{"id":13886,"date":"2019-09-22T20:21:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T18:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=13886"},"modified":"2019-09-22T20:21:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T18:21:25","slug":"ed-and-chamisa-urged-to-emulate-tsvangirai-mugabe-left-a-political-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ed-and-chamisa-urged-to-emulate-tsvangirai-mugabe-left-a-political-dialogue","title":{"rendered":"ED and Chamisa urged to emulate Tsvangirai\/Mugabe left a political dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZIMBABWE\u2019S two main political actors Zanu PF\u2019s President <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emmerson_Mnangagwa\">Emmerson Mnangagwa<\/a> and MDC leader Nelson Chamisa could easily resolve the country\u2019s political impasse if they take a leaf from the legacy of their predecessors, Zimbabwe Catholics Bishops Conference (ZCBC) has said.<\/p>\n<p>The influential ZCBC\u2019s president Archbishop Robert Ndlovu said Mnangagwa and Chamisa could learn from their respective predecessors, President Robert Mugabe and the MDC\u2019s founding president Morgan Tsvangirai (both late) who cobbled up a Government of National Unity in 2009 despite their differences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident R. G. Mugabe has also left us a legacy of political dialogue. If he could talk to Mr. M. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morgan_Tsvangirai\">Tsvangirai<\/a> and come to a settlement, surely the successors of these opponents, for the good of the nation, can do the same,\u201d Ndlovu told NewZimbabwe.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call for genuine dialogue at various levels of society, dialogue is the only way to realise our good intentions. We need as in 2008 a political dialogue, which will settle the impasse that has reduced our country to two warring camps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mnangagwa won controversial elections last year beating, Chamisa by a slender margin.<\/p>\n<p>Chamisa rejected the election outcome and has continued to argue the country has legitimacy issues.<\/p>\n<p>On his part, Mnangagwa has called for dialogue involving all political leaders who participated in last year\u2019s presidential poll but Chamisa has argued it is a waste of time talking to people with insignificant followings.<\/p>\n<p>Said the ZCBC president: \u201cIt is only in genuine meeting of hearts that we can tolerate each other and have a lasting solution to our problems, the churches are ready to facilitate such dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tsvangirai and Mugabe were forced into a government of national unity after inconclusive elections in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Tsvangirai had won the first round of voting but the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission controversially claimed he had failed to reach the 50% plus one threshold to take power and called for a run-off.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe turned the run-up to the snap poll into a bloodbath using State security agents to kill and maim opposition supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Tsvangirai pulled out of the race; Mugabe went into it alone but the result was rejected at home and abroad forcing the two into a shaky coalition arrangement for four years.<\/p>\n<p>The church leaders have also proposed the locals should come together and produce the \u201cZimbabwe We Want Discussion Document\u201d which they believe will create a shared national vision, political tolerance, national healing and reconciliation, eliminating corruption and addressing land and economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was also the late former President, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, who launched the Zimbabwe We Want Discussion Document in 2006 at the Catholic University in Zimbabwe,\u201d the ZCBC leader said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZIMBABWE\u2019S two main political actors Zanu PF\u2019s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC leader Nelson Chamisa could easily resolve the country\u2019s political impasse if they take a leaf from the legacy of their predecessors, Zimbabwe Catholics Bishops Conference (ZCBC) has said. The influential ZCBC\u2019s president Archbishop Robert Ndlovu said Mnangagwa and Chamisa could learn from their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[113,28,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-13886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-chamisa","10":"tag-mugabe","11":"tag-tsvangirai"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ED and Chamisa urged to emulate Tsvangirai\/Mugabe left a political dialogue - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ZIMBABWE\u2019S two main political actors Zanu PF\u2019s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC leader Nelson Chamisa could easily resolve\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ed-and-chamisa-urged-to-emulate-tsvangirai-mugabe-left-a-political-dialogue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ED and Chamisa urged to emulate Tsvangirai\/Mugabe left a political dialogue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ZIMBABWE\u2019S two main political actors Zanu PF\u2019s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC leader Nelson Chamisa could easily resolve\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ed-and-chamisa-urged-to-emulate-tsvangirai-mugabe-left-a-political-dialogue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-22T18:21:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/09\/Morgan-Tsvangirai-.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"591\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ed-and-chamisa-urged-to-emulate-tsvangirai-mugabe-left-a-political-dialogue\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ed-and-chamisa-urged-to-emulate-tsvangirai-mugabe-left-a-political-dialogue\",\"name\":\"ED and Chamisa urged to emulate Tsvangirai\/Mugabe left a political dialogue - 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