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Addressing a handful of his party supporters in Magunje yesterday, Mr Tsvangirai said people would wake up to long queues for basic commodities if they did not vote for his party.
Zimbabwe went through a period of shortages of basic commodities as economic sanctions that were negotiated for by the MDC-T with its Western allies sabotaged the productive sector.
“If you do not vote well, you will go back to 2008 where the shops had no food and queues were the order of the day and everything was just down,” he said.
Addrsssing another rally in Kariba earlier on, Mr Tsvangirai made the same threats to a few of his supporters who attended his rally in the resort town.
He also attempted to appease farmers by saying that if elected his government would dedicate a tenth of the national budget to agriculture and support farmers with inputs.
This promise is despite the fact that farmers are failing to be productive because the MDC-T, through Finance Minister Tendai Biti, has refused to release funds to help them.
Mr Tsvangirai himself is well known as an opponent of farmers whom he once described as “mushrooms” after they were resettled on farms formerly owned by a few whites.
“An MDC government will channel 10 percent of the national budget to supporting agriculture to ensure food security,” he said.
“This will see rural areas achieving sustainable agriculture through irrigation at household level.”
Mr Tsvangirai threatened indigenous as they stood to lose their farms saying they were not productive. He, however, tried to tone down the threat by saying all farmers would get support with inputs, while multiple farm owners would be dispossessed.
Mr Tsvangirai trashed the economic empowerment and indigenisation programme, saying it was a one-man programme.
He also alleged that figures for the special voting that would take place on Sunday and Monday were inflated, but did not support his argument.
Many people have been wondering why Mr Tsvangirai as the Prime Minister and his co-Home Affairs Minister Theresa Makone grapple with the number of police officers in the country when they were well-placed to know better.
Online Reporter