Zimbabwe: MDC-T Busy Constricting the Democratic Space

22 August 2017
opinion

The rate at which MDC-T officials are revealing their undemocratic traits is alarmingly unnerving. Just before the dust had settled on the shocking and unilateral scrapping of primary elections by the MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai, another high ranking official, Tapiwa Mashakada, released an additional undemocratic shocker.

Speaking to a local daily recently, Mashakada, who is the party's secretary for finance and economic affairs, arrogantly posited that uniformed forces should be denied the right to vote in order to allegedly make them non-partisan.

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