Zim opposition, region have to step up to the plate

Zimbabwe’s opposition MDC Alliance needs to realise that despite the huge support it received at the polls in 2018, it must regain the status of a mass movement and recruit civil society as a partner in “winning the streets”.

“You never win at the negotiating table what you have not won on the streets,” Congress Of South Africa Trade Unions leader Zwelinzima Vavi once remarked.

It was pointed out five years ago in Zimbabwe, while former President Robert Mugabe was still alive, that there is no way forward other than a transitional arrangement — a national transitional authority — to avoid a hard landing and a possible coup.

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