It is real rich for Tendai Biti to be preaching to the international community about “failing Africa” and need to be “pro-activeness to prevent quite clearly a foreseeable situation”. He admits that there are all the signs that Zimbabwe’s next elections will once again be marred with violence. They will be a repeat of the 2008 elections. There will be a “blood bath”, he says. No one can deny this was a FORESEEABLE situation; the international community saw this coming and so did Tendai Biti himself, Morgan Tsvangirai and the rest in MDC. The question is what did Biti and MDC do about it?
After the sham 2008 presidential run-off the international community stood firm and refused to recognise Mugabe as the legitimate president of Zimbabwe! It was Biti, Tsvangirai and company who got Mugabe off the hook by signing the power sharing agreement with the tyrant. The international community was certainly being pro-active; this was the end of Mugabe’s reign. And MDC in their stupidity swept the carpet from under the international community’s feet!
MDC has been in government since February 2009; what has the party done, pro-actively, to ensure there would be no political violence ever again in Zimbabwe? For surely the party must have known all along that bringing some stability to Zimbabwe’s economy was very important but that was nothing compared to the task of restoring the rile of law. This was a nation ruled by fear and now yarning to be ruled by reason. MDC’s most important task was to bring about democratic change in Zimbabwe and in that the party has failed dismally.
It was Tendai Biti’s MDC’s blundering stupidity that not only allowed Mugabe back into power but worse still, with all his dictatorial powers. And for the last two years the dictator has laid his plans for yet another violent election right under MDC’s noses; the latter has said and done nothing about it. And now, with elections round the corner Biti has the audacity of accusing everyone else of doing nothing to stop the blood bath! Minister Biti, you should wash your foul mouth with harpic guard!
@ Judith Taylor and Charlie Mingas
A Tunisia type people revolution in Zimbabwe is not likely for the very reasons Mingas touched on; the lack of a credible political alternative. In 2008 the people of Zimbabwe voted for MDC, out of desperation mind. Mugabe and Zanu PF punished them for that; millions were terrorised, beaten and/or raped. Over five hundred innocent Zimbabweans were murdered in cold blood. It was this sacrifice that gave MDC the political mandate that no other political party other than Zanu PF has ever had. Sadly MDC squandered the political capital in propping up the very dictator the people had risked their very lives to get rid of. Zimbabweans would not want to make the same sacrifices again; not to empower the likes of Biti and Tsvangirai!
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