Mutambara takes campaign to birth place

Mutambara takes campaign to birth place

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By Staff Reporter

ARTHUR Mutambara, the Zimbabwean opposition leader who returned from exile to run for political office took his campaign to his birth place on Saturday.

Mutambara, a former NASA scientist returned to a royal welcome, with four traditional chiefs in attendance to hear him speak at Nhedziwa business centre in Chimanimani.

The former university student leader who now leads a faction of the feuding Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) sought to allay villagers' fears that an MDC government would seize land parcelled out to them by the Zanu PF government during a chaotic land reform exercise.

He said: "We will not take away land from people but we will conduct a productive assessment to see who is using land productively and who is not."

Mutambara and senior officials from his party have been campaigning across the country ahead of rural council elections.

His faction of the MDC says it will take part in elections, but it is unclear if they will field candidates in all the 1600 wards to be contested.
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