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Tsvangirai to resist second Murambatsvina
28 Jun 2015 at 07:39hrs | Views
Opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday said his party and supporters will resist government plan to evict vendors saying it was tantamount to a second Murambatsvina.
Tsvangirai said people were ready to resist President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF government as they now fully accepted that "salvation lies in their own hands."
He said "time has come for us to take matters into our own hands and force the changes that are needed."
"Let me remove any doubt from your minds, any attempts by the regime to mount a second Murambatsvina will be strongly resisted and the MDC commits itself to the protection of all informal business persons, their inclusion in our economy and to making it possible for them to grow and prosper," he said.
But Tsvangirai said his party remained committed to changing the government democratically, within the law and without using violence.
"We have stuck to those principles and we have neither beaten one policeman, nor broken a single window in the past 16 years while we ourselves have been beaten, abducted and killed," he added,
"I am not sure whether we can maintain that stance into the future."
Tsvangirai said people were ready to resist President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF government as they now fully accepted that "salvation lies in their own hands."
He said "time has come for us to take matters into our own hands and force the changes that are needed."
But Tsvangirai said his party remained committed to changing the government democratically, within the law and without using violence.
"We have stuck to those principles and we have neither beaten one policeman, nor broken a single window in the past 16 years while we ourselves have been beaten, abducted and killed," he added,
"I am not sure whether we can maintain that stance into the future."
Source - The Standard
