Dr Thokozani Khupe says she is not being used by Zanu PF to divide the opposition vote but is being persecuted for speaking the truth. ...
Dr Thokozani Khupe says she is not being used by Zanu PF to
divide the opposition vote but is being persecuted for speaking the truth.
“I am not a Zanu PF
supporter and l have never been involved in those things,” she said when asked
about allegations that her stance against the MDC Alliance was aiding the
ruling party’s designs to remain in power.
“I stand guided by my loyalty to the MDC-T party and such
allegations against me are not true.vl am just being persecuted for speaking
the truth,” she told The Standard.
Khupe said the alliance in its current form was of no
benefit to the MDC.
“Talking about reunification and alliances, the reason why
in politics you look for an alliance partner is because you would have realised
your deficit,” she said.
“We have always been winning [in Matabeleland] since 2000.
So when the idea of an alliance came, l said to the [the late] president
[Morgan Tsvangirai] this is a very brilliant idea because there is a place
where we have not performed well and that’s where we need a partner.”
She claimed Tsangirai, who died in February after battling
cancer of the colon, had relented to her demands to review the MDC Alliance
pact.
“The president before he went to South Africa on his last
days said to me, you were right we must revisit this thing because I’ve
realised that it’s causing confusion,” Khupe said.
“We were in the process of revisiting it to take the
document to the national executive, to the national council and up to now that
document has never been debated.
“I want an alliance partner who is going to add value to
what I have, not somebody who is going to take away what l have and expect me
to win. It doesn’t work like that.”
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