On Friday 26 November SA President Zuma met Zimbabwe’s partners to the dysfunctional GNU. He said the partners who have stopped meeting will now do so although he would not disclose more details of meeting.
The central wish and hope of the Zimbabweans is for free and fair elections.
I really do not think anyone would dispute that what Zimbabwe needs to get out of the present mess is free and fair election. Indeed if the country had had free and fair elections; we would NOT be in this mess. The point we should therefore be looking at is why Zimbabwe has repeatedly failed to hold free and fair elections? And the answer to that is it has been left to one man, Robert Mugabe, whether or not the people had a free vote. And so far he said no.
The GNU has not worked because, again, it was at Mugabe's mercy. President Zuma and SADC have failed to bring about any meaningful change in Zimbabwe because they were all at Mugabe's mercy.
"I think Bob gets his kicks by running circles around his opponents," said Alan Foster above. Alan, you have hit the nail on the head there!
It was absolutely stupid of SADC and even more so of Tsvangirai and MDC to agree to a GPA that gave Mugabe all his dictatorial powers. Nelson Chamisa’s comment that "the issues of violence, the involvement of the military in elections and the monitoring and observing of elections" are key points; is the kind of nauseating nonsense we have learn to expect from MDC. MDC betrayed the people by selling their basic and fundamental rights and freedoms including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country for a chance to hold to be Prime Minister, Ministers, etc. Positions with no meaningful power or authority of course - what else, in a dictatorship.
During the meeting Zuma did not discuss ending Mugabe's dictatorial powers – that we can all be sure of. Whatever else they discussed is real of no consequence to the central issue of free elections!
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