Tsvangirai promise to sweep securocrats' misdeeds under the carpet: what a cop-out!

Instead of demanding far reaching reforms in Zimbabwe's public media to end Zanu PF's monopoly and openning it to serve all Tsvangirai in the GPA asked that the public media stopped calling him a puppet! He really did not care that Zanu PF continued to brainwash the people with its propaganda and deny them their basic right to freedom of expression. It did not take long before the Herald reports were back to calling Tsvangirai puppet! One would think he learnt his lesson.

Tsvangirai is back at it again selling the nation's rights and future to appease Mugabe and his thugs. This time he is offering to sweep the Zanu PF dictatorship's heinous crimes under the carpet if the Police and Army promise to salute him!

Tsvangirai said if his party forms the next government, he will ensure that no one harbours feelings of revenge for past misdeeds.

"We are grappling with so many traumas, our liberation struggle was not easy. We went through that trauma - Gukurahundi was not easy, the Murambatsvina was not easy, and the violence against the opposition political parties was not easy. In finding a solution to that trauma we need balance," Tsvangirai said.

"You cannot have balance as a nation if we say an eye for an eye. If we do that, we will all be blind."

Some great people like Mahatma Gandhi of India have used this quotation “an eye for an eye and the whole world going blind” to stop the use of violence to end violence. But this is the first I have heard it used to encourage violence and lawlessness.

The root cause of Zimbabwe’s history of political violence on which Zanu PF’s de facto one-party state is founded is that those committing these heinous are above the law. What makes these crimes totally unforgivable is that these crimes were not committed by some rogue criminal or small time mafia gang but by the State using State Institutions like the Police, Army, the Courts, etc.

What Tsvangirai should have been doing for years now is send a clear message that crime does not pay and the law will get you sooner or latter. Yes, even if you are committing these crimes for those in the highest offices in the land.

As for those in the Police, Army or the other State Institutions Tsvangirai should have been reminding them no nation worth its salt can have Police Officers, for example, breaking their sworn duty to maintain law and order by not just turning a blind eye to political violence but playing an active role in the lawlessness.

Most of the lowly paid people in the Police, Army, etc. are coerced by the regime to prop up the dictatorship they would stop doing so if anyone could offer them a way out. They have all suffered from the economic melt down and have been the victims of the repression just like the rest of the populous.

Only Mugabe and his inner circle have benefited from the dictatorship and have an invested interest in maintaining the status quo.

So Tsvangirai is offering to have all Mugabe and his criminal henchmen are the political crimes swept under the carpet in return for these criminals’ promise to salute him? Will he also allow them to keep all the wealth they looted too?

Zimbabwe has a real chance to once and for all put an end to this corrosive political system that has allowed mafia thugs to occupy the highest seats of office in the land and rid rough shod of the public and get away with it by the simple act of making sure that those responsible for past crimes held to account.

Upholding the rule of law and establishing precedence that those who do not will be held to accountable is not being vengeful but being responsible and visionary! If Tsvangirai ever gets into State House and is allowed to sweep under the carpet what Mugabe and his thugs have done to the people of Zimbabwe throughout the years as if their sufferings and all the deaths count for nothing then that would be the worst cop-out and dereliction of duty in human history.

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Gentlemen

We had all hoped against hope that events in North Africa and the Arab states will spur Zimbabweans to finally get rid of Mugabe. We can now safely conclude that the much wished for Zimbabwe's Arab Spring moment was a none-event!

So brave Zimbabweans tried to organised a copy cat public protests and within minutes the Mugabe's Police had the organisers all rounded up and thrown in jail.

Two weeks ago Ezra spoke of the little interest Zimbabweans paid to the numerous independent newspapers launched in the last year. I too have found that I can talk to many Zimbabweans be they here in UK or back home for hours on end if we talk about football, especially the English teams. Talk about the tragic events back in Zimbabwe and the discussion in end in two minutes flat!

So why is it that Zimbabweans are more interested in the fortunes of Arsenal than their own life tragedy that has left 90% of the nation out of work and destitute? Why was it that the North Africa political awakening failed to spur our people out of their dinosaur like slumber? And, more significantly, what should be done to finally arouse this nation after decades of sleep-walking into the abyss? This must be one of the challenges of our time.

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@Mcritic you have hit the nail bang on the head; JOC have the thugs primed to intimidate, rape and murder the electorate into voting for Zanu PF. The thugs, who include members from the Police, Army and CIO have been deployed already so why wait?

It has finally dawned on President Zuma - he is a bit slow on the take - that there can not be free elections as long as Zanu PF is free to use violence and hence the drive to depoliticise the Police, Army and CIO. Delaying the elections will give President Zuma the time he needs to push for the security sector reforms. Mugabe and JOC know that.

Before this new development it was operationally convenient to have elections this year, now it is a matter of survival! If the reforms are carried through Mugabe and his JOC cronies will lose a lot more than political power; there is the small matter of the sudden drop and quick stop at the hangman’s hands to consider.

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Professor Makumbe cheered when Tsvangirai signed the disastrous GPA; he is still at it.

If SADC was being influence by events in North Africa, then elections must be held this year. Tunisia and Egypt’s dictators were deposed this year and elections are set before the end of the year. Zimbabwe’s GNU has had two years already to do the same. Tsvangirai should have delivered democratic reforms long ago and not be asking SADC to do it. We are NOT impressed he has “beaten” Zanu PF in this!

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Another Mugabe loyalist former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Boniface Chidyausiku is entangled in a messy divorce with his wife. She is claiming a share of the family’s wealth in settlement; The wealth include eight residential houses, farm, cars, etc. It is not as impressive as Minister Chombo’s wealth; his wife is too demanding a cut in their divorce.

Ambassador Chidyausiku will forever be remembered for his staunch support of Zimbabwe’s sham 2008 presidential run-off in which the nation was subjected to the worst cases of political violence in which at least half of the nation was subjected to some form or other of violence including beatings, rape and murder. Over 500 people were killed. No one has ever been arrested proving – proof was required – the violence were all orchestrated and sanctioned at the very top! And of course, it was none other than Mugabe himself who was the principle beneficiary of the violence. The level of violence was such that Tsvangirai could not campaign and was forced to withdraw from the race giving Mugabe a clear run!

People like Chidyausiku do not understand Zimbabwe had a total economic melt down in the last tens years and is yet to recover. How can they, they have become multi-millionaires in their own right in the same period. That is the reality of looting; the lucky few become millionaires over night and over night millions are condemned to abject poverty!