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Tsvangirai rejects 'mobocracy'

by Staff reporter
16 Mar 2014 at 15:42hrs | Views
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has played down the squabbles tearing his party saying fighting is normal within political parties.
"MDC-T leadership is clear. It is the only alternative to Zanu-PF. The mission, objectives, goals are clear. We cant be divided by squabbles. Which house has no squabbles?"
He also took a dig at Zanu-PF saying even though it was making fun of the party, it too had its own internals. 
"We hear about the Mujuru factions (referring to an alleged Zanu-PF faction said to be led by Vice President Joyce Mujuru). Isn't that squabbles too?"Tsvangirai asked.
"In the MDC-T, diverse views are allowed but we have a channel in which to express those. Democracy is not mobocracy," Tsvangirai told his supporters at a rally in Bulawayo.
Tsvangirai said the party condemned indiscipline and was mobilising itself, engaging in a road vision where the everyone would be talked to. 
"MDC-T must accept other comrades. We don't want to push people out of the tent," he said.
He said the MDC was on a re-invention drive, going back to its 1999 founding principles when the party was at its strongest position.
"Let's go back to basics, to the spirit of 1999. It will drive us to our last mile. Then we had a spirit of purpose," he said.
The party leader noted supporters had to be re-energised by the party. In the late 1990s the spirit of unionism was high and Tsvangirai called for civic society, churches, students and unions to walk with the party to its revival.
"Lets be ready for action, a party with no action is a dead party," he said.

Source - online