LOVEMORE TARUVINGA – THE UK DISTRICT CHAIRMAN FOR UCAD GREEN PARTY OF ZIMBABWE

At the Global Greens International Conference in Liverpool UK, 30 March 2017

It is my pleasure to have been accorded this great honour to be at this conference and to address all of you today. My name is Lovemore Taruvinga. I am the UK District Chairman for our political party called United Crusade for Achieving Democracy (UCAD) Green Party of Zimbabwe.

I have been assigned by my honourable Party President Mr Albert Matapo through the Party Caretaker Mr Canny Kaeto to represent not only UCAD Green Party of Zimbabwe but also Zimbabwe as a whole.

I am pleased and I feel honoured to have been allowed this opportunity to be part of this important event as this to us is one reflection of the growing strength of UCAD Green Party of Zimbabwe.

Allow me to use this opportunity to inform the whole world that the situation in my country is deteriorating day in day out. We badly need your help now more than ever before.

Today about a third of Zimbabweans are out of Zimbabwe simply because of Mugabe and his Junta. It should be noted that elections have been held ever since 1980 but most of these elections have been window dressing. Mugabe and his Zanu PF people fool the whole world by holding fake elections. We need your help as the Zanu PF regime is not legitimate. Help us remove this illegitimate regime.

We therefore wish the whole world know that we are dealing with an illegitimate regime, a regime made up of looters, murderers, liars, election riggers, pretenders and evil people to say the least. We are faced with a regime that openly boasts that they will never be removed by a mere pen.

Why does the whole world seem to fear Mugabe? Mugabe seems to be getting away with all the evil deeds that he has been committing over the 37 years and that he continues to commit even today. We are not a violent party hence we do not advocate for violence. All we are asking the world is to take practical steps that will see Mugabe off that seat that he is occupying illegally. More damage is being inflicted on us as Mugabe continues to hold us at ransom. Most if not all Zimbabweans do not want to be in the diaspora at all. We want to be at home with our relatives and friends but we cannot because of Mugabe. Do not give us fish but fishing hooks and lines in the form of helping us to remove Mugabe and his whole team.

There will be elections in 2018. These elections are nothing but another way of legitimising an illegitimate Zanu PF regime. They are introducing Biometric Voters Roll system that is already highly compromised. Zanu thought of introducing this as a way of hoodwinking the whole world. The only practical way of ensuring fairness to our elections is by having United Nations hold the elections and not Zanu. Rural people are being intimidated and tortured day and night. Genuine opposition activists have no place in Zimbabwe. May you please help us sooner than ever. Thank you.
Thank you once more.