(29 Sep 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters running into the venue
2. Running supporters
3. Banner reading "Free and fair elections, 2008, A new constitution now, Morgan Tsvangirai for president," pan to crowd
4. Women and child in crowd
5. Pull out from man in crowd
6. Tilt up from feet of dancing crowd
7. Crowd dancing
8. Crowd with hands in the air
9. Morgan Tsvangirai, MDC leader arriving
10. Tsvangirai in view finder of camera, pull out
11. Pull out of Tsvangirai
12. SOUNDBITE (English/Shona) Morgan Tsvangirai, MDC leader:
"The objective of the MDC of holding talks with the Zanu-PF is to create free and fair elections conditions for this country."
13. Tsvangirai addressing crowd
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Morgan Tsvangirai, MDC leader:
"When we said we were embarking on peaceful, democratic resistance to bring (Zimbabwean President Robert) Mugabe shouting and screaming to the negotiating table, you did not believe it. Mugabe has come to the negotiating table screaming and shouting, he is talking to the MDC."
15. Various of Tsvangirai and Vice President of the MDC Thokozani Khupe cutting cake
STORYLINE
As the Movement for Democratic change (MDC) celebrated its eighth anniversary on Saturday, its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, said that he was working with President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF to "create free and fair" conditions for elections.
"When we said we were embarking on peaceful, democratic resistance to bring Mugabe shouting and screaming to the negotiating table, you did not believe it," he said in a speech to around 5-thousand party faithful in the town of Masvingo.
"Mugabe has come to the negotiating table screaming and shouting, he is talking to the MDC," he said.
The Zimbabwean government and Tsvangirai's MDC held talks in South Africa seeking to solve the political crisis that reached new heights earlier this year with the arrest and beating of pro-democracy leaders.
Zimbabwe has presidential elections scheduled for next year and there are moves to advance the parliamentary elections by two years from 2010 so they coincide.
The opposition maintains intimidation of voters and ballot rigging have robbed it of victory in parliamentary and presidential elections in the past - warning that polls scheduled for next year will be no different.
It also wants the repeal of sweeping media and security laws, electoral reforms and an end to state-orchestrated political violence.
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