Sikhala is incarcerated together with opposition Transform
Zimbabwe president Jacob Ngarivhume.
In an interview with Alpha Media Holdings chairman Trevor
Ncube on the platform In Conversation with Trevor, Mafume said leaders of the
opposition were avoiding actions that would land them in trouble.
“We want to avoid the acts of the oppressor becoming an
indictment on you. The continued detention of Sikhala and Ngarivhume is not an
indictment on us,” he said.
“It is an indictment on those people that are detaining him
and also an indictment on the Judiciary that allows itself to be in a position
where it detains somebody on a pre-trial incarceration for more than a year.
“What we could do to make the situation worse is to go
again on unplanned processes that might actually cloud the situation as to who
is the problem here.”
He said the CCC was still pushing, adding that the greatest
leverage they could give their colleagues was to be angry enough to overwhelm
the rigging machinery and take over government post-August 23.
Mafume, who is part of the team which formed the Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC), said they had drawn many lessons from their
political journey.
“We have gathered a lot of experience now. We still have
the same fire, but we now have the benefit or the wisdom of hindsight. We know
what is in the realm of the possible, what to push and also to measure and
manage our excitement at any process that we are doing and also to avoid
certain dangers not only to ourselves but also to our supporters,” he said.
“The 2008 violence taught us a different whole new side to
what we were facing and how to measure our tactics and what we need to do and
how we do it going forward in many ways to avoid harming ourselves and causing
harm to supporters who in most cases would be innocent.”
Mafume is vying for the ward 19 seat in the harmonised
elections. Newsday
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