OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has warned that the country faces a bleak future, which could end in turmoil if the current economic crisis characterised by biting shortages of fuel, electricity and basics such as bread and water is not urgently addressed.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the party\u2019s Road to Economic Recovery, Legitimacy, Openness And Democracy (Reload) policy document launch on Thursday, Chamisa said Zimbabwe was \u201cburning\u201d and in the throes of a serious political and socio-economic crisis.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe resolution of this crisis, more than ever before, has become a matter of extreme urgency and emergency. It\u2019s clear that soft-landing the crisis has to be done by creating a Zimbabwe that we want to avert this impending and inevitable implosion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no doubt in my mind that Zimbabwe is heading for a disaster. It\u2019s facing an abyss. A dark cloud hangs over this nation, but to avoid this implosion, we must take bold steps that will avoid the catastrophe that we are going to face.\u201d<\/p>\n
The MDC is calling upon the church, war veterans and other non-political players to join in the move to pile pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s
\ngovernment to act.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must build political and diplomatic pressure on this administration to realise the need for peaceful change,\u201d Chamisa said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo assure ourselves that our victory is secured, we believe in non-violent democratic action for peaceful change. We will be radically peaceful in terms of
\nthe Constitution. Let this be a collective action, it can\u2019t be an MDC issue. There is need to escalate the Zimbabwean crisis so that it becomes an
\ninternational crisis and build a global solidarity network.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chamisa said while the MDC would not take up arms to forcibly remove Mnangagwa\u2019s government, it was important to create a platform that solved the problems of the country without loss of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has warned that the country faces a bleak future, which could end in turmoil if the current economic crisis characterised by biting shortages of fuel, electricity and basics such as bread and water is not urgently addressed. Speaking at the party\u2019s Road to Economic Recovery, Legitimacy, Openness And Democracy (Reload) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[113,152,83,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-11165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-parties","9":"tag-chamisa","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-mdc"},"yoast_head":"\n