Q: What structure will your government have, given the fact that a good number of MDC MPs are either still too young and inexperienced or could just not be suitably qualified to be appointed as ministers of government?
A: I want to say that the MDC will produce a most credible government of competent and committed people, individuals who do not regard a Cabinet appointment as a job but as a service to the people. We have the capacity to produce a government that is capable of implementing programmes and we are for a participatory government where the doctrine of separation of powers is respected.
Q: And do you really believe you could pull through without a government of national unity?
A: We have cultural diversity in this country. The only way you can drive this country is when that cultural diversity is marshalled in a positive way and not in a way which polarises society along race, tribal or regional lines. I am for a national government but I am not for a government of national unity. The difference is in the manner the government is structured. In this country, we have had a government that has been too tribalistic, where we have had situations where, for example, you get 10 permanent secretaries coming from one province. That, to me, is not acceptable. We need a government that every Zimbabwean must feel they are part of.
Interview by Abel Mutsakani
Article reprinted, courtesy of The Financial Gazette, Southern Africa’s Leading Business and Financial Newspaper. http://www.fingaz.co.zw
A: I want to say that the MDC will produce a most credible government of competent and committed people, individuals who do not regard a Cabinet appointment as a job but as a service to the people. We have the capacity to produce a government that is capable of implementing programmes and we are for a participatory government where the doctrine of separation of powers is respected.
Q: And do you really believe you could pull through without a government of national unity?
A: We have cultural diversity in this country. The only way you can drive this country is when that cultural diversity is marshalled in a positive way and not in a way which polarises society along race, tribal or regional lines. I am for a national government but I am not for a government of national unity. The difference is in the manner the government is structured. In this country, we have had a government that has been too tribalistic, where we have had situations where, for example, you get 10 permanent secretaries coming from one province. That, to me, is not acceptable. We need a government that every Zimbabwean must feel they are part of.
Interview by Abel Mutsakani
Article reprinted, courtesy of The Financial Gazette, Southern Africa’s Leading Business and Financial Newspaper. http://www.fingaz.co.zw