’s name would remain embedded and etched in the national psyche.
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Chamisa talks too much! He and his MDC friends are just as much responsible for the man-made crisis as Zanu PF leaders. MDC had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU they failed to implement even one reform.
MDC were warned not to participate in the 2013 and 2018 elections with no reforms in place and they ignored the warnings because of greed.
If the people of Zimbabwe are ever going to implement the democratic reforms and finally end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance then they must find some other people to implement the reforms. Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends will never implement any reforms.
“Some have said the MDC is saying they are not going to participate in elections, we cannot boycott national processes but any election that does not respect conditions for a free and fair election is not national and cannot be an election,” said Chamisa when the party launched its PRICE document calling reforms.
In short, MDC will participate in the 2023 elections even if not one reform is implemented. Why, indeed, would Zanu PF implement any reforms when the party knows MDC will participate giving the process credibility regardless how flawed and illegal it happen to be.