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indefinitely postponed a ‘leaders’ conference that was set for May 30 and 31 to draw up a list of demands pertaining to the holding of harmonised elections.
The conference was to be a precursor to an advocacy campaign code named “Feya-feya” which was to be geared at demanding a “free and fair” election in Zimbabwe to buttress MDC-T’s demands for reforms.
The quasi-political groupings masquerading as non-governmental organisations recently suffered grief in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where they had convened under the banner of Zimbabwe Civil Society Heads of Coalitions to advance MDC-T’s demands for “‘reforms’’ on the sidelines of the AU’s Golden Jubilee celebrations but were told to leave as the African Union Golden Jubilee celebrations organising committee had not made provisions for non-State actors.
Their meeting, which was scheduled for Pandhari Lodge in Harare, was however postponed after its intended thrust was exposed in the media recently.
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition which was organising the campaign yesterday said the advocacy campaign would now be launched at a later date.
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition Mr Thabani Nyoni said they were still putting their systems in place before the conference and subsequent launch of the campaign.
“It (the campaign) is yet to be launched but we are going to launch it very soon as early as next week,” he said. Asked on who was funding the campaign Mr Nyoni said: “In terms of who is funding the campaign I do not think that is for media consumption.”
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Mr Nyoni said the campaign was going to run for several months.
“It is a long drawn campaign that will run for several months countrywide. We will be doing road shows, concerts, meetings and meetings with stakeholders to ensure that we have free and fair elections,” he said.
The Feya-feya campaign, is however, being bankrolled by the British Government, which has since pumped US$2million into the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition’s coffers.
The George Soro’s-funded Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa also released US$36 000 towards the conference that was expected to draw more than 200 participants from MDC-T affiliated nongovernmental organisations. MDC-T has adopted a strategy of passing its appendages as bona fide civil society organisations in a bid to give weight to its endless demands for “reforms’’.
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