OPPOSITION parties yesterday said the Unity Day commemorated on December 22 each year to mark the signing of the 1987 Unity Accord between PF Zapu and Zanu had lost its significance because of the ruling party’s obstinacy.
BY OBEY MANAYITI
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu accused Zanu PF of sowing seeds of disunity among the electorate, thus leaving them sharply divided along tribal and political lines.
“As the MDC, we are extremely disappointed that Unity Day is no longer of any significance in our country. Zimbabwe is a deeply divided, fractured and polarised country,” Gutu said.
“Millions of Zimbabweans are living rough. The Zanu PF regime has utterly failed the people. Unity Day is now just a pale shadow of what it was meant to be originally. The ruling party is caught in endless factional fighting and the country’s economy is in a shambles.”
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) also said Zimbabweans were now divided more than they were before the signing of the Unity Accord.
“That unity must be the unity of the people, but for now it is an elite pact by the political elites of Zanu PF the country is more divided than ever before with the haves enjoying at the expense of the have nots,” PDP spokesperson Jacob Mafume said.
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Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe spokesperson Pishai Muchauraya said citizens could only enjoy the real benefits of unity after victims of the Gukurahundi massacres have received compensation and human rights defenders protected.
“The concept itself is not bad, but now it is useless to celebrate Unity Day when the regime is not compensating victims of Gukurahundi, when the regime cannot account for the missing Itai Dzamara and many others. What unity is there to celebrate when people just disappear?” Muchauraya asked.
National Constitutional Assembly spokesperson Madock Chivasa said: “Unity Day does not exist anymore as it is clear that there is no unity between ordinary people especially those in Matabeleland.
ZimFirst president Maxwell Shumba said as a party they were in the trenches fighting for real unity for Zimbabweans.
National Peace Trust board chair Sekai Holland said: “While our leaders, both late and living, laboured for the current unity and peace infrastructure, a lot more still needs to be done to dismantle the infrastructure of disunity and national discord still bedevilling Zimbabwe on many fronts, including the economy.”
