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Benjamin Chitate – When Dr. Joice Mujuru spoke against corruption during the official unveiling of her party, Zimbabwe People First, the party’s faithful supporters applauded boisterously. None never bothered to check her own previous behaviour and statements about corruption.
Benjamin Chitate – I have watched the video of Dr. Joice Mujuru’s launch of her political party, the Zimbabwe People First, and I wonder if people really came first in her heart…
OPINION – When Toendepi Shonhe and other MDC Renewal officials went to the Labour Court to sue the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T for unfair dismissal, they knew very well that there was no dispute over who was the real MDC-T between the Sekai Holland-led MDC Renewal and the Morgan Tsvangirai-led outfit.
Thank you for your email informing of the postponement of a kangaroo gathering that you want to make the world believe was a legitimate hearing to preside over a case in which your confused, nameless party, accuses Morgan Tsvangirai, who is the leader of a rival political party, of a number of violations.
Media and social network sites reports that Zanu PF is forcing people to attend its rallies make me sad. While Zanu PF may have scaled down on large scale planned state sponsored violence as a campaign tool, forcing people to attend its rallies is not a better method to gain votes.
Education Minister, Senator David Coltart is on record saying “I have stated, as policy, on numerous occasions in the last 4 years that schools should not be used under any circumstances for partisan political activity.” However, he seems to have been ignored.
Prominent musician Thomas Mapfumo sang in one of his popular songs “Asingade, anenge asingade uyo, asingade, anenge asingade. Asingade, musamumanikidzewo, asingade, anenge asingade” (he who is not interested is not interested, leave him alone”.
Every Zimbabwean is entitled to support a party of their choice, even if it is led by someone who is not from their tribe, and every Zimbabwean is entitled to contest for any national office.
Old as he is, Zimbabwe ‘s current President, Comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe, no longer has the energy to run the country. This he knows very well, and in the last few months, he has publicly acknowledged his old age.
In one of his recent opinion pieces, MDC-Ncube’s Youth Secretary-General, Discent Collins Bajila writes about my “hatred for MDC President Welshman Ncube”. In a response to one of my recent opinion pieces, Ncube also thought I had “an obsession” with him.