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MDC to make a resolution on dialogue
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)
November 10, 2008

The MDC national executive and the national council, the party's supreme decision making bodies, will meet this week to deliberate on the outcome of the extra-ordinary SADC summit meeting held in Sandton, South Africa, yesterday. The 44-member national executive and the 128-member national council will meet on Friday, 14 November 2008, to deliberate on the SADC summit and the future of the dialogue process. The two supreme bodies will deal with the resolutions of the SADC summit, the systematic plot and concoctions of banditry against the MDC and the massive starvation and the general decline of the economic plight of the people of Zimbabwe. It is regrettable that the dialogue process remains unresolved.

We believe that we have a compelling case in that a genuine power-sharing arrangement should be based on equity and not power grabbing. We believe that a real and genuine inclusive government should enable us to effect change in the lives of the people of Zimbabwe and not simply to legitimize a predominantly Zanu PF government which was rejected by the people on 29 March. The people want genuine change in their lives. They want food and jobs. They want drugs, nurses and doctors back in our hospitals. They want teachers back in our schools. They want fuel in the country. They want clean water and electricity back in our homes. We reiterate our position that the MDC will not be able to bring back these basic things if it is given responsibility without authority. We believe that there are fundamental issues that remain outstanding such as the allocation of portfolio ministries, the brazen alteration of the Global Political Agreement by Zanu PF, the issue of provincial governors, the composition and powers of the National Security Council, the appointment of senior government officials, permanent secretaries and ambassadors and the enactment of Constitutional Amendment Number 19.

Apart from these outstanding issues is Zanu PF's deliberate and systematic plot to incriminate the MDC on fictitious charges of banditry and terrorism. We remain committed to peaceful and democratic change. There is no reason for the MDC to engage in such barbaric acts when we are the ruling party with majority seats in Parliament. We control the largest number of urban and rural councils. We won the Presidential election on 29 March through the ballot and any attempts to link us with the gun and the bullet will not wash with the people of Zimbabwe. It will not wash with our brothers and sisters in Africa and it will not wash with the broader international community. The MDC had remained committed to dialogue as the only option to unlock the Zimbabwean crisis. We are aware that Zanu PF has stubbornly stood in the doorway of all efforts to find a solution to the national crisis, oblivious of the massive starvation in the country which needs urgent relief. We in the MDC derive strength and fortitude in the knowledge that the people of Zimbabwe are the owners of the cause.

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