tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449329879062128801.post5813442922383438436..comments2024-02-05T03:11:33.810-08:00Comments on The Vuvuzela Times: ZCTU and the history of constitutional reform in Zimbabwe blevavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06427166630081912429noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449329879062128801.post-32985556604823441862012-09-26T05:43:31.914-07:002012-09-26T05:43:31.914-07:00what led to the emergence of the principle in the ...what led to the emergence of the principle in the first place? Was it ideological or it emerged out of convenience and a realization that (in 1999) there was a single dominant political party such that if the process was to become politician driven it was excluding a huge section of society, a society in which the trade union and civil society belonged to. The same can be said of the consistency evidenced in 2008 and 2009, was the motivation ideological or out of convenience? <br /><br />Secondly workers equally belong to political parties as much as they are members of trade unions. Therefore you can not authoritatively say the workers do not want to associate with COPAC without giving a strong backing to such an assertion.<br /><br />Everyone would agree that ZCTU is beleaguered but this is attributable to many reasons beyond the narrow linking of the union woes to the departure from principle vis-a-vis constitutional reform. <br /><br />A proper analysis of ZCTU will bring out a myriad of challenges dating back from the time the labor union gave birth to the MDC. What we see today are the results of the failure by the ZCTU to reinvent and leverage itself within the pro-democracy alliance.Chamuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00700568370520039357noreply@blogger.com