Africa-Press – Eswatini. There is certainly no questioning of the well- established democratic practice of representative democracy, it’s a practice that is not just
effective but also makes participatory democracy accessible to the widest numbers of voters.
Annual, biannual and regular policy or elective gatherings of organisations are held under this practice, simple because the sheer numbers of members of such organisations make mass attendance of the total membership simple not feasible. Latest developments in elective conferences of tradeunions and political parties, especially the conductofdelegates assigned by theirbranches to represent them in such gatherings,has made an immediate reviewal of this practice both urgent and necessary.
The inalienable right to vote, it is emerging, cannot and should not be delegated if the integrity and credibility of people-based organisations is to be preserved; we doneed to separate the right to vote for the leadership of the organisation from the rest of the deliberations of a party/union gathering. Deliberations in party/union gatherings certainly requiremore than cursory studying,
distilling and decisionmaking, it’s an onerous task that can and should only be undertaken by diligent delegates, granted. The right to vote , however, especially as
it relates tothe electing of party/unionleaders should forever reside with the individual voter; the old argument of impracticality for every member of anorganisation
attending an elective/policy gathering can no longer be justified in light of the ever increasing availability of technology that can be deployed to facilitate remote voting. The recent elective conferenceofAfrica’s oldest liberation movement/party has provided us with some serious food forthought
and we must interrogate long-held positions on having the right to vote delegated to party delegates.
The exercise to continually interrogate democraticprocesses andascertainif they effectively and extensively extend democracy is an untransferable imperative for
every democrat. We will conclude our article by briefly discussing a report of a non-partisan American organization -Media Research Centre(MRC), which reports on the aggressive leftist propaganda machinery owned by leftist philanthropist George Soros. We know that one of Soros organisations, The Open Society initiative, is heavily
involved in financing a number of progressive entities and individuals in the country. It is very important for our readers to fully understand the kind of influences
behind the progressive agenda ,and we learn from the report that his influence involves hundreds of media houses who receive generous donations from Soros. The report highlights the kind of courses Soros funds, this provides a useful measure to carefully scan the emerging progressive organisations.
Christiansleaders,believers andChristian organisations are being sucked into this dark hole of postmodernism, a culture that seeks to replace all our core values of faith, family, freedomof speech and the sanctity of life.
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