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MDC-United in clean-up campaign
12 Dec 2014 at 08:44hrs | Views
MDC renewal team's youth wing has embarked on a clean-up campaign to sensitise communities on the ‘importance of a clean environment'.
The political outfit's Harare provincial organiser Ishmael Kauzani said, the party's youths were also working on building a positive image different from "the violent streak associated with the MDC".
Speaking to The Zimbabwe Mail at the inaugural clean-up campaign in Breaside on Wednesday, Kauzani said they were concerned with the environment and were pushed by the need for people to live in a clean environment.
"Our country needs a clean environment and youths who are conscious of their surroundings not the usual beer binges in which we are abused by political bigwigs," said Kauzani
"We need a clean environment for the citizens, and we want to let people know that renewal team is a party that is conscious of its surroundings and the environment it operates within".
He said the renewal team that has since signed a unity accord with the Welshman Ncube-led MDC was working on growing its structures hence the clean environment campaign which is part of efforts to woo new members to the party.
"We want to move away from the mentality that politics is dirty and that youths need to be violent in order to be recognised by society. We want an environment that is conducive to growth. We want to grow an opposition that plays its role as mandated by the citizenry," Kauzani said.
Besides the campaign being used to woo members to the political outfit currently led by Sekai Holland, it also wants to assist the Harare City Council, given the capital city's well documented problems with cash flows.
"This is our first campaign and we will organise more campaigns in the city. We are not saying the local authority has failed but a helping hand will do no harm in our collective efforts to create a clean city and re-create the sunshine city that it was in years gone by," he said.
Harare has been battling water-borne diseases due to non-collection of garbage with the cholera outbreak in 2008 the highlight of its failures.
The outbreak claimed the lives of more than 4 000 people and since then there have been intermittent outbreaks of typhoid in the city.
The political outfit's Harare provincial organiser Ishmael Kauzani said, the party's youths were also working on building a positive image different from "the violent streak associated with the MDC".
Speaking to The Zimbabwe Mail at the inaugural clean-up campaign in Breaside on Wednesday, Kauzani said they were concerned with the environment and were pushed by the need for people to live in a clean environment.
"Our country needs a clean environment and youths who are conscious of their surroundings not the usual beer binges in which we are abused by political bigwigs," said Kauzani
"We need a clean environment for the citizens, and we want to let people know that renewal team is a party that is conscious of its surroundings and the environment it operates within".
"We want to move away from the mentality that politics is dirty and that youths need to be violent in order to be recognised by society. We want an environment that is conducive to growth. We want to grow an opposition that plays its role as mandated by the citizenry," Kauzani said.
Besides the campaign being used to woo members to the political outfit currently led by Sekai Holland, it also wants to assist the Harare City Council, given the capital city's well documented problems with cash flows.
"This is our first campaign and we will organise more campaigns in the city. We are not saying the local authority has failed but a helping hand will do no harm in our collective efforts to create a clean city and re-create the sunshine city that it was in years gone by," he said.
Harare has been battling water-borne diseases due to non-collection of garbage with the cholera outbreak in 2008 the highlight of its failures.
The outbreak claimed the lives of more than 4 000 people and since then there have been intermittent outbreaks of typhoid in the city.
Source - Zim Mail
