This weekend there were demonstrations to pressure SA to end the political crisis in Zimbabwe.
Whilst it is true that "South Africa, through its former President Thabo Mbeki, was the chief architect of the GPA and the coalition government"; the fact remains that MDC was free to refuse entering into the agreement, particularly by the time the GPA was signed it was clear Mugabe had all his dictatorial powers.
It is very simplistic to say South Africa must “take measures against the Mugabe regime”. To start with there is no such thing as a Mugabe regime any more; we have GNU, totally dysfunctional but a GNU nonetheless. Secondly, and more significantly, what measures can SA take against Mugabe? Short of SA sending SA Police Officers to arrest the rogue ZRP Officers, for example, what else can stop the scourge of political violence increasingly orchestrated by ZRP?
Ever since signing the GPA MDC has committed one blunder after another thus further strengthening Mugabe’s tyrannical hand. Why has MDC failed to use its parliamentary majority to rein in the rogue ZRP baggers belief?
Zimbabwe is NOT a one-party dictatorship. It is a de facto one-party state which is not the same thing. MDC's parliamentary majority should have tested this political presumption to destruction. The only reason why this has not happened is because MDC is a party with no vision led by a flawed and indecisive character.
As far back as 2001, the then US Ambassador to Zimbabwe cabled Washington to say Tsvangirai was a “flawed and indecisive character”. With all the hindsight and blundering since; we should acknowledge the Ambassador was right. And better still start the serious business of getting a competent team before we start pointing fingers at South Africa.
If these demonstrators are serious about freeing Zimbabwe then they should targeting MDC to finally make good use of the electoral mandate the people of Zimbabwe gave him in 2008!
The last thing Zimbabwe is for SA to do what Tanzania did in Uganda by kicking out Idi Amin and kick out Mugabe. Uganda ended up with yet another dictator; we could well end up with a Somalia as the country breaks up into warring factions. Tsvangirai will not be able to hold the country together even after it is given to him in a silver platter; that is just how incompetent the man is!
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