1. No more compromises from MDC and MDC T on the draft constitution or we will refuse to accept it.
2. Zanu (PF) must for once allow the people’s and their own members’ views to carry the day. The people spoke clearly that they no longer want a highly centralised unitary state. The child called DEVOLUTION has been born. It is a child conceived by the people, the majority being mothers of the nation.
3. We demand the 17 July 2012 draft be urgently printed in all languages and provide sufficient time to study it and advance us our political rights in section 4:24 which will allow us our right to meet and demonstrate peacefully as part of civic awareness raising role.
4. A transparent and accountable system to call for the second all stakeholders conference with full participation of all sectors of society and provision for inclusion of stakeholder input.
5. An efficient and speedy census process resulting in a proper delimitation process new voters’ roll.
6. A vote by Identity card in the referendum and an easier registration system for the election that follows.
7. We call on the SADC monitoring team to begin work and to push for full GPA implementation and an end to police harassment of WOZA members.
8. Please will members of the international community refuse to lift sanctions until the finalisation of the Draft after the referendum process.
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WOZA demands that there should be no more compromises on the new constitution. A classical case on closing the stable AFTER the horse has bolted!
WOZA admitted the new constitution contain “too many compromises by MDCâ€. So many in fact that there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in this new constitution stopping Mugabe and Zanu PF using violence to secure electoral victory. Surely this is such a key demand for free and fair elections that it is totally inconceivable that anyone would compromise on. And having compromised on such a key issue, it is equally inconceivable that anyone who accept the new constitution as democratic.
“Zanu (PF) must for once allow the people’s and their own members’ views to carry the day,†WOZA stated in their second of eight demands. “The people spoke clearly that they no longer want a highly centralised unitary state. The child called DEVOLUTION has been born. It is a child conceived by the people, the majority being mothers of the nation.â€
WOZA is of course free to advocate for anything, it is health in a democracy, still it should be noted that devolution is not a burning issue anywhere in Zimbabwe other than some parts of Matebeleland. It is therefore dishonest to describe it then as “a child conceived by the peopleâ€.
It seems WOZA are supporting a constitution so badly “compromised†to be completely devoid of any democratic merit just because it promised them devolution! Talk of compromising, that must take the biscuit; WOZA has badly compromised on principles, substance, everything!