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Govt urged to promote living standards
Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe
March 08, 2011

Several Zimbabweans have called on the inclusive government to concentrate more on improving the nation's deteriorating social and economic standards and ending political violence instead of spending time on elections.

Phillip Pasirayi, director of the Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe, (CCDZ) told the Daily News that these sentiments have been raised at a number of meetings currently being held across the country.

Last week, CCDZ, in collaboration with the Midlands chapter of collaborating institutions, Zimbabwe Human Rights Association and the Catholic Commission for Peace and Justice in Zimbabwe visited areas in the Midlands province where they held community meetings in KweKwe, Chiundura and Zhombe.

He said communities felt that while elections were necessary, government had first to address their humanitarian plight.

"The communities said instead of harping on elections, President Mugabe and Prime Minister Tsvangirai should tell them how many jobs they had created, how many roads, clinics and schools they have built and what political reforms they have achieved in their two years in office," said Pasirayi.

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