Opposition leader says removing Mugabe should not be the only reason for a coalition

Former Cabinet minister and Alliance for National Salvation (ANSA) party leader Moses Mzila Ndlovu told a public meeting organised by the pressure group, Ibhetshu LikaZulu, in Bulawayo, last week that the hype around a coalition were an indication opposition parties were panicking.

Said Ndlovu:

We want to do things at the spur of the moment because of the panic mode we are in now. The coalition’s primary goal is to remove [President Robert] Mugabe and that leaves most critical issues unattended. Removing Mugabe is not enough. When getting into a coalition, you need to understand what it is that will bind you. There is missing glue that makes the current coalition stick together and that poses potential dissenting voices in the near future. People risked their lives because they desired to be free, but come 1980 we never saw freedom as Zanu-PF started ill-treating people.
[Now] 36 years later we have not known freedom. We fought for freedom of speech and freedom after speech. Is the coalition going to restore that?

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