By Staff Writer
FORMER Zengeza West legislator, Job Sikhala has called for a Nationwide Democratic Consultative process as the only way forward to resolve the countryโs obtaining political crisis at a Press Conference where journalists were not allowed to field journalists.
Addressing the media Thursday, Sikhala said Zimbabwe needs a way forward to answer the national question, of whereto from here.
โThe way forward on what should be done from here will come from the people through a Mass Nationwide Democratic Consultative Process. The national consultative process will convene Nationwide Democratic Consultative Conventions,โ he said.
Sikhala said the Consultative process will involve all important constituent bodies, that is, the general masses of our people, labor, students, traditional leaders, churches, civic society, businesspersons, professionals, residentsโ associations, informal traders, women clubs, farmers, peasants, youth organizations, progressive political organizations, war veterans, war collaborators, artists, corporate business sector, and people living with disabilities.
โIt will start from the village, to the ward, district and the provincial level. This process will be conducted by the representatives of different constituent bodies at every level. The process will eventually lead to the convening of the National Peopleโs Democratic Convention.
โThe input and ideas that will come from the people will be collated and coalesced by the National Democratic Taskforce made up of seconded persons from different constituent bodies who will be the conveners of the National Democratic Peoples Convention,โ he said.
He said each ward, in this process, shall elect a delegate to attend the National Peopleโs Democratic Convention which will debate the views collated and coalesced during the Democratic Consultative Conventions held at the shop floor and grassroots level throughout the country.
Sikhala said critics are pointing out that some constituent bodies have been hijacked by ZANU PF like what they have done to the CCC as he underscored that bodies such as ZCTU or any other constituent body do not mean persons at leadership level.
โWe are not here to pronounce the emergence of a political organization but a broad-based mass democratic movement for everyone in advancement of the mass democratic struggle in the fashion of the United Democratic Front (UDF) of the 1980s in apartheid South Africa,โ added Sikhala.
