There are two possible reasons why a GNU would be the best option. 1) The election fails to produce a clear winner 2) to make the best of the available talent from the opposing parties.
I do not think there is anyone out there who can honestly say the Zimbabwe Election has failed to produce a clear winner - if the 29 March had been truly free and fair Mugabe would have lost decisively!
After nearly three decades in power what can Mugabe or his Zanu PF cronies have left to offer the people? Absolutely nothing!
Simba Makoni is arguing for a GNU for no other reason other than that is his only chance to get back into power. He has been an integral part of Mugabe's dictatorship and enjoyed the spoils. During all those years he saw, heard, and said nothing about the dictatorship. A few months ago, to save himself from the Mugabe sinking ship and salvage his own political career; he broke away rank with Zanu PF. Well the people of Zimbabwe were not fooled; on 29 March they sent him to the political bust bin where he and all his former colleagues from Zanu PF rightly belong.
Those who are calling for GNU on the grounds that the run-off can not be free and fair are putting the cart before the horse. They should be demanding that everything be done to ensure that elections are indeed free and fair. We can all see what is going on, Mugabe is stopping at nothing, not ever the sanctity of life, to "win" the run-off.
The 1980 elections were above all else, a vote to end the civil war. The people were afraid that if Mugabe lost, the civil war would continue. Of course history has proven that their fear was completely justified. The nation has paid dearly for that moment of weakness; everything- the economic mismanagement, the corruption, the political murders, the economic meltdown, everything - can be traced back to the 1980 vote-of-appeasement.
Today Zimbabwe finds itself in total economic and political chaos. The way out is NOT by seeking to appease Mugabe and all those holding the nation to ransom further. The way out is by stopping appeasing Mugabe or anyone ever again.
My greatest fear is Morgan Tsvangirai and MDC will do just that; seek to appease Mugabe and his Zanu PF criminals and thugs and form a GNU. Whereas Mugabe has been described as political ruthlessly canning and savvied, Tsvangirai on the other hand lacks common sense to pick good advice from bad. Forming a GNU would be the sort of banana peal Tsvangirai would cross the street to step on, slip and fall flat on his face!
Mugabe had power and influence in the past, yes. Over the years he has lost it. In the past he rigged elections, for example, and could count on his party officials, election officials and the civil servants to cover up. Today he is universally disliked and therefore can not trust anyone except the few who, like him, have innocent Zimbabwean blood on their hands or, at the very least, have a share in the looted national wealth.
The round hole Mugabe is trying to square is the national economy. No amount of lies and propaganda and rhetoric can change the fact that Zimbabwe’s national economy is in total melt down and he has given up the charade of doing something about it. Mugabe is like a school boy bully who has soiled his pants but would not admit it. He thought he could clean-up whilst everyone else was away only to find one of his victims had turned off the water!
When Mugabe deployed war veterans to intimidate and murder the Zimbabwe electorate to force them to vote for him on 27 June it only showed he is desperate. It nothing more than the school bully wrapping himself in a blanket to hide his soiled pants in the welting Zimbabwe heat. To offer Mugabe the option of GNU would be like allowing the school bully to wash in the well from which we all must drink!
What Zimbabwe needs to climb out of the economic and political hell Mugabe has landed us is a bold rejection of all Mugabe stood for. In a GNU Mugabe and Zanu PF would no doubt fight tooth and nail to maintain the status quo!
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