In an
eNCA News interview of 30 June 2020, MDC President Douglas T. Mwonzora submitted to his political contemporaries that “rational disputation” is what is needed to bring about political changes with far reaching behavioural, cognitive and emotional changes in the Zimbabwean political landscape. Said President Mwonzora, “We want to have a different approach in our politics. We want to remove the politics of violence, the politics of rancour, acrimony, and the politics of intolerance and replace that with the politics of rational disputation. In prosecuting the democratic struggle, we need to make use of all tactics that we can employ, and one of them is waging meaningful dialogue with government and all stakeholders. But this dialogue has to be broad-based to include churches, trade unions, civil society groups and political parties. The current dialogue framework only deals with the political parties.”