Zimbabwe (News Of The South) – Zimbabwe`s opposition MDC- T party through treasurer Dr Tapiwa Mashakada recently requested party leaders and members to pay underwriting fees which would according to Dr Mashakada sent directly to Party president Morgan Tsvangirai.
This request was met with a lot of anger and resisitence from MDC – T members and the media and Mashakada who spoke to News Of The South on Saturday sent to response below:
By Dr Tapiwa Mashakada:
The MDC – T party should rightfully be resourced by its valuable general membership. Even a burial society is membership driven.
What is crucial is that there should be accountability and transparency in the financial affairs of the party. Bona fide MDC -T should find no problem with following the pointed direction. After all, the party is a voluntary organization. Members who do not want to be bound by the rules and decisions of the party should simply find another home. The people’s project is poised to succeed.
Back home people are selling goats and chickens to support their party. I doubt that anyone who is questioning the decision of the National Council is serious. However, are alive to the fact that our detractors are panicking with this new innovation as they had putatively written the epitaph of MDC – T. This party is greater than individuals.
All decisions are arrived by majority decision in the party’s decision making organs. The National Council has resolved to restore full provincial executive status to all Diasporan provincial assemblies. In between Congress the National Council has the loci standing to take decisions that further the interests of the party. These decisions will be taken to the Congress for ratification. So what we are doing is very constitutional.
The people’ s struggle has now entered its final and decisive phase of its trajectory to push for fresh but free fair and credible elections in Zimbabwe before 2018. – Dr Tapiwa Mashakada
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