{"id":13392,"date":"2019-09-10T18:25:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=13392"},"modified":"2019-09-10T18:25:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:25:03","slug":"mdc-suspends-its-20th-anniversary-celebrations-to-mourn-mugabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-suspends-its-20th-anniversary-celebrations-to-mourn-mugabe","title":{"rendered":"MDC suspends its 20th Anniversary celebrations to mourn Mugabe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE opposition MDC has suspended its long awaited national 20th anniversary celebrations scheduled for the weekend austensibly to mourn the late <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ZANU%E2%80%93PF\">Zanu PF<\/a> strongman and former President Robert Mugabe.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe died late last week in Singapore and his body is expected in the country Wednesday for burial Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>MDC leader Nelson Chamisa told journalists at a press briefing Tuesday that the opposition wanted to give Zimbabweans a chance to mourn Mugabe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe MDC was due to hold its important 20th Anniversary on Saturday the 14th of September, 2019 at Rufaro stadium here in Harare. This was a national event to commemorate and celebrate two decades of existence under our theme, \u2018Current, Growth and People\u2019s Victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that this day has now after deliberations by the leadership and on unanimous position was to postpone so that we set aside this weekend and the coming days for the day of national mourning,\u201d said Chamisa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you know we are MDC, a party of excellency, we do things that are consistent with our values of social democracy, values of Ubuntu, solidarity and empathy we have decided to postpone this important anniversary to 28th of September, 2019 so as to allow the funeral proceedings not to compete with our anniversary celebrations. You do not celebrate when others are mourning. It is just unAfrican and also not in line with our own values as a party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chamisa said Mugabe deserved to be respected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a social democratic party, we are very clear that we had political differences with Mugabe which differences are well recorded. Those differences are not supposed to be played up at this moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the time to re-harsh our differences, yes we have scars, some of which are visible on our faces, on our bodies; scars of the challenges that we faced on account of commissions and omissions but we will not allow bitterness to move us but this is the time to be in solidarity with the family and relatives of Mr Mugabe. The MDC does not want to use Mugabe\u2019s death to score political differences,\u201d added Chamisa.<\/p>\n<p>MDC was formed by the late Morgan Tsvangirai in 1999. Hundreds of the party\u2019s supporters were killed and exiled by Mugabe\u2019s brute tactics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE opposition MDC has suspended its long awaited national 20th anniversary celebrations scheduled for the weekend austensibly to mourn the late Zanu PF strongman and former President Robert Mugabe. Mugabe died late last week in Singapore and his body is expected in the country Wednesday for burial Sunday. 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