These objectives are not exhaustive but are illustrative of some of the work proposed to be done under the BBI to address the people’s aspirations as an expression of the people’s year of action. To move the BBI forward, there are three important action issues that must be addressed urgently, and these are:
- Safeguarding the people’s livelihoods;
- Restoring legality and legitimacy; and,
- Asserting the people’s sovereignty.
Safeguarding People’s Livelihoods
Fundamental to all politics is the livelihood question: are people able to put food on the table for their families; do people have a roof over their heads; are people able to send their children to school; and basically, are people able to live? For an overwhelming majority of Zimbabweans, the answer is a resounding no.
In addition to threatening to cut, and actually cutting, the lives of some Zimbabweans short while endangering others, the Mashurugwi regime has virtually destroyed the livelihoods of Zimbabweans, with most no longer able to make ends meet and others living from hand to mouth. The regime’s delinquent economic policies that have destroyed the multicurrency system, adopted a Zimdollar that is not available and is presiding over an economic meltdown with the second highest inflation in the world after Maduro’s Venezuela, have impoverished everyone save for the mashurugwi cabal and its filthy rich cronies who have used corrupt schemes like command agriculture to buy overseas based private jets and to import luxury vehicles like Lexuses, Bentleys and Lamborghinis for themselves, their wives and children and unashamedly splashing ill-gotten opulence in a country that has become a poverty AND HUNGER desert.
The people have spoken enough about and against this scourge which has come about at the expense of their destroyed livelihoods. Enough is enough. This year, in 2020, the people will speak through action, against the scourge and in defence of their right to their livelihoods, which they must now begin to reconstruct for themselves and their families. In this regard, and as part of BBI, I will stand with the people and act together with them in defence of their livelihoods under the MDC’s Agenda 2020.
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