Opposition politician Job Sikala said South Africa’s ruling party undermined the democratic struggle against ZANU-PF by endorsing rigged elections in the country.
Sikhala was speaking during an interview with Stephen Soker, host of BBC Hard Talk, yesterday.
“We have observed and identified the role played by the ANC and successive ANC governments in South Africa to undermine the mass democratic struggle in our country,” Sikala said.
“Don’t forget that these are the same people who imposed the GPA in our country when Zanu PF and the late Robert Mugabe were defeated in the elections.”
Mugabe was forced to form a national unity government with opposition groups from the Movement for Democratic Change in 2009 during talks led by then South African President Thabo Mbeki.
“The role of the ANC has always been to undermine our people. Fikile Mbalula, the ANC Secretary-General, has made controversial statements against the opposition and the people of Zimbabwe,” Sikala said.
“There is no doubt that it is the policy of the ANC to undermine the democratic forces of the people of Zimbabwe.”
In March, the ZANU-PF, ANC and other liberation movements held a summit in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, to formulate strategies on how to confront opposition parties and remain in power.
The summit was attended by the Secretaries-General of the Zanu Patriotic Front, the African National Congress, the Angolan People’s Movement, the South West African People’s Organization of Namibia, the Democratic Party of Botswana, the Chama Cha Mapinduzi of Tanzania and the African National Congress. Frelimo Mozambique.
Sikhala also blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the problems affecting the opposition Citizens Alliance for Change party.
He is out of the country for treatment claiming he was poisoned while detained at Chikurubi maximum security prison.
The former West Zengiza lawmaker recently launched a new movement, the National Democratic Action Group, which he said will free the masses from political constraints.
Sikhala said that the movement focused on the desires and aspirations of the masses.
“The lives of our people are at risk due to endless cycles of poverty and oppression, plundering and plundering of national resources, undermining the will of our people through stealing elections and self-imposition by an unpopular tyranny,” Sikhala said during the launch ceremony. .
Sikhala said he was ready to die to free the people of Zimbabwe from the shackles of economic poverty. Newsday
