20 September, 2002
Press Statement By Honourable Renson Gasela, The MDC Shadow Minister For Agriculture
The Movement For Democratic Change (MDC) will on Friday 20 September 2002 bring in 1 800 bags (90 tonnes) of maize bringing to total a tonnage of 120 tonnes held at Beitbridge under the Feed Zimbabwe Trust, which will be distributed equally between Chikomba, Chivi and Gweru.
The maize comes in under the MDC mandate to feed starving Zimbabweans, and will offset the ravages of the calculated Mugabe-induced famine on the helpless and starving majority.
The illegitimate government of Mugabe has denied the masses of food in a bid to subjugate the masses and bow them to his will, and has systematically ensured that supporters of MDC do not get any food aid.
Although the regime is failing to come up with a food deficit of 1.1 million tonnes to avert the crisis, it inhumanly and selfishly refuses for anyone else with the capacity to bring in food.
FZT recognizes and sympathises with the plight of the majority of Zimbabweans facing starvation and will bring in more maize despite the regime's attempt to force Zimbabweans to submission by maintaining the GMB monopoly as the sole company with a permit to import maize.
It is sheer hypocrisy for the government to make a u-turn and allow genetically modified food which it had previously condemned in the worst manner, simply to outdo the fact that FTZ had brought in maize.
Clearly the regime has outdone itself in terms of policy failure and at times employs the most absurd way of dealing with a crisis if Made's going around the country in a helicopter to assess the food situation is anything to go by.
This has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that the regime does not have the interests of the ordinary Zimbabweans at heart, but seeks to meet its own selfish needs.
For Further Information, Please Contact:
Nkanyiso Maqueda,
Director of Information
00263 91 248 570
BRUSSELS,
Grace Kwinjeh
0032 494 1 81 621
LONDON,
James Littleton
00 44 7771 501 401
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