Tsvangirai accused Mugabe of running a parallel government and using diamond money to fuel political violence. “Of note is the continued sale of State resources such as diamonds without the knowledge of the Treasury. There have over five diamond auctions to date and only two have been accounted for by the Treasury. The resources accrued are not known and have been used to facilitate the operations of this parallel government,” said the MDC dossier sent to President Zuma.“Clearly, this remains why some elements in government have refused the call for transparency and nationalisation of diamonds in Chiadzwa. It is also possible that these diamond resources are now being used to perpetrate violence against civilians in Zimbabwe. This is also very plausible as security forces remain active in the extraction and selling of diamonds in Chiadzwa.”
It was for these very reasons that many people within Zimbabwe and outside had campaign long and hard to stop the sell of Zimbabwe’s Chiadza diamonds. The ban was lifted last week at the behest of none other than Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC Deputy Minister of Mines, Gift Chimamikire. The two publicly rubbished all reports including one from a fellow MDC MP, Eddie Cross, claiming the mining of diamonds in Chiadza was still marred in violence and corruption.
Like it or not once MDC changed its position in support of lifting the ban on sell of Chiadza diamonds, there was little anyone else could do to stop that from happening. Of course the KP Committee is not going to reinstate the ban just because Zimbabwe’s dithering Prime Minister has had yet another change of heart.
Yes it was the same PM Morgan Tsvangirai who lobbied that Mugabe should be allowed to sell the Chiadza diamonds who is now saying the money from the sells will be used to finance political violence. This is just one of the many blunders Tsvangirai has made and, as usual, it is the ordinary Zimbabweans who will pay dearly for it! Thank you very much Prime Minister “Disaster”!
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@KuraiMGT
I agree best is a relative term. Mugabe and Zanu PF were until ten years ago “the best”!
When the nation finally came round to accepting Mugabe for the tyrant he is and was all along and we were stuck in this hell-hole we now find ourselves the Zanu PF dictatorship was well established. The point we missed back in 1980 and are repeating here was sweep anything wrong Mugabe did just because he was “the best” leader at the time. What we should have done was to scrutinize the mistakes he made openly and honestly. A good leader would accept his mistakes and put them right and thus become even better. A bad leader would deny the mistake or institute a system to systematical gloss over the mistakes and silence all the critics, which is what Mugabe did.
I think Tsvangirai has made so many blunders and it is folly to ignore this just as it was folly to sweep Mugabe’s tyrannical tendencies under the carpet.
“Currently MDC is the best (of the pack). My thoughts.” you say.
If you and others had scrutinized what Tsvangirai has done all those years and corrected him then he would not have made so many blunders. In other words, MDC would not only be the “best of the pack” but the best they CAN be!
What was it you saw in Tsvangirai that made you decide he was the “best” other than that he is not Mugabe? However incompetent has turned out to be, he is still not Mugabe and thus he remains the best. How myopic can one be?! With your head buried in the sand, how do you expect to know whether anyone else out there is better than Tsvangirai?
A weak and indecisive individual like Tsvangirai or a tyrant like Mugabe is nowhere near the best leaders Zimbabwe has to offer. They have emerged as leaders only because for years we have had an electorate prone to burying their heads in the sand or navel gazing when they should be thinking things through. That is now set to change because more and more Zimbabweans are now looking for reason and not settle for empty rhetoric as happened in the past.
After three years in the GNU MDC has failed to get Mugabe to adopt not even one democratic reform, for example, and yet Chamisa tells us MDC is the party of ‘excellence’! That, my friend, is an example of empty rhetorical nonsense!
• @Mdlambuzik
• It is not only Professor Ncube who has said Tsvangirai is a "weak and indecisive" leader. Tsvangirai's own fellow MDC leaders Gutu, Biti and Chamisa have said the same thing but most important of all, there is overwhelming evidence out there to prove this. You can bury your head in the sand and pretend Tsvangirai is a great leader or face the facts and elect a more competent leader.
After all the blunders Tsvangirai has made it would folly for the nation to ever elect him into any meaningful leadership position.
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