MDC Alliance 2018 Election Promises

The following is a summary of the MDC Alliance’s election promises, according to the coalition’s manifesto.

The promises are anchored on the party building a $100 billion economy in a decade.

Develop an inclusive National Vision accepted by all stakeholders.
Implement a programme of transitional justiceand national healing.
Harmonise all laws to the Country’s Constitution.
Resize and restructure the Country’s governance.
Create a law to establish the Consultative Development Council.
Establish a new Anti- Corruption, Procurement legal framework.
Pass the law to actualise Devolution.
Renaming the Country’s Provinces and move the administrative capital to Gweru.
Implement the legal and corporate framework necessary to build strong institutions
Development of SMART cities and towns.

Full implementation of the STAB including restoration of macro-economic stability.
Monetary policy reform including, immediate scrapping of the bond note and strengthening of the multi-currency regime.
Urgent implementation of the debt resolution strategy (SADDS).
Restoration of the land market and the issuance of title deeds to beneficiaries of the land reform programme.
Attending to tax reform including the enactment of a new Income Tax Act and the establishment of a flat corporate tax rate.
Promotion of Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign portfolio Investment through enactment of a new foreign Investment law and the ease of doing business.
Attending to pension reform and establishment of stand-alone defined benefit pension scheme.
Increasing productivity and promotion of the hard sectors of the economy.
Promotion of Industrialisation, Value addition and an alternative accumulation model. Establishing an evidence based economy through setting up an independent statistical

Compliance with the Abuja Declaration on Health and an establishment of the New Zimbabwe National health plan through an act of Parliament.
Attending to the reform of the education sector and developing a new education curriculum.
Ensuring adequate financing of the education sector, capitalising BEAM, providing free basic primary education.
Substantially reduce the urban housing backlog within five years.
Strengthening of the National Building society making it a housing development bank.
Renewal and transformation of informal settlements.
Disband POTRAZ AND BAZ and establish a consolidated regulatory framework.
Establish a media Commission empowered to safeguard freedom of expression and access to the media.

Redefining the role of the citizen through an establishment of a citizen Charter.
Rolling out a diaspora policy including the granting of the right to vote.
Protection of workers’ rights through among other things, harmonisation of all labour laws and the creation of a social contract.
Defining rights of people living with disabilities (PWD) including the provision of a grants to PWD’s.
Defining rights of the aged and provision of grants to the aged.
Mainstreaming and protection of gender rights.
Protection of Minorities and Special Interest Groups.
Enacting the necessary laws and reforms necessary to protect children, including the abolition of child marriages, and the enactment of a new Children’s Act.
Constructing a responsive state, that responds to the needs and interest of citizens.
Promotion of Citizen rights through ICT and E- Governance.

The preparation of an infrastructure roadmap with funding requirements.
The enactment of legislation that promotes and provides incentives to public, private partnerships
The setting up of an infrastructure fund that leverages on the sovereign wealth fund, NASSA and our minerals.
Streamlining the regulatory environment in the infrastructure sector, including separating and splitting of regulation from operations (ZINARA, POTRAZ, and ZINWA.
Establishment of brand new ports of authority, and ensuring that Border Posts in Zimbabwe are single entry.
Securing funding and commencing the construction of the Batoka Gorge Hydro Station.
Securing the funding and construction of the Harare-Chirundu Highway.
Securing the funding and commencing the construction of the Beitbridge-Victoria Falls Highway
Securing the funding and commencing the construction of a major railway artery within Zimbabwe and linking the same with Zambia, Mozambique and South Africa.

Factsheet compiled by Lifaqane Nare, a Fact Checker with ZimFact.