South Africa’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe says President Zuma will from now on take a hands-on approach to solving the Zimbabwe crisis to “expedite the full implementation of the GPA and help create conditions for a smooth election in Zimbabwe.”
Mugabe is a tyrant. He and his cronies have enjoyed the good life for three decades. For them to retain their iron grip on power, they have had to commit some heinous crimes. Free elections will mean regime change and then they will be forced to give up their loot and, worse still, their entire criminal past finally coming out. Mugabe and his cronies simply can not allow these things to happen.
If President Zuma thinks a shift from quite diplomacy to a more aggressive hands one approach will be enough to force Mugabe to accept regime change then he is naive. We all know the root cause of Zimbabwe’s political violence is failure by Police to arrest those responsible. The ZRP are under strict orders NOT to arrest the Zanu PF thugs. Indeed often the Police Officers themselves are the ones behind the violence. Short of SADC deploying its own Police Force with a mandate to arrest Zanu PF party thugs as well as ZRP Officers; the violence will not stop. I do not see President Zuma or any other SADC leader agreeing to such a commitment.
After the sham June 2008 elections Mugabe faced the greatest political crisis of his political life as many nations refused to accept his election victory as legitimate. SADC help him out by engineering the power sharing arrangement. The regional leaders have since had nothing be trouble from Mugabe and things are set to get even worse. And it is the ordinary Zimbabweans who will suffer the most; they are at the coal face of all the political and economic troubles the tyrant dish out.
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@ Chamunorwa
I agreed with you about Zimbabwe's seemingly never ending problems. If you have been following Zimbabwe's tragic story closely then you should know that it was Tsvangirai who foolishly signed the GPA and thus let Mugabe back into State House through the back door. And Mugabe, true to his nature as a ruthless tyrant, has thanked Tsvangirai for it by kicking him in the teeth. I do not feel sorry for Tsvangirai; after all the suffering Mugabe has caused to the nation since signing the GPA and the increasing political violence shows we are in for a rough ride.
Tsvangirai and MDC's blundering incompetence has become part of the problem in Zimbabwe for the last three year as Mugabe and Zanu PF itself. The sooner Zimbabweans realise that the sooner the nation can start the difficult task climbing out of the hell-hole Mugabe landed us in
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