{"id":36780,"date":"2021-03-17T14:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T12:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=36780"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T11:49:31","slug":"tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance","title":{"rendered":"Tracy Mutinhiri Speaks On Quitting \u2018White Man\u2019s Party\u2019 MDC Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><b>By Staff Reporter<\/b> &#8211; FORMER Labour and Social Welfare minister Tracy Mutinhiri, who recently rejoined Zanu PF, says she quit MDC Alliance after noticing the main opposition was \u201ca white man\u2019s party\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was an MDC official, I discovered that it is a white man\u2019s party which will destroy the gains of the liberation struggle, if given a chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, we must all unite ourselves in Zanu PF to defend our independence and our sovereignty,\u201d Mutinhiri told state media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want everyone to come back to Zanu PF. There is nothing in MDC. It\u2019s a white man\u2019s agenda where blacks are just used to serve the interests of white people without benefiting anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat motivated me to come back is that Zanu PF is a party with ideology. I would want to be part of President Mnangagwa\u2019s New Dispensation which has brought economic reforms. The Second Republic is saying Zimbabwe is open for business and indeed it is open for business. It is for that reason that I want to join my comrades and continue defending the revolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe New Dispensation is a success, which is why you see a lot of people coming back to Zanu PF. No one wants to be associated with failure. I have come back home with valuable strategies that will help my party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Tracy Mutinhiri pictured at a past MDC Alliance event with party leader Nelson Chamisa<\/b><\/p>\n<p>She urged her former MDC colleagues to follow suit in joining Zanu PF and build one strong party to strengthen the country\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working with everyone and I\u2019m also inviting all those who have followed me to MDC to come back home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of them have been calling me, asking if it\u2019s possible to join Zanu PF and I have been telling them that they will be most welcome to be back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a new wave in our country where people are coming back to rejoin the revolutionary party. Once upon a time in 1980, everybody was Zanu PF and we want to take advantage of that and regroup as Zanu PF. We want to join President Mnangagwa in rebuilding our economy and strengthening our sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mutinhiri contested for the MDC Alliance vice president post in 2018 and lost.<\/p>\n<p>Her leaving MDC Alliance follows those of former MDC Alliance legislators, Blessing Chebundo and Lillian Timveos who dumped the Nelson Chamisa led opposition to join Zanu PF.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-deputy Youth Minister and former MP Tongai Matutu also left MDC Alliance last year to join Zanu PF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. By Staff Reporter &#8211; FORMER Labour and Social Welfare minister Tracy Mutinhiri, who recently rejoined Zanu PF, says she quit MDC Alliance after noticing the main opposition was \u201ca white man\u2019s party\u201d. \u201cWhen I was an MDC official, I discovered that it is a white man\u2019s party which will destroy the gains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,10,15],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-36780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-parties","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-zimbabwe"},"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>Tracy Mutinhiri Speaks On Quitting \u2018White Man\u2019s Party\u2019 MDC Alliance - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Staff Reporter - FORMER Labour and Social Welfare minister Tracy Mutinhiri, who recently rejoined Zanu PF, say ...\" \/>\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\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tracy Mutinhiri Speaks On Quitting \u2018White Man\u2019s Party\u2019 MDC Alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Staff Reporter - FORMER Labour and Social Welfare minister Tracy Mutinhiri, who recently rejoined Zanu PF, say ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-17T12:40:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-03-17T11:49:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/img-6051ecb1e4d05.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"432\" \/>\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\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance\",\"name\":\"Tracy Mutinhiri Speaks On Quitting \u2018White Man\u2019s Party\u2019 MDC Alliance - zimbabwe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/img-6051ecb1e4d05.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-17T12:40:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-17T11:49:31+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4\"},\"description\":\"By Staff Reporter - FORMER Labour and Social Welfare minister Tracy Mutinhiri, who recently rejoined Zanu PF, say ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/img-6051ecb1e4d05.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/img-6051ecb1e4d05.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":432,\"caption\":\"Tracy Mutinhiri Speaks On Quitting \u2018White Man\u2019s Party\u2019 MDC Alliance\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Tracy Mutinhiri Speaks On Quitting \u2018White Man\u2019s Party\u2019 MDC Alliance\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\",\"name\":\"zimbabwe\",\"description\":\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Tracy Mutinhiri Speaks On Quitting \u2018White Man\u2019s Party\u2019 MDC Alliance - zimbabwe","description":"By Staff Reporter - FORMER Labour and Social Welfare minister Tracy Mutinhiri, who recently rejoined Zanu PF, say ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Tracy Mutinhiri Speaks On Quitting \u2018White Man\u2019s Party\u2019 MDC Alliance","og_description":"By Staff Reporter - FORMER Labour and Social Welfare minister Tracy Mutinhiri, who recently rejoined Zanu PF, say ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance","og_site_name":"zimbabwe","article_published_time":"2021-03-17T12:40:17+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-03-17T11:49:31+00:00","og_image":[{"width":768,"height":432,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/img-6051ecb1e4d05.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance","name":"Tracy Mutinhiri Speaks On Quitting \u2018White Man\u2019s Party\u2019 MDC Alliance - zimbabwe","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/img-6051ecb1e4d05.jpg","datePublished":"2021-03-17T12:40:17+00:00","dateModified":"2021-03-17T11:49:31+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4"},"description":"By Staff Reporter - FORMER Labour and Social Welfare minister Tracy Mutinhiri, who recently rejoined Zanu PF, say ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/img-6051ecb1e4d05.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/img-6051ecb1e4d05.jpg","width":768,"height":432,"caption":"Tracy Mutinhiri Speaks On Quitting \u2018White Man\u2019s Party\u2019 MDC Alliance"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tracy-mutinhiri-speaks-on-quitting-white-mans-party-mdc-alliance#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tracy Mutinhiri Speaks On Quitting \u2018White Man\u2019s Party\u2019 MDC Alliance"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/","name":"zimbabwe","description":"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}