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Party Calls for Urgent SADC Summit to Resolve Outstanding Issues Iz qula enzo u I G ze o n ir z it o a G M u q a j u n l i a h C C h o i r n i t j i a a M M a a i j t i n r i o h C The Changing Times Movement for Democratic Change A Party of Excellence! The Official Mouthpiece of the MDC Tuesday 18 May MDC Information & Publicity Department, Harvest House, 44 Nelson Mandela Ave, Harare, Zimbabwe Issue 037: 2010 PartyMDC calls for urgent acts SADC summit on to resolve violence outstanding issues The ruling MDC has acted swiftly The national council also noted with expenditure in particular millions to deal with violence in the party serious concern the re-emergence of of dollars spent through travel and by expelling all the party youths violence in most parts of the country, subsistence allowances as well as huge implicated in the recent disturbances at with Zanu PF vigilantes and rogue amounts being spent on acquisition of Harvest House. war veterans promising more violence after the World Cup in South Africa non-productive capital, in particular Addressing a press conference in June. The party demanded that all motor vehicles. following a national council meeting parties in the inclusive government at the party’s headquarters in Harare on must respect Article 18 of the Global Sunday, President Morgan Tsvangirai Political Agreement. said the MDC expresses its revulsion at all cases of violence in the party “The MDC is also concerned about Roll of shame and anyone who engaged in violent the selective application of the law activities would be expelled. including the Attorney General’s failure The Changing Times continues and reluctance to prosecute perpetrators this week to publish names of The President announced the of violence following the March 2008 perpetrators of political violence expulsion from the party of Rhino elections in clear breach of Article 18.5 and their dastardly handiwork as Mashaya, Shakespear Mukoyi, (c) and (j) of the GPA,” the party said. reported to the Attorney General. Stephen Jahwi, Todini Todini and These people continue to roam the The National Council condemned country scot-free. Francis Machimbidzofa.. the slow rate by which Constitutional Commissions were delivering their “The above youths shall not participate mandates, particularly the Zimbabwe Tendai Savanhu in any activities of the Party and that Media Commission which is yet to The losing Zanu PF parliamentary no member of the Party shall, within pluralise Zimbabwe’s media sector candidate in Mbare, Harare. the context of Party activities, associate three months after it started work. Savanhu organised the notorious or entertain the above,” the President Chipangano militia that assaulted told journalists. The party also restated its commitment MDC supporters in Mbare and to seeing an improvement in the surrounding areas. Savanhu was He said the five youths had been working conditions of all workers, personally involved in the assault fingered by a party-commissioned especially civil servants. of a group of MDC women who probe team which was set up following President Morgan Tsvangirai addressing journalists in Harare on Sunday had been abducted from their disturbances at Harvest House on the “The MDC is a social democratic party th th homes during the night of June 12 and the 14 April 2010. of Cabinet, the unilateral alteration The party also noted with concern the born from the struggle of the working 21 2008. of ministerial mandates and the lack of transparency and due process in people of Zimbabwe. To this extent, the The expulsion follows recent controversial Ministry of Information the handling of diamonds at Chiadzwa MDC strives to uphold and improve the disturbances at the party headquarters, Permanent Secretary George Charamba and in the granting of concessions living conditions of workers including Olivia Muchena where a party vehicle was seized and who also doubles up as Mr Robert and mining rights in the area. The the paying of reasonable and equitable Mutoko South MP and Cabinet unknown people gained entry into the Mugabe’s spokesperson. party demanded that all concessions wages. The right to a basic wage being minister. Muchena sponsored party headquarters through the back and mining rights be granted on the a fundamental right,” reads part of the Zanu PF militia in attacking MDC principle of transparency and openness resolution, adding that revenue for supporters in Mutoko and Mudzi of the building. The President said the involving public auctioning or public leadership would get to the bottom of “The party urges the immediate salaries could be created through the districts. The militia were also tender processes to be carried out by an transparent and professional handling involved in looting property and the matter in order to allow the party convening of a SADC Summit to resolve independent authority. to concentrate on its core business of these matters, which SADC Summit of proceeds