Zimbabwe is caught up in the crashing jaws of a crocodile; Mugabe and Tsvangirai which one of them is the upper and lower jaw is a matter of indifference!
With Mugabe the nation knows what he is – a single minded and ruthless dictator whose care is to hang on to political power at ALL cost. His weapon of choice in his fight to remain in power is brute force, he has again and again deployed his party thugs bolstered by heavily politicised and corrupt Police Force, CIO, Army and other state security organs to terrorised and even murder innocent Zimbabweans to secure his election victory. He even boost of having “degrees in violence” and proud of it!
On Friday Mugabe addressed his Zanu PF Youth League; he IS once again on a war-footing.
Mugabe has accepted that once a new constitution is agreed this GNU would have no plausible excuse for not holding fresh election. Of course there some individuals who fearing they would lose have been pushing for the GNU to last five years. Their only hope of seeing that happen is by making sure there in no new constitution at the end of the proposed 18 to 24 months! The counter argument is that there should still be fresh elections with or without a new constitution.
If the GNU failed to produce the new constitution, one of its principle tasks, in the stipulated period; why should the nation extend its tenure? What are the chances that the GNU will produce a new constitution after five years? At present the process has stalled supposedly because there is money. Not that much had been achieved with the millions already spent; the whole process had become a farce as Zanu PF supporters had disrupted all proceedings. At the end of five years of this GNU nation will have to hold election under the current constitution or worse still an equally repressive new constitution. The later is worse because after spending millions of dollars and of man-years in producing the new constitution the nation can ill afford to revisit the same issue again. So is this GNU should fail to produce a new constitution the nation should cut its loss and hold fresh elections and move on!
Mugabe being the shrewd politician that he is realises that and so is already preparing for elections in 18 to 24 months. And his message to his militant Zanu PF Youth League supporters was a call to arms – a chilling to the rest Zimbabwean:
He will reject a new constitution which was not anchored on the Kariba Draft Constitution. The Kariba draft gives Mugabe the same dictatorial powers. So the only new constitution acceptable to Mugabe is one that will restate his dictatorial powers!
The seizure of white owned commercial farms would continue and those who continue to resist will not only have the usual thugs to content with but be dragged before the courts.
“There is no reversal of our sovereignty. We don’t want outsiders to interfere with our system. Our stand with regards to interference is the same. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.” He said. It is him and his cronies who are benefiting from all these seizures at a huge cost to the majority of the people. Are we not Zimbabweans too!
He considers all Zimbabweans who did not vote for him last year as “sell- outs”!
“When you vote against a revolutionary party, a Chimurenga party, you are becoming a counter-revolutionary,” he said. “You are voting against yourself. You are voting against your right to the ownership of your land. Kutengesa kwakaitwa gore rakapera hatidi kukuona (Let there be no selling out as happened last year)”.
The right to have a meaningful say in the governance of one’s country constitute the very soul and body of a free society in which the human dignity of each member is respected. As a people we have to reject this abomination by Mugabe in which those who exercise this fundamental right are labelled sell-outs to be hunted down and murdered in cold blood!
Tsvangirai and MDC, for all their posturing as the champions of democratic change in Zimbabwe have failed to deal with Mugabe’s repeated violation of the people’s basic human rights violations head-on. Tsvangirai has dealt with these issues as if they were difference in policy the same way economists have differed on the best solution out of the current economic recession.
Last year Mugabe carried out one of the most outrageous acts of election violence and murder ever seen in human history. Not even the placid AU Election Monitoring Team could give the sham their stamp of approval. What Tsvangirai and MDC did by signing a power sharing agreement with Mugabe is sweep all Mugabe had done under the carpet as if nothing mattered.
Well Mugabe is shaking the Zanu PF hornet nest; Zimbabwe must now brace itself for yet another violent and murderous election! No effort was made by Tsvangirai to confront last year’s political violence head-on and now the nation must relive the same horrors all over again.
Whilst Mugabe is preparing his murderous thugs for deploy, MDC is meeting in Bulawayo to ‘Celebrating a Decade of Courage, Conviction and Leadership.’ What leadership?!
Here is a party whose leaders have become Mugabe’s cheer-leaders, especially in the West, singing the praise of the dictator at every opportunity. They entered into this GNU convinced SADC and AU guarantees count for something. Last week SADC rebuffed MDC’s calls to force Mugabe to honour his side of the agreement.
MDC has betrayed the cause of democratic change they claim to stand for. The party, especially Tsvangirai himself, has displayed a shocking level of incompetency and naivety, in total contrast to the party’s claims of being a party “of excellence!”
What MDC needs, desperately, is a totally overhaul of its leaders. Instead, there is talk of Tsvangirai extending his leadership of the party at the end of his two five year teams ending in 2011.
Mugabe is just using MDC to give his continued brutal dictatorial rule of Zimbabwe some semblance of being democracy. But as far as the ordinary Zimbabweans are concerned nothing, absolutely nothing has changed; their suffering continues and their very lives remain at the total mercy of Mugabe. Tsvangirai and MDC are nothing more than the lower jaw – a distasteful role Tsvangirai show have never accepted and has no excuse to continue to play - against which Mugabe can crash his victims!
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Tsvangirai has played a key role, a totally despicable one at that, in getting Mugabe accepted in the international community after the sham 27 June 2008 elections. But whatever he has done he can not be considered a part of the crocodile Mugabe let alone the other half of the murderous jaws!
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