FORMER commercial farmer Darryl Collet has been unveiled as
interim president of a new opposition party, The Patriotic Front (TPF) that
preaches empowerment of the masses.
Collet was unveiled as interim president of the party at
the Bulawayo Media Centre on Wednesday.
The new opposition party joins many others that have been
formed in recent years, particularly towards the elections only to disappear
after the polls.
Collet said deep-seated poverty faced by long-suffering
Zimbabweans forced members of the TPF to come together to offer solutions to
the country’s challenges.
“These are issues that need to be addressed and it is for
this reason that The Patriotic Front has been founded in order to bring
together the great minds of the country in an all-out effort to bring in the
change that is needed,” Collet said.
“Not to recognise and correct the erroneous decisions that
we have made in order to achieve the change that the freedom was to bring and
that was fought for, will continue the slippery slide into non-existent social
services and inadequate health services, admitted to by our leaders every time
one of them is ill and rushed off to China for the medical attention they need,
which should be offered here to all, if our doctors and nurses were given
everything they need to care for the health of all.”
Collet, who said he was forced off his farm during the
fast-track land reform programme, said Zimbabweans had the right to demonstrate
against the government on July 31 as the crisis they faced was unbearable.
“Most painful in all this is that the cry of the people is
apparently not heard which results in anti-government forces easily amassing
the crowds for intended marches and demonstrations such as those planned for
July 31,” he said, adding that the TPF believed in empowerment of the masses
regardless of race or tribe.
“We believe that Zimbabwean citizens must own and determine
the distribution of these resources and opportunities. We believe this should
be done in a manner blind to race, ethnic extraction or creed.” Newsday
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