Speaking on SW Radio Africa’s Hidden Story program, the MFL leader said as long as fundamental issues that have littered the country’s troubled history are not dealt with as a matter of urgency, ZANU PF will delay the transition to democracy.
‘Do you think Mugabe, knowing that his troops killed over 20,000 Ndebele speaking people, will step down willingly knowing that he could face possible deadly retribution…no,’ Siwela said.
He added: ‘The stumbling block to the change that everybody wants is the lack of sincerity and clarity on issues which have to be dealt with so that the country can move forward.
‘If those issues are not dealt with, no solution will be found but the country will head towards serious turbulence.’
Siwela is of the opinion that Mugabe and his ZANU PF party should sit down with all stakeholders and seek guarantees for their safety if they lose the next poll.
‘However, those guarantees won’t come cheap. They have to admit to their crimes and compensate victims of the Gukurahundi, Murambatsvina and 2008 elections where hundreds of MDC supporters were killed.
‘That way alone can heal this nation and he will step down knowing he has made efforts to right the shameful wrong,’ Siwela.
The outspoken Siwela gave the constitutional stalemate as one example that showed ZANU PF’s insincerity to move the country forward.
‘This delay in the constitution process is giving them a window of opportunity to see how they can wriggle out of this issue. They don’t want a new constitution and they have never wanted one. It’s all a fallacy,’ he said. SW Radio Africa
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