ZIMBABWE’S largest opposition party, the MDC Alliance, has called on the South African President and leader of the ruling ANC party, Cyril Ramaphosa, to intervene and warn his colleagues in the liberation struggle in Zanu PF.
This followed an attack on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s convoy in rural Masvingo, some 300 km from the capital, Harare, last week.
MDC Alliance convoy vehicles were smashed, stoned, roads were barricaded and some members of Nelson Chamisa’s delegation were injured.
The alliance had launched a mobilization campaign ahead of the 2023 national elections and by-elections scheduled for vacant seats.
MDC Alliance Vice President Tendai Biti says it is time for President Cyril Ramaphosa and SADC to intervene in Zimbabwe.
Biti urges Ramaphosa to keep his fellow liberation campaigners, the Zanu PF, in check.
The ruling Zanu PF blames the leader of the MDC Alliance for the violence in Masvingo.
The Tafadzwa Mugwadi party says the supporters of the Zanu-PF were provoked.
In September last year, amid tensions in the neighboring country, the ANC sent a delegation of high-ranking party leaders to Zimbabwe for talks.
The MDC is now calling on the leader of the ruling party in South Africa to take action in the face of the deteriorating political and economic situation in Zimbabwe.
- Agencies
