ZANU PF says Zimbabwe doesn’t need non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as they have not brought about any tangible development to the country.
Addressing journalists in Harare on Tuesday, ZANU PFspokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa said NGOs “can go to hell” adding that they don’t play any important role other than giving food handouts. He said:
To hell with those NGOs who have nothing to offer in Zimbabwe. There is no role played by NGOs in terms of Zimbabwe’s development and nothing can be credited to them.
There is no traceable study where NGOs have delivered production in Zimbabwe, like car manufacturing companies. What is their role if they don’t give food handouts?
However, Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika said civil society plays a key role in sustainable development. Said Kika:
I am afraid to say he does not understand what development is, particularly sustainable development, which is impossible without civil society.
Human development, the most important development, has people at the centre, and one cannot wish away civil society in that matrix.
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) president Obert Masaraure said ZANU PF is using NGOs as a scapegoat for its failures. | NewsDay
do you even believe what you are saying?
Zanu Pf is playing with fire, forgetting that they are just wood. We are going to burnt them into ashes. Mutsvangwa is just a nobody i d i o t, who is waiting at the least to face the zanu axe. Let's th talk and talk
Please Mutsvangwa don't just rush to speak on behalf of our Political Party if you are uninformed. Please don't degrade our Party to that extent. I wish somebody in the office of His Excellence Advocate Emerson D. Mnangagwa would check with this man if he has any information before he says anything. Taneta nekunyadzisirwa nyika yedu na President vedu.
During the early 1980s, just after independence, it was DANIDA (Danish International Development Agency which helped black Zimbabweans in rural areas to construct Blair toilets & stop open defecation thus preventing Cholera. In 2007 to 2008, it was UNICEF, through the WASH Project, which gave Zimbabweans water purification pills and rehabilitated the Harare Water Works and many other water reticulation systems in cities and Rural district Councils. The COPAC Constitution making process was funded by the UNDP. The Ministry of health relies on the Global Fund, PEPFAR, USAID & many other NGOs for the free treatment of HIV/AIDS & STIs. During the GNU, It was UNICEF which printed textbooks for both secondary & primary school children throughout Zimbabwe when David Coltart was Minister of Education. The UNDP also funded demining of explosive ordinances (zvimbambaira) through a contract with MINETEC & the Zim Govt. I could go on & on. If there is no study, then do the study. The only thing Mutsvangwa does for Zimbabwe is to go to Canada on a private first class jet to attend his fat son's graduation and show off pictures on Twitter while squandering looted money in New York with Monica. His other son, Neville, is a notorious black market forex dealer who fuels Zimbabwe's inflation. Let me Stop here.
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