MDC to Hold Extraordinary National Executive Meeting Tomorrow
The MDC holds an extra-ordinary national executive meeting in Harare
tomorrow to deliberate on critical issues affecting the party and the
inclusive government.
The national executive will deliberate on the death of veteran
politician and Midlands South provincial secretary, Senator Patrick
Kombayi and the continued crack-down on MDC members characterized by
the unwarranted detention of the party’s Director-General, Tondepi
Shonhe, who is languishing in prison on an innocuous trumped-up
charge.
On Saturday, Mutare West MP, Hon Shua Mudiwa, was “convicted” on a
trumped-up charge of kidnapping as efforts intensify to whittle down
the MDC majority in Parliament.
The crackdown has not spared civic society activists, journalists and lawyers.
Senator Kombayi died on Saturday after a long-battle with gun-shot
wounds. State security agent Elias Kanengoni and Zanu PF activist
Kizito Chivamba pumped six bullets into Hon Kombayi’s groin in the
violent election campaign of 1990.
The MDC Midlands South provincial secretary and Senator for
Gweru-Chirumanzu constituency was a veteran of Zimbabwe’s liberation
struggle. He joined the MDC in its formative years and has been a
staunch advocate of change and democracy in Zimbabwe.
The MDC shares this moment of grief with the Kombayi family. His death
has robbed the nation of a fighter, a father, a revolutionary, a
patriot and more importantly, a democrat whose long battle with
gun-shot wounds made him a living testimony of the barbarism of
State-sponsored terrorism.
As a former freedom fighter, a victim of State-terrorism and an
advocate for change, his place in history is not contestable.
Together to the end, marching to a new Zimbabwe.
Posted by Dave Fish Eagle
on June 22, 2009. Filed under Politics.
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