MDC president Nelson Chamisa yesterday described next
week’s elective congress as the defining moment for the party, saying it will
usher in a radical shift in their way of doing business, moving away from
personality-based politics to solution-based and strong institutional politics.
Despite a recent High Court ruling compelling the party to
go for an extraordinary congress, the party is pressing ahead with its ordinary
congress slated for Gweru next weekend.
In an interview yesterday, Chamisa said the party will
emerge stronger because they are changing the culture of politics from strong
individuals to strong institutions.
“We are introducing a new culture, a radical shift and
dynamic change to the politics that we have known,” Chamisa said.
“No more shall we be a slogan-chanting organisation, but we
shall be a solution-churning organisation. We must have a radical departure
from the politics of personalities to the politics of ideas, from the politics
of strong individuals to the politics of strong organisations.”
Chamisa said they had set up seven committees that are
gathering views from the grassroots, whose feedback will shape their way
forward and future.
The committees are ideology and policy review,
constitutional review, leadership culture and ethics, international relations
and diplomacy, organisational and structural transformation, administrative and
fundraising reforms and lastly the strategies and tactics committee.
These committees, headed by senior party members, are also
moving around provinces gathering views that will be refined at congress.
Party spokesperson Jacob Mafume said the congress
resolutions will come from the committees and will be binding going forward.
“As we go to congress, we have to relook at the
organisation itself. The congress is more than elections, it is where we review
and think about the direction of the organisation, where we are going as a
party, where we have been as a party,” Mafume said.
“Those are the broad themes that will shape the party and
the organisation, that will re-oil it and place it at the centre of being a
solution to the problems that Zimbabwe is facing.
“What we need to do is to put the organisation at the
forefront as a thinking organisation, an organisation that will come up with
solutions. Now that the nominations are over we have now come to the thinking
part of the congress where there will be resolutions and the resolutions will
come from the consultations under those broad terms.” Newsday
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