Moyo woos diplomats

MDC-Renewal team head of international relations and Makokoba legislator Gorden Moyo yesterday told African diplomats accredited to Zimbabwe that his party’s call for renewal in the MDC-T was not only focusing on leadership change, but included rejuvenation of the country’s flagging economy, society and various State institutions.

MDC-Renewal team head of international relations and Makokoba legislator Gorden Moyo yesterday told African diplomats accredited to Zimbabwe that his party’s call for renewal in the MDC-T was not only focusing on leadership change, but included rejuvenation of the country’s flagging economy, society and various State institutions.

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The former MDC-T Bulawayo provincial chairperson met the diplomats in Harare to brief them on several developments in the country from the renewal team’s viewpoint.

He said the renewal team would work on helping to push back the frontiers of poverty, unemployment, corruption and to ensure the new Constitution is fully implemented.

“We are not for the narrow renewal of leadership in the MDC. We believe in the renewal of the economy, our society and our State institutions, which are the ideals of the liberation struggle,” Moyo told the African diplomats.

“We are building a vibrant opposition in this country. We want to present ourselves as an alternative government. Zimbabwe has no reason to be poor as we have rich mineral endowments, a great climate and strong agricultural potential.

“The government is failing and it is only a matter of time before it fails to pay its workers. That is why as the MDC-Renewal team we believe in collective leadership, broad-based empowerment and we avow the personalisation of the State and political parties.”

Moyo told the diplomats that the MDC-Renewal team would soon hold its policy conference before holding an inaugural national congress in 2015 to properly constitute the party.

“We are also in consultation with various political formations in the country as we want to build a grand coalition and reunite with other comrades that were part of us before. We are not a party of the past, but we look to the past in order to learn. Organisations need leadership renewal, otherwise they will die.”

He said his team’s ideology was rooted in Africa and the party stood guided by Pan-Africanism and the values of ubuntu (humanity).

He expressed the MDC-Renewal team’s solidarity with South Africa and Nigeria following the tragic accident that cost 115 people their lives and left many others injured when a six-storey hostel collapsed at Temitope Balogun Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations in Lagos on September 12.

South Africa suffered the worst casualties with 80 dead, while three Zimbabwean are known to have lost their lives, although the authorities are adamant that only one Zimbabwean died.

The South African government said the three Zimbabweans had travelled to Nigeria using South African passports.