No Mercedes Benz for MDC ministers

March 29, 2009

Ladies and gentlemen!

Media reports indicate that MDC ministers are accepting Mercedes Benz cars as part of their ministerial package.

The nation implores you to take this one chance to demonstrate that you are with the people and not with the Zanu-PF gravy train. The people will feel betrayed if you go ahead and they will tell you that they will not notice the difference between the past regime and the party delivering change! Attitudes must change and here is our chance to prove that there is leadership in this regard.

It is strongly suggested that these cars are refused or sold and locally assembled Mazda’s are bought and the balance of money donated to charities, to fund a clinic in the Minister’s respective area and so on; whatever is practical. This will have powerful and positive implications that will reverberate around the country.

There will be immense celebration and the world’s media will delight in promoting this principled action. Donors will be watching! Zimbabwe will be seen to be leading the way in people based governance, particularly in Africa.

The nation cannot afford such luxury and the MDC cannot allow its credibility to be destroyed.

When asked for comment, Tsvangirai’s spokesman James Maridadi said the Prime Minister was not keen to occupy the State House. Maridadi said: “The last time I spoke to the Prime Minister about the issue of his residence, he said Zimbabwe needs economic stability and national healing and those are his issues of priority. Not the kind of house he is going to sleep in or the kind of car he is going to drive.”

Simon Spooner

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12 Responses to “No Mercedes Benz for MDC ministers”

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Madeira Gomez says:

March 31, 2009 at 12:01 am

This is a non issue.Some things are basic-but if you have a poverty mentality, you will thinks that some people deserve Mercs and not others. Let the ministers have the Mercs – all we need to do as citizens is to hold the ministers accountable and this is measured by deliverables. So once they have the Mercs, let’s demand that they deliver. So don’t worry about the Merc.

Please do not have a poverty mentality.
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Ngoda says:

March 31, 2009 at 12:33 am

Editor, this is a master-piece article. And YES, this is really what we need. I would be sad and be very doubtfull to see Chamisa, and everyone who was inciting us to toyi toyi, get kicked and killed by Mugabe thugs now moving in a new Merc. We were the foot soldiers and lets move together. I know David Coltart refused a Benz, I am not sure if this is a unanimous, official stance from the rest few MDC guys who went up. For Tsvangirayi, yes, we may approve but not the rest!!