People with Disabilities Condemn Proposed Demos.
06 January 2019.
By Zimbo24news Team.
People living with disabilities have added their voice condemning the proposed strikes and demonstrations by Civil sevants.
In a communique released yesterday they expressed disgust at how politicians seem to rush to hijack workers' grievances for tjeir political gain.They urged both government and thme the labour unions to negotiate in good faith for a peaceful resolution of the impasse.
They sounded their deep seated fears that every whenever violence breaks out their members will always be victims.
Zimb24news hereby publishes the full transcript of the Communique.
EMANCIPATE DISABILITY CONSTITUENCY TRUST.
Position on the Proposed Strikes and Demonstrations.
05 January 2019.
As enshrined in Chapter 59 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, every person has a right to peaceful demonstration. This right is guaranteed and Zimbanweans have exercised this right for many years now.
But if we look back in history we discover that this right has been abused and violated many times as most of these demonstrations have ended with one violation or another, with extreme cases being loss of lives.
This was once again the case on 01 August 2018 when what was touted as a peaceful demonstration ended up with a loss of six lives, wanton destruction to property and injuries to many.
As in most cases people with DISABILITIES are always caught up in tje crossfire and they pay dearly through injuries and in some cases death since they cannot rescue themselves.
It is our considered view that strikes and demonstrations are not the best ways to solve differences.Demonstrations bring together participants from different backgrounds with different persuations and motives.It is easy for people with ulterior motives to hijack these for selfish ends.
Thus we strongly discourage them and WE refuse to be part of them.
On 23 June 2018 we witnessed first hand at Bulawayo's White City when a bomb was thrown at a peaceful ZANU PF rally.It was only discovered when the dust had settled that Mr Joshua Malinga who is Special Disability Advisor to the President had been saved by the Grace of God.While everyone could think of themselves, Mr Malinga could not help himself.
This is the danger we are exposed to as people with DISABILITIES.
On 01 August 2018 in Harare one of the deceased had disabilities while one of the seriously injured had a hearing impairment.These innocent victims were not part of the protesters but they were victims because they could not help themselves.
People with disabilities are the most affected whenever violence breaks out.
As People living with DISABILITIES we do hereby call upon Politicians to stop medling with the Workers' bodies and give them room to negotiate with their employer in good faith without undue negative influence and or incitement.
We also call upon the Government as the biggest employer to negotiate in good faith and be cognisant of the suffering that tje workers have endured due to economic hardships.An ammicable agreement is possible in peace.
We cannot destroy our own country so that we can rebuild it.
Politicians should stop taking advantage of the economic challenges to settle their Political scores through using the suffering masses as pawns in a game of Chess.
We cannot continue losing lives and property through these ill concieved demonstrations that only serve selfish interests.
Emancipate Disability Constituency Trust urges all people with disabilities be it visual, physical, mental and hearing among other forms of disabilities to denounce and discourage these demonstrations because we are the most affected constituency whenever violence breaks.
There are other better ways of resolving the issues affecting our country apart from demonstrations and violence.
Doctors , Teachers, Nurses and all other workers have a right to be heard, yet they still have a responsibility and obligation to serve the nation.
This is a strong message to the organisers ,instigators , sponsors or advisors to the planned demonstrations that people living with DISABILITIES say NO to these Demonstrations.
NYASHA NHAU.
EMANCIPATE DISABILITY CONSTITUENCY TRUST DIRECTOR.
06 January 2019.
By Zimbo24news Team.
People living with disabilities have added their voice condemning the proposed strikes and demonstrations by Civil sevants.
In a communique released yesterday they expressed disgust at how politicians seem to rush to hijack workers' grievances for tjeir political gain.They urged both government and thme the labour unions to negotiate in good faith for a peaceful resolution of the impasse.
They sounded their deep seated fears that every whenever violence breaks out their members will always be victims.
Zimb24news hereby publishes the full transcript of the Communique.
EMANCIPATE DISABILITY CONSTITUENCY TRUST.
Position on the Proposed Strikes and Demonstrations.
05 January 2019.
As enshrined in Chapter 59 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, every person has a right to peaceful demonstration. This right is guaranteed and Zimbanweans have exercised this right for many years now.
But if we look back in history we discover that this right has been abused and violated many times as most of these demonstrations have ended with one violation or another, with extreme cases being loss of lives.
This was once again the case on 01 August 2018 when what was touted as a peaceful demonstration ended up with a loss of six lives, wanton destruction to property and injuries to many.
As in most cases people with DISABILITIES are always caught up in tje crossfire and they pay dearly through injuries and in some cases death since they cannot rescue themselves.
It is our considered view that strikes and demonstrations are not the best ways to solve differences.Demonstrations bring together participants from different backgrounds with different persuations and motives.It is easy for people with ulterior motives to hijack these for selfish ends.
Thus we strongly discourage them and WE refuse to be part of them.
On 23 June 2018 we witnessed first hand at Bulawayo's White City when a bomb was thrown at a peaceful ZANU PF rally.It was only discovered when the dust had settled that Mr Joshua Malinga who is Special Disability Advisor to the President had been saved by the Grace of God.While everyone could think of themselves, Mr Malinga could not help himself.
This is the danger we are exposed to as people with DISABILITIES.
On 01 August 2018 in Harare one of the deceased had disabilities while one of the seriously injured had a hearing impairment.These innocent victims were not part of the protesters but they were victims because they could not help themselves.
People with disabilities are the most affected whenever violence breaks out.
As People living with DISABILITIES we do hereby call upon Politicians to stop medling with the Workers' bodies and give them room to negotiate with their employer in good faith without undue negative influence and or incitement.
We also call upon the Government as the biggest employer to negotiate in good faith and be cognisant of the suffering that tje workers have endured due to economic hardships.An ammicable agreement is possible in peace.
We cannot destroy our own country so that we can rebuild it.
Politicians should stop taking advantage of the economic challenges to settle their Political scores through using the suffering masses as pawns in a game of Chess.
We cannot continue losing lives and property through these ill concieved demonstrations that only serve selfish interests.
Emancipate Disability Constituency Trust urges all people with disabilities be it visual, physical, mental and hearing among other forms of disabilities to denounce and discourage these demonstrations because we are the most affected constituency whenever violence breaks.
There are other better ways of resolving the issues affecting our country apart from demonstrations and violence.
Doctors , Teachers, Nurses and all other workers have a right to be heard, yet they still have a responsibility and obligation to serve the nation.
This is a strong message to the organisers ,instigators , sponsors or advisors to the planned demonstrations that people living with DISABILITIES say NO to these Demonstrations.
NYASHA NHAU.
EMANCIPATE DISABILITY CONSTITUENCY TRUST DIRECTOR.
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