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(TALKZIMBABWE) Only prayer can save Zimbabwe: PM

Only prayer can save Zimbabwe: PM
WNS/TZG
Mon, 18 May 2009 16:45:00 +0000

PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said Zimbabwe can only be rescued from its decade-long political and economic crisis by God's intervention through prayers.

Tsvangirai, speaking at a memorial service for his late wife Susan, urged Zimbabweans to pray for God's deliverance to guarantee the success of the country's economic recovery programmes and the new inclusive Government.

"The only way we can rescue this country is when Zimbabweans start praying hard. We have to pray hard and ask God to save this country, we have to pray for the leadership…and God will help us. Without prayers, we will not go anywhere," he said at the memorial service.

About 400 people, among them deputy prime minister Thokozani Khupe, ministers and their deputies, parliamentarians, councilors and members of the Methodist church and other churches attended the memorial service held at the Large City Hall in Bulawayo.

Mrs Tsvangirai died in a car accident in March that also left the prime minister injured.

"We have to pray for the success of the unity government and also ask for a God fearing leadership," he added.

Zimbabwe's inclusive Government is still battlingto implement all the ter with outstanding issues enshrined in the Global Political Agreement signed last year between PM Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe.

President Mugabe has refused demands by MDC leaders to fire central bank governor, Dr. Gideon Gono, and Attorney General, Johannes Tomana, saying their appointment was legal and did not go against the coalition agreement.

The west and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have demanded reform at the central bank accussing it of sparking hyper-inflation through quasi-fiscal activities. [At the same time, they have not scrapped sanctions yet, which are at the core of worldrecord hyperinflation - ZDERA - MrK]

PM Tsvangirai has blamed President Mugabe for violating terms of the GPA.

"The continued violations of the rule of law and the GPA prevent the inflows of development aid, obstructing the legislative agenda and risk keeping Zimbabwe mired in poverty and the fear of persecution," he said.

"This residual resistance represents an unwillingness to accept the fact that the new political dispensation is not only irreversible, but also offers the country the only viable way forward."

Labels: MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, SUSAN TSVANGIRAI

posted by MrK @ 3:46 PM