NCA briefs villagers

ratic process.
Madhuku explained the need to have a new constitution before next year’s parliamentary and presidential election.
“Democracy is when all citizens – young and old, urban or rural, rich and poor have a say in how their affairs are run,” he said.
Asked about the forthcoming elections, Madhuku said elections alone would not guarantee democracy or development.
“What Zimbabwe urgently needs is a new political culture that puts human freedom at the centre of national aspiration. We need a constitution that guarantees that tyrants and those opposed to Zimbabwe’s development have no space,” he said.
“Other countries amend constitutions to enhance human freedom and deepen democracy, but ours has been amended over 17 times to undermine and dehumanise our people. We are forced to live like convicts and beggars worse off than we were under the colonial regimes.” – Staff reporter