President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s election victory in the July
30 election has left thousands of people distressed in Marondera as they had
expected MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to upstage the ruling party’s
candidate.
It was business as usual in Marondera Central yesterday,
with people saying that they had no hope that Mnangagwa will turn around the
faltering economy.
The MDC Alliance won resoundingly in Marondera in the local
government and parliamentary vote. The residents of Marondera’s excitement,
however, turned into mourning as Chamisa lost to his Zanu PF rival in the
presidential run.
Yesterday, a number of people who spoke to NewsDay said the
future was bleak as they now had to endure another five years of suffering
under the Zanu PF leadership.
MDC-T Chamisa faction’s Marondera chairperson, Chengetai
Murowa, said people were now frustrated and hopeless.
“The people are disappointed, frustrated and have no hope
for the future. We need economic solutions, but not with this government,” he
said.
Peter Taruvinga (24) of Cherima suburb said he has lost
hope of a decent living, given Zanu PF’s failure to fix the economy in the
previous years.
“I was expecting a Chamisa win and he is the man I thought
would take the country’s economy forward. I need a decent life and I am not
convinced that the Zanu PF government will do us a favour, given their past
failures,” he said.
A number of vendors who spoke to NewsDay said they would
continue with their operations and hoped that things would get better.
“I have been voting for change, but it seems it’s not
coming. I have moved on and my prayer is that the new government does its best
to solve the economy. For now it’s the same story, hustling on the streets,”
Moreblessing Mudzamiri, a vendor along Pine Street, said.
Meanwhile, MDC Alliance’s Caston Mateo (36) defeated Zanu
PFs Cleopas Kundiona in the battle for the Marondera Central seat.
Mateo takes over from Lawrence Katsiru who lost in the
revolutionary party’s primary elections. Newsday
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