Takarinda Gomo either you HAVE INSIDE information or you are dreaming! My bet is on the latter because only a naïve political dreamer would even suggest that Mugabe is “running out of tricks” on the basis of some flimsy statements, guise work and out right lies.
“Ever since Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai dropped the bombshell by partially withdrawing from engaging Zanu-PF, there has been political turbulence in Zimbabwe, which has now gathered momentum and has a life of its own” you say.
Well for a start the political situation in Zimbabwe is much more that a mere “turbulence”. It is a tragedy dating back to white colonial rule, the war of independence and Mugabe’s dictatorial rule after that. The more immediate tragedy started when Mugabe staged the sham election in June 2008 and Tsvangirai betrayed the people by entering into this stupid power sharing arrangement. Now that was a bombshell, alright.
When Tsvangirai announced his “disengagement” with Mugabe because the latter was a “dishonest partner” Tsvangirai was finally acknowledging something that was there all along but he had refused to see. That was a firecracker size bombshell and worse still by unilaterally ending the “disengagement” Tsvangirai walked away with the fuse!
You are talking of Mugabe being given an ultimatum to resolve the “outstanding issues”. Well that was what Tsvangirai said on his return from SADC Troika Summit in Maputo. A few days latter he himself said the datelines are “not cast in stone.” Professor Ncube of MDC-M said SADC never set any deadlines; he dismissed Tsvangirai’s initial statement as “posturing and grandstanding”! So Gomo, are you sure SADC did set deadlines for Mugabe or are you too posturing and grandstanding?
“The troika insisted that if Zanu-PF and the two MDC formations were failing to agree on the outstanding issues, then Zimbabwe should go for elections forthwith” you said. Where did that come from?
If there is one thing Tsvangirai, Mugabe and Mutambara and their respective parties agree on it is NOT to have fresh elections. Mutambara and most of his party members lost in March 2008 and their performance especially that of Mutambara himself since has been pathetic. The electorate would want MDC-M buried.
Mugabe would never ever win a free and fair elections; he would lose to a monkey that is how much the electorate hate him. He is a ruthless murder, for Christ sake!
In the past Zimbabweans have voted for Tsvangirai because they were desperate for change and not because they were bowled over by Tsvangirai as a leader. The people never thought he would be this incompetent; he has made some monumental blunders and stupid moves.
The Zanu PF and MDC “rascals”, as Tanonoka Joseph Whande called the party negotiators, may fight like cats but end of the day they all want to the GNU to survive for their own political survival. No doubt Tsvangirai will make further concession to Mugabe and the GNU will limp along much the same way as it has done ever since it formation ten months ago. Meanwhile the country continues to sink deeper and deeper into the economic and political hell-hole Mugabe dragged us into.
The most important thing to note is the resolution of all the “outstanding issues” one way or the other will not change a thing as far as the ordinary Zimbabweans are concerned. Firing Gono will not open the flood gates of foreign investors and Western donors, for example. Investors would still want to see property rights restored and the West still view the GNU as a Mugabe dictatorship by another name.
What good is it to us that President Zuma has appointed his “no nonsense” team to mediate in Zimbabwe when their brief is to get the trivial “outstanding issues” only resolves? President Zuma had his chance to stamp his own authority on the Zimbabwe crisis when he became President of SA and was chairman of SADC – he did not do so.
Takarinda Gomo, you claim everyone else’s “opinions are informed by emotion” whilst yours are presumably based on “analytical thinking”; you have only succeeded in proving the exact opposite. You must be one of Tsvangirai’s chief political advisors or would be advisor because this is the typical shallow and self-righteous nonsense MDC has been churning out for years!
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