{"id":437113,"date":"2011-06-06T16:47:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T16:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/06\/tsvangirai-star-rally-flops\/"},"modified":"2011-06-06T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T16:47:12","slug":"tsvangirai-star-rally-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/06\/tsvangirai-star-rally-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsvangirai Star Rally Flops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"46.2764478764\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestandard.co.zw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/zimstandard180.jpg\" alt=\"Zimbabwe Standard (Harare)\" title=\"Visit Zimbabwe Standard (Harare)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caiphas Chimhete<\/p>\n<p>5 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Harare \u2014 THE MDC-T star rally at the Zimbabwe Grounds in Harare failed to live to expectations after police gave the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai &#8220;unacceptable conditions&#8221; to adhere to just a day before the meeting, a senior party official said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>MDC-T spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora said Tsvangirai did not turn up for the rally because he felt insulted by the conditions given to his party by the police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tsvangirai did not come because he did not agree with the strict conditions given to him by police,&#8221; Mwonzora said. &#8220;MDC insists on unmitigated rights, freedom of association and assembly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the police clearance given to MDC-T, party supporters were not supposed to &#8220;toyi-toyi&#8221; before, during and after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The note also prohibited hate speech or derogatory remarks against other political parties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No hate speech or derogatory remarks should be contemplated against other political rivals,&#8221; read the note. Mwonzora said: &#8220;It is very difficult to follow this condition.<\/p>\n<p>The other condition instructed Tsvangirai to co-operate with state security agents and report all hooligans to them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police are calling on the Prime Minister of a country to act as an informer, again he found this extremely offensive and disrespectful,&#8221; said Mwonzora.<\/p>\n<p>However, other senior MDC-T officials said Tsvangirai failed to turn up because of the small number of people who came for the rally.<\/p>\n<p>They blamed the poor turnout on intimidation by Zanu PF militia.<\/p>\n<p>The Standard news crew saw three MDC-T youths bleeding, claiming that they had been assaulted by Zanu PF youths at their party office at Machipisa Shopping Centre.<\/p>\n<p>One of them was &#8220;knifed&#8221; on the hand and was bleeding profusely and was rushed to a private clinic for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>This happened dispite the heavy presence of police around the venue of the rally.<\/p>\n<p>MDC-T youths who wanted to retaliate were held back by senior party officials.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, MDC-T organising secretary Nelson Chamisa said the party was ready for elections on condition that the electoral playing field was level.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106061987.html\" title=\"Tsvangirai Star Rally Flops\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tsvangirai Star Rally Flops<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Caiphas Chimhete 5 June 2011 Harare \u2014 THE MDC-T star rally at the Zimbabwe Grounds in Harare failed to live to expectations after police gave the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai &#8220;unacceptable conditions&#8221; to adhere to just a day before the meeting, a senior party official said yesterday. MDC-T spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora said Tsvangirai did not turn up for the rally because he felt insulted by the conditions given to his party by the police. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":437114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tsvangirai Star Rally Flops - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/06\/tsvangirai-star-rally-flops\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tsvangirai Star Rally Flops - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Caiphas Chimhete 5 June 2011 Harare \u2014 THE MDC-T star rally at the Zimbabwe Grounds in Harare failed to live to expectations after police gave the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai &quot;unacceptable conditions&quot; to adhere to just a day before the meeting, a senior party official said yesterday. 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