POLITICAL activist Talent Rusere, who was recently released from prison after nine months, yesterday called for national unity and reconciliation, urging Zimbabweans to forget about past conflicts and focus on building the country.
Rusere was allegedly blindfolded and tortured after his arrest in connection with a video claiming that Zimbabweans voted in Mozambique’s disputed elections last year.
He was arrested at the Plumtree Border Post following his deportation from Botswana and appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court on Christmas eve.
The activist was convicted on two counts of violating immigration laws. He was being accused of residing in Botswana without a valid passport and contravening the Data Protection Act.
Addressing the media in Harare yesterday, Rusere said he would not be defined by his imprisonment, adding that Zimbabwe’s strength lay in its shared liberation struggle objectives.
“Zimbabwean politics must be for Zimbabweans and Zimbabweans alone. External dogmatism and lobotomised individual politicking dividing our people into hostile camps must be discarded,” he said.
“We should engage constructively with those we are opposed to despite our differences in the best interests of our citizens, politics is not for politicians or political parties, politics is for our people and the community.
Rusere aligned himself to the national agenda of the country and the need for respect for equality.
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“I am ready to impart the President’s Vision 2030 as his vision of national interest based on national development, economic (growth) and peace.”
He added: “If we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Zimbabweans are equal; that they are endowed with the Constitution of our nations as the supreme law of the land with lengthy unsubstituted rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of battle.”
He said modern development required collective action and should be undertaken together.
“Zimbabwe’s possibilities are unlimited, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries denounces,” Rusere said.
