For once the dictator is talking sense. The GNU has been a total waste of time the only person to have gained from it is Mugabe himself. It allowed him to get out of a really sticky situation after the sham June 2008 elections when his legitimacy was on the line. The GNU restore his legitimacy complete with all his dictatorial powers – he has spent the last two years flexing them by kicking Tsvangirai, a dictator’s crude way of showing his gratitude for helping off the hook (the idiot deserved it). Mugabe has used the time to regroup and get his party back behind him. The windfall from the sell of Marange diamonds was a great blessing; his war chest is now full.
To a man like Mugabe used to exercising absolute power the very idea of the GNU was anathema, an abomination he has been dying to end. All Tsvangirai had was the fancy job title of Prime Minister and the car and no real power; still the dictator has been itching to see the back of this up start.
What are the chances the elections next year will be free and fair and produce a result reflecting the true democratic will of Zimbabweans? The chances of that are, frankly, remote. Mugabe has roped in the Police, CIO and Army to spearhead the violence and intimidation of the electorate to ensure a Zanu PF electoral victory. The State Security organs will be held in reserve – Mugabe has to be careful he does not find himself in the situation of June 2008 if he can help it and this time he can. Mugabe will use the Zanu PF militia and the Warvet to do most of the dirty work and he has the money to pay them.
The only reason why I agree elections next year are a good thing is the GNU is getting nowhere. I keep saying it because it is true: the nation would have been better off if the GNU had never existed. At the very least, MDC should have used the GNU to campaign for an end to political violence – they did no such thing. An election on Mugabe’s terms is what this nation signed up for when the GNU was formed. Well the dictator dictates that election will be next year; let get on with it. People like Tsvangirai should stop morning and moralizing about the need for a new constitution or ending political violence when he the one who has done nothing about all these things.
@ Ndodana Sithole
“All right thinking Zimbabweans and the world expect a free and fair election first.”
That goes without saying, what we really want to hear from you and Tsvangirai is how we are going to achieve that.
You can go and write "GIVE US A FREE AND FAIR ELECTION AND YOU ARE HISTORY' and whatever else you want on the wall of State House if you dare. Mugabe does not care! You lot cheered and applauded Tsvangirai when he signed the one-sided GPA and whilst he sat on his backside doing nothing there last two years. To you Tsvangirai could do no wrong. You should now reflect on the trouble this blundering idiot has landed the nation into and stop annoying us with stupid calls!
@ Ndodana
“Give people a free and fair election not excuses and stories” And who, may I ask, do you expect to “GIVE” the people free and fair elections.
Mugabe has spent all his life cheating, rigging elections, intimidating and terrorising and has murdered tens of thousands of Zimbabweans for one purpose and one purpose only – to gain and retain power. You do not serious expect him to just give it away do you; all served in a silver platter with cheese and mustard! No doubt that is what Tsvangirai has been waiting for. How naïve!
It is true, you have no mentioned Tsvangirai today but you have been one of those who have defended his performance (or rather blundering) in the past, if I remember correctly
@Ndodana
So who is going to write WE DEMAND FREE AND FAIR ELECTION on the walls in State House? Only then can we be sure of Mugabe saw and read the writing on the wall. Mugabe has seven University degrees, beside the one in violence he keeps boosting about, so he can read. This a better challenge than fabled mouse tying the bell round the cat’s neck faced; for one thing there will a lots and lots of CIO cats on the prowl!
But on a serious note Ndodana you can not deny that Tsvangirai made a blunder in signing the GPA and thus let Mugabe off the hook and by failing to address the issue of violence made a bad situation worse.
Tsvangirai has become the fabled Yanda who prayed every night to win the lottery but never did.
“Lord, why did you not answer my prayers?” asked Yanda.
“How could I,” answered the Lord, “you never in your whole life bought a lottery ticket!”
Tsvangirai should have realised the once-in-a-life-time chance the rejection of Mugabe following the sham June 2008 elections presented. If he had not wasted the chance by signing the GPA, Mugabe would have been forced to acknowledge defeat or else face certain humiliation in fresh free and fair elections. Mugabe would have been out of all our lives and Zimbabwe would have spent the last two years carrying out the real challenge of rebuilding the nation instead of bickering over trivia.
The least Tsvangirai and MDC have done, after the initial blunder of reinstating Mugabe is State House, was to ensure the political violence of 2008 would be a thing of the past by demanding that all those involved in past violence must be arrested and punished. What Minister Sekai Holland has been doing in take part in a pointless reconciliation process is dress the Zanu PF wolf, behind the political violence, in a sheep’s skin. Indeed the wolf has continued to carry on with its mischievous acts. The Zanu PF thugs have disrupted several outreach meeting to discuss the new constitution making the whole process a waste of time.
Like it or not Tsvangirai and MDC have been making decisions on behalf of all Zimbabweans and by failing to condemn their failures and blunders it is assumed we approved. Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC friend have been a total let down. Many Zimbabweans have failed to see this as they have continued praise everything MDC has done.
Zimbabweans are not going to get sympathy from anyone should next year’s elections be anything other than free and fair. We saw the violence coming a mile away and we have done nothing about it! If we want free and fair elections then we must work for it and not just wish for it like Yanda.
@ aluta continua on October 15, 2010, 12:07 am
Let me make sure I get you right, are you saying I and millions of fellow Zimbabweans who are in the same boat – i.e. have all been denied the basic human rights like freedom of expression, free vote and for some the right to life itself and continue to be denied these rights – do not deserve these rights because we have “disregard the right of our country against sanctions”?
Aluta, Mugabe has always controlled the media, the country has never held free and fair elections and in the mid 1980s over 20 000 innocent Zimbabweans were murdered. There were no targeted sanctions against the regime then when all these things happened. We can go back to the days before independence; how many innocent Zimbabweans were murdered in cold blood by Zanu PF because “Mazivanhu aMuzorewa” – They are Muzorewa supporters? The true stories of the armed struggles are coming out and the murderous streak in Zanu PF runs deep, deeper than many of us ever imagined!
Mugabe and his murderous thugs have never cared about freedom, justice, love, beauty all those things true heroes risk their lives and die for. All they ever wanted was power, absolute power and once they got it, they have shown they would deny the whole nation the every essence of freedom and humanity, the basic human rights including the right to life.
No Aluta, I do deserve – so too does the millions of other Zimbabweans – all the basic human rights, freedoms and human dignity that entails for one single reason: because I am a member of the human race. These are my birth right and not some gift that can be given, withheld or denied at the whim of some tyrant.
The West imposed sanctions are just a convenient excuse this regime has found to justify its continued repression. No doubt the regime had other excuses in the past and will find new ones tomorrow. Zimbabweans should fight for our human rights our birth rights and not allow ourselves to be distracted by the regime’s nonsensical excuses.
888
What does Mbeki know about good leaders? He was never one of them and old age has had no effect on him. Yes old age does sharpen one’s wit; but, hell, only if you had the wit in the first place. Mbeki has never had any wit, none.
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