Zimbabwe needs a new system of governance that secures and serves the best and legitimate interests of all her people.
It is a system of governance born out of, and founded on, the unencumbered and accurate expression and manifestation of a people’s sovereignty.
Authority and power derives from the people, in whom sovereignty permanently abides.
The current system of governance, informed as it is by partisan configurations and end goals is limited in its scope, reach, and ability to secure as well as serve the best and legitimate interests of all the people of Zimbabwe. It has proved to be divisive, corruptible, and fit only to benefit a few. It is therefore inimical to the securement and service of the best and legitimate interests of all and everyone.
As a result, the inheritance that Zimbabwe is, meant to be a blessing to all her people, has become contested and weaponised. This has bred enmity among a people who should otherwise treat each other as joint heirs and siblings in an estate rich enough to cater and provide for everyone.
For this reason, a new system of governance is needed. This new system of governance must be configured after the unencumbered and accurate expression and manifestation of a people’s sovereignty. The people’s sovereignty must be instrumentalised [used as a means] for the securement, realisation and service, as well as prioritisation of their best and legitimate interests/aspirations. In order to achieve this, the people must be informed by the substance and conviction of that which is inherently and abidingly good.
The foundation on which this system of governance springs is the sovereignty of the people. By sovereignty is meant the absolute entitlement of a person and/or people to self-govern. It is the people in whom the authority and power to govern vests. What flows from this sovereignty are institutions of the people, exclusively existing to secure and serve the best and legitimate interests of the very people informing the existence of such institutions. To the extent then that any institution of the State, of the collective will and sovereignty of the people, deriving its mandate as it does from the people’s sovereignty, acts or should act contrary to and against the best and legitimate interests of all or anyone, it loses legitimacy and stands unfit for purpose. Over time, the institution or the individuals working in such institution(s) get discarded.
The sovereignty of the people is sacred, and thus inviolable. Governance derives from sovereignty.
It behoves the people therefore to assert their sovereignty even in the face of deception or forceful enslavement. This they can achieve, primarily by resisting every effort to be drawn into, and redeeming their sovereignty from partisan affiliations, persuasions and configurations. The people must stand tall and high in seeking only after that which secures and serves their best and legitimate interests.
At the very least, the people should start choosing by themselves, without the influence and direction of partisan groupings and lobbying, those individuals of good reputation from amongst their communities and own selves whom they can entrust with the solemn mandate to embody and be expressions of service to their best and legitimate interests. Equally, every people should take the initiative to define by and for themselves their best and legitimate interests for harnessing and alignment in(to) the collective inheritance without the influence of partisan considerations.
In the context of naturally occurring platforms of governance, authority, and power, as well as those born out of participative processes, their legitimacy derive from the abiding and consistent application to the securement and service of the best and legitimate interests of the people towards whom they bear a responsibility. It is therefore incumbent upon and a solemn responsibility of those in whom a trust is reposed to be faithful by applying themselves exclusively to the securement and service of the best and legitimate interests of all and everyone. Such best and legitimate interests of the people are self-evident, or at the very least plainly ascertainable and discernible, being always embodied in the people themselves.
Specific to governance, people must choose their representatives for legislative bodies and other elected office without the influence of, and/or entertaining, partisan lobbying.
When a people outsource their sovereignty to politicians and partisanship, they stand to lose the same and very sovereignty. As a result, none of their best and legitimate interests as well as aspirations gets to be secured and served.
Asserting unfettered and accurate sovereignty by a people is key to, and the most effective way of, securing and serving best and legitimate interests that a people have and are entitled to in the collective inheritance.
The people, through the agency of their sovereignty, and all institutions and platforms pursuant thereto, must administer, defend, and perpetuate the inheritance that is and should be configured exclusively to the securement and service of their best and legitimate interests and aspirations.
Every single person exists to embody, give expression to, secure, and serve best and legitimate interests.
Exercising their sovereignty, it is the people who must invite suitable individuals into roles of responsibility, to embody and promote, secure, and serve the same and very people’s best and legitimate interests.
The one and those who fight against the sovereignty of the people have not the best and legitimate interests of the people at heart and they must be exposed as and for such.
Partisanship desecrates an inheritance that is supposed to accrue, and should devolve, to all. It limits a people’s imagination whilst poisoning the environment in and spirit with which the inheritance must be administered. Partisan interests and paradigms replace, and are anathematic to, the sovereignty of the people.
The inheritance that Zimbabwe is belong to all the people of Zimbabwe. It inheres in the people. The people have, through their unencumbered and accurate sovereignty, the mandate, authority, and responsibility, including through platforms and institutions they may establish, to administer, defend, and perpetuate the inheritance for the securement and service of their best and legitimate interests without reference to partisanship.
An inheritance conceived, configured, sifted, and administered through partisan political lenses and filters is an inheritance destined for corruption, hijacking, and deployment against and/or contrary to the securement and service of the best and legitimate interests of the very people it exists to benefit and cater for.
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