Bandla, ngilokhu ngilandela ingxoxo mayelana lo Jonathan Moyo lapha eNkundleni.

Akelibone ukuthi ikhansila yako Bulawayo iyiphethe kanjani indaba yama turncoat ako Mpofu. Baxoshiwe, phuma, hamba, tshiya!!

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BULAWAYO Fear of Zanu PF infiltration in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has led to the removal of Bulawayo's deputy-mayor, Alderman Charles Mpofu, from his position, insiders in the opposition have said.

Mpofu, a former Zanu PF councillor was removed from his position two weeks ago at the same time another former ruling party councillor, Matson Hlalo-Mpofu was suspended from the opposition party on allegations of sponsoring a demonstration against incumbent Member of Parliament for Makokoba, Thoko Khuphe.

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http://www.thestandard.co.zw/

Saduva

Is it no ironic that just a few days ago the MDC anounced that it is withdrawing its councilors from the councils all over the country anyway? Is this not part and parcel of its protest against unfair and skewed political playing fields which are clearly not level?

Just below the story from where your quote on "turncoats" is derived from, the following story is also headline news:

"MDC Harare councillors resign
By our own Staff

COUNCILLORS representing the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on Friday night agreed to resign from the Harare City Council.

The move is in line with the opposition party's decision to withdraw its representatives ....... in the running of the capital city."

On the one hand you have the MDC national leadership declaring that they want all their city councillors to withdraw from councils. It stated that those who refuse to resign or withdraw will cease to represent the MDC. Now the question is the Byo councilors who fired the "turncoats", whom are they representing now , because the MDC has made it clear that all its council members must resign.

Lobengula, was the Byo city council acting on the orders of the MDC National Executive, like the Harare councillors?

As far as I'm aware, the MDC National Executive directive was for Harare, after a turncoat(Mukawabarara)defied party rulings.

Saduva
Herewith a report as quoted by Makinte on the day indicated below. My feeling is that the firing of turncoats is coinciding with the demise of the MDC anyway.


Originally posted by Makhinte:

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29 -08-2004
"The MDC will also withdraw its elected councillors, who control the Harare City Council, with immediate effect.

The announcement will be made under the banner, "the spirit of Mauritius", at a press conference and briefing to diplomats in Harare on Wednesday.

'The MDC will also withdraw its elected councillors'
A working committee met near Pretoria last week and returned with recommendations for the MDC national executive that participation in elections was "a waste of time and resources" until electoral standards adopted at
the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Mauritius last week are in place.

If there is no substantial move to amend or repeal laws to allow for "real" electoral reform in accordance with the SADC protocol, then the MDC will not participate in next year's parliamentary poll either, according to party insiders this week.

The MDC says it will not stop political activity and has already applied for police permission for a series of rallies to explain its decision and celebrate its fifth anniversary.

The working committee, lead by secretary-general Welshman Ncube on his way back from Mauritius, analysed reports arising from MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai's consultations with the party's structures around the country over the past three months.

According to reports from each district, elected party officials recommended that the party "suspend" participation in elections at all levels.

"It's one thing to be beaten up or killed for taking part in elections, but it's another to have the election rigged as well," was the message Tsvangirai reportedly brought back to his national leadership.

The MDC has "reserved the right" to pull out of all municipalities - and its candidates won most urban elections - depending on "circumstances on the ground".

The government arrested then sacked Harare mayor Elias Mudzuri a year after he won with a massive majority in 2002.

Ncube is scheduled to tell Harare City councillors today that if they don't quit they will not be representing the MDC.

The MDC's 38-man national executive is expected to endorse the working committee's recommendations today as many of them have debated among themselves, and in the media, that participation in elections did nothing but give "legitimacy" for President Robert Mugabe's administration."

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kuhamba njani ngo dabengwa.mina angimqondi kahle undoda lo, he has been so silent;


"A senior member of ZANU PF said that another potential candidate to succeed President Mugabe from Matabeleland and the former PF Zapu would be Dumiso Dabengwa, but he is widely viewed with suspicion by many Zanu PF members because of his perceived aloofness. Even former PF Zapu members feel that Dabengwa, a very powerful member of the late Joshua Nkomo's party who was detained by the government after independence, "is too quiet for comfort".

Ever since being dropped from President Mugabe's cabinet in 2000, he has confined himself to a regional project aimed at drawing water from the Zambezi River for the drought-stricken Matabeleland. The project, mooted in the 1930s, has been frustrated by lack of government commitment.

"Dabengwa has recoiled into a shell, shunning activities that would give him a national stature. Mugabe does not trust him as much as he trusts John Nkomo," a party activist noted."

http://www.fingaz.co.zw/fingaz/2004/August/August5/6201.shtml

Bafowethu.

If you remember what I said some time back about Dumiso Dabengwa, yikho ukwenza kwakhe. Ayikhulumi kakhulu le indoda. Lathi sasimesaba empini ngoba ungeke wazi ukuthi ucabangani. Kodwa we always enjoyed the results of his strategies. That way he created friends among the rank-and -file, but was hated jealously by those who could not produce.

Nansi indaba. If he has confined himself to the Zambezi Water project, let the people give him support. Let the people make him realise that if he can concentrate on what benefits us, then we are with him. Ngumbono wami lowu.

Ngizaphinda futhi: thina inkokheli zethu siyazisola loba zisenzela okuhle. Kodwa nxa zixhakekile senza angathi asizazi. Let us unite in what is common to us, BUT NOT SHY FROM TELLING EACH OTHERS THE TRUTH WHERE WE GO WRONG.

Sakhiwa njalo isizwe.

Li Zwangendaba.

limqotho zwangendaba.uyazi nje i felt an urge to know more ngendoda le ngoba ithule zwi khathesi.

manje izanu iyamfraustrate kuma efforts akhe awe mzwp.ngabe i matland isikhatshana khathesi.