12 JULY 2013 10:39PM 

HARARE - In this question and answer interview with Honourable Jameson Timba (JZT), the Daily News’Executive Deputy Editor, Chris Goko (CG), graphically illustrates how the odds are stacked against political opponents of Zanu PF in the forthcoming elections, beginning with Sunday’s so-called special voting.

CG: Hon. Jameson Timba, you are once again representing your party in the Mt. Pleasant Constituency and tomorrow there is special voting in your constituency. What are the issues?

JZT: Well Mt. Pleasant Constituency houses Morris Depot, Tomlinson Depot, KG6 and Pomona Barracks, and a number of applications for special voting from these institutions have been filed with Zec.

CG: How many?

JZT: My understanding is that there are about 7 000 police details and 140 army personnel and 2 000 prison officers.

CG: Are all these personnel voting in your constituency?

JZT: Well, according to our voters’ roll as of May 2013, there were approximately 3 200 soldiers registered under the KG6 address, 2 780 under Tomlinson Depot, 1 912 under Morris Depot and 832 under Harare Remand Prison.

CG: Do all these people reside at these premises?

JZT: Chris, firstly I do not know and I have no way of knowing who resides at the above institutions other than the information generally known by members of the public. It is the duty of the Constituency Registrar under the supervision of Zec to verify.

I raised issues, in writing, with Zec with respect to what I perceived as anomalies. Firstly, KG6 is our national army headquarters and to the best of my knowledge, it does not accommodate 3 200 persons. Our army personnel who work there reside at Dzivaresekwa State Barracks and they are ferried to work by bus every day.

With respect to Morris Depot, it is largely a training depot where recruits stay there for about six months and thereafter they are deployed to their areas countrywide where they reside and work and as such should vote from.

With respect to prison officers, I am not sure whether new prisons are going to be constructed during the election period to necessitate the deployment of prison officers away from their prison guard duties in their wards and thus qualifying them for special voting.

CG: What did Zec say?

JZT: I was not favoured with the courtesy of a response from the Zec Chair with regards to the anomalies that I raised with the roll affecting security personnel, but in my correspondence I indicated to them that I will purchase the voters’ roll after it is closed after July 9, 2013 and see whether they have corrected the roll and registered people in the wards that they reside.

CG: But why did you not push for correction of the roll?

JZT: Look, it is the responsibility of Zec to ensure that we have a credible roll. The anomalies of the roll were not restricted to the security establishments only, but also other areas.

For instance, a whole team of persons who reside at a farm in Mazowe District called Kaduku Farm or Teviotdale Plot were registered in Mt. Pleasant.

I pointed this out to Zec. We also have a case of people who do not reside at Bannockburn Compound registered, with at least 27 of them registered on one address. This is crazy.

CG: What next then if Zec have not taken steps to correct the anomalies?

JZT: Firstly, I reserve my rights at law and if the anomalies impact on the result of the election, then I will challenge it. Secondly, I also believe that every Zimbabwean including the security personnel should be given a right to vote, albeit in their correct wards.

Thirdly, I do not see how the agenda of those who planned this distortion of the roll will be advanced.

CG: What do you mean when you say you don’t see know how their agenda will be advanced?

JZT: The MDC, as you might be aware pushed for the amendment of the Electoral Act so that security personnel do not vote in their barracks. The Special Voting System now gives them freedom to vote in secret and for whoever they want.

This system is such that no-one will know how they would have voted and their votes will be counted together with the rest of the civilians’ votes on July 31.

In addition, the mood amongst civilians in the constituency is to protect the constituency from being securitised, so they will vote in their multitudes come July 31.

CG: But there are reports which were saying that security personnel were told that the serial numbers of their special vote application forms will be linked to the serial number of the ballot paper.

JZT: That is hogwash. If that was said they were lied to in an attempt to intimidate them. There is absolutely no link and Zec has made this clear. Their vote is secret.

CG: So they have nothing to worry?

JZT: Absolutely. They, like any other citizen have suffered under Zanu PF rule and they want change for themselves and the future of their children.

They want better salaries, better education facilities and a functioning economy, which can only be realised under an MDC government.

They are tired of a system where only those on the top and those who are connected are enjoying the fruits of our country.

CG: What are you offering the people of Mount Pleasant?

