Their Demands Are Far Less Than Mthwakazi Expectations

Mthwakazi Republic Party's vision is to see a free Matabeleland, we are advocating for the Restoration of Mthwakazi. MRP believes in on abilities and driven by a shared vision amongst Mthwakazi people and within the party, we don't make desicions based on mob psychology and or third parties. We make desicions based on what the National Executive of the party would have agreed.

Towards the end of the month of June 2016 we set down as a party to deliberate on the developments in the country currently and especially the arrest of our people in Lupane and the current wave of demostrations in the country at large so that we make an informed decision, we further communicated with our party structures in South Africa to get their input on the above developments. The meeting was chaired by MRP President Mr Mqondisi Moyo. Submissions were made at the end of the day we all agreed that for now we stand by Lupane community and we fully back the Lupane community's resolution/demands to have DEO Mr Gwanoya and Ms Bonyongwe removed from Lupane with immediate effect, we agreed that we will not be part of This Flag, Tajamuka and #shutdownzimbabwe, because their fight is not our fight. Below is our observations;

1. The leaders of the three mentioned pressure groups are affiliated to either MDC-T, PDP and or People first contrary to many Mthwakazi people's belief that this is a povo/citizens demonstrations. We also noticed that it will be a wasted effort to participate in the promotion of the three parties of which to us they are as bad as ZANU PF itself and are not different in anyway in as far as the Matabeleland question is concerned, we also noticed that the leading voice of the protest organisers are Newsday, Dailynews, Studio7 and Nehanda radio among others. The above media outlets only interviewed the leaders of the three parties mentioned, despite the fact that CODE, MDC and ZAPU had also said they support the strike. We concluded the whole scenario is meant to promote the above political parties. Judging by the three party hierarchy and manifestos we are convinced they too view us as second class citizens.

2. They are demanding that civil servants be paid on time, the import restrictions be removed, Mugabe be removed, Roadblocks be removed.etc among other things which basically to us the demands are a drop in the ocean to what MRP stands for and is demanding.

3. We noticed that the Lupane issue was not given the same coverage and attention the same way these guys were given, despite it is more or less the same citizen power.

The above made us to take a desicion of seating back and not participate in the whole scenario but continue with our party programs as announced in our program calendar. While we also want the civil servants paid on time we are worried that more than 80 percent of them are not from Mthwakazi even though are working here. Most of them we want them out of Mthwakazi espescially teachers who cant speak local languages, home affairs officials at Msitheli offices and other offices who dont understand local languages like Zimra, police, etc. If by any chance the Tajamuka, This flag and shutdown Zimbabwe organisers include these demands we will participate with them. For now we are watching we will not take part like they said once beaten twice shy, this is the case with us. We so izithukuthuku zabobaba ziphelela eboyeni njengezenja talk of ZAPU and ZIPRA this time we are careful.While we don't deny that the Mthwakazi Restoration may not be the only option to solve Mthwakazi's marginalisation and lack of development we will not be complacent

We will not be easily be removed from that Agenda without tangible evidence that there is a better option. We hope that those of our people who maliciously attacked our President and even wished him dead will allow logic to prevail not their emotions. Mqondisi Moyo and MRP did not just wokeup popular no, it was because of planning carefully analysing the political field in this country and how we can come in and make a difference. And so far so good we have managed to achieve that thus why people now spend time discussing about us, some following on our programs and try to hijack them and make them theirs we don't doubt our ability and we know MRP is here to stay and is inspired to change Mthwakazi's world to a fruitful one. Please hands off our President.

Lastly but not least we would like to thank our supporters who have stood by us as party and who have seen reason to continue supporting MRP. We promise that we will never disappoint and we will continue being coconsistent with our vision.

Meanwhile MRP will soon call for a press conference to explain some of the party programs especially the issue of petition which we recently launched in South Africa we are in the process of collecting over 20 000 signatures each representing each Gukurahundi victim. We are also in the process of finalising issues around the establishment of Mthwakazi Paliarment towards the end of this year where we are most likely to hold our Congress ofcourse funds permiting. Recruitment is on going we are building party structures everywhere including Europe and America. The Gukurahundi issue remain unresolved and we will continue to demand justice on that issue.

MRP FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN OUR LIFE TIME.

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