Executive authority should be divided between the people of Zimbabwe and the President and cabinet. There should be a representation from the ordinary people picked at random for any executive decisions by the president and cabinet. The president should just chair the decision making process and endorse whatever the ordinary people would have agreed on. Executive authority simply must be an echo of the people's decisions; that is, the president only moderates and sanctions what the people say. Nothing must come from the president and his cabinet without a decision by the people. That way, we will respect the president as being ours and not theirs.Power sharing between the president and his cabinet, and the people should be 2:3. He must consult more, his people, for any executive decision to be made. That will nip run-away presidents we are accustomed to. The president cannot just pardon known criminals for the purpose of releasing his boys, at the expense of wrongfully imprisoned people, without consulting the people he represents. The president cannot have the law of equity in his hands, alone, and yet the courts do not have it; the people must decide whether to award a poor woman a house she has stayed in for all her life, which the husband sold after a quarrel. The president should not have the authority, alone, to send our children to die in other countries under the guise of executive powers. The people must decide. Even if we have representatives in the form of MP's, they may have been lobbied to agree with him as they, sometimes, must to tow the line; the people must decide at every stage which requires executive decision. The president must work for his authority.
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Zimbabwe Civic Action Support Group. Campaigning non-violently for freedom and democracy in Zimbabwe.
If he is coming to dictate to us to how we should run our countries, then we will say Go back. Go home Yankee... We do not have oil or weapons of mass destruction.
In anticipation of a visit by George Bush to South Africa later that month.
Ececutive Authority
Executive authority should be divided between the people of Zimbabwe and the President and cabinet. There should be a representation from the ordinary people picked at random for any executive decisions by the president and cabinet. The president should just chair the decision making process and endorse whatever the ordinary people would have agreed on. Executive authority simply must be an echo of the people's decisions; that is, the president only moderates and sanctions what the people say. Nothing must come from the president and his cabinet without a decision by the people. That way, we will respect the president as being ours and not theirs.Power sharing between the president and his cabinet, and the people should be 2:3. He must consult more, his people, for any executive decision to be made. That will nip run-away presidents we are accustomed to. The president cannot just pardon known criminals for the purpose of releasing his boys, at the expense of wrongfully imprisoned people, without consulting the people he represents. The president cannot have the law of equity in his hands, alone, and yet the courts do not have it; the people must decide whether to award a poor woman a house she has stayed in for all her life, which the husband sold after a quarrel. The president should not have the authority, alone, to send our children to die in other countries under the guise of executive powers. The people must decide. Even if we have representatives in the form of MP's, they may have been lobbied to agree with him as they, sometimes, must to tow the line; the people must decide at every stage which requires executive decision. The president must work for his authority.