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All MDC-T roads lead to Gwanzura Stadium on Saturday
08 Sep 2011 at 09:13hrs | Views
The MDC celebrates its 12th birthday in Harare on Saturday.
The main event, at Gwanzura Stadium in Highfield, Harare, shall set the tone for similar festivities countrywide. The theme for this year's celebration is "Celebrating 12 Years of the People's Struggle for Real Change – Let's finish it!!
As the theme clearly suggests, over the past 12 years the MDC-T, has made phenomenal achievements in the social, political and economic life of Zimbabwe.
MDC-T says it is fully aware that in-spite of these achievements the democratic struggle is far from over and a lot remains to be done.
Zimbabweans demand equally opportunities, peace and security; food and jobs.
As an annual political carnival, this MDC ritual takes place in different provinces to showcase the party's national character and responses to an overwhelming sentiment for change and total transformation. The occasion will be graced by leaders from the civic society, foreign diplomats, church and traditional leaders and heads of political parties.
Saturday shall record yet another high profile occasion, first class entertainment and an ecstatic atmosphere similar to what was last seen in Harare when the MDC emerged victorious on 29 March 2008.
The people shall trace their extra-ordinary and gruelling journey from 11 September 1999 when the MDC was born. The party is the only viable, sustainable and people-driven political alternative to moribund dictatorship, Zanu PF.
The MDC, as an idea whose time no-one could stop, was first endorsed on 26 February 1999 by over 700 ordinary men and women at the Zimbabwe's Women's Bureau in Hillside, Harare. After an objective examination of a whole gamut of national issues and a Zanu PF-inspired crisis of governance, delegates to that National Working People's Convention bravely decided to challenge Zanu PF politically. The convention's resolutions have since guided the MDC as it addresses a national crisis, bedevilling Zimbabwe for over 30 years. Zanu PF immediately polished up its political culture of violence, leading to scores of deaths and massive displacements of the poor. The situation remains unchanged to this day.
When the party took part in a general election, for the first time barely seven months after its formation on 26 June 2000, the result emphasised that the past was another country.
A shocked Zanu PF intensified its violence against the people and stole the Presidential election of March 2002. But the party and the people remained steadfast in their endeavour to bring about change in Zimbabwe. As they say, the rest is now history. With President Tsvangirai's assumption of national duty as a State actor and Head of Government, Zanu PF effectively lost control.
On Saturday, President Tsvangirai will take the opportunity to spell out the future, put to rest the nation's fears and anxieties, and assure Zimbabweans that the worst in now firmly behind us. What is left is for the people to finish off their struggle since they are already on the home-stretch.
The main event, at Gwanzura Stadium in Highfield, Harare, shall set the tone for similar festivities countrywide. The theme for this year's celebration is "Celebrating 12 Years of the People's Struggle for Real Change – Let's finish it!!
As the theme clearly suggests, over the past 12 years the MDC-T, has made phenomenal achievements in the social, political and economic life of Zimbabwe.
MDC-T says it is fully aware that in-spite of these achievements the democratic struggle is far from over and a lot remains to be done.
Zimbabweans demand equally opportunities, peace and security; food and jobs.
As an annual political carnival, this MDC ritual takes place in different provinces to showcase the party's national character and responses to an overwhelming sentiment for change and total transformation. The occasion will be graced by leaders from the civic society, foreign diplomats, church and traditional leaders and heads of political parties.
Saturday shall record yet another high profile occasion, first class entertainment and an ecstatic atmosphere similar to what was last seen in Harare when the MDC emerged victorious on 29 March 2008.
The people shall trace their extra-ordinary and gruelling journey from 11 September 1999 when the MDC was born. The party is the only viable, sustainable and people-driven political alternative to moribund dictatorship, Zanu PF.
The MDC, as an idea whose time no-one could stop, was first endorsed on 26 February 1999 by over 700 ordinary men and women at the Zimbabwe's Women's Bureau in Hillside, Harare. After an objective examination of a whole gamut of national issues and a Zanu PF-inspired crisis of governance, delegates to that National Working People's Convention bravely decided to challenge Zanu PF politically. The convention's resolutions have since guided the MDC as it addresses a national crisis, bedevilling Zimbabwe for over 30 years. Zanu PF immediately polished up its political culture of violence, leading to scores of deaths and massive displacements of the poor. The situation remains unchanged to this day.
When the party took part in a general election, for the first time barely seven months after its formation on 26 June 2000, the result emphasised that the past was another country.
A shocked Zanu PF intensified its violence against the people and stole the Presidential election of March 2002. But the party and the people remained steadfast in their endeavour to bring about change in Zimbabwe. As they say, the rest is now history. With President Tsvangirai's assumption of national duty as a State actor and Head of Government, Zanu PF effectively lost control.
On Saturday, President Tsvangirai will take the opportunity to spell out the future, put to rest the nation's fears and anxieties, and assure Zimbabweans that the worst in now firmly behind us. What is left is for the people to finish off their struggle since they are already on the home-stretch.
Source - MDC-T
