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Vimbai E.M.Z. Mushongera
Parliament Affairs and Advocacy Officer
3/2/2011 1Solidarity Center Conference on Informal
Economy Workers
From dirigisme to Washington consensus Beyond ESAP – Programme to Democratise
ZIM- Celebrate the means and not the ends 1996 Resolved to organise informal
economy workers Research and Establishing structures
1997 Hosted working people’s convention – NCA, CRISIS COALITION, ZIMRIGHTS
2001 Established informal economy desk ZCIEA LEDRIZ Legal Department Parliament and Advocacy program
2/2/2011 2Solidarity Center Conference on Informal Economy
Workers
ZCTU currently has 362 000 ZCIEA Membership 873 000 Potential Voters in the Country
3Million /14m
Numbers are Essential for influencingpolicy
3/2/2011 3Solidarity Center Conference on Informal Economy
Workers
•71 Ministers
650 Polling Station
3/2/2011 4Solidarity Center Conference on Informal Economy
Workers
Dollarisation left more than 70% of population unbanked
90% Informal economy activities Real wages back to 1973 - Employers not paying salaries and
pension houses not honoring obligations Social safety nets still a major challenge Labour Market- Labour relations still
akin to colonial times –Chinese , Indigenous employers, 75 000 ghost workers
3/2/2011 6Solidarity Center Conference on Informal Economy
Workers
Elections on the horizon Dead GNU – SADC still playing some
accommodation politics Deflective and Negotiated constitution Petrified electorate - Violence Undermining of Organised labour – ZCTU Uniformed forces that are partisan Populist Policies Newly discovered resources (Diamonds )
our demise Selective application of the law Wikleaks – ZANUPF demise and MDC
strengthening
3/2/2011 7Solidarity Center Conference on Informal Economy
Workers
Justice without power is useless, Power without justice is tyrannical, Failure to empower what is just is to make what is strong legitmate
3/2/2011 9Solidarity Center Conference on Informal Economy
Workers
ZCTU has 6 Regional offices has 34 districts
3/2/2011 10Solidarity Center Conference on Informal Economy
Workers
People driven constitution Country Decent Work Plan –Beyond the Enclave Public sector reform & labour law reform Transformative transitional justice
Discrimination Unjustified violence ,killings and destruction of
property Arbitrary arrest Forced evictions
Creation of a social protection floor Redistributive, Productive,
Dealing with country risk factors Institutional Capacity building of Actors Truly independent Human Rights, Media, Anti
Corruption , Zimbabwe Electoral Commission & TR commissions
3/2/2011 16Solidarity Center Conference on Informal Economy
Workers