We in the Zimbabwe Social
Democrats welcome the announcement by Mr Rugare Gumbo that Zanu PF was now
willing to talk face-to-face with the other Zimbabweans to find the way out of
the current economic and political mess.
Zimbabwe is in this mess
because the country failed to produce a working political system in 1980 when
the nation attained her independence, the first bite of the cherry; the GNU of
2008 to 2013 failed to implement the democratic reforms necessary for a health
democracy, second bite of the cherry. These talks mark the third bite of the
cherry, we in the ZSD are determined that this time the country will have a
health democracy at the end of the day! To ensure we achieve that goal we
therefore propose the following:
a)
That the UN or a country like Norway or
Netherlands with a track record of hosting peaceful interparty negotiations
should be invite to host the talks.
b)
That Zanu PF should acknowledge that the root
cause of this political and economic crisis is that the party rigged the 2013
July elections. The only reason Zanu PF would not want to accept this basic
fact is because it will want to be the dominant group in the talks and that the
regime should have the veto on any decisions coming out of the talks.
An admission of
past mistakes, particularly a serious crime such as vote rigging, will reassure
everyone that the party is finally ready to accept meaningful democratic
change.
c)
That the MDC-T and MDC-N also public
acknowledge that it was the parties for failure to implement the democratic
reforms during the GNU that enabled Zanu PF to rig the elections. The dominance
of these two parties in these talks is not acceptable because the last thing
the nation wants reward the MDC leaders for having betrayed the nation.
The failure by
MDC to implement the reforms was a serious matter and a public acknowledgement
of that fact will reassure everyone that the party is to be taken seriously!
We are pleased that a year of staring on the
mockingly empty ZimAsset begging bowl has finally brought those in Zanu PF back
to their senses. We will meet and talk as long as these are serious talks.
Signed. Wilbert Mukori
Secretary General
Zimbabwe Social Democrats
Source: http://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2014/07/09/let-s-talk-zanu-pf
3 comments:
@Ronald
Well, let us get the facts right; it was not because MDC was "a junior partner" that stop MDC implementing even one democratic reform but the MDC leaders' breath-taking incompetence! Zimbabweans will only have themselves to blame if they ever entrust the nation's destiny into such incompetent hands again!
@ Whichfool
That is rich coming from some who supports a regime that cannot even pay it civil servants and is sending all its soldiers on two week forced leaved every month because it can feed them!
After a year of staring at that mockingly empty ZimAsset begging bowl Mugabe has finally admit-ted he will never ever get a penny. The tyrant has accepted that he will talk but on condition that everyone endorses the rigged elections was not rigged. It is nonsense of course, the political crisis is precisely because the international community would recognised last year's rigged elec-tions.
Only the easily bamboozled idiot Tsvangirai ever accepted that Mugabe could get away with rigged elections.
This is not exactly the end of the Mugabe dictatorship but maybe, just maybe the beginning of the end!
@ Whichfool
Mugabe and his thugs are not used to anyone else setting the national agenda but this has all changed now others are setting the agenda - bitter pill for the tyrant to swallow. Free, fair and credible will be the next bitter, bitter one for him to take because we all know what will come after that - a humiliating defeat and it is downhill from there on!
Let me tell one thing for nothing - time there will be real free, fair and credible elections; no fcuk up!
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