Saturday 29 August 2009

PRESIDENT ZUMA OFFER NO SOLUTION TO ZIMBABWE STALEMATE: TSVANGIRAI HAS NO EXCUSE NOW BUT END THIS GNU!

Prime Minister Tsvangirai had complained to S A’s President Jacob Zuma about Mugabe’s continued failure to honour the terms of the GPA. President Zuma has been to Zimbabwe and gone and all he said is some platitudes about SADC being committed to help Zimbabwe solve its problems.

Zimbabwe's nightmare will have to be solved by us Zimbabweans ourselves. But having elected MDC, one would expect Tsvangirai and his MDC Ministers and MPs to be leading the charge or at the very least fighting with along side the people. Surely, that is not too much to ask.

Sadly MDC and the rest of the people are pulling in opposite directions. Any Zimbabwean who even the most basic understanding of what is going on – except those with something to gain from the chaos and confusion griping the country – have now come to the conclusion that the GNU is not working. Even those who had supported it and wanted to give it a chance have now finally lost hope.

Tsvangirai and the rest in MDC have always admitted that Zimbabwe’s economic recovery is dependent on massive foreign aid; US $ 8 to 10 billion to be exact. So when the West refused to bankroll this GNU because they did not believe it was anything other than a Mugabe dictatorship by another name – something MDC itself has been complaining about all along -; MDC should have realised at this point that the game was up.

Even before the signing of the GPA, many Zimbabweans had public said power sharing with Mugabe would not work. They argued MDC not to do it. At the time Tsvangirai had said if the power sharing did not work, he would pull out. A few months after the formation of the GNU, he changed his tune; all of a sudden, the GNU was the “only game in town!”

Tsvangirai has threatened to do a lot of things but at the end of the day, he never had the guts to do most of them. Again and again Mugabe called his bluff and won. Mugabe must have known that once Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC leaders had had a taste of power they would not want to give it up no matter what. And once again time has proven Mugabe right.

Tsvangirai had pinned a lot of hope on SA’s President Jacob Zuma to force Mugabe to honour the terms of the GPA. Now it is clear that was one thing President Zuma could not deliver. Next month the SADC presidency will be passed on from President Zuma to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kabila - a staunch ally of Mugabe. He will never push Mugabe to do anything!
With the West saying they will not give a NGU a penny until there is real democratic change and President Kabila set to support Mugabe’s dictatorial rule to the hilt; MDC is fast running out of excuses for its continued support of this GNU. MDC will have no excuse now but join the rest of the ordinary Zimbabweans in ending this GNU and thus Mugabe’s ruinous rule of Zimbabwe.

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