Prime Minister Tsvangirai is right; Zimbabwe’s power sharing unity government has been a “sorrowful experience”. The question the PM should have asked himself a long, long time ago is sorrowful to whom?
In the last two weeks alone the PM has given his thumbs up to the diamond mining in Chiadzwa and Marange although all the mines are in Mugabe loyalists and thus most of revenue from the sell of the diamonds will continue to go into Zanu PF coffers. The scourge of political violence has hung over the nation like the Sword of Damocles. The PM and his MDC party should have demanded the dismissal of Police Commission Chihuri and other Senior Police Officers for their deplorable failure to maintain law order especially in the period April to June 2008. The very fact that Chihuri served his full term was a glaring failure on the part of Tsvangirai. To allow Chihuri to continue in position even in an acting capacity was outrageous. Tsvangirai did all these things to appease Mugabe and yet that was not good enough for the tyrant!
As soon as Tsvangirai announced that Chihuri would continue as Commissioner “temporarily”; Mugabe’s spokesman said the latter would serve till 2014. Everyone knows it is the latter statement that continues. Of course that must be a sorrowful experience for Tsvangirai; Mugabe and his cronies must be laughing their heads off, again!
In the last three years no one has done more to keep Mugabe and his cronies in power than Tsvangirai. But true to form the tyrant and his thugs have “thanked” Tsvangirai by kicking him in the teeth at every turn!
2 comments:
Chimbido
It is not for you or me to decide who should rule Zimbabwe but for the people of Zimbabwe.
In 1980 the people voted for Mugabe on the understanding that he would bring freedom, peace and economic prosperity. Mugabe has turned out to be a tyrant who not only failed to deliver most of the things one expect from government but worse still has systematically denied the people the basic right to vote him out of office. In 2008 the people of Zimbabwe risk life and limb to vote for Tsvangirai and MDC on the understanding that they will end the Mugabe’s dictatorship and democratic change. It was Tsvangirai who allowed Mugabe back into power because he is a “weak and indecisive character” as USA Ambassador Chris Dell so aptly put it back in 2001.
The people of Zimbabwe will once again risk life and limb to vote for Tsvangirai and MDC in the next elections because a weak and indecisive leader is better than a murderous tyrant, they would argue. But that is because they have yet to acknowledge that accepting a weak and indecisive leader they short changed themselves all these last four years Mugabe has remained in power and will short change themselves again in future because Tsvangirai will always seek to appease Mugabe and his cronies.
They are quality leaders out there but like all good things in life we have to work hard to find them. We, Zimbabweans, are lazy and gullible that was why we voted for Mugabe and Tsvangirai! And will vote for Tsvangirai again regardless of all the evidence of his blundering incompetency of the last three years. People get the governments they deserve; we have certainly deserved all 32 years of this Mugabe dictatorship! And, until we give the business of governance the serious attention it deserves, there will certainly be many more years of the same to come!
Mugabe did benefit from Tsvangirai's weaknesses but he also knows that a puppet like that can be very dangerous. Mugabe would never allow Tsvangirai any meaningful power because he would just as ready give these up to whoever happened to be pulling the strings. Mugabe would be in The Hague within days at the West's behest if Tsvangirai was in charge even if he promised he would do no such thing.
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