"ZANU-PF is under siege. They are in
a corner and this is a desperate act from a party that is losing power,"
Tsvangirai told the mourners at Christpower's funeral. "Power", that
is all he ever thinks about and like Mugabe he too will happily see hundreds if
not thousands more Zimbabweans lives lost in his ill advanced and reckless
attempts to grab it from Mugabe.
“This
has to end, starting with the arrest of the people who committed this heinous
crime," said Tsvangirai. He said he could not vouch for Mugabe's sincerity
when calling for peaceful elections.
Over
500 were murdered in 2008, how many of those responsible were ever arrested?
Indeed if MDC has pursue those responsible those responsible and they were
arrested that could have ended the country’s culture of political impunity
behind of these political crimes.
Tsvangirai
has been campaigning for a yes vote on the strength than Mugabe will keep his
word to keep the peace (having failed to secure that by more traditional
methods of having a strong constitution and implementing the reforms). Now that
his lies have claimed their first victim he admits that he could not vouch for
Mugabe’s sincerity; what a hypocrite!
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MDC 99 leader Job Sikhala told SW Radio Africa the police banned the Media Centre meeting to discuss the constitution for a number of reasons including the issue of how panelists were selected. The police also said they are “no longer allowing public meetings to be convened by NGOs outside the arrangements of government”.
Zimbabwe is spending a staggering US$ 100 million to hold this referendum and the whole process if totally discredited because of the actions of this regime to deny the people the opportunity to read, share ideas with others so they understand what this Copac constitution is saying before they vote! The silence from PM Tsvangirai and MDC is deafening! Any thinking Zimbabwean out there should be asking themselves what surprises Mugabe has in store for the nation once he gets his yes vote safely in the bag!
Tsvangirai threatens elections boycott in his usual confused and ambiguous way!
“I am not going to be part and parcel to a process that subverts the will of the people; Vanhu vanofanirwa kunovhota vakasununguka (people should be able to vote freely),” the MDC-T leader said. You have to excuse him, he has only just landed from Mars!
He added that the Maisiri boy’s death marked “a defining time in the struggle for change in the country”, insisting that “never again should violence be tolerated at any level”.
“Aaah anongotamba hake uyu. Tingagoti kudii; violence yaanotaura kuti iripo irikupi? (he is joking, where is the violence he is talking about),” said Rugare Gumbo, Zanu PF spokesman.
“Kana vasingadi ma-elections (if they don’t want elections) just come out in the open and say you don’t want elections. They are saying so because they know they will be beaten.”
@ J Nyandoro
"Only Mugabe can stop the violence in Zimbabwe". There is something implicitly defeatist and offensive to the ear of all free thinking people – music to Mugabe’s ear, no doubt. It is true, I would be the last one to deny, that we have a ruthless dictatorship afoot. Still there is a note of helplessness and despair in the statement. Some people talk of democratic change but with as much conviction as one claiming to drink the Kariba Dam dry! Hai you of little faith!
Implement the reform and Mugabe will be nothing but a paper tiger. Vote no in the referendum and force the implementation of the reforms. The solution is there before you own eyes only if you would open your eye and see!
Well, being led by a man like Tsvangirai, a blundering and indecisive character, has not helped give the nation confidence that they can end Mugabe’s reign of terror. In the last five years Tsvangirai has failed to get even one of the reforms implemented. He, it seems, is now committed to finding ways not of ending the dictatorship but rather of accommodating it and live with it!
If people vote yes in the referendum then they will have, knowingly or not, helped Tsvangirai ac-complish this singular goal, make the Zanu PF dictatorship a permanent fixture of Zimbabwe!
On Friday morning police in Bulawayo continued their countrywide campaign to seize ‘illegal’ radios, by raiding a local community radio station and seizing more than 180 wind-up radio sets. - See more at: http://www.swradioafrica.com/2013/03/01/police-raid-radio-dialogue-studios-seize-180-radios/#sthash.1vfFvdPH.dpuf
This is what comes out of MDC's failure to have all the agreed reforms implemented; the nation is now jumping from one incident of abuse to another.
The number of incidents and their seriousness will go up considerable as soon as Mugabe and Zanu PF have the yes vote from the referendum safely in the bag! What most people do not seem to realize is that if they vote yes in the referendum then Mugabe will never ever implement the reforms taking away his dictatorial powers!
We need to find a comprehensive solution to Zimbabwe’s culture of political violence and it is there already – IMPLEMENT THE DEMOCRATIC REFORMS. A no vote in the referendum is the nation’s last chance, after this GNU has failed to do so these last five years, to get the reforms implemented!
@ Yepec
Of course the Police are confiscating radios to promote Mugabe and Zanu PF selfish interested of deliberately keeping the people in