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'Tendai Biti must learnt from Welshman Ncube,' says Tsvangirai
28 Jun 2014 at 13:01hrs | Views
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai said his erstwhile secretary-general Tendai Biti must learn from his predecessors who split from the party only to become perennial political failures.
Tsvangirai said this yesterday while he was in Gweshe village in Chiweshe where he addressed a handful of MDC supporters and was accompanied by the party deputy chairman Morgan Komichi.
Tsvangirai said his rivals failed to learn from those who left the party before but failed to exist on their own.
"The rebellion in 2005 by Welshman Ncube was a rebellion of trying to support Zanu-PF. Today, the rebellion by Biti and Mangoma is the same and there's no renewal in it. In 2005, a small group left the party as well as in 2008 but the party is still going, and we wonder who the strong ones are," said Tsvangirai.
"As a party, we are saying we should go in this direction and achieve these goals but someone starts to distort everything. Have you yet achieved what you set out to do in the beginning? Their only message is Tsvangirai must go, so when are you going to start to say Zanu-PF must go? You are wasting all your time saying Tsvangirai must go, is he Zanu-PF?
Tsvangirai claimed he had all the support from his party supporters who were rallying behind his efforts.
"A lot of people in the party know what we are doing, and they also know where we are going and they support it because they are sure that we are almost there. People of Zimbabwe know that victory is certain and I even know that myself. It will be a great betrayal to all those who have stood by us, if we fail this struggle," he said.
He added: "If anyone wants to leave the party, they should do so peacefully and let us do what we are doing in the MDC. It is not proper to say this one needs to step off so that we get on his spot, it shouldn't be done that way."
MDC deputy national chairman Komichi weighed in and took a swipe at those who broke away from the MDC.
"In the Bible, those Israelites who criticised and turned against Moses, the land opened up and swallowed all of them, today Biti and Mangoma have faced the same fate. We should come together, be united and fight those who want to use money to divide us," said Komichi.
Tsvangirai said this yesterday while he was in Gweshe village in Chiweshe where he addressed a handful of MDC supporters and was accompanied by the party deputy chairman Morgan Komichi.
Tsvangirai said his rivals failed to learn from those who left the party before but failed to exist on their own.
"The rebellion in 2005 by Welshman Ncube was a rebellion of trying to support Zanu-PF. Today, the rebellion by Biti and Mangoma is the same and there's no renewal in it. In 2005, a small group left the party as well as in 2008 but the party is still going, and we wonder who the strong ones are," said Tsvangirai.
"As a party, we are saying we should go in this direction and achieve these goals but someone starts to distort everything. Have you yet achieved what you set out to do in the beginning? Their only message is Tsvangirai must go, so when are you going to start to say Zanu-PF must go? You are wasting all your time saying Tsvangirai must go, is he Zanu-PF?
"A lot of people in the party know what we are doing, and they also know where we are going and they support it because they are sure that we are almost there. People of Zimbabwe know that victory is certain and I even know that myself. It will be a great betrayal to all those who have stood by us, if we fail this struggle," he said.
He added: "If anyone wants to leave the party, they should do so peacefully and let us do what we are doing in the MDC. It is not proper to say this one needs to step off so that we get on his spot, it shouldn't be done that way."
MDC deputy national chairman Komichi weighed in and took a swipe at those who broke away from the MDC.
"In the Bible, those Israelites who criticised and turned against Moses, the land opened up and swallowed all of them, today Biti and Mangoma have faced the same fate. We should come together, be united and fight those who want to use money to divide us," said Komichi.
Source - chronicle
