{"id":17063,"date":"2019-12-21T20:17:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T18:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=17063"},"modified":"2019-12-21T20:17:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T18:17:59","slug":"we-are-negotiating-for-political-reforms-not-positions-chamisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/we-are-negotiating-for-political-reforms-not-positions-chamisa","title":{"rendered":"We Are Negotiating For Political Reforms, Not Positions \u2013 Chamisa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MDC president Nelson Chamisa\u2019s spokesperson,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Nkululeko_Sibanda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nkululeko Sibanda<\/a>\u00a0said his principal is not negotiating for positions in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Government_of_National_Unity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">government of national unity (GNU)<\/a>, but for something bigger than that.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with\u00a0<em>NewsDay<\/em>, Sibanda asserted that Chamisa is negotiating for political reforms that will eliminate disputed electoral outcomes and military coups in future. He said:<\/p>\n<p>Currently, SADC is engaged with the Zimbabwe situation through (former South Africa) President Thabo Mbeki. Chamisa is not negotiating for positions, but for something better than a Government of National Unity (GNU).<\/p>\n<p>He (Chamisa) is negotiating for political reforms first to correct the record of 2018 elections, reforms that will never go back again, disputed elections, military coup and corruption. That is his agenda. Those who are thinking about positions must forget.<\/p>\n<p>Former South African President Thabo Mbeki\u2019s visit to Zimbabwe earlier this week raised hopes that Chamisa and President Emmerson Mnangagwa will finally meet to thrash out their differences and bring respite to the suffering masses.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mnangagwa still insists that Chamisa should \u201cjoin others\u201d in POLAD, something which the latter has vowed will never happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDC president Nelson Chamisa\u2019s spokesperson,\u00a0Nkululeko Sibanda\u00a0said his principal is not negotiating for positions in a\u00a0government of national unity (GNU), but for something bigger than that. Speaking in an interview with\u00a0NewsDay, Sibanda asserted that Chamisa is negotiating for political reforms that will eliminate disputed electoral outcomes and military coups in future. He said: Currently, SADC is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[1169,88,585],"class_list":{"0":"post-17063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-parties","9":"tag-mbeki","10":"tag-mdc","11":"tag-sadc"},"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>We Are Negotiating For Political Reforms, Not Positions \u2013 Chamisa - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MDC president Nelson Chamisa\u2019s spokesperson,\u00a0Nkululeko Sibanda\u00a0said his principal is not negotiating for positions in a\u00a0government of national unity (GNU)\" \/>\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\/we-are-negotiating-for-political-reforms-not-positions-chamisa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We Are Negotiating For Political Reforms, Not Positions \u2013 Chamisa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MDC president Nelson Chamisa\u2019s spokesperson,\u00a0Nkululeko Sibanda\u00a0said his principal is not negotiating for positions in a\u00a0government of national unity (GNU)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/we-are-negotiating-for-political-reforms-not-positions-chamisa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-21T18:17:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/05\/Chamisa-660x330.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/we-are-negotiating-for-political-reforms-not-positions-chamisa\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/we-are-negotiating-for-political-reforms-not-positions-chamisa\",\"name\":\"We Are Negotiating For Political Reforms, Not Positions \u2013 Chamisa - 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