The party’s focus in 2017
Next year, our programmes will centre on strengthening the party and preparing for elections. All provinces have to prepare for the next election, starting with a massive turnout when voter registration kicks off early next year. We will also raise the bar in the demand for comprehensive reforms ahead of the next election so that our polls become free, fair and credible.
Early next year, we will hold our policy council, where we will unveil the policy programme of the new government, including what the new government will do in its first 100 days in order to positively impact on the lives of the people.
Next year, we have to show massive people traction in whatever we do as a party and that we are christening 2017, The Year of the People’s Power. Indeed, igore remasimba evanhu.
Conclusion
I wish to conclude by urging to the youth of this country to fully participate in the politics of their country. It is no use being lied to everyday that you are the leaders of tomorrow when tomorrow is under serious threat from the leaders of today.
We run the risk of raising a lost generation—a generation that wants jobs but that is scared to demand them. Remember this government promised to create 2,2 million jobs but has created 2,2 million struggling vendors instead. I urge all the young people to take part in the affairs of their country by registering to vote and determining their own future. This is the time when we expect dancehall musicians to create new lyrics that urge the youth to register and vote.
To the young generation, I say you can only deal with your dire poverty if you register to vote this government out of office in 2018.
This is the challenge I give to the young people and to all Zim-dancehall chanters. You must chat and tweet your way into a new Zimbabwe in a big way by urging each other to register to vote in your millions.
To all Zimbabweans in the villages and in the towns, I know the suffering we are all facing. I know that whole families are surviving on less than a dollar a day. I am aware of the grinding poverty in the villages and in the towns. Let us brace for an even tougher 2017. Let us shake the foundations of this repression and come out in our millions to register to vote and on the actual voting day so that we can collectively and decisively determine our future.
Let us take advantage of this holiday to sit down and caucus as families and debate whether as a people we really deserve this suffering. After all, we are a nation of heroes. Repression knows no colour. We fought repression and we can do it again.
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