Political parties must put all differences aside and work together to improve the
The
corruption must stop. Too much name blaming is taking place in Zambia, and some
are made publicly while the majority is hidden. All political party leaders
must work together for the interest of all to move this country ahead. The
majority of the population does not have a voice, or access of being heard. The
violent situation is escalating, while our politicians are engaged in personal
attacks. The population is feeling the effects.
The
elected politicians are just in office for their own political gains and
motives, while the population is feeling marginalised and helpless. How will
this nation move ahead? When will our leaders get the uncertainty situation
under control? The biggest fear of Zambians is surprisingly not the rising cost
of living, but uncertainty. An issue the Government is losing the battle on. People
are afraid to live in this country. Fear is being manipulated in everyone’s
mind.
I do
hope the relevant groups are listening, since this should not be a missed
opportunity to address the escalating social media abuse that befall our leaders
in society almost daily.
I had
the opportunity of listening and watching politicians in the past four years. The
world’s number one citizen, the late Nelson Mandela, said in three of his
Quotes. “We understand still that there is no easy road to freedom, we know it
well; none of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act
together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building,
for the birth of a new world.”
“Let
there be justice for all”
“Let
there be peace for all “
“Overcoming
poverty is not a task of charity; it is an act of justice”
No
one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his
background, or his religion.
I
would like to suggest that what is at stake in negotiating norms is not simply
the minutiae of the procedural form.
At
stake is realisation of how a genuinely democratic society has to function in
practice at the level of its political relations and at other levels, if we are
to avoid a mindless regimentation on the one hand or a senseless anarchy on the
other.
Power
in a modern society does not reside in any single source. In virtually every
important context, if the underlying approach is simply an effort to determine
who can wield greater countervailing power; who can threaten more or browbeat
better or coerce more effectively, then the laws of nature – and the history of
politics – suggest that sooner or later, the side with greater underlying
strength and better strategy will emerge ‘victorious’.
Both
logic and history teach us – if we are disposed, that is, to learn –at the
political level, most of such ‘victories’ are pyrrhic one.
Politically,
the ‘victor’ may simply find himself presiding over a sea of bitterness, a
landscape from which morale is conspicuously absent, and an overall condition in
which human alienation is such a pervasive factor that the notions of greater
laissez-faire become empty, meaningless slogans, wholly incapable of practical
realisation.
Either,
much intellect or much imagination, to work out likely political consequences
of ‘victories’ of the kind I have described.
My
view is that modern societies, especially those that wish to preserve some
functioning model of democracy as distinct from empty rhetoric should
diligently seek a better way of resolving serious differences, whether at the
political or any other substantive level. This is especially true of developing
countries like our own, beset with a multitude of fundamental economic
problems.
I am
once more saying, in public, that for societies like Zambia, given our history,
our traditions, the reality of our ethnic diversity, the sombre and adverse
nature of our economic condition, our acute political sensitivities and
complexities given all this, there is no viable alternative way forward other
than the kind dialogue I am advocating, for the resolution of important
national and sectoral differences in this society.
I
believe that a majority of the citizens of Zambia, if given an opportunity to
express themselves freely on the way forward for this country, would endorse
the model which exalts dialogue and compromise and rejects the model which must
inevitably lead to violent confrontation and to pyrrhic victory.
In
speaking on behalf of workers, my fundamental position, I believe in an open,
democratic society by which l mean one in which the legitimacy of the governing
authorities clearly derives from the free, periodic, unfettered content of all
those ordinarily eligible for the exercise of the franchise.
I
believe in a society where the broad mass of the people can be actively
involved in the decisions which actually affect their lives, whether at work,
or in their legislatures.
But
this fear cannot be allowed to stand in the way of the only solution which will
guarantee national harmony and freedom for all.
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