INDIGENISATION and Empowerment minister Saviour Kasukuwere has blasted MDC-T policies, saying they were borrowed from short-lived Prime Minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, Abel Muzorewa. REPORT BY VENERANDA LANGA SENIOR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER
Kasukuwere said this while addressing African editors who were on a two-day tour of media houses last week.
Responding to questions by the editors who wanted to know if he was confident his party would win the forthcoming elections, Kasukuwere said the MDC-T was going to lose because it had nothing to offer to the electorate.
“It is clearly accepted by the whole world that Zanu PF is going to win the elections because it has empowered Zimbabweans,” said Kasukuwere.
“The MDC-T is regurgitating what Muzorewa used to say that ‘leave the whites alone, we just want jobs’ because that is the same mantra that the MDC-T is repeating,” said Kasukuwere.
He said the MDC-T failed to see that Zimbabweans needed to be owners of businesses and not workers.
“They are talking about employment creation only, but we in Zanu PF are talking about decent jobs and empowerment of the people. Who says if I am a farm owner I am not employed? We want to support our own young people to create jobs,” he said.
Kasukuwere also said the MDC-T led Harare City Council was now turning the capital city into a rural area by sinking boreholes everywhere instead of bringing water to the people.
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However, MDC-T spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora refuted Kasukuwere’s accusations, saying he was just trying to sell his indigenisation policies.
“MDC-T policies are original and are dictated by the social and economic realities of Zimbabwe, which is reeling in more than 80% unemployment as a lot of its able-bodied manpower has been retrenched as a result of the ruinous policies of Zanu PF,” said Mwonzora. He said through its policies, the MDC-T was emphasising on employment creation and within five years would create a million jobs if the policies were implemented.
“The key to economic revival is employment creation. Zanu PF policies are tainted with corruption and even their land policies never created employment, but benefited the big fish,” he said.
Mwonzora said there was nothing wrong with sinking boreholes in cities to make water accessible to the people.