JZT: Chris, I am a member of a team; The MDC Real Transformation Team. I am offering Mt Pleasant competent representation at local and national level in transforming our country, informed by five key policy pillars, that is, good governance based on the rule of law, and an end to Zanu PF’s governance culture of impunity, patronage, corruption and fear.

Secondly, Economic Reconstruction, Growth and Employment Creation driven by domestic and foreign investment to resuscitate our collapsed economy.

Thirdly, social transformation that will render health and education services accessible and affordable, including transforming the State from one that is feared to one that cares for its citizens.

Fourthly, the immediate restoration of broken relationships regionally and internationally.

Finally, the implementation of the devolution provisions of the Constitution. In this regard, I will advocate for the decentralisation to the Mt. Pleasant District Office of the following: The localisation of the Engineering and Works Department for the repair of roads; localisation of the repair of streetlights; localisation of the management of public health facilities such as clinics; localisation of the management of public education facilities; localisation of the management of council security services; and a share of the rates and service fees paid by Mt. Pleasant residents to be ploughed back into the district.

Zim pledges quick results after election

http://www.news24.com/

2013-07-13 16:18

Harare - Zimbabwe's electoral body on Saturday vowed to announce the results
of the 31 July 31 presidential polls, pitting veteran President Robert
Mugabe against rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, within five days.

Officials had delayed announcing elections results in 2008 for six weeks
when Mugabe came second to Tsvangirai in the first round of the leadership
race.

"The fifth of August is the date on which, come hail, come thunder, we must
announce the results. That is what the law says," said Rita Makarau,
chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).

Under a new constitution, the ZEC must announce the results of the
presidential election within five days of voting, but results for members of
parliament are issued earlier, she said..

In 2008, Tsvangirai's first round lead fell just short of an outright
majority , but Mugabe went on to be declared the winner of a presidential
run-off which Tsvangirai had pulled out of in protest over violence.

The July 31 crunch vote will end the pair's power-sharing government that
was brokered with Mugabe as president and Tsvangirai as prime minister to
end an economic meltdown after the 2008 polls chaos.

Tsvangirai has complained about the lack of implementation of key reforms in
the electoral, media and security sectors that were agreed by the unity
government partners.

On Sunday soldiers, police and essential services government staff on duty
on election day cast their special vote ahead of the general public vote on
31 July.

About 87 000 people are set to take part in the early vote.

- AFP

Tsvangirai: I Will Beat Mugabe in Free, Fair Election

http://www.voazimbabwe.com/

Loirdham Moyo
13.07.2013

WASHINGTON DC — Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says he will beat his
bitter rival, President Robert Mugabe, in the forthcoming general elections.

Addressing about 20,000 people at an election campaign rally held at Sakubva
Stadium in Mutare on Saturday, Mr. Tsvangirai said he is confident that he
will trounce President Mugabe and form the next government.

He said it’s time for the president, who has ruled Zimbabwe for more than 33
years, to take a rest and enjoy time with his family.

The prime minister said people should vote for him in order to benefit from
the country’s abundant natural resources.

Mr. Tsvangirai added that MDC-T youths should not engage in political
violence in the run up to the general polls.

He also said he is not worried about some of the bad issues being said about
him at campaign rallies nationwide. His opponents have accused the former
trade unionist of engaging in some activities that are not fit for a leader
like him.

Mr. Tsvangirai said despite these drawbacks, he is confident of chalking up
a victory in the elections, especially if the polls are free and fair.

He noted that if elected president, he will ensure that there is
transparency in the running of the government.

Also present at the rally was Mavambo Kusile Dawn party president Simba
Makoni. The former finance minister and Zanu PF politiburo member’s party
has formed an alliance with the MDC-T.

The MDC-T unveiled its party manifesto at Sakubva Stadium which promises to
stabilize the Zimbabwe economy at create over 2 million jobs in five years,
among many other issues.

President Mugabe campaigning in Marange, Manicaland Province, on Saturday.
President Mugabe campaigning in Marange, Manicaland Province, on Saturday.
In a related development, President Mugabe on Saturday urged Zimbabweans to
form their own churches.

Mr. Mugabe told thousands of people in Marange, Manicaland Province, that it
is possible for local people to form indigenous churches as Zimbabwe is an
independent nation.

Addressing members of the Johanne Marange Apostolic Faith sect, he said most
churches in Zimbabwe were set up by missionaries.

