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 الدستور السوداني الجديد باقلام ملاوية مأجورة
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قرأت هذا الموضوع في صحيفة ملاوية صادرة اليوم الثلاثاء 13 فبراير ياريت نقرأ رأيكم علما بان كاتب المقال ملاوي مسيحي اقتصادي ضليع وقد درس الاقتصاد في انجلترا وعن ماذا يكتب عن الدستور السوداني الجديد كما يدعي
The D.D. Phiri Column
by Desmond Dudwa Phiri, 13 February 2007 - 04:26:30
The new Constitution, the Sudan
Where voting is overwhelmingly influenced by regionalism, tribalism or sectarianism the word democracy becomes a mere mockery. It is not the best people who are put in office but simply wakwathu, wakwithu, wakumangwetu, wakumuji, the home fellow. People vote for someone they believe will give them preference over others with regard to jobs, business contracts and whatever else.
The region or tribe that has the most voters then always wins, the others always lose. Bitterness is introduced into the fabric of the nation, it becomes a divided house. In the last resort those permanently excluded from power and plumb jobs or contracts then decide to rectify the situation through insurrection. Those in the majority think they are powerful enough to crush the ‘rebels’ in no time.
But recent African history has seen prolonged wars. The rebels are able to hold on against the might of the sate because they receive support from abroad. This is the story of Uganda and the Lord Resistance Army, the SPLA and Darfur in the Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo wars. It takes a long time for those in privileged positions to see the folly of naked force, and invite dissidents to peace talks.
We in Malawi ought to learn from the mistakes of other people and forestal possible revolts by making sure that the Constitution we finally agree upon does not permanently entrench some groups and frustrate others. The size of one’s tribe, religion or region should be neither an advantage nor a disadvantage when seeking such high office as that of President.
With the formation of the Maravi People’s Party, I have totally lost count of the parties that Malawi now has. What is not in doubt, is that we are far from the Anglo-Saxon tradition of two or three-party system. For example, Democrats versus Republicans; Conservatives versus Labour and Liberals.
As matters are at present where a winner is simply someone who has the largest percentage of the votes, it is possible for our next President to be someone who has scored merely 20 percent of the votes, and all of them from his region.
This definitely would be a traversty of justice, How can a person rejected by 80 percent of the voters become President of the country. A person who owes his or her position to one region cannot do justice to other regions.
It is for this reason provision should be made in the Constitution for a re-run of the election where no candidate gets at least 50 percent of the votes.
They conducted a re-run in Liberia, Ghana and in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On today’s Malawi political scene there is no leader with the charisma of Kamuzu. For this reason, it is very unlikely that in the first round any of the candidates will score half then votes to be cast in 2009.
The father of history, Herodotus of Greece, says somewhere in his famous book that an Egyptian arm of the Pharaonic period went on mutiny because the king or commander did not treat the soldiers fairly. They bade farewell and said they were going to settle in lands south beyond the boundary, in what we now call Sudan. The king or commander asked them how they would leave their families behind. The men undressed and said: “Look at us, we are taking with us our reproductive organs. We will find other women to marry and beget other children”.
Herodotus says it is these people who took Egyptian civilisation further to the Sudan, then known as Ethiopia. To this day, I understand there are more pyramids in the Sudan than in Egypt.
I have always wondered whether the Arabs who dominate Sudanese politics are not descendants of the soldiers Herodotus is talking about. For one reason they definitely look as people of mixed Negro and Semitic ancestry.
Secondly, since the gaining of independence from Britain and Egypt in 1956, Sudan has been ruled almost exclusively by soldiers. Whenever a coup takes place no promise is made about returning government to civilians.
For nearly 30 years the southern Sudanese who are of pure Negro strain resisted with arms the attempt by the northerners to Islamise and Arabise them.
Now it is the people of Darfur who are up in arms against the Khartoum oligarchy. The Darfur people speak Arabic as their lingua franca and are Muslims. Photographs show them as pure blacks.
People who assisted John Garang and his SPLA and those who are assisting the people of Darfur were and are moved by sympathy for the underdogs. Resistance against a government that is democratically-elected is abominable but not against an unelected government that treats some of its people as if they were pigs.
The stand taken by the African Union (AU) on Darfur is therefore right.
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