THE WEST SET TO APPEASE MUGABE REGARDLESS OF WHAT HE HAS DONE AND WHAT ZIMBABWEANS SAY!

From what the Germany Ambassador to Zimbabwe said on Hot seat, the EU will at best leave the targeted sanctions unchanged – the 200 or so individuals and 40 or so companies will remain and the many loop holes in the sanctions will remain. For those who see the sanctions as the only small thing causing minor irritation to Mugabe and his cronies worse could happen, the EU will start lifting the sanctions.

The Ambassador is right; Dr Madhuku’s insistence on a “people driven” process which means the exclusion of politicians is tenuous. MPs are elected representative of the people and they should rightly lead the process. What the Ambassador failed to acknowledge is the commitment and will of the GNU to carryout this important and critical task. If there had been any doubt on this twelve months ago then the shambolic performance of the GNU so far says it all.

The West should support calls for fresh elections instead of bankrolling a constitution making process which is only meant to extend the life of self-serving administration. The new constitution the GNU will produce will not be worth the paper it is written on!

Zimbabweans are trying to build a democratic country and we not only have to fight the dictator Mugabe and his cabal of thugs and murders; we must also fight fellow Zimbabweans like Tsvangirai who have now taken it upon themselves to gloss over what the dictator is doing and present him as a great statesman. As if that was not tough enough, we must also fight the Westerners, the very people who are supposedly the champions of justice, rule of law, human rights, etc.

Of course the ordinary person has no chance against the rich West, they have the money. He who pays the piper calls the tune! And so we, the ordinary Zimbabweans who are at the cutting edge of this economic melt down and know what it means to be beaten up and terrorised for no other reason than that we dared to exercise our basic right to vote have no say. We have no voice!

The West is set to lift targeted sanctions to appease Mugabe although the latter has been even more repressive than ever before and, more significantly, they could careless what we the people think. This is really, really frustrating!