Meanwhile, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo is expected to lead a
60-member African Union (AU) team to monitor Zimbabwe’s general elections.

The AU says Obasanjo will arrive in Zimbabwe 10 days before the polls set
for July 31. The organization says the monitors are drawn from African
non-governmental organisations and member nations.

The team will join nine observers that are already in Zimbabwe where the MDC
formations are crying foul over the voters’ roll which they claim has left
out thousands of aliens and other potential voters.

President Mugabe’s party is opposing the deployment of non-African observers
saying any country which imposed targeted sanctions on him and his inner
circle will not be allowed to observe the elections.

Political analyst Nkululeko Sibanda of Huddersfield University in London
told VOA Studio 7 that Obasanjo is expected to be part of a tough monitoring
team from the AU.

Mugabe takes a swipe at white people, gay rights in Africa

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13 JUL 2013 19:01AFP

Robert Mugabe has accused his political rivals of wanting to "bring back the
white people" and criticised gay rights ahead of Zimbabwe's elections.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe (89), clad in a white church robe and
holding a biblical staff on Saturday, appealed to thousands of members of a
church in eastern Marange to support his bid for re-election after 33 years
in power.

"We made a mistake in 2008 to vote for the people who love the white people.
Voting for people who want to bring back the white people and thinking that
there won't be any development without white people," he said.

The veteran leader will go head to head at the ballot box with longtime
rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.

The vote will end the pair's tense power-sharing government that was forced
by the chaotic 2008 polls.

Speaking in the diamond rich area, about 200 kilometres east of the capital
Harare, Mugabe pushed his message of indigenisation of the economy.

"The rich resources that our country is endowed with are for the black
people, this is our country. And those who must rule this country must be
black people," he said.

Mugabe also attacked gay marriage, saying it was alien to Africa and
criticised US President Barack Obama for urging Africa to respect gay rights
on a recent visit to the continent.

'Weddings are for a man and a woman'
"You heard it when Obama came to Africa saying Africa must allow gay
marriages, even women to marry each other so they can wed if they want," he
said.

"God destroyed the earth because of these sins. Weddings are for a man and a
woman, who when married they bear children," he said.

Mugabe who once said gays and lesbians are worse than pigs and dogs, said
animals are better off because they know their sexual orientation.

Meanwhile, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) on Saturday vowed to
announce the results of the July 31 presidential polls within five days of
voting.

Officials had delayed announcing election results in 2008 for six weeks when
Mugabe came second to Tsvangirai in the first round of the leadership race.

"The fifth of August is the date on which, come hail, come thunder, we must
announce the results. That is what the law says," said Rita Makarau,
chairperson of the ZEC.

Under a new Constitution, the ZEC must announce the results of the
presidential election within five days of voting, but results for members of
Parliament are issued earlier, she said.

In 2008, Tsvangirai's first-round lead fell just short of an outright
majority but Mugabe went on to be declared the winner of a presidential
run-off – which Tsvangirai had pulled out of in protest over violence. – AFP

Zuma assasination plot claim hogwash: Zanu PF

http://www.newzimbabwe.com/

12/07/2013 00:00:00
     by The Guardian (UK)

ZANU PF has dismissed as “hogwash” and a “typical set-up” an apparently
secret document said to be from intelligence sources that alleges an
outlandish plot by President Robert Mugabe to hire a Lebanese murder squad
to assassinate his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, and a top
diplomat.

The typed two-page report – persuasively detailed but at times written in
excitable language strewn with grammatical and spelling errors – has been
dismissed by Mugabe's Zanu PF party as "hogwash" and a "typical setup". The
rival Movement for Democratic Change said the assassination threats should
be taken seriously.

They come amid souring relations between the neighbouring countries ahead of
key elections in Zimbabwe this month. Last week Mugabe branded Zuma's chief
mediator, Lindiwe Zulu, “some stupid, idiotic woman” and a "little street
woman" after her failed attempt to force a postponement of elections.

The purportedly leaked document, dated 2 July and of unknown authorship,
contains a paragraph headed: "Lebonese assasins" (sic). It states: "On
Monday this week Mugabe hired six Lebanese nationals to try and assassinate
Lindiwe Zulu, who is Zuma's advisor.

“The six met clandestinely with Mugabe yesterday to be briefed by him on the
details of their mission … The six were told they must not concentrate on
Zulu only, but should also pay attention to Zuma himself, and if they get a
chance to do so they must assassinate him as well – but everything must
appear as an accident."

