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Resolutions of the MDC National Council
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC)
April
13, 2012
AWARE that the
entire Zimbabwean population and all other democratic forces look
to the MDC as the central engine of Real Change in Zimbabwe, the
National Council hereby makes the following resolutions.
1. ELECTIONS
IN ZIMBABWE
1.1 COGNISANT
of the insincerity of Zanu PF, the lack of paradigm shift and its
insatiable appetite for power manifested by its decisive power retention
agenda bordering on creating an atmosphere of pandemonium, panic
and uncertainty in the body politick of our country,
1.2 RECALLING
the humourless Zanu PF and President Mugabe's statements calling
for elections in 2012 regardless of the enactment of a new Constitution
and the actualisation of the Roadmap to a free, fair, credible and
legitimate election,
1.3 RECALLING
the launch of Conditions
for a Sustainable Election (CoSEZ) on the 8th of March 2012
and the need for the Zimbabwe parties to adhere to the peoples'
checklist for a sustainable election namely;
i. Implementation
of the GPA
and all other agreed positions
ii. Implementation
of the post-Maputo resolutions
iii. Implementation
of the Roadmap
iv. Implementation
of agreed positions following the review of the GPA in May of 2011
v. Implementing
Regional and International Standards
vi. The Constitution
and the Constitution-Making
Process
vii. Implementing
Legislative Reform
viii. Eradicating
political violence
ix. Strengthening
Oversight Constitutional Commissions
x. The right
to Freedom of Association, Assembly and Movement
xi. Access
to Information and Protection of Privacy Act
xii. Presidential
Powers (Temporary Measures) Act
xiii. Zimbabwe
Electoral Commission (ZEC) Staff
xiv. Amendments
to the Electoral
Law
xv. Postal and
Special Voting
xvi. A New and
Clean Voters Roll
xvii. Fair Delimitation
of Constituencies
xviii. Liberalizing
the Media
xix. Voter Education
xx. Agreement
on the Proclamation of Elections
xxi. Implementing
Measures to end Political Violence
xxii. Election
Monitors and Observers
xxiii. Ensuring
the Impartiality of Traditional Leaders
xxiv. Impartial
Distribution of Food Aid
xxv. Strengthening
the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (JOMIC)
xxvi. Special
Courts of Violence
xxvii. Independent
Prosecuting Authority
xxviii. Security
Sector Realignment
1.4 The Party
reaffirms its earlier resolutions that elections in Zimbabwe cannot
and will not be called for unilaterally by one person or one party
and that the election in Zimbabwe will not be date driven but process
driven.
1.5 The Party
restates that the date for the next election will only be determined
after the fulfilment of all the conditions precedence defined in
the roadmap including;
1.6 The Party
notes that any election which does not meet the above conditions
will be a sham election.
2. VIOLENCE
AND CLOSURE OF DEMOCRATIC SPACE
2.1 DISTURBED
by the continued closure of democratic space in Zimbabwe characterised
arbitrary and wanton arrests of MDC activists, the resurgence of
politically motivated violence against MDC members in Sanyati, Mbare,
Sunningdale and Zaka and the setting up of a base at Kasirisiri
in Sanyati.
2.2 In addition,
the Party notes that in March alone over 63 people were arrested,
assaulted or severely harassed by Zanu PF, its infamy Chipangano
hoodlums and its complicity criminal justice system.
2.3 DEEPLY CONCERNED
by the continued unlawful and politically motivated incarceration
of the MDC Youth Assembly Chairperson Solomon Madzore, National
Executive Member Last Maengahama, Pheneas Nhatarikwa, Councillor
Tungamirai Madzokera, Yvonne Musarurwa, Rebecca Mafukeni, Lazarus
Maengahama, Stanford Maengahama, Stanford Mangwiro and others.
2.4 APPALLED
by the racial statements by one Tendai Savanhu, the political godfather
of the Chipangano group that he intends to eliminate all white people
in Zimbabwe.
2.5 The Party
therefore demands the immediate release of arrested cadres and in
any event demands the expeditious due process with regards to those
that have been arrested.
2.6 The MDC
calls for the prosecution of all those responsible for politically
motivated violence in accordance with the Global Political Agreements
3. INDIGENIZATION
AND EMPOWERMENT
3.1 AWARE of
Zanu PF machinations of asset stripping, looting, patronage, clientelism,
corruption and self-aggrandizement euphemistically referred to as
indigenisation and empowerment.
3.2 AWARE of
Zanu PF's enthusiasm for destruction and its manoeuvres to
destroy the Zimbabwe economy through this programme of indigenization
and empowerment.
3.3 DISGUSTED
by the Minister of Youth, Saviour Kasukuwere's proclamation
in the public press on Thursday 5 April 2012 in which he announced
that with immediate effect, 51 percent of all shareholding in mining
companies was now vested with the State.
