PRESS RELEASE.
To put speculations to rest for those that think LEAD is a wishful thinking of my frustration with failing revolutionary efforts on the political arena and to show the whole nation of Zimbabwe and indeed the working population that LEAD has come to stay, today I officially notified ZEC through its Bulawayo and Matebeleland office that LEAD has entered the political field.
For avoidance of doubt I now challenge all progressive loving Zimbabweans to come and join the LEAD vision and see for themselves that we mean business. I want to salute all the members who have hastened to respond to the call to LEAD from all corners of the world. LEAD is proud to inform members of the public that if you want to serve we have opened branches in the following local and international provincial areas.
1. Matabeleland North
2. Matabeleland South
3. Mashonaland East
4. Mashonaland Central
5. Mashonaland West
6. Manyikaland
7. Masvingo
8. Midlands
9. Harare
10. Bulawayo
11. The SADC region
12. The United Kingdom
13. The United States of America
14. Australia
The demands of globalization have increased the need for fresh thinking on how to organize society for a better job of serving our people not only as Afrikans but as Zimbabweans with a history of colonialism and struggling to unshackle the restraints of neo-colonialism. In this situation we have been withheld to go forward and our otherwise well intentioned leaders out of frustration have resorted not only to corruption but also to repression as the pain of failure pull them down. The generality of informed Zimbabwean citizens, in this global village, as they interact with nationals from other countries, have lost faith in our government, in big business, and other administrative institutions. They
have realized our media being “dishonest, muzzled and partisan,” our justice system “engineered and rigged,” our security system “personalized” the dignity of work “derided” and our climate and other policies a “hoax.” Our governments and public sector institutions have been captured by big businessmen operating in cartels and agents of neo-colonialism.
Our government which took off in 1980 on a nationalistic trajectory with time
lost course and lapsed into tyranny. Our economy is on autopilot and livelihoods
plummeting. The lives of citizens of the generality of Zimbabweans has become
characterised by xenophobia, abject poverty, foraging and a myriad of vices.
The time has never been so ripe for a need to think about what principles should shape and guide our society to do a better job of delivering on human needs.
This a time for us to swallow our pride, introspect and try to find out where we
are going wrong, especially as Zimbabweans. Is it in our nature to fail to administer ourselves or we adopted administrative systems alien to us and
inapplicable to our situation and in a fast changing world. Should we revert back to the methods used by our ancestors during the days of primitive kingdoms or acephalous societies or we should coin up our own home grown administrativesystem applicable to our social, political, economic, environmental and religious situation?
LEAD enters the Zimbabwean political arena with a strong conviction that our
society needs to move closer to the system known as “social democracy.” This
admistrative approach should however not to be confused with “socialism” or
“communism.” Social democracy as advocated by LEAD will borrow from the
Nordic models but have some aspects of Technocracy. There is need to come up
with an admistrative system that fuses capitalism with socialist tendencies yet
recognizing the fact that the world has become so sophisticated warranting the
need for governments to fuse democracy with technocracy. The politicians may
be good at the political game but may be found wanting when it comes to the
engineering demands of a changing world. Appointments to government positions should respond to the complexities of the technical world.
It is time to LEAD with the alternative party which is dedicated to fix Zimbabwe
and to ensure Sustainable human and economic development. You are the
LEADer you have been waiting for. #TogetherWeCan make Zimbabwe Great
again!
By LEAD President Linda Tsungai Masarira
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