adminoutlived its usefulness.
All the parties in the inclusive Government have attested to the dysfunctionality of the coalition and elections are thus the only avenue left to give people a government they deserve.
As it is over 35 constituencies are without representation following the deaths or expulsion of sitting MPs, compounded by the moratorium on by-elections.
We hail more, Sadc’s insistence that facilitator to the GPA, South African President Jacob Zuma have a hands-on approach to his duties as his over-reliance on proxies had spawned procedural irregularities and misinformation.
Nowhere was this manifest than in the ill-fated Livingstone Troika meeting and its aftermath where a submission from one of the parties to the inclusive Government,
MDC-T, ended up being touted as the facilitator’s report, and a Sadc document to the chagrin of Zanu-PF and the MDC.
Fortunately the Livingstone document is as dead as the man the town it was adopted is named after, and as with all bad situations, it’s providential that something useful was learnt from that procedural disaster.
The actions of some members of President Zuma’s facilitation team who confused facilitation with participation were detrimental to the letter and spirit of the GPA that is about fostering harmony.
To this end we hope the message got through to Lindiwe Zulu and those of like mind that before Zimbabwe and Sadc, they have no locus standi as there is only one facilitator whom the parties can engage, and that is President Zuma.
We also urge some parties to the GPA to stop misrepresenting the Sadc position to score cheap political points and instead work to bring finality to the constitution-making process and go for elections at the earliest possible time.
They must remember that Sadc only advises but does not determine or dictate when or how polls are conducted here, this is the preserve of the parties in
Government who were given that mandate by the electorate.
For the avoidance of doubt we would like to belabour the Sadc point for emphasis.
Facilitation means helping parties to a conflict talk to each other. Where they are able to do so, the facilitator has no role to play but where they reach disagreements; the facilitator comes in to break the impasse.
That is the be all and end all of facilitation which means a facilitator does not speak for the parties or any of the parties but helps them find each other and speak to each other.
This is where the MDC formations are losing it in thinking Sadc is a stakeholder in our internal politics.
To this end we urge the three parties to the inclusive Government to focus on the issue at hand.
The inclusive Government was formed to foster an environment of socio-economic stability in readiness for fresh elections.
Anyone working to frustrate the election roadmap is not only going against the GPA but the populace that entrusted him/her with leadership.
It’s high time the three parties in Government put the national interest ahead of partisan sectarian interests.
It’s time to work as Team Zimbabwe towards the envisaged fresh elections, after which we should have a government unencumbered by petty squabbles, a government with policy congruence.
Online Reporter