It adds: "Mugabe promised the six Lebonese [sic] an undisclosed fortune in
cash if they succeed in getting rid of the two who [sic] South Africa senior
officials who are giving him a lot of trouble. Names of the six could not be
established, but they entered into the country via Zambia in the last few
days, where they had previously held a close meeting with [president]
Michael Sata before travelling into Zimbabwe."

The document also claims that Mugabe summoned and castigated security
officers over a leak to the MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, regarding the
involvement of an Israeli company in managing the country's electoral role.

Mugabe ordered that "the culprits who leaked the information are made to
suffer and die a painful death", it says. Tsvangirai has spoken publicly
about his concern over the role of the Israeli company Nikuv.

The Guardian has seen a copy of the two-page document but has not been able
to verify it as being genuine. The possibility that it is a hoax designed to
embarrass the opposition cannot be ruled out.

Rugare Gumbo, spokesman for Zanu PF, insisted: "To be frank with you, it's
all rubbish and hogwash to think a head of state like president Mugabe would
set up something like that. We have a disagreement with Lindiwe Zulu but it
would not go to that extent."

Asked about the alleged threat to Zuma, he replied: "You should not take it
seriously. It's a typical setup in Zimbabwe to try and cause some confusion
before the election because we are going ahead with our election according
to our laws whether they like it or not."

Fierce factional infighting within Zanu PF and the security sector has
resulted in a number of damaging intelligence leaks.
Douglas Mwonzora, the MDC's spokesperson, said of the document: "We have had
sight of the intelligence information but we are unable to confirm its
authenticity. For the MDC, the international community must take these
assassination allegations seriously."

But Roy Bennett, the MDC treasurer-general, in exile, was more certain.
"We know the report to be credible; it comes from reliable and trustworthy
sources within the heart of the CIO," he said. "It is a stark reminder of
the full horrific extent that Robert Mugabe is prepared to go in order to
hang on to power and avenge his critics."

The MDC and civil society groups in Zimbabwe have applauded Zuma for taking
a tougher stand against Mugabe than the previous South African president,
Thabo Mbeki.

Rivals target Mugabe’s advanced age

http://www.newzimbabwe.com/

12/07/2013 00:00:00
     by Staff Reporter

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s age and claimed failing health have become a key
campaign issue for rivals fighting to end the veteran leader’s three decade
stay in power this month.

Zimbabwe will hold elections to choose a substantive government on July 31
with Mugabe, who turned 89 this year, again leading his Zanu PF party in the
key vote.

Mugabe has led the country since independence in 1980 and his party for even
longer than that.
Addressing supporters at Neuso in Mhondoro this week, MDC-T leader and
outgoing premier Morgan Tsvangirai joked that Zimbabweans would make it into
the Guinness Book of Records if they elect into office an 89 year-old as the
country’s President.

“I cannot avoid talking about Mugabe’s age. It is a serious national issue,”
Tsvangirai said.
“The old man needs to rest because at 90 years he should be enjoying his
pension. We can’t trust a 90 year-old to run this country for another five
years.

“I gave him four years to pack. Now it’s time for him to go and rest in
Zvimba while an energetic, young and responsive government leads Zimbabwe
into the future,” said Tsvangirai.

Mugabe has also launched his own re-election campaign and addressed some
20,000 supporters at a rally in Chiweshe.
UK-based Zimbabwean academic Miles Tendi who attended the rally said the
Zanu PF leader looked in remarkable shape for a man his age

“Mugabe is old, but in remarkable shape for a man his age. He will conduct
fewer rallies in this campaign than he did in the past, but it is mistaken
to think he will not complete his campaign schedule with steely
determination," Tendi wrote after the rally.

The Zanu PF leader has made several health-related trips to Singapore but
denies he has any major concerns.
He travelled to the Southeast Asian island city-state again late last month
but aides said the trip was for a routine check-up after a cataract
operation carried out in 2011.

Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa – who filed Mugabe’s nomination papers
while he was still away in Singapore – also said Zanu PF had no concerns
over the health of its candidate.

Speaking to reporters outside the nomination court, Mnangagwa quipped: “He
(Mugabe) is fitter than you. He is a careful man. He has gone for a normal
medical check-up on his eye."

