The International community refused to recognise Mugabe as the legitimate head of Zimbabwe after the 27 June 2008 run-off not because Tsvangirai had withdrawn from the race but because what had happened to force him to withdraw. Mugabe will have no choice but to resort to the same intimidation, rape and murder tactics to win the next elections. The violence has already started. The international community will once again reject him from the commune of nations.
SADC and South Africa in particular played a major role in pressuring MDC to sign the power sharing agreement that got Mugabe off the hook last time. They wanted to give Mugabe’s fall from power a soft landing but instead of walking quietly into the sun set the tyrant decided to stay on by hook and by crook.
Mugabe’s arrogant behaviour towards President Zuma in the last few months has undermined the latter’s standing in SA and the world at large. President Zuma can hit back.
President Zuma has refused to release the report on Zimbabwe’s 2002 elections by high ranking SA Officials. Everyone knows the report will confirm what we already know, that the elections were not free or fair. The report would be the final nail in Mugabe’s coffin; it will confirm the tyrant has habitually failed to hold free and fair elections particularly if the violence of 2008 were repeated again. No nation would want to deal with him, not even some of his fellow dictators for fear of drawing adverse attention on their own tyrannical rule.
Mugabe is facing a no win situation; if Mugabe does not use violence he will lose the elections; if he does use violence, no nation will recognise him as legitimately elected. So what ever happens, one thing is certain Mugabe’s bacon is fried!
The greatest tragedy of these coming elections is that the nation has to be subject to the 2008 intimidation, rapes and murders or worse before Mugabe is finally forced out of office all because the idiot Tsvangirai signed the GPA and got Mugabe off the hook!
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Yesterday the verbal abuse and physical threats were directed at DA candidates and their supporters today it is at all those from his own party challenging Malema to be leader. For those of us coming from Zimbabwe this is a familiar path, a well trodden Mugabe path. Parties and nation will only benefit from having quality and there is no better way of differentiating the good, the bad and the ugly than by good old fashioned competition. What Julius Malema is doing by going into this torrent of verbal abuse and threats to use violence is kill all meaningful debate and competition.
The ANC Youth members and the party must ask Malema to produce the evidence and not let him get away with making outrageous innuendoes.
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The Chinese Communist Party remembers the 3 June 1989 democracy protests in Tiananmen Square by arresting would be protesters.
China's economic boom since the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989 has definitely taken the sting out of those demanding democratic reforms, but did not kill the wasp.
The economic boom has allowed even millions of Chinese people to escape the life of abject poverty which was, until 1989, was their lot. The boom has also allowed these people to look beyond the boarders of China and see the economic and political riches democracy offers compared to the precious little communisms offers. The next time the Chinese economy falters Tiananmen Square will have millions of protesters not the solitary protester barring the advance of the regime’s tanks.
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