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Declaration
by the NCA National Youth Assembly
National Constitutional Assembly (NCA)
July
14, 2011
National Constitutional
Assembly (NCA) youth Assembly leadership today 14 July 2011 converged
at Bumbiro/Isisekelo House (NCA Headquarters), Harare to strategise
and come up with a clear roadmap for the young people ahead of the
referendum and beyond. And to map out a concrete programme on how
we galvanise youth to attain total socio-political and economic
freedom in our lifetime. In a bid to create an ideologically sound,
political youth assembly to be, organizationally, the most definitive
in the struggle for freedom and a new constitution.
The meeting
which was attended by all the provincial and constituency representatives
resolved:
- To embark
on a massive recruitment program for the young people to join
the NCA.
- Called for
the immediate stop of the COPAC process to pave way for an Independent
Commission to start a fresh process that will involve the young
people and different sectors of society.
- To intensify
the Take Charge Campaign in communities through demonstrations,
meetings, rallies and road shows to encourage Zimbabweans to reject
the COPAC constitution if the government goes ahead with this
process.
- To mobilise
the young people to go and register to vote in the coming referendum.
Noting the escalation
of political violence cases being reported in various parts of the
country, we wish to state that as the Vanguard movement of the organisation,
we will not sit idle instead we will join hands with our mothers
in their campaign against political violence targeting women in
building response mechanism to address the scourge of politically
motivated violence. We therefore call for our structures to be more
energetic, radical and militant as we engage the bigger struggles
ahead.
We dismiss with
contempt calls by the ZANU PF politburo which is insisting on having
elections being held this year and we declare that any election
to come should be held under a genuine constitution written by the
people of Zimbabwe.
We resolve to
be at the center of the struggles for social, political and economic
transformation and will intensify in all fronts to ensure that young
people have access to free education, free healthcare, housing,
and many other social needs. We therefore call upon the government
of Zimbabwe to urgently address the plight of the civil servants
who constitute the bulk of the country's working class.
The NCA Youth
Assembly will continue working with other progressive forces locally
and regionally. Like minded organisations like the Young Communist
League of South Africa, South Africa Students Congress (SASCO) and
Swaziland National Union of Students. We take this opportunity to
demand the immediate release of jailed student leader Maxwell Dlamini,
who was arrested by the dictatorial monarchy of King Mswati on the
12th of April this year. We hereby denounce the iron-rule style
of Mswati and call upon the people of Swaziland to remain resolute
and united and fight until Mswati is toppled.
We re-affirm
Section 7 of the Zimbabwe
Peoples Charter adopted at the People's Convention on
the 9th of February 2008, as the strategic goal of the youth of
Zimbabwe and that everything we do should be directed towards attainment
of the Peoples Charter objectives. We therefore commit to ensure
that the we should re-assert and concretely programmatise the Peoples
Charter as focus of the movement post the referendum. Below is Chapter
7 of the Peoples Charter.
Believing
that at all given times the youth, both female and male, represent
the present and the future of our country and that all those in
positions of leadership nationally and locally must remain true
to the fact that our country shall be passed on from one generation
to the next, The People state that, in order for each generation
to bequeath to the next a country that remains the epitome of
hope, democracy and sustainable livelihoods, the following principles
for the youth must be adhered to and respected:
- The youth
shall be guaranteed the right to education at all levels until
they acquire their first tertiary qualification.
- The youth
shall be guaranteed an equal voice in decision-making processes
that not only affect them but the country as a whole in all spheres
of politics, the national economy and social welfare.
- The youth
shall be guaranteed access to the right to health.
- The youth
shall not be subject to political abuse through training regimes
that connote political violence or any semblance of propaganda
that will compromise their right to determine their future as
both individuals and as a collective.
- The youth
have the right to associate and assemble and express themselves
freely of their own prerogative.
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