CHURCHES and civic organisations in Manicaland have
denounced demonstrations planned by the opposition MDC-A party saying it was a
fruitless avenue of solving the country’s challenges.
The call by the Civic Society and Churches Joint Forum
comes as the MDC-A plans to disrupt business countrywide.
Speaking at a press conference in Mutare today, CSCJF
Manicaland coordinator Reverend Walter Nyakunu said past experiences have shown
that protests were counterproductive.
Rev Nyakunu said the sad reality about demonstrations was
that they always degenerate into violence.
“We really cannot solve a problem by creating another
problem. We have always called for repositioning of the people’s agenda in this
country. It is common cause that we belong to different political parties and
that is even constitutional,” he said.
“However, it is not correct to always see each other from a
political perspective. Surely, we do not need those political party surnames we
have given each other. We are all Zimbabweans and we only have one Zimbabwe to
develop.
“It is sad that each time we have demonstrations those that
get injured or even killed are the followers. We have tried peaceful
demonstrations but they do not end up peaceful. August 1 is an example. It is
painful that the leaders of these demonstrations do not even know or bother to
look for the addresses of victims after demonstrations.
They do not even attend your funeral. So when we condemn
these demonstrations we are fully aware of what we are talking about,” said Rev
Nyakunu.
He said circulating social media messages calling for
demonstrations do not deserve the attention of progressive Zimbabweans.
“We, the churches and civic organizations in Manicaland
having wider and diverse audience which we speak to and represent, ..we are
therefore united against the calls for violence in our province,” he said. Manica
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