from the Chiadzwa livestock of MDC members. On delivering real change to the people should clearly discuss the roadmap to diamond fields. May 1 2008, she was personally “All income from Chiadzwa should involved in the destruction of of Zimbabwe. an election and the guarantees to the be accounted for transparently to the legitimacy of that election,” reads part “The MDC is also aware of thousands Revai Kativhu’s homestead in State to enable the same to attend to Mutoko South. President Tsvangirai said the MDC of the national council resolution. capital and recurrent expenditure and of ghost workers and Zanu PF militia had been a victim of violence for the in particular the adequate remuneration on the civil service wage roll. It is past 11 years and could not allow a On indigenisation, the council said of civil servants,” the party said after its important that the civil service audit be Flora Bhuka situation where the Zanu PF culture of the regulations should lead to the decisive meeting on Sunday. concluded as a matter of urgency. In this Gokwe – Nembudziya MP and violence and impunity creeps into the empowerment of the ordinary people regard, we find it unacceptable that the Cabinet minister. She is the party ranks. of Zimbabwe and not the Zanu PF elite. “The interests of the Marange Public Service Commission continues feared perpetrator and organiser of people must be made paramount and to stall the same by refusing to supply violence in Gokwe. Many MDC critical information to auditors.” The national council, the party’s “The MDC believes in broad-based due process, decency and fairness supporters who were assaulted supreme decision-making body outside empowerment for the people and for this must be applied in the processes of in Gokwe described her as “very reason condemns the current proposed compensations and relocations of The National Council expressed dangerous and ruthless.” Congress, also took far-reaching affected Marange communities.” unhappiness with profligate government decisions on the issues of the dialogue indigenization regulations on the basis and the outstanding GPA matters, the that they are elitist, selective and a mere diamond mines at Chiadzwa, the state vehicle for further enrichment of the rich of the economy, the working conditions few, self aggrandizement, patronage, of civil servants, the indigenisation clientelism and further destruction of MDC activist’s body spends year in mortuary regulations and the rule of law. the economy,” the council resolved. GOKWE – The body of MDC The deceased’s father, Tavengwa The elder Chokuda said the police Chokuda said there was no way the The national council urged the “It is our firm view that the original activist, Moses Chokuda who was were also forcing him to bury his son murdered last year by two Zanu family could bury Moses until his but he said he would not do so until Principals to immediately take indigenization and empowerment act murderers had apologised and explained should be repealed and be replaced by a PF youths who included the son of his demands are met. measures to implement and execute all Midlands governor and senior Zanu their motive for killing his son. the positions agreed by the negotiators, new law that balances the overwhelming PF official, Jason Machaya is still at “I have told the police that I could which include the issues of political and imperator of investment in the economy Gokwe hospital’s mortuary. On the fateful day, Machaya and Gana electoral reforms. against the fundamental obligation abducted Chokuda using a Zanu PF not proceed with the burial without getting a clear explanation from his of broad based empowerment. In Chokuda was murdered by Farai district coordinating committee vehicle. The national council called for the any event, it is important to marry murderers,” the elder Chokuda told Machaya, the son of the Midlands The two murderers were later arrested convening of an urgent SADC summit the indigenization programme with governor and Isaac Gana on 22 The Changing Times on Sunday. the experience of the land reform and their case is before the courts but to resolve all the outstanding issues of March 2009 at Masakadza business they are out of remand prison on bail. provincial governors, national heroes, programme. It is important to conclude centre, 50km from Gokwe Centre. Over 500 MDC supporters were the swearing-on of Hon Roy Bennett, the land reform audit urgently so that However, the governor is trying to killed by Zanu PF thugs aided by the issue of the RBZ governor Gideon lessons from the same are properly Gana is also the Zanu PF use his political muscle to block State security agents in 2008 after the Gono and Attorney-General Johannes applied to any programme that seeks Gokwe district coordinating further police investigations into the defeat of Zanu PF by the MDC in the Tomana, the review and reallocation to address the plight of previously committee chairperson.
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