Thread by @Laque_davis

1] 🟡Yellow Citizens

Here's a summary of @nelsonchamisa's #CitizensAction4Change address this evening.

Background: The Zimbabwean Situation

•common future at stake
•shattered dream
•broken hope
•no fuel, energy, food; no civil servants grants, no jobs, high cost of living

2] @nelsonchamisa

Background: The Zimbabwean Situation

•dilapidated medical facilities
•children dropping out of school
•high company closure
•civil servants & service men struggling
•pensioners including warvets struggling
•corruption has become a national religion

3] @nelsonchamisa

Background: The Zimbabwean Situation

•weaponisation of food & social services particularly in rural areas
•high youth unemployment
•poor education system
•artists struggling
•parents struggling to fend for families

The 🟡 message is of belief in change

4] @nelsonchamisa

On the background of all these challenges, and in light of his alternative government annual tradition, @nelsonchamisa presented the CCC #Agenda2022 address, capturing the broad vision for this year.

Chamisa declares 2022 the year of #CitizensActionForChange

5] @nelsonchamisa

The context of the agenda:

•Zimbabwe has now had 2 decades of challenges which is worsening
•Inflation stands at 60%
•Unemployment has gone over 80%
•High increase in cost of living
•Zim dollar ambitiously packed at 1:1 with USD, now at ZW 230:1 USD

6] @nelsonchamisa

The context:

•Gvt is running a "currency cycles", hip hopping from ZW to USD
•Savings, pensions & cash flows have been eroded
•Education Institutions only producing additions to the battalion of e unemployed
•The "Zim dream" is now to leave the country

7] @nelsonchamisa

Context of the agenda:

Acknowledge to development partners helping the country who shouldn't be fought, suspected & doubted but appreciated.

•Zimbabwe is ranked 157/180 on the corruption perception index
•No gov action on detailed reports of corruption

8] @nelsonchamisa

Agenda Context:

•Gvt now a threat to rural communities, displacing citizens from their ancestral land (eg Dinde, Chiredzi, Mutoko, Uzumba) to the benefit of the politically connected, emptying the liberation essence

•mortgaging resources to foreign dealers

9] @nelsonchamisa

Context of the agenda:

•Gvt has perfected the "blame game"
•Zim is loosing over US $1.8 billion annually, to elicit financial flows

•Human rights situation continues to worsen- no perpetrators has ever been held to account & gv hasn't offered leadership

10] @nelsonchamisa:

Context of the Agenda:

• Zimbabwe is now ranked 127/139 on the world justice justice peace, rule of law index and 30/33 on the sub Saharian region- we are becoming the sick man of Africa

•our reputation doesn't make us attractive to investors

11] @nelsonchamisa

Context of the Agenda:

•the Zim socio-economic condition continues to worsen
•49% of the population (+7.9 million people living in extreme poverty)
•a minority is benefiting from nat resources
•migrations keeps increasing, making us a regional nuisance

12] @nelsonchamisa

•Tribute to citizens in the diaspora representing the national & sustaining families back home, & national economy

•Zim received US $1 billion (2020), US $1.4 billion (2021) in remittances

•Gvt has sadly failed to respect citizens rights of diasporians

13] @nelsonchamisa:

Behold The New:

Search for a new transformational consensus saw the birth of a new yellow baby on Jan 24th, with a new name, new DNA, new mission, new Agenda to serve & liberate citizens for a better life, jobs, freedom, dignity, joy, to make Zim Great Again

14] @nelsonchamisa:

The citizens movement was born out of a desperate realisation that Zimbabweans need a new & fresh way of doing politics

CCC stands for modern politics that puts the citizen at the center- center of all decision making

We are unleashing something Big 🟡

15] @nelsonchamisa:

Every citizen has the capacity to change. Let's change our situation and form a Citizens Govt.

