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Blackman Ngoro
The leadership of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change must visit victims of xenophobic attacks in South Africa and make pronouncements which reassure the people who after voting for them, escaped tyranny in Zimbabwe.
Most of these people are citizens who return to Zimbabwe to exercise their right to vote. Some may be people who escaped after voting in the 2008 elections. Some may have escaped in 2002, after the first elections which showed that ZANU(P.F.) had lost the trust of the people.
Many may have escaped these instances which catapulted MDC into the people's consciousness. The least which the MDC can do now is to visit these people in Joburg and wherever Zimbabweans are being targeted by mindless mobs masquerading as South African patriots.
We need Morgan Tsvangirai to come out of wherever he is holed up in South Africa to say something to Zimbabweans who are being victimised. We need the leadership of MDC to protect the rights of the Zimbabweans whom they know that they voted for them and were then victimised by the Mugabe regime but are now being victimised by xenophobic and criminal mobs in South Africa.
We need Morgan Tsvangirai to show leadership over this matter and let the people understand that even when they are outside their country waiting for democracy to take root, the MDC will stand for their rights. Its the right thing to do.
We need people like Roy Bennet who escaped tyranny in Zimbabwe and is holed up in South Africa to show more concern for the generality of the people by speaking up for them, or to them.
We need you not to just condemn President Thabo Mbeki for lack of leadership but for you to demonstrate your own leadership over the plight of the Zimbabweans now staying at police camps and some such places where they seek sanctuary and security.
We need you to be visible and not just to impress the South African media which vilifies the Zimbabweans and demands they return home.
Stand up and show what you are made of and stop shouting at the rooftops about Mbeki's faults without showing us your commitement to the welfare of the people suffering now.
How will you show you care for the people when you form a government yet you remain silent as those who voted you into power are victimised here in South Africa?
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Monday, 19 May, 2008
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