CPS PLOTS TO SABOTAGE 2018 ELECTIONS!

Members of the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) marching against holding of the general elections in 2013.

MBABANE – The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS), together with its partners, intends convening counter civic education sessions in all of the kingdom’s constituencies as a means to sabotage the build-up to the 2018 National General Elections.

Currently, the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) headed by Chief Gija is convening civic and voter education sessions throughout the country’s constituencies in readiness for next year’s elections.
Through the CPS International Organising Secretary Njabulo Dlamini, the Times SUNDAY has learnt that the party will be launching its own civic education exercise soon.

Dlamini said they would teach all Swazis that will attend the sessions who will in turn be in a position to choose which of the two different education sessions best described the current situation in the country in keeping with their needs for democracy. “Basically, what we are saying is that we will be going through all the constituencies, much like the EBC is doing for the Tinkhundla elections, and we will teach the citizens on what and how an election should be conducted,” he said.

He said it was up to the people, after hearing their presentation, to choose which system worked best for them. “As the CPS, we will counter any form of preparation for these elections as a political party and the education on democracy sessions we will embark on is a perfect start,” Dlamini said.
He emphasised: “We are sabotaging everything that involves the Tinkhundla system of governance.”

He revealed that their counter civic education strategy was the starting point of the organisation’s defiance campaign, which they were going to ensure infiltrated the whole country. “Whatever this government organises, we will also counter organise and we will do this until we gain tangible results in our quest for multiparty democracy,” Dlamini said.
 During the education sessions to be carried out countrywide, the party revealed that it would be informing the nation what the concept of free and fair democratic elections entailed.

CPS Secretary general Thokozani Kunene, echoing Dlamini’s words, said the party wanted people not to vote at all after being ‘enlightened’ and to boycott the 2018 elections. “We want to show people that the Tinkhundla elections are not in any way meant to enhance their livelihood but to keep those they elect nicely fed for the next five years, without assisting the poor in any way,” Kunene said.

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