Mugabe will bring up the sanctions issue at the next SADC meeting in Angola, Zanu PF spokesman said.
Zanu PF has perfected the game of smokes and mirrors. They know that the targeted sanctions have had little effect even on those on the list because they had many ways of mitigating the sanctions. Mugabe and his cronies have been in and out of the West contrary to the travel ban using the loop hole of UN business, for example. Mugabe has blamed the sanctions for Zimbabwe’s economic melt down to take the heat from the real causes; years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and, in the last tens years, all-out looting. And he also wants to draw attention away from the serious human rights violations and political repression.
The ease with which Mugabe has forced the sanctions issue on the SADC agenda year after year is itself a measure of just how ease it is to fool SADC; they have yet to see through Mugabe’s cunning game!
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@Sooth Slayer
Who says Tsvangirai did not get 50% + 1 after the March vote? The same people who took five weeks to count the votes.
What made the run-off a sham is the political violence used by Mugabe and all observers, including SADC observers, said the result could not be a true reflection of the free will of the people. If Mugabe had any sense of shame then he would not claim to have won a sham election. The international community refused to accept him as the legitimate head of state, putting him on the hook. Tsvangirai got him off the hook by agreeing to the power sharing arrangement which has turned out to be a one-sided affair in which Mugabe has all the power. Of course Tsvangirai was stupid to get the tyrant off the hook only to be kicked in the teeth!
Mugabe has used the time since the signing of the GPA to reorganise his party’s terror machine and secure war-chest to pay for it. Tsvangirai has made half hearted attempts to push for democratic reforms with nothing to show for it.
What Tsvangirai should have done after the sham June 2008 elections is demand fresh elections there and then. Back then Mugabe was at his weakest politically and would not have risked holding another sham election with the world watching. Now, it is totally different kettle of fish; Mugabe will risk yet another sham election. The nation will have to face all the intimidation, rape, murders, etc. all over again because of Tsvangirai’s stupidity!
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Police and Zanu PF youth disrupt a public meeting to be addressed by the US Ambassador.
If Mugabe and his thugs can dare intimidate the US Ambassador in the centre of Harare in broad daylight; what will these thugs do in the dead of the night to the poor peasants in Zimbabwe's rural back waters!
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