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Own Correspondent
Zimbabwe presidential candidate and the United African National Council (UANC) leader Rev Dr. Gwinyai Muzorewa has deplored the country’s deterioration since his party’s ouster from power in 1980.
Rev Dr Muzorewa is a younger brother to the late former Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa who led the country between 1978 and 1979.
Addressing THE UANC parliamentary candidates in Harare on Saturday (yesterday), Rev Dr. Muzorewa said he was confident of forming the next government in Zimbabwe after the 23 August 2023 harmonized elections.
“The record of what the UANC can do for Zimbabwe is known by everybody in this country judging from our performance during the very short period we were in office,” he stated.
The party had built people houses in all cities and towns, schools and clinics in rural areas, and strengthened the monetary currency after a gruelling liberation war, only exiting government when the Zimbabwe dollar was stronger than the US dollar and at par with the British pound.
“We ran an efficient public transport and refuse collection system and the country boasted the best-paid civil servants on the continent.”
Muzorewa said as a God-fearing father he would set up an inclusive government working with all political parties and selecting Zimbabwe’s best minds for cabinet posts.
“It is time for genuine unity without political animosities in order to lead the country to prosperity for all citizens.”
Muzorewa is among 11 candidates who successfully filed their nomination papers for the country’s top job earlier this week.
The US-educated theology professor pledged to uphold human rights and guarantee freedom of the press and of expression while promising to jealously guard the country’s mineral wealth and land resources.