A Zimbabwe Police Officer was killed during a protest in Glenview, Zimbabwe. The Police say MDC activists were responsible although the party deny it. Over 30 MDC activists have already been rounded up and, no doubt, worse is still to come.
Zanu PF does not need an excuse to unleash its campaign of intimidation, rape and murder but the beating or murder of one of its own will encourage its terror machine into overdrive.
When Tsvangirai signed the power sharing agreement with Mugabe he must have thought he would somehow get the tyrant to change. Many people told Tsvangirai the leopard can not change his spots but he would not listen. There is a school of thought who says Tsvangirai never stopped to think about such niceties as restoring the rule of law, creating a free public media and all the other things one would expect from a party promising democratic change. His head was full of grand visions of himself as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe; there was real no room for anything else. Like the cartoon character, Homer Simpson, who admits that every time he learns something new it pushes old stuff out of his head.
Of course, whether Tsvangirai even thought of stopping Mugabe’s tyrannical rule or not it is now academic. The end result is that he has completely failed to stop the tyrant. The nation is sleepwalking into lawlessness and violence as that seen in 2008 or worse!
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MDC are without doubt the main driving force behind the writing of the new constitution but because of poor planning on its part the long awaited new constitution will not be worth the paper it is written on!
A Voice Of America Studio 7 reporter was right to said the new constitution writing process was dogged with “disorganized and often over-budget”. It is scandalous that millions dollars have been wasted on a money-making scam given the nation’s dire economic condition. But worse still, Zanu PF hijacked the outreach meetings lying to rest all pretence the collected data a true reflection of the people’s wishes.
Since the new constitution will not be worthless, one hopes, Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friend Douglas Monzora will do the decent thing and fall on their own swords for their part in this criminal waste of money, time and opportunity!
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No one can honestly say they did not see the political violence now sweeping across the country coming. It is therefore rich for a senior MDC official like Minister Tendai Biti to be calling on the Police to be “impartial, nonpartisan and professional” knowing full well no one in the Police force cares about these things.
Surely MDC should have been fighting to end Zimbabwe’s culture of political violence for the last two years. What the hell have they been doing!
Not only do we have a pathetic ruling party in MDC but most of civic society itself is shockingly incompetent. They have done little to push MDC to deliver on its promises of democratic change. Their muted calls on Mugabe to end his abuse of power have lacked conviction and focus. Mugabe simply ignored Zimbabwe’s civic society as a rule. No doubt the tyrant will ignore Zimbabwe Election Support Network’s call to dismantle Zanu PF militia bases. Besides, dismantling the bases alone will not stop the political violence sweeping the country. What a waste of space!
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