FORMER National Healing and Reconciliation minister Moses
Mzila Ndlovu has urged Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko and other Zanu PF
leaders from Matabeleland region to dump the ruling party and join opposition
politics to oust President Robert Mugabe and end marginalisation of the region.
Mzila-Ndlovu, who fronts the opposition Alliance for
National Salvation (Ansa) party, said Mphoko should draw lessons from several
former PF-Zapu officials, who failed to reform Zanu PF from within.
“We agree that it is never going to be easy to push the
regional cause, but at the same time, it is not a crime to do so and it is
within our rights,” he said.
“But one thing we feel as Ansa is that Zimbabwean politics
is to a broader extent bordering on regionalism that is why we, for example,
have seen Masvingo and Midlands also coming out strongly in their Zanu PF
fights.”
Ansa has said it will only field candidates in Midlands and
Matabeleland provinces, as it has no national representation.
“It is all a realisation that we stand from a regional
point first before we dabble in national politics, and it is in this vein that
we feel the likes of Mphoko and others should join us, as they are wasting
their time when they think they can reform Zanu PF from inside and bring change
to Matabeleland.
“They have been there for years, but what have they done
for Matabeleland? Virtually nothing, hence, the region faces the same problems.
The late VP (Joshua) Nkomo failed and his province was poor when he was still
alive yet he was a VP and you wonder how then do the Mphokos think they can
succeed where others failed.”
Nkomo hailed from Kezi, Matabeleland South, and the road
leading to the area is still a strip
road. The other late VP, John Nkomo, hailed from
Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North province, and to this day, the
Bulawayo-Tsholotsho Road is a potholed strip road.
The region’s marginalisation has given birth to several
radical pressure groups and secessionist political parties pushing for a
separate state of Matabeleland. Newsday
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