Opinion / Columnist
What kind of a sovereign nation are we?
07 Jun 2013 at 04:43hrs | Views
Fellow Zimbabweans
Just to emphasize my position. All the problematic implementation issues with the Constitutional Court ruling should be addressed by first committing to complying with the judgment.
We should solve these compliance challenges as a collective Team Zimbabwe, not by scoring partisan points against each in period of a potential constitutional crisis. We will certainly not get far by appealing to players external to Zimbabwe, without first respecting ourselves, our nationhood and our own constitutional democracy.
Foreigners can only nudge us to talk and find each other.
The compliance dialogue should have started on 31st May 2013 among Zimbabweans, across the political divide. We have already lost a week out of the two months we were given. Shame on us!
In seeking solutions all political stakeholders within the country must be involved within an all-embracing, inclusive framework and spirit. What is it that SADC will tell us to do that we already do not know? Why wait for SADC? Where is our collective self-respect?
Now that the SADC summit has been postponed, my position is clearly been vindicated. So what do we do? We wait until it convenes? Surely that is completely irresponsible. What kind of a sovereign nation are we?
Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Just to emphasize my position. All the problematic implementation issues with the Constitutional Court ruling should be addressed by first committing to complying with the judgment.
We should solve these compliance challenges as a collective Team Zimbabwe, not by scoring partisan points against each in period of a potential constitutional crisis. We will certainly not get far by appealing to players external to Zimbabwe, without first respecting ourselves, our nationhood and our own constitutional democracy.
Foreigners can only nudge us to talk and find each other.
The compliance dialogue should have started on 31st May 2013 among Zimbabweans, across the political divide. We have already lost a week out of the two months we were given. Shame on us!
In seeking solutions all political stakeholders within the country must be involved within an all-embracing, inclusive framework and spirit. What is it that SADC will tell us to do that we already do not know? Why wait for SADC? Where is our collective self-respect?
Now that the SADC summit has been postponed, my position is clearly been vindicated. So what do we do? We wait until it convenes? Surely that is completely irresponsible. What kind of a sovereign nation are we?
Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Source - Arthur G.O. Mutambara
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