Source: MDC targets women’s vote – DailyNews Live
Blessings Mashaya 28 March 2017
HARARE – MDC is targeting the women’s vote in the forthcoming 2018
election, with the party embarking on “kitchen meetings” mainly in the
rural areas.
Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, MDC women’s assembly leader Lynnet
Karenyi said the party seeks to increase its voting numbers in the
much-anticipated poll.
“We want to mobilise mothers so that they will encourage all their family
members to vote while the other campaign is targeting our children who are
currently working outside the country. We want them to come and vote so
that we deal with this evil…Zanu PF,” she said.
“We want to increase our voters. We want to have enough votes for us to
win the presidency. We have launched the mobilisation campaigns called
`Mhou nemhuru yayo’ and `Dzoka uyamwe’,” Karenyi added.
“We are moving around the country and we are having what we call kitchen
meetings were we discuss issues affecting women. We want to make sure that
all mothers will smile in their kitchens, cooking what they want after
2018 by voting for Tsvangirai.”
Karenyi said they managed to hold various meetings in the Midlands over
the weekend.
“On March 26, the Assembly of Women leadership demystified the myth that
Chirumanzu Zibagwe is a no-go area for MDC as they convened a meeting in
ward 22 Wadzanai. The kitchen meeting took place against all odds
regardless of the presence of police who wanted to interfere with a
private meeting. However, they were successfully defeated; a clear
indication that people are now determined to liberate themselves.
“I also preached humility, patience, forgiveness and perseverance as the
much-needed qualities for successful recruitment, alliance building as
well as networking. The women agreed to take the battlefront in the
democratic war and will take advantage of their population.”
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