{"id":1748,"date":"2018-04-03T07:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wozazim.org\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2018-04-03T07:51:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:51:09","slug":"woza-moya-english-february-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/?p=1748","title":{"rendered":"Woza Moya \u2013 English \u2013 February 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"
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STAND UP FOR YOUR CHILD
\nParticipate in reclaiming our country\u2019s future
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\nThe election date has been announced for 29 March 2008 and we know that now is the time candidates will be coming to us making all kinds of promises to make us vote for them. It is also the time when people realise that they have the chance to decide who will lead our country. WOZA wants you to realise that now is also the time when you should be seriously looking at what the future holds for the next generation. When you read this newsletter, please sit down and think about your child and the dreams you had of a better life for them. Look around you at what your children are doing. Are they in school studying hard and doing well or sleeping on their desks without teachers? Are they queuing at the boreholes or in the bush looking for firewood? Or far away in a foreign land? Is this the future you imagined for them?<\/p>\n

YOUR CHILD EXPECTS YOU TO CHANGE THIS BY TAKING FOUR STEPS
\n1.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Register to vote and check that your name appears on the voters roll.
\n2.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Attend any rally that you can and ask questions of the candidates, so you can be sure you will vote wisely.
\n3.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Get up early on 29 March 2008 and go and vote. There are many candidates in this election and we recommend that you vote for a candidate rather than a party. If we do not have independent observers; a proper delimitation process; vote counting and announcement directly from the polling station, then the election process is flawed and can easily be rigged so we must all be vigilant and watch out for those who cheat.
\n4.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Defend your vote from the time you cast it until it is counted and announced. Just the same way you defend your child, you should defend your vote.<\/p>\n

We are disappointed that the election date has been made without our 10 steps and hope that we will vote for someone who will address these steps within 100 days of office.<\/p>\n

1.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Violence, in all its forms, must be stopped to allow for a period of healing, peace and justice.
\n2.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The winners of the election should convene an all-stakeholders\u2019 conference with the following participants: all political parties, non-governmental organisation, churches, labour, business, youth and women all meeting on an equal basis.\u00c2\u00a0 Their agenda is to devise a programme for peace and development using the PEOPLE model \u2013 People for Economic Opportunity, Peace, Learning and Empowerment
\n3.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 They should also constitute an All-Stakeholders\u2019 Commission with the mandate to outline a process of constitution making. Initiate a constitution-making process, including a plan for transitional justice, consulting all Zimbabweans both at home and abroad.
\n4.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Having assumed legislative power, they should repeal oppressive legislation against freedom of expression and assembly such as the Public Order and Security Act (POSA) and Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA). An end to the selective application of other laws.
\n5.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Conduct an audit of civil servants, the judiciary and law enforcement agents as to their professional and non-partisan conduct. Offenders should be sent to re-training\/community service or for prosecution. The youth militia should be disbanded and the defence forces should be confined to barracks for retraining.
\n6.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Begin the process of re-engaging the international community with a view to rehabilitating the economy aimed at job creation.
\n7.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Carry out a land audit to lay the basis for a permanent and equitable solution to land reform, while promoting immediate resumption of food production.
\n8.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Take the resulting constitutional and transitional justice proposals to a referendum supervised by Southern African Development Community (SADC). Ensure the referendum has been conducted according to the SADC protocols and under international and regional supervision with international and local observers.
\n9.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Prepare for the referendum, including reconstituting the Registrar General\u2019s department, preparing new electoral laws, appointing an independent electoral commission and delimitation commission to prepare an electoral roll and prepare for the election.
\n10.<\/p>\n

On Valentine\u2019s Day, WOZA march for Bread and Roses \u2013 bread representing the need for affordable food and the roses representing dignity and the call for social justice.\u00c2\u00a0 In 2008, nothing has changed. We still need to afford to eat and we still desire a dignified and good life \u2013 a life where we can enjoy social justice, a life that we have outlined in the People\u2019s Charter.<\/p>\n

Social justice can be defined as a system where people have equal opportunities\/access to social, economic, cultural, religious and political needs regardless of race, gender, creed or any other form of discrimination.<\/p>\n

It can be the way we interact with others and a method of governance that includes the following:
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Full enjoyment of all social, political, economic and cultural rights
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 An equal society including gender equality
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Respect for human rights including women\u2019s and children\u2019s rights
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Freedoms including speech, assembly and association
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Respect and tolerance of diversity \u2013 culture and religion
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Transparency and accountability
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Equal participation in political and economic decision-making
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Equal application of the law \u2013 access to justice and understanding of the law
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Correction of past injustices such as Gukurahundi and Murambatsvina
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Gutsaruzhinji\/inhlalakahle yabantu (Good living)
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Access to affordable education
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Adequate and affordable food
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Access to affordable housing, electricity, sanitation and clean water
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Access to affordable healthcare and medication including anti-retrovirals (ARVs)
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Equal and fair access to fertile land, inputs, equipment and secure ownership
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Equal opportunities to resources, employment, self-help projects and the right to earn a living wage
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Development of adequate infrastructure and access to affordable transport
\n\u00c2\u00b7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Environmentally sustainable usage of resources<\/p>\n

As Zimbabweans we deserve the social justice that we talk about but we can only get it if we are prepared to stand up and demand it from our leaders. Make a start today.<\/p>\n

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Stand up for your child\u2019s future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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