Greetings to you all Mthwakazians!

I address you as Chairman of the MPC National Committee for the second time since the founding of MPC in January of 2006. This will henceforth be the tradition of MPC for the chairman to announce very important events.

The formation of an independence movement in post-colonial Africa, such as ours, is no easy task, and to sustain it through trying, formative times, is an even bigger challenge.

Our greatest challenge at this formative stage has not been the regime in Harare from whom uMthwakazi is now seeking separation. Rather, the greatest challenge has come from some of our own people. It largely remains the case to date.

MPC has taken a common desire of our people, at a time when nobody dared speak about it publicly, and sought to make it public. As we have said repeatedly, MPC has not invented uMthwakazi’s independence agenda. We have repackaged it in modern form. Our audacity to publicly challenge the all-powerful Zanu-PF government, instead of winning us instant recognition and admiration, understandably, attracted suspicion to us. To this day, we are still fighting and fending off that suspicion.  

But we have overcome.

Today, our people have found a voice where they did not have it, strength where weakness once dominated and courage where fear once stalked them. We are speaking, we are quarrelling, and we are acting. At times, we tread what comes close to insults. All this is a good sign that we are coming of age and rising to the challenges of our time. We are growing politically and shaping our own destiny like all nations of the world.

Ultimately, we will mature politically and focus on the big task ahead.  That is the political context. I do not wish to delve too much into politics. I want to share with you our vision of MPC as an organization, a body corporate.

We have entered a new phase in our political struggle. These are exciting times. From our humble beginnings, we have built MPC into a decent political outfit, away from the public gaze and cheers. This has been no small task. Often and still attacked as a faceless organization, we have held our ground when others might have burst and danced to the occasion. We have waited to do things our way, when we are ready.

In a couple of weeks, we are officially and publicly launching and announcing to the world uMthwakazi’s political struggle. We are able to do so because we now exist functionally as MPC. We are excited! We are also nervous. Nervous because we will have entered a point of no return. The challenges ahead are no child’s play. We will be lying to tell uMthwakazi otherwise.

But we also know that with challenge comes opportunity, with risks, the hope of political deliverance. If we walk this path together, in step, we will overcome these challenges and risks and deliver our independence.

So watch this space for details. Don’t be left behind. It’s your struggle. It’s your future and your children’s future and their children’s future. It goes on ….

With the support of all Mthwakazians, the executive team at the MPC, the leadership of MPC and all the structure of MPC, I want to build MPC into a modern organization, whose hallmarks are efficiency, transparency and full accountability to its owners – you!

My vision of MPC is of an organization which is not just a political party or movement, but a modern employer enabling those employed by it to build careers and feed and raise their families. A modern organization with investments that will enable MPC to stay liquid at all times. A movement which upholds its corporate social responsibility like all corporate organizations.

I also want an MPC whose members and youth organization stand aloof from the stereotype of an African party or movement, whose members are often known for corruption, for assaulting those who differ with them politically and who are often a law unto themselves.

I want a party or movement which will enable uMthwakazi to prosecute its political struggle with ruthless efficiency. The corporate office of MPC, which I lead, must remain the engine room of our people’s drive for independence.

We need resources, human and material.

We need funds. Raising funds for a political party is no easy task, but for an organization such as ours, is doubly difficult. We can only ask you, our members, our people, supporters and sympathizers, to donate generously whenever an opportunity arises.  

Above all, we need the goodwill of our people, the material and moral support and encouragement of our people. MPC exists for the people but the people don’t exist for MPC.

Therefore our strength as a body corporate in the service of Mthwakazi’s political struggle must and will always be underwritten by the goodwill of our people. Together, we can and will achieve what might have seemed an impossible challenge to past generations, and an impossible mountain to climb to present doubters.

We must and will prevail.

I thank you.

Rev. ZG Dube
Chairman – MPC-NC  (North America)