Zanu PF is prepared to postpone the parliamentary elections to late 2011 according to the Sunday Mail, a pro-Zanu PF government controlled paper. It appears the party is bending to SADC and MDC wishes to delay the elections. MDC is hoping that delaying elections will somehow ensure elections are free of violence. MDC has done nothing to stop Zanu PF using violence in the past, present or future. Absolutely nothing!
Zimbabweans have seen their lives turned up side down and get progressively worse year on year. The last election produced the GNU and that did not change much, now did it?
Yes Zimbabweans would want the proposed elections postponed not just to late 2011 but to a long distant future. Elections for ordinary Zimbabweans has meant one thing and one thing only – political violence in which they are systematically brutalised to force them to vote one way.
It is not that Zimbabweans do NOT want elections; that they do. They know elections can change things and do change things. They know elections in Zimbabwe have changed nothing and they are just tied of all the countless elections violence that at the end of the day do not deliver the political change. These people can endure all the violence and meaningless murder Mugabe and his thugs can throw at them; they endured a lot worse during the civil war.
What makes the post independence violence hard to accept is that the violence has again and again produced no meaningful political change. It has all been senseless violence; totally meaningless. If MDC or anyone else can show the Zimbabwean people that the next elections will produce real political change, then they will want the elections held tomorrow – violence or no violence!
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It is true that President Obama, by virtue of his African blood line, could talk to Africa with the candour and authority that no other Western leader can. It is a great pity that so far he has not done so. So this statement that the President will make a fresh start is very welcome. If the administration does indeed stand firm and not “cut slack” when elections are “less than free, fair and credible” as a senior US Official, John Campbell, promised. Then President Obama will have put Africa on a firm footing for freedom, peace and long term economic and political stability – something billions of dollars of US aid have failed to buy!
@ Warren Buffet and La Quebecoise
Cuba has faced even more strict sanctions for over four decades now and yet the Cuban economy has never faced the same economic melt down as seen in Zimbabwe. One of the causes of the country's hyperinflation was the printing of more and more paper money when the country's productivity was in free fall. Surely that is a recipe for hyperinflation.
"Once again African Blames Others," La Quebecoise said. Only I can say is Amen to that.
@ Edward Tafi, Snr
Quattara is now depending on the international community for his political survival; surely he owns this constituency the courtesy of his views on stolen elections. ECOWAS countries are talking of sending their sons and daughters for supposedly fight for the up holding the rule of law; they need to know Quattara is committed to that too?
The important message, Mr Prime Minister Odinga, to tell Mr Gbagbo is that his attempts to disregard the democratic will of the people is a very serious crime, one that could throw a nation into civil war or worse. Such political mischief can not be tolerated and must be punished harshly and without failure!
"It is necessary to give Mr Gbagbo the necessary sweets to make it easy for him to step down," said Ibrahim Ben Kargbo, the information minister of Sierra Leone, whose leader is a member of the West African presidential troika. Whatever sweet Minister Kargbo is talking about it must be the lump sugar given to the Ramadan sheep before slaughter!
So Thabo Mbeki is paying a “glowing tribute” to Sudan’s tyrant and Darfur’s mass murderer, Omar Al-Bashir. Mbeki has swept Al-Bashir’s criminal past because "We are very mindful of the sacrifices the political leaders of Sudan have to make, even in terms of their personal lives” in allowing the referendum that could result in Sudan being divided into two. When the people in Southern Sudan vote this Sunday they will be mindful of the years of humiliation and brutality under Al-Bashir’s rule!
Oh yes Mr Mbeki, it is Al-Bashir who is making great sacrifices here; it is really tough on the slave-master to let go his slave!
This is the kind of nonsense we have learnt to expect from Thabo Mbeki. He is the one who came up with the infamous “Crisis, what crisis!” at the very time Mugabe throw Zimbabwe into political turmoil by refusing to accept the electoral result of Zimbabwe’s March 2008 parliamentary and presidential elections which the dictator had lost.
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President Zuma has had countless opportunities to make a difference in Zimbabwe but again and again he failed to deliver. I think many Zimbabweans who not pin much hope in his present overtures or as we say in Shona, “Totenda dzamwa dzaswere nebedzi!”
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