A MATABELELAND-based movement, Freedom Alliance, has urged its members to recruit their wives and children to grow the organisation and challenge the central government to develop the province.
FA is led by an academic and public policy expert, Samukele Hadebe .
He is deputised by former National Healing and Reconciliation minister, Moses Mzila Ndlovu and Presia Ngulube, the former Mthwakazi Republic Party Vice president.
The FA held a leadership induction event in Nkayi last where the party’s chairperson of the women’s league, Sikhululekile Moyo, urged her male counterparts to recruit their wives.
The induction programme was meant to enable the new leadership to understand the mission and principles of the movement.
"Please bring your wives to the struggle and to the Freedom Alliance," Moyo, who is also the interim leader of Izinkonjane in Nkayi District whose main thrust is the recruitment of women into the Movement, said.
"You can't come to the Freedom Alliance alone and expect more women to join the struggle from nowhere. Come with your wives."
Hadebe echoed Moyo’s sentiments.
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"It is forthright leadership that advises the organization positively like what Moyo is doing,” Hadebe said.
“By recruiting the people that members know, in families and neighborhoods, the organization will easily grow.”
FA interim district chairperson, Jabulani Macatsha Ndlovu, also concurred with Moyo.
"Let's ensure that we at least read something per day or at least twice a week,” he said.
“Leadership is about being informed so that you are not easily misled by shameless propaganda churned through state media.”
FA's communications desk said the party was adopting a grassroots oriented approach in its recruitment drive.
FA was formed by different stakeholders in Matabeleland who include individual citizens, civic society members, political parties, the diaspora community and church organisations.
The outfit maintains that it is not a political party.
Its leaders said the FA seeks to address governance and development imbalances that have affected the Matabeleland region since independence.
The FA was formed soon after the Matabeleland people’s convention held from May 9 to 14 2021
