Job Sikhala, a former Zengiza West legislator, has launched a new movement, the National Democratic Action Group (NDWG), which he hopes will “liberate the masses from political constraints.”
The outspoken politician abandoned the troubled Citizens’ Alliance for Change party in February after he was released from prison on charges of inciting violence following the killing of an opposition political activist.
In a statement, NDWG Head of Information and Communications, Darlington Chingwena, said the movement was centered on the desires and aspirations of the masses.
“The NDWG is a bloc of our people-led Democratic Forces Movement of Zimbabwe, which is determined to build a solid base for our people to discuss their aspirations and find the best ways forward,” he said.
“The National Democratic Action Group has begun to mobilize the masses of our people for the eventual convening of the National Democratic People’s Congress, where the ideas and feedback of the people will lead to the formation of a mass democratic popular movement that will struggle to seize government power.”
Tsingwena, who said the national task force is the brainchild of Sikala and a group of concerned citizens, believes the current democratic alternatives have failed to seize the opportunity when it mattered most.
“The lives of our people are in danger due to endless cycles of poverty and oppression, the plundering and plundering of national resources, the undermining of the will of our people through the theft of elections and the self-imposition of an unpopular tyranny,” he said.
“At the inaugural meeting of the NDWG, delegates from Zimbabwe’s ten provinces and various organizations unanimously decided the following as part of the process of gathering people’s views on the Zimbabwe they want.
“Within a month, regional democratic working groups will be formed from the masses of our people from churches, businessmen, veterans, women, youth, students, civil society, people with disabilities among others and their main function will be: visit each district and district to collect the opinions of the masses of our people through group meetings.
“The NDWG recognizes the unresolved actions of the liberation war and takes them forward through a mass democratic struggle.”
Some of the movement’s decisions were aimed at making people the focus of solutions to the political, social and economic challenges facing Zimbabwe.
“Inclusiveness will determine the work of all organs of the National People’s Democratic Congress, which will meet at an advisable date to deliberate on the way forward based on proposals presented by the expected 5,000 delegates,” Chingwenna added. Newsday
