MDC Alliance Challenges King Mswati To Implement Constitutional Reforms
10 July 2021
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Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance Namibia has pointed out that democratic elections are unavoidable in Swaziland as international organizations pile pressure on King Mswati 3 to respect fundamental human rights.

According to the MDC Alliance Namibia, the establishment of modalities for a new democratic dispensation is the only way forward in Eswatini.

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“The establishment of modalities for a new democratic dispensation is the only way forward in Eswatini!”, Mdc Alliance Namibia posits.

08 July 2021

Mdc Alliance Namibia resonates with the Five point plan submitted before the SADC Troika put together by the civil rights movements and political party coalition in Eswatini.

According to reports from our fellow human rights defenders on the ground, progressive political parties and civic society have religiously adopted a common ground regarding the process of intervention by the Troika.

The resolution to maintain the five point plan as the guiding principle of the expected political engagement with the oppressive monarchy was unanimously agreed.

As a district that subscribes to constitutional democracy, we are wholeheartedly in solidarity with change seekers in Swaziland who stand firm in resisting the dictatorship of the monocratic regime.

It is imperative to clarify that the horrible experiences of the Swazi people is a replica of what is happening in the motherland where opposition activists, journalists and human rights defenders are butchered with impunity by ovérambitious state security agents.

Mdc Alliance Namibia declares its clear sisterhood and brotherhood with the fellow social democrats in Eswatini who lost more than 50 activists with thousands incuring injuries perpetrated by King Mswati 111 for demanding Constitutional Democracy.

We would like to seriously encourage all agents of pro-poor and social liberation policies across the globe to erect a wider coalition of progressive Africans – a people-to-people solidarity congesting trade unions , professional associations (lawyers,doctors, teachers, journalists,nurses, youths ,women organisations,political parties only to mention a few in both Eswatini and the neighborhood.

Moreover, social democrats in Namibia advocate for the absolute reversal of the April 12 1973 undemocratic act which saw the prohibition of political parties by the Swazi monarchy, backed by the satanic and repressive apartheid regime in South Africa.

As social transformers,we remember this significant date by urging a rejuvenated focus on the fundamental role of the youths in the democratic struggle to end dictatorship in Swaziland.

Mdc Alliance Namibia acknowledges the revolutionary appetite to achieve socio-economic transformation in Eswatini.

It is compulsory to laud the youths in Swaziland who are instrumental in confronting the sadist monarchy for progressive change. We absolutely need such reinvigoration and widening of youth activism across Africa so that citizens can enjoy their universal fundamental basic human rights.

What is quite exciting is that there are a lot identical qualities of dictatorship in both Eswatini and Zimbabwe. We saw Mr Mnangagwa trying in vain to establish a One-party state through its surrogate (MdcT) led a captured moron, Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora, a move that suffered a political stillbirth.

We aim to work with all progressive Pan-Africans to bring Constitutional Democracy in southern Africa and the continent in toto.

Our priority is to remain focused on reigniting the exhibited youth activism. Mdc Alliance Namibia is cognisant of the fact that no one else can vote or act in favour of the young people except young people hence the dire need to utilise the revolutionary potential of the youth in embracing dangerous freedom against peaceful slavery under an autocratic Zanupf-minded regime.

Furthermore, Mdc Alliance Namibia is in support of the guiding principles of engagement in Eswatini and these are:1)An all-inclusive mediated political dialogue ;2)Total unbanning of political parties;3)A transitional Executive Authority;4)A new democratic constitution;and 5)A multiparty democratic dispensation. As a social democratic party, we are obliged to offer solidarity to like-minded individuals and groups across the globe since it is a core value in Social Democracy. We stay ever ready to fight together with fellow Africans to achieve a true democratic establishment.

Mdc Alliance Namibia is inspired by Martin Luther who postulates that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”, hence the clarion call for solidarity becomes key regardless of one’s geographical location.

Moreso, in the principal steps towards a new government in Swaziland, Mdc Alliance Namibia supports the unconditional return of all political refugees and asylum seekers from exile, like our remote controlled securocrats in the Fatherland, social democrats in Eswatini urged the police , army and all security forces to halt operating as instruments of the monarchy. We support the immediate dissolution of the incumbent oppressive monarchy and suspension of legislature to end the King’s unfettered powers. It is clear that the regime should be compelled to release all political prisoners and detainees since it is unconstitutional to deny citizens their personal freedoms to differ with their oppressors.

In a nutshell, the declaration of free, fair and credible elections for the democratic republic is the only panacea to socio-economic transfiguration. We urge all stakeholders to convene a conference for Democracy to put in place an interim government that will see democratic elections in Eswatini.

Mdc Alliance Namibia resonates with the creation of an Emergency Economic Plan to address the immediate needs of the Swazi people who are languishing in abject poverty when the King and his 16 wives are busy looting national resources at the expense of the downtrodden masses.

Our message to the King is that he must stop reading Mr Mnangagwa’s wayward literature of corruption ,looting, state-sponsored deaths, arbitrary arrests and the deliberate closure of the internet to conceal his heinous acts or crimes against humanity.

The world has wide open ears to hear and eyes to witness the pathetic cries of Constitutional Democrats in Eswatini.

He must be held accountable for the mass killings of innocent citizens who are just demanding justice and a fair share of the national cake. Aluta continua!

We are urging people-to-people solidarity where we commit ourselves as Pan Africans to fight against senseless banning of political parties and closure of democratic space in our respective countries.

SwaziLivesMatter

NoToHighLevelsOfHumanButchery

NoToMonarchism

WeDemandANewDemocraticGvtInEswatini

RegisterToVote

EdAndMswatiSameSame

ResistDictatorship

OneAfricaOnePeople

ReleaseAllPoliticalPrisoners

KingMswatiAndHisWivesMustGo

ZanupfMustGo

EdMustGo

Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya

King Mswati III.