Allow the seed of change to germinate & grow in you- a commitment to make our country a better place

The 24 of Jan was a special day- now its Yellow everywhere

16] @nelsonchamisa:

Qualification to belong to CCC is being a citizen
We've survived sustained attacks on us, our cause & our movement
They removed elected officials, replacing them with handpicked surrogates & cronies
They were intent on destroying us,,now we're better & bigger

17] @nelsonchamisa:

They stormed & forcibly took our HQ, not knowing we are headquartered in the hearts of citizens

They diverted the PPFA money earned by the voter

They grabbed our name but we left them clutching at an empty shell

You can grab assets, but can't grab the ppl

18] @nelsonchamisa:

Thank you for believing in us. They didn't know they were fueling our struggle, adding fertiliser & manure. Because of our citizens-centeredness, citizens continue to rally behind us. We've witnessed amazing acts of citizens action in the convergence phase

19] @nelsonchamisa:

Without any direction nor instruction from political leaders, citizens in the diaspora organised to raise funds to support the struggle. We understand they've picked up from the successes of last year to ensure we campaign everywhere for the 2023 elections.

20] @nelsonchamisa

2022 is the year of #CitizensAction4Change

This means we are placing citizens at the center of all actions & programs, making sure the citizen determines what the politician does
The tail can't wag the dog

Beyond all affiliations, citizens must come together

21] @nelsonchamisa:

Pillar 1: Citizens Action for Change

The agenda is calling citizens to act. Citizens must act, serve, participate & be involved.
This means building grassroot & volunteer programs for change, across all professions.
The message is: 'do something for change.'

22] @nelsonchamisa:

Action for Change must go beyond political party affiliation.
The core Action for this year is mobilizing to register to vote. Voting makes a difference. Those demotivating voting want to take away the citizens' voice. Organize, mobilise & educate for change

23] @nelsonchamisa:

Register to vote, for the CHANGE you want to see. Register to vote for jobs; grants; students payouts, better education; a happy life; strong economy; functional health system; a Zimbabwe that works for all of us, not just a few of us.

#CitizensAction4Change

24] @nelsonchamisa:

Let's act now to end our suffering; to keep the hope for the next generation; to stop ourselves from being abused. Let's be fully equipped to fend for ourselves and fight this fight to bring to fruition, the change we want to see.

#CitizensAction4Change

25] @nelsonchamisa:

Pillar 2: Community Action For Change

Let's champion change in our communities. We've a resp to mobilise, serve, lead & educate at a community level; volunteer services, recruiting new members; donating to offer support Strong communities make strong nations

26] @nelsonchamisa:

Pillar 3: Action for an Alternative Government

We'll offer alternative policies & programs. Gone are the days of opposing for the sake of it. We will launch the #GreatZimbabweBluePrint which will include what we will experience in a new & free Zimbabwe.

27] @nelsonchamisa:

We'll offer alternative policy in education, energy, agriculture, freedom, support for young people, diaspora. We are an alternative in policies.
We can't be talking about stone age tactics like pfumvudza in this day & age. We will move to #SmartAgriculture.

28] @nelsonchamisa:

Pillar 4: Agenda 4 Reforms

•electoral reforms
•constitutional reforms
•political reforms

Some of the electoral reforms:

i. Right to vote (including diaspora) -enhance access to vote registration
ii. Credible voters roll
iii. Security of polling material

29] @nelsonchamisa:

•electoral reforms

iv. Security of the vote & voter- clear dispute resolution mechanisms

v. Transitional mechanism- a credible results management system

vi. Media reforms- state media must be fair & impartial

Our elections must be a market place of ideas

30] @nelsonchamisa:

Pillar 5: Global Action For Change

Solidarity is key. We will seek regional support and solidarity as we organize ourselves for change. We need the support of progressive forces as we fight for free & fair elections, as we seek to win 6 million votes in 2023

31] @nelsonchamisa:

We need law makers, we will have a 2/3 majority in Parliament. We'll clean sweep in local government. This is a Citizens' movement. The external support won't be useful if we fail to mobilise to register to vote. A high margin of votes can't be rigged.

32] @nelsonchamisa:

Once we get our army; police; courts; the law; our politics; policies; Parliament; our leaders back to the citizens, then we'll be able to make change happen. In the next months we'll be rolling out the #CitizensCharter & building the Transformation Team.

33] @nelsonchamisa:

Please be part of this great change. Be part of this 🟡 movement. Turn 🟡, turn gold, turn great. Be part of the sunshine movement. This is my ask, this is my task. Introduce the new, be the new, accept the new, spread the new, build the new, deliver the new

34] @nelsonchamisa

Be a citizens champion for change. Welcome to the new. God Is In It. God bless Zimbabwe, God Bless Africa. Fellow citizens, this is a great year of Action for Change. We have to do our best for change and transformation. I thank You.

#CitizensAction4Change