3.4 The Party
boldly restates that Zanu PF's programme does not comply with
its own laws and is based on patronage and clientelism, is not demand
driven and in any event is based on a narrow model of transferring
shares to a few black elite that can afford them and does not amount
to genuine wealth creation and distribution to poor people of Zimbabwe.
3.5 Furthermore,
the MDC restates that Kasukuwere's proclamation is null and
void and in total breach of the Constitution and that Zimbabwe and
Zimbabweans need jobs, investment and upliftment.
3.6 The Party
therefore calls for the starting afresh of the whole programme and
the development of a genuine broad based upliftment programme which
balances the need to attract investment, grow the economy and create
jobs.
4. DIAMONDS
AND DIAMONDS REVENUE
4.1 The party
notes with concern the day-light looting, robbery, thieving and
lack of transparency and
due process in the handling of diamonds and diamonds
revenue at Chiadzwa.
4.2 The MDC
demands that all concessions and mining rights should be granted
on the principle of transparency and openness involving public auctioning
or public tender processes to be carried out by an independent authority.
4.3 That the
current investors at Chiadzwa should comply with Zimbabwe's
laws, in particular the Zimbabwe Investment Act and should make
equity investments and contributions to the State, failure of which
their rights should revert to the State.
4.4 That all
income from Chiadzwa should be accounted for transparently to the
State to enable the same to attend to capital and recurrent expenditure
and in particular the adequate remuneration of civil servants and
the provision of drought mitigation grain.
5. SADC
AND DIALOGUE IN ZIMBABWE
5.1 APPRECIATING
the role of all SADC leaders in finding sustainable solutions to
the Zimbabwe crisis particularly President Zuma and his Facilitation
Team for remaining engaged with the crisis in Zimbabwe.
5.2 TAKING NOTE
of SADC important resolutions on Zimbabwe reached in Maputo, Livingstone,
Sandton and Luanda.
5.3 However,
the Party notes the slow pace of movement and urges SADC to urgently
appoint the three person committee from the SADC Organ Troika to
work with Jomic and also to ensure that dialogue on the roadmap
is concluded.
5.4 The Party
expresses its disappointment with the slow and the non-implementation
of the GPA, the post Maputo agreement and agreed portions of the
roadmap and the Review Document and urges the urgent creation of
an implementation and oversight mechanism, inside government and
within SADC.
6. DROUGHT
AND DROUGHT MITIGATION
6.1 NOTING the
drought and lack of food emanating from poor and erratic rainfall
across Zimbabwe.
6.2 RECOGNIZING
the existence of vulnerable people in the country in particular
in the communal areas and therefore accepts that Government must
support these vulnerable people.
6.3 DISTURBED
by the slow pace in the distribution of food-aid, the looting of
the same by Cabinet Ministers and politicization of the Government's
Grain Loan Scheme by Zanu PF in direct contradiction to the dictates
of the GPA.
6.4 The MDC
calls on Government to issue a proclamation declaring drought a
State disaster to allow for the provision of food-aid to reduce
vulnerability in communities and households.
7. CONSOLING
AND SALUTING THE PEOPLE OF MALAWI
7.1 DEEPLY SADDENED
by the untimely death of His Excellency President Bingu Wa Mutharika.
7.2 RECALLING
President Bingu Wa Mutharika's wise counsel and remarkable
efforts in finding solutions to the Zimbabwe political crisis.
7.3 The MDC
congratulates Her Excellency Madam Joyce Hilda Banda on her ascension
to the post of President of the Republic of Malawi and takes.
7.4 In this
regard, the MDC joins SADC and the African Union in saluting the
people of Malawi for ensuring an orderly transition by adhering
to the Constitution particularly the army for not intervening in
political processes.
8. CONGRATULATING
THE PEOPLE OF SENEGAL
8.1 RECALLING
the recently held elections in Senegal which were conducted in a
free and fair manner.
8.2 The MDC
congratulates the people of Senegal for conducting their elections
in a peaceful manner and salute former President Abdoulaye Wade
for graciously conceding defeat and ceding power peacefully ensuring
an orderly transition.
8.3 The MDC
congratulates His Excellency President Macky Sall on his election
as the president of Senegal and wish him and the Senegalese people
well.
9. CONDEMNING
THE COUP IN MALI
9.1 DISTURBED
by the unconstitutional removal of an elected government of President
Amadou Toumani Toure in Mali through a military coup by junior soldiers
led by one Captain Amadou Sanogo.
9.2 CONCERNED
by the fact that military coups militate against democracy and democratization,
are a reversal of gains by the Africa Union to inculcate a culture
of democracy and development in Africa.
9.3 SALUTES
the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) particularly
President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast for his leadership and
for acting swiftly to impose comprehensive sanctions on the military
junta and the latter's decision to cede power.
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