A month ago, former Vice President Joice Mujuru broke her silence and unveiled her yet to be launched party's manifesto dubbed Blueprint to unlocking investment and leverage for development 'BUILD' which sparked a lot of controversy.
The manifesto received mixed reactions among Zimbabweans from all works of life. Blessing Jona, a lecturer at the National University of Science and Technology said the manifesto carried a "bold" statement.
"I can't but help to admire Mai Mujuru and her ousted colleagues for taking a bold step to rise up against Zanu PF, its excesses, and its flagrant miscarriages of justice. Their manifesto provides bold positions on various political, economic and socio-cultural ailments which the country is suffering from".
He added that he believed the manifesto was crafted by people who knew the social ills in the country.'It is very tempting to believe that these are the same people who can therefore be trusted to reverse ills and retrogressive policies that they were one part of."
However, Jona said Mujuru and her former Zanu PF cronies in People First were still holding on to properties they acquired through Zanu PF and had to surrender them if they were sincere about putting "people first."
"Once they do this, we will be sure that if we support them and vote them into government they will certainly follow through and honour promises that they have written in their published manifesto. Otherwise at the present moment Zimbabweans should regard them with the same contempt that they regard the very system and party that has been disempowering and disenfranchising Zimbabweans from the vast wealth and resources that Zimbabwe has to offer."
Mujuru and other ZANU-PF officials were expelled from the party after the 2014 December Congress, and since then the former vice president has denied sowing seeds of division in the party and plotting to over President Mugabe.
Former ZAPU spokesperson, Methuseli Moyo said Mujuru's manifesto got everyone talking and it was a sign of her effectiveness in the politics of the country.
"She has articulated exactly what the people yearn for; an orderly society with a functioning economy, peace and economy."
"Mujuru's manifesto is investor-friendly and seems to be the solution to Zimbabwean crisis especially for us students who hold tomorrow's future in our hands," said Tamuka Charakupa, a student at Midlands State University.
He added," Most students when they finish school are jobless because of the economic situation that is not sustainable. With her manifesto there seems to be a light ahead."
