MDC Alliance Vice Chairman Job Sikhala has ruled out the possibility of a GNU between his party and the ruling party ahead of a meeting between the President and the South Africa Envoys sent by Cyril Ramaphosa after a public outcry over human rights abuses in Zimbabwe went viral, Newsday reports.
Sikhala was speaking to the publication from his hideout when he said:
There are moments and times we must put a stop to all the evil around us. Zimbabwe cannot continue on
this self-destructive path imposed on the nation by Mnangagwa’s rogue regime. Any attempt to seek an elite political settlement where the usual political suspects will get into an incestuous political relationship will be totally rejected.The current struggle of the masses has outgrown individual and political organisations’ narrow interests. People want to be the main stakeholders to the state of affairs. They want a raft of institutional and governance reforms to entrench public interest. As long as the attendant issues of the masses are not attended to, democratic expression will be action without end. We have now resolved that
the democratic struggle must now be without end until all issues are attended to. We are now not going to announce our next move. We will just act without announcement until people’s victory. It’s now action without ceasing.How would a normal government call its citizens terrorists simply because they have called on it to put an end to looting and corruption? Such an arrogant and heartless response requires a response in equal measure from all of us. This is our country and we cannot continue to allow perverse and intolerable behaviour to go unchallenged.
In terms of Zimbabwe’s Constitution, all Executive, Legislative and Judiciary authority is derived from the
people. Terrorists and dark forces can only be agents of the rogue regime that are abducting, torturing, sexually assaulting and murdering Zimbabweans who are targeted only for political reasons. Rather than for Mnangagwa to end the scourge of corruption and looting, he has unleashed State security elements to abduct, torture, maim and intensify human rights abuses.
Sikhala is part of the MDC Alliance activists who are in hiding after the government began a blitz on individuals it is accusing of inciting public violence and calling for protests which landed Hopewell Chin’ono and Jacob Ngarivhume in jail after they were denied bail by the courts.
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