In the boldest statement Mugabe’s spokesman, George Charamba has made it clear that there will be no security sector reforms.
“They should move to other areas,” Charamba reportedly told The Daily News in respond to calls to replace Police and Army chiefs Chihuri and Chiwenga whose terms of office are coming to an end next month. “Apa pavatanga pakasungwa neutare (This is a no go area)”.
This power sharing arrangement has always been one sided - Mugabe does all the cherry picking and Tsvangirai has to accept whatever is left; which, so far, has meant nothing of any consequence.
Elections are about the people freely electing who should rule; if that means regime change then so be it. Mugabe and Zanu PF should not be allowed to deny the people a meaningful say in the governance of the country! And it is Tsvangirai who is allowing the tyrant and his thugs to do this.
Tsvangirai got his mandate to rule from the people of Zimbabwe who voted in droves in March 2008 for regime change and paid dearly for it.
It was bad enough that Tsvangirai brought Mugabe back into power through the back door by signing the stupid GPA. But if at the end of the GNU the people are once again denied a meaningful say in the governance of the country, and all signs are that this is exactly what will happen, one has to ask why the devil Tsvangirai signed it! The only thing MDC gained from the GNU was that they got to drive Ministerial cars!
Zimbabwe is stuck in this political and economic nightmare because for decades after independence the people did very little to get Mugabe and Zanu PF out of office although it was clear the later was a ruthless tyrant running a dictatorship. And now the people making the same mistake by giving their political support to Tsvangirai; an incompetent and indecisive character. We will have to do a lot better if we are ever to get out of this mess!
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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?
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!
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