By A Correspondent- MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has implored his counterpart from Zanu Pf, Emmerson Mnangagwa to prioritise useful dialogue that is credible and genuine as a way of facilitating for a transitional authority that will pave way for reforms.

Addressing hundreds of party supporters at Stoddart grounds in Mbare, Chamisa said:

“We must return to legitimacy and democracy. Zimbabwe must have a political dialogue that is credible and genuine underwritten by the international community to facilitate a transitional authority that will pave way for reforms.

The National Transition Authority is the appropriate vehicle to turnaround this country. In 2019, we published our RELOAD document the crux of which was essentially to give peace a chance. In that document we made it clear that the resolution of the Zimbabwean crisis require dialogue, which we were to push through political pressure in all legitimate forms.

The basis and purpose of that pressure was to force the government of the day, to agree to dialogue focused on Comprehensive Reforms to be implemented through a National Transitional Mechanism.

The reality on the ground is that more than two years after November 2017, and more than 18 months after the 30 July 2018 election,
time is running out for Zimbabwe.

Impatience engulfs the nation and the real danger is that all and sundry will be engulfed by forces and processes that are intolerant to
the continued reproduction of the terrible status quo.

We remain committed to genuine dialogue. Our position will not change. What we want is useful dialogue. It is not dialogue for the purposes of accommodation, photo opportunities or political expediency.”

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