President Zuma calls off 9 June SADC summit on
Zimbabwe but does not give a new date! It was going to be a show down with Mugabe; that much
was clear.
Mr Zuma’s
task is to help steer Zimbabwe back to peace and stability. The next objective
is the holding of free and fair elections.
President Zuma and therefore SADC’ s task was
always to “help steer Zimbabwe back to peace and stability”. The emphases being
on the word HELP or FACILITATE. And
therefore PM Tsvangirai’s failure to get even one of the democratic reforms
implemented has made that task impossible.
The truth is PM Tsvangirai has not even tried to
get the reforms implemented these last four and half years. He believed the new
Copac constitution would be all he needed to deliver free and fair elections,
at least that is what he said all along right up to the referendum on the new
constitution. It was only after the
referendum that the PM finally realized that the Copac constitution was too
weak to deliver free and fair elections that he started asking SADC to pressure
Mugabe to implement some of the reforms.
The biggest mistake President Zuma has made was to
give Tsvangirai the impression that even at this the last minute; he could
still get Mugabe to implement the reforms! Tsvangirai has since got four of the
other main political parties to gang-up behind him in demanding reforms.
SADC last week said it was not going to reopen the
reforms issue strengthening Mugabe’s hand.
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“The SADC summit on Zimbabwe, which was due in Maputo, Mozambique on Sunday, will now be held in Pretoria, South Africa on Monday 10 June,” S W Radio Africa reports.
Zimbabwe has just completed a voter registration exercise that was completed on 19 May 2013. Many people has dismissed it as chaotic, still no one is denying there had been one such exercise. If it had been done properly would Senator Coltart still be asking for another one just because the new
constitution called for it? Of course not!
According to the report, Ms Zulu and her team are talking elections before July 31; then they too must have dismissed calls for implementing any reforms! PM Tsvangirai can speak with “one voice” (he got four other parties to gang-up with him in demanding reforms) and in as many tongues as he chooses; the fact of the matter is reforms are dead in the water!
There is absolutely no reason why elections should not be held by July 31.
“We cannot have somebody coming from a country with very serious problems of its own like the Marikanas and all to pontificate and say we will use the roadmap. We do not need the roadmap. We need the Constitution, and we have it,” said Professor Jonathan Moyo.
@ Chimoto
We always come back to this nonsense of "I fought Mugabe." or "I fought Smith." I do not dispute Tsvangirai or Mugabe or whoever's heroic contribution for one minute. I honour it and praise it to the heavens. But my honour does not extend to turning a blind eye to what they have done wrong; that I condemn to the deepest parts of hell!
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