Meanwhile, Tsvangirai took his campaign to Kariba on Friday where his MDC-T
party said thousands of supporters turned up despite “attempts by the police
and the Zanu PF militia to block the people from attending” the rally.

The premier again made reference to his rival’s age, saying the elections
give Zimbabweans a chance elect a new and younger leadership with fresh
ideas for turning around the country’s fortunes.

“The elections will be between the past and the future and it is a choice
between the old and the young. Modern politics is not about hate speech or
hailing insults at each other, it is about articulating issues that benefit
the people,” he said.

“Robert Mugabe has nothing to offer but hate language and violence to the
people, it is about articulating issues that benefit the people. In the 33
years that Zanu PF has been in power it has been pursuing disruptive
policies such as indigenisation and the chaotic land reform.

“While Zanu PF is talking about the return of the Zimbabwe dollar, the
people of Zimbabwe know that it is untenable at the moment. However, the MDC
has a plan to return Zimbabwe to a better future for the people. We want to
restore good governance and the rule of law.”

Mugabe can't be trusted to lead Zim - Mawere

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BRIDGET MANANAVIRE  •  12 JULY 2013 10:44PM

HARARE – Businessperson Mutumwa Mawere says President Robert Mugabe cannot
be trusted to lead Zimbabwe for the next five years.

“Don’t trust anybody, people trusted president Mugabe and today they are
poor,” he told a news conference at the Meikles Hotel on Friday.

He said Mugabe did not have a clue of what is happening in Zimbabwe as he is
trying to recycle bad ideas.

“His world views are wrong, that I can take shares from here and there, then
you become okay, if the views are wrong they don’t require age. You can’t
recycle bad ideas and hope they will become good ideas,” Mawere said.

He said Mugabe continued to abuse the State media in a bid to hide his
short-comings.

“Because he controls the State, he gets coverage visibility. Everything that
he says is reported and everything that anyone says is reported negatively,
that is the tendency,” he said.

“Incumbents are very difficult to fight, not because they have support but
because people don’t know the truth. People are gullible because we don’t
know the other side of the truth.”

Mawere, who recently regained his citizenship after a protracted legal
battle at the Constitutional Court, said people needed to fight for their
voting right, so as to determine their future.

“I am going to vote because I am now eligible, I took my passport today, and
people who need change must work for it,” he said.

“With citizenship comes the obligation, a right to vote, to make sure I don’t
blame other people for their choice. After the election, it will be too late
to say why president Robert Mugabe became a president when I had a right to
stop it.”

He said he had to mount a test case to ascertain the country’s citizenship
laws for the benefit of future generations.

“By testing the right of citizenship on me, now you understand what the
citizenship laws are, will would have never known that. I had to go to the
Con-Court to establish that I am a Zimbabwean. Active citizenship gives
outcome, if you’re not active you get the leadership you deserve and if you’re
silent, you will not get a better outcome and history has defined that. I
was fighting to assert the right to citizenship,” Mawere said.

“That is why I went to court because the Constitution said we want people
like you to be citizens then here I am, I go to (Registrar General Tobaiwa)
Mudede and he says no, you can’t get a passport, an ID but because we’re
nation of law, here is the Zimbabwean passport. And we’re making what?

"The Constitution to have a meaning, I would have expected people like
president Mugabe to say no, Mudede don’t do that, we have this new
Constitution amendment number 20, how can you stop Mawere, if he wants to
register he’s just one vote, why are you afraid of him?”

Reaffirming his support for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s candidature
in the July 31 watershed election, Mawere said Mugabe’s bookish ways had
failed to solve the country’s problems.

“Right now the country is going down while you have a smart leader, you have
president Mugabe with nice speeches, after all the nice speeches people are
still hungry, so I don’t have a president who is smart,” Mawere said.

“I am just saying 33 years, if I had a magic plan I would have shown some
signs of what?

Right now if you go to Dubai, people go to shop there, 33 years ago there
was nothing, it was just camels.”

Grace tells Mugabe’s rival no vacancy at State House

http://www.iol.co.za/

July 13 2013 at 03:34pm
By Peta Thornycroft

Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe’s First Lady Grace Mugabe says there is no vacancy at
State House and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader Morgan
Tsvangirai “is dreaming” if he thinks that he will be the next president
after July 31 elections.

Grace Mugabe, who recently opened the most expensive private school in
Zimbabwe, does not live at State House. She and her husband Robert live in a
fabulous mansion in top Harare suburb Borrowdale, which cost them more than
R100 million to build and which is maintained by the state, although it is
their private property.

State House is a very much smaller, colonial-style house compared with the
Mugabe mansion on three floors and extensive grounds with lakes and a
helipad.

State House is still used for state banquets and official meetings.

It is close to the Harare town centre, but is in a shabbier state and in
need of maintenance.

Addressing thousands of people at a “star rally” at Glendale, outside
Harare, in the run-up to the elections, Mugabe’s wife said the MDC-T leader
was not leadership material.

“I want to repeat what I said in 2008. There is no vacancy at State House.
It is occupied full time.”

She said her husband was a hardworking leader who remained resolute on what
he believed was best for the people of Zimbabwe.

Mugabe himself told the rally Zanu-PF should avoid the mistake it made in
2008 when it lost two constituencies in Mashonaland Central to Tsvangirai’s
MDC – including the one where the rally was held. – Independent Foreign
Service

Tsvangirai makes job poll pitch

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FUNGI KWARAMBA, MUGOVE TAFIRENYIKA AND XOLISANI NCUBE  •  13 JULY 2013
12:17PM

HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday at a rally in
Kariba, job creation will be high on the agenda of an MDC government after
winning the July 31 elections.

The Kariba rally attracted thousands despite attempts by the police and the
Zanu PF militia to block people from attending.

“The next MDC government will revive the agriculture sector which was
destroyed by the Zanu PF government, revive the mining sector and bring
accountability in the selling of the countries’ minerals,” Tsvangirai said.

“In the process of rebuilding the country, there will be the creation of
more jobs.

“Our policy on the social sector, the government should care for the
elderly, orphans and widows. To do this, the MDC will create a fund that
caters for the vulnerable groups while we will create free treatment centres
for those suffering from terminal illness such as cancer and HIV/Aids.”

Describing the forthcoming vote as “watershed”, he said: “It is not only a
transitional election but a generational election and the MDC as the people’s
choice will win it basing on how well the party has performed in the
inclusive government.

“The elections will be between the past and the future and it is a choice
between the old and the young. Modern politics is not about hate speech or
hurling insults at each other, it is about articulating issues that benefit
the people.

“Robert Mugabe has nothing to offer but hate language and violence to the
people, it is about articulating issues that benefit the people.”

Tsvangirai’s spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka, reacting to comments by First
Lady Grace Mugabe that Tsvangirai was a man of loose morals, “ugly” and
unelectable, said: “Of all the people, Grace Mugabe is not qualified to
comment on the prime minister’s morals because she destroyed the marriage of
an otherwise honourable First Lady that we had. The only philanderer the
prime minister knows of is a president who fell in love with his secretary
while his legitimate wife was dying of a kidney ailment.”

Meanwhile, Tsvangirai said Zanu PF has been pursuing disruptive policies
such as indigenisation and land reform.

“While Zanu PF is talking about the return of the Zimbabwe dollar, the
people of Zimbabwe know that it is untenable at the moment,” he said.

“However, the MDC has a plan to return Zimbabwe to a better future for the
people.”

MDC secretary-general, Tendai Biti said the July 31 election will put an end
to 33 years of Zanu PF’s misrule, corruption and lack vision.

“Governance means a leadership that has love for the people,” Biti said.

“The MDC’s love for the people can be seen by its record in the inclusive
government. The very reason while the MDC formed the inclusive government
was to serve the lives of the people from the total destruction of Zanu PF.
People should not forget the suffering they went through in 2008.”

After the Kariba rally, Tsvangirai moved to Magunje in Karoi where he
addressed thousands of other party supporters in the afternoon.

Meanwhile, Welshman Ncube yesterday launched his campaign in Chikomba in
Mashonaland East Province accompanied with his coalition partner Dumiso
Dabengwa of Zapu. He said he is poised for victory and those wishing to vote
for Zanu PF and its leader or prime minister Tsvangirai, will be taking back
the country into calamity.

“We want a government that has zero tolerance for corruption, and Mugabe has
failed to deliver on that,” Ncube said.

Ncube added that Mugabe has nothing to offer in the near future as he has
passed his sell-by date.

“What do you think Mugabe will do now which he did not do for you in the
past 33 years? We are not against Mugabe, we don’t hate him but we want the
future of this country which is clear,” he said.

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