Friday 7 August 2009

Mrs Clinton to ask President Zuma to push Mugabe harder on political change.

US Secretary of State, Mrs Hillary Clinton is on an 11 day tour of Africa. She has arrived in SA and it reported she will be asking SA President Zuma to push Mugabe harder to impliment meaningful political change.

It is very diplomatic of US Secretary of State, Mrs Clinton, to say she will be asking SA to push Mugabe harder - she is after all the US's chief diplomat. The truth is, and the truth must be allowed to cut through the niceties of the diplomatic language, President Zuma’s administration has not pushed Mugabe in any way. Still, that is a plus for President Zuma compared to what his predecessor, President Mbeki, was doing. President Mbeki allowed himself to be pushed around by Mugabe, taking Zimbabwe the direction she did not want to go!

I hope and prey Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will shut up for the next few days at least. He was himself in SA asking President Zuma to push Mugabe to stop acting in his old autocratic way. Sadly the next minute the Zimbabwe PM is waffling about the government of national unity is “working”!

Whilst Zimbabweans are rightly angry with former President Thembo Mbeki for landing us with this totally unworkable GNU; we are furious with PM Tsvangirai for his the sheer naivety in agreeing to such a stupid arrangement and his self delusion that it is working when it is not.

During her current tour of Africa Mrs Clinton has underline the importance of good governance and Zimbabwe is a prime example of the dire consequences of letting economic corruption and political repression ran riot. This is a very important message and one only hopes the likes of PM Tsvangirai hold his peace and not issue his usual self contradicting outbursts.

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