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Following the by-election held in Insiza North yesterday, ZAPU takes this opportunity to thank all the voters who voted for the people’s candidate, Cde Thabani Mlotshwa, who put up a brave fight under difficult circumstances due to lack of resources and low voter turnout. We are equally grateful to our compatriots in MRP, FA and UMD for their selfless support through public endorsement of our candidate. The unity of purpose achieved in the run up to the by-election, has strengthened our resolve to intensify our call for a national convergence dialogue that will produce a united democratic front. United as opposition parties, we can work to dislodge the hegemony of ZANU PF.
Thank you to all our ZAPU members and supporters who made great sacrifices in support of our ambitious electoral bid. Special mention goes to the dedicated campaign team and our courageous polling agents. Your contributions in many different ways gave ZAPU a fighting chance in the by-election. Above all, we are grateful to our heroic candidate, Cde Mlotshwa, who entered the race rather late but stood firm in determination and focus. We are fully behind you Cde Mlotshwa and will continue to build upon your experience. Under your guidance, ZAPU shall continue to work on developmental projects with the people of Insiza North.
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- Written by: Michael Sibangilizwe Nkomo
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Letter of appeal to the people of Insiza North and Opposition Parties across Zimbabwe.
Dear great people of Insiza North, fellow Zimbabweans at home and abroad, See PDF Flyer from President Nkomo {CLICK HERE or the Photo}
I trust you are all gripped with the great opportunity the by-election in Insiza North presents, for us to unshackle ourselves from the misrule and policy bankruptcy of the ruling party. We call upon the people of Insiza North to unanimously support and vote for our candidate in the by-election, Cde Thabani Mlotshwa, for a genuine representative of the people in Parliament. We also call upon opposition political parties focused on this by-election to support our candidate and hereby pledge our future support on a reciprocal basis.
As ZAPU, we have called for this unity of purpose, time and again, realizing the futility of going it alone against ZANU PF, a selfserving party that abuses state apparatus and our armed forces for power retention. We must unite to send ZANU PF packing from Insiza North and other constituencies whenever vacancies arise, till the next general elections in 2028. As we prepare modalities to call for national democratic convergence, we invite our compatriots in opposition parties, to unite for every by-election so that we introduce more opposition voices in Parliament, in order to stop the nefarious ED2030 Agenda. Only genuine representatives of the people can stop the shredding of our sacred national constitution, by corrupt individuals driven by greed and selfishness.
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Time for a Caretaker Government to Save Zimbabwe
As I witness Zimbabwe’s economic decline due to looting and mismanagement,
I appeal to the leaders’ remaining humanity.
I urge them to develop love for their people, humility, and the courage to step down.
A caretaker government with a fresh structure and new faces could bring much-needed normalcy. I call upon skilled and competent Zimbabweans worldwide to get involved personally.
Silence and aloofness make us complicit in the status quo.
Let’s draw inspiration from our national anthem: “Blessed be the land of Zimbabwe... We praise our heroes’ sacrifice, And vow to defend our liberty.” Let’s honor our heroes’ legacy by demanding change. To those sitting on the fence, I say it’s time to act. Let’s lift our hearts and voices with pride and joy, united in our quest for a better Zimbabwe. It’s time for a change; it’s time for action.
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Fellow Zimbabweans, on the occasion of our 45th independence annnivesary {see Original Press statement}, we are forced to mark the day on our calendars with nothing to celebrate in our lives. As Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU), we are dismayed by the one-party state ideology that was ushered into our political environment by ZANU PF since 1980. This agenda has been perfected into insidious dictatorship laced with corruption of unimaginable proportions, looting of resources at the expense of ordinary citizens, gross human rights abuses, weaponisation of the judiciary, primitive regionalism and tribalism. Zimbabwe has been caught in a weak institutional and violent trap since independence. Our 2013 national constitution, which was supposed to guide the nation towards a progressive horizon is being decimated by dictatorship and the appetite for a one-party state.
The hard-won independence our forebears and heroes sacrificed for has remained devoid of freedom, rendering it such a bitter pill to swallow. Fellow compatriots, today we mark 45 years of rampant corruption, mediocrity, currency instability, eroded savings, poor service delivery, hospitals without medicine, a dying educational system, delapidated road infrastructure, unemployment, poor electricity supply, an overtaxed citizenry, nepotism and a poorly paid civil service. These socio-economic factors have weakened opposition and divided us as Zimbabweans, making it easier for the ZANU PF-led government to continue ravaging the country with impunity. To this end, ZAPU has made a clearly informed deduction, that engaging a dictatorship while fragmented makes no impact but gives the oppressor enough ammunition to continue manipulating the citizenry, perpetuating our suffering. We therefore call for the establishment of a united front in the fight to dislodge the ZANU PF regime.
Our people are tired of draconian laws brought forward from colonialism to be used to fight their constitutional rights. This is an act of self-ruin steming from the ZANU PF regime’s inability to understand the futility of dictatorship. Having witnessed the collapse of many post-independence administrations in Africa, due to dictatorship and its attendant corruption, we are shocked by the foolishness of the rogue regime in Harare. How they believe their rudimentay brand of dictatorship will not collapse would be laughable if it were not so tragic. While we pity the fools, we cannot ignore the humanitarian crisis their misrule has wrought on Zimbabwe. Even our environment, flora and fauna have equally suffered under the plunder of primitive mining methods, state sponsored poaching and land degradation. Construction of buildings on wetlands and polution of water bodies have gone unabated. Money laundering stations, hidden in plain sight in the form of fuel outlets, have sprouted everywhere in urban areas, without following any clear town planning models.
As ZAPU,we strongly believe that independence can only be meaningful when it is coupled with freedom. The arbitrary arrests and protracted remand imprisonment of dissenting voices goes against all the tenets of a democratic society. Even worse is the arrest and indefinite detention of journalists for simply doing their jobs. The ongoing incarceration of Blessed Mhlanga, a fearless journalist, is an abomination on our globally ridiculed pariah state. We strongly condemn the muzzling of journalists and such brazzen attacks on media freedoms adopted by the Windhoek Declaration. We believe in a democratic nation state that respects human rights and freedoms of all its diverse citizens without regard to race, tribe, religious beliefs, or social status. We also respect the rule of law and the fearless prosecution of any violations of the law without regard to political or economic status. Corruption from whatever quarter – public or private – must never be tolerated. Above all, there should be respect for the separation of powers, unlike our untenable situation whereby the President usurps the right to unilateraly close parliament, for power retention in the echo of growing calls for his impeachment.
In conclusion, we reiterate our clarion call for unity of purpose. As an organization we are totally committed to the change desired by Zimbabweans. The convergence of our objective and subjective views confirms that time for change has come. Everyone in Zimbabwe including erstwhile members of ZANU PF now demands true freedom. We have been in bondage for a long time due to a myriad of factors characterised by a political environment of fear, violence and intimidation. The ruling party has fortified its grip on power using state resources and capture of all state institutions. Elections continue to be marred by glaring evidence of rigging, gerrymandering and voter intimidation. These acts of malpractice are insulated by the abuse of our security sector to defend the ruling party instead of the people. On this occasion of our 45th independence anniversary, we call upon all patriotic and progressive stakeholders to a national dialogue platform that will discuss our current challenges and map the way forward. It is time for all opposition parties and citizens in general to unite and unshackle ourselves from dictatorship and economic ruin through total freedom and genuine devolution of power.
Thank you
Ngiyabonga
Ndinotenda.
Michael Sibangilizwe Nkomo, ZAPU President
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ZAPU Initiative: Rural Schools Donations
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ZAPU is pleased to unveil its Bright Futures Donation Drive, a socially powered campaign aimed at raising funds for underprivileged children from rural schools in Zimbabwe. See the posters for details on how you can make a difference. |
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ZAPU is also appealing for donations towards Dignity Bags, a critically needed facility to give rural girls access to sanitary wear and basic personal hygiene products. Various donation channels have been opened. See the posters for details on how you can make a difference. |
