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MDC Youth Assembly reacts to ultimatum issued to Tsvangirai
Hon Thamsanqa Mahlangu, Movement for Democratic Change
March 02, 2010

The MDC Youth Assembly takes great exception to the so-called ultimatum issued to President Morgan Tsvangirai giving him a deadline to solve a Zanu PF ulcer which it invited upon itself through electoral theft and gross human rights abuses.

The motley group of hired thugs, which was openly incited by Zanu PF's geriatric Politburo, threatened unspecified action against President Tsvangirai, who is Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Head of Government, chairman of the council of Ministers and the undisputed winner of the 29 March 2008 Presidential election.

While we understand the frustration of the rented hoodlums, that their party dismally lost in an election, we take great exception to unbridled threats against the people's President; the country's Prime Minister with executive powers clearly defined in the Global Political Agreement. This rented crowd which was bussed from Mbare and other areas does not represent the youth of Zimbabwe. The youth of Zimbabwe swam alongside the national sentiment and overwhelmingly voted for change. They voted for Morgan Tsvangirai. They unequivocally voted for a new leader; indeed a new political dispensation where threats, murder and violence will indeed be matters for the archives.

The MDC Youth Assembly is aware that President Tsvangirai is not under threat from the youth of Zimbabwe. He is under threat from a sulking minority in Zanu PF which is busy looting diamonds in Chiadzwa. These Zanu PF saboteurs, who are found in the military top brass and the Zanu PF Politburo, have unleashed these hired street urchins to prevent the hawk-eyed Prime Minister from putting a dead end to the shameful corruption in Marange. They are aware that the Prime Minister wants to divert these proceeds from their private pockets into the national coffers so that we can pay civil servants decent salaries which they deserve.

Zanu PF's misguided youths must know that the people of Zimbabwe will always stand ready to defend and protect the man they overwhelmingly voted for on 29 March. We stand ready to guard the people's vote. If this is now an open season to insult and threaten, then those who deserve this treatment are the ones whose executive power is directly linked to the blood spilt in the run up to June 27 2008.

Now that these hoodlums have been allowed to demonstrate without fear of arrest, Zimbabweans shall soon be embarking on nationwide demonstrations for the arrest of all those linked to the nauseating corruption at Chiadzwa. We shall soon be taking to the street and giving our own deadlines for the opening of new newspapers and television stations, a speedy resolution to the outstanding issues and the completion of media and Constitutional reforms.

Zimbabweans want real change. They want hope, prosperity, security, freedom and dignity.

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