“South African Foreign Affairs Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane told his country’s Parliament yesterday that Mugabe no-longer wielded authority to call for an election without long-delayed reforms as required by other coalition partners and the region,” reported the Daily News. Zimbabweans will be pleased to hear that, but is it all too little to late!
The writing of the new constitution was supposed to take 18 months; we are now told it would be ready in September, 48 months latter! There can not be free and fair elections without radical reforms in security sector, media, judiciary, etc. None of these democratic reforms have been carried out to date!
Yes, it is great that President Zuma is now pushing Mugabe hard to have the new constitution and the reforms in place before Zimbabwe holds its next election. It is better late than never. Still, one has to ask what President Zuma has been doing the last 36 months. It does not take three years to write a new constitution and dismantle the organs of repression and murder when there is political will and vision!
Worse still, President Zuma may well be closing the stable after the horse has bolted! It is almost certain that after the fours of writing the new constitution the finished product will not be worth the paper it is written on. What else, after all the disruptions of the outreach programmes by Mugabe’s thugs and the bout of horse-trading to appease Mugabe of the last four months!
Mugabe says he will call elections with or without a new constitution and has resisted all meaningful democratic reforms on the grounds that Zimbabwe is a “sovereign country” and not to be dictated to by outsiders! Ironically the man with the political mandate in Zimbabwe and therefore the power and authority to push through the required democratic changes is Tsvangirai. Sadly the latter has turned out to be a political disaster for the country.
Three years ago one critic disparagingly dismissed Tsvangirai and his MDC leadership as a “kitchen cabinet”. For the last three years Tsvangirai has made one blunder after another; time and time again he has bend over backwards to appease Mugabe and the tyrant has again and again “thanked” Tsvangirai by kicking him in the teeth. And it is the Zimbabwean people who have paid heavily for this buffoon’s blundering.
Zimbabwe is desperate for change and, unfortunately, the political power to bring about that changed is not in the hands of President Zuma but a village idiot, the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai!
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Tsvangirai is an amoeba; he has no political back borne. And with all the good will in the world no one can fit a back borne to such an animal. The Americans tried and failed. As the former US Ambassador, Chris Dell, rightly pointed out back in 2001; Tsvangirai is “flawed and indecisive character”. There is very little one can do with such a character!
If President Zuma was wide awake then he should “canned” Tsvangirai countless times already for undermining President Zuma’s efforts to force Mugabe to change for a start. Three weeks ago Tsvangirai accepted that Mugabe can reappoint his murderous Police Commission, for example. Chihuri is the man who has masterminded Zimbabwe the scourge of political violence so how can there be any meaningful Police reforms with him still in charge? Police reform is central to President Zuma’s demand for democratic reform and now even he has to admit it will be near impossible to reopen this issue!
President Zuma and even more Zimbabweans must see Tsvangirai for the feeble and indecisive individual he is! Hope is a good thing but only when it is founded on reason. Hope in Tsvangirai is based only denial of reality; it is folly!
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Mugabe is not as clever as he appears. How can anyone who turns a successful country into such a total disaster be clever? But put Mugabe against Tsvangirai, a village idiot as I said, then it is to see why the tyrant will appear to be a “willy fox” indeed!
Mugabe accuses the SA government “for failing to empower black nationals through land reform and indigenisation.” That is rich, after thirty years of Mugabe rule, Zimbabweans have seen economic and political hopes and dreams dashed and their life expectancy plummet from 65 years to 34 years. Only a madman, only Mugabe, would consider that empowerment!
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