LIST: Key Highlights Of Nelson Chamisa's State Of The Nation Address

MDC Leader Nelson Chamisa during his Stane of the Nation Address highlighted the following:

• Zimbabwe is weighed down by twin crises, the Covid-19 pandemic and a bad governance authoritarian pandemic.
• Rising authoritarianism has rendered the State unstable and saddled with serious contradictions.
• Zimbabwean people are politically literate and advanced, MDC Alliance oppressors believed by stripping us of our assets and entitlements under the law would dampen our spirits and break us down. This has not worked. It will never work.
• The MDC Alliance is grateful to the citizens for continuing to believe in them, even as oppressors and terrorists have ganged up against their project.
• The government is trying to have a government controlled opposition under their command politics. This will effectively establish a one-party state in all but name
• The MDC Alliance will in 2021 peacefully resist oppression of any kind
• Their agenda for young people is to construct policies that are informed by their needs and expectations; policies that come from them rather than imposed from the top by those purporting to know what they want.
• They going to embark on a major fund-raising drive to mobilise funds
• They will push for electoral reforms
• The party will update its readiness to govern and unveil its New Zimbabwe blueprint.

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