Opinion / Columnist
Stay away proponents are saboteurs
12 Jul 2016 at 15:26hrs | Views
I find unending calls by opposition activists for workers and business to stay away from work to be rather ill-informed and a self-inflicted imposition of further sanctions on an already limping economy.
At a time Government is grappling with economic challenges related to illegal sanctions imposed by the West, it is disheartening that some Zimbabweans found it necessary to further turn their spears towards the country.
After witnessing the stay away last week, I have been trying to interrogate how such civil disobedience would contribute to rebuilding our economy but my efforts were in vain.
I failed to discern the economic benefits arising from such political grandstanding.
With the constitution still in place, it is incomprehensible how the proponents of stay ways would expect President Robert Mugabe to step down from power without elections.
Surely, any transfer of power in a constitutional democracy like ours can only be attained through elections, with the latest round of polls due in 2018.
Expecting to push away an elected Government whose electoral mandate has not expired through a stay away is sheer political mischief bordering on subversion.
Why talk of democracy and rule of law when you are not patient enough to wait for general elections that are just around the corner?
With only less than two years left for the next general elections, genuine opposition figures should be busy consulting their advisors to draft well-thought out manifestos tailor-made to resolve the current sanctions-induced economic challenges gripping the country.
This would be an opportunity for the opposition parties to showcase their policy alternatives to voters in preparation of the impending polls.
But in a cowardly nature, the opposition activists are busy throwing spanners to Government efforts to bust sanctions and revive the economy through calls for stay aways.
This cannot be anything but brazen sabotage of the economy.
Proponents of stay aways are economic saboteurs who should be held accountable for their complicit behaviour in bringing the economy to its knees.
Calls for stay aways are unpatriotic and should spurn by well-meaning Zimbabweans.
At a time Government is grappling with economic challenges related to illegal sanctions imposed by the West, it is disheartening that some Zimbabweans found it necessary to further turn their spears towards the country.
After witnessing the stay away last week, I have been trying to interrogate how such civil disobedience would contribute to rebuilding our economy but my efforts were in vain.
I failed to discern the economic benefits arising from such political grandstanding.
With the constitution still in place, it is incomprehensible how the proponents of stay ways would expect President Robert Mugabe to step down from power without elections.
Surely, any transfer of power in a constitutional democracy like ours can only be attained through elections, with the latest round of polls due in 2018.
Expecting to push away an elected Government whose electoral mandate has not expired through a stay away is sheer political mischief bordering on subversion.
Why talk of democracy and rule of law when you are not patient enough to wait for general elections that are just around the corner?
With only less than two years left for the next general elections, genuine opposition figures should be busy consulting their advisors to draft well-thought out manifestos tailor-made to resolve the current sanctions-induced economic challenges gripping the country.
This would be an opportunity for the opposition parties to showcase their policy alternatives to voters in preparation of the impending polls.
But in a cowardly nature, the opposition activists are busy throwing spanners to Government efforts to bust sanctions and revive the economy through calls for stay aways.
This cannot be anything but brazen sabotage of the economy.
Proponents of stay aways are economic saboteurs who should be held accountable for their complicit behaviour in bringing the economy to its knees.
Calls for stay aways are unpatriotic and should spurn by well-meaning Zimbabweans.
Source - Charity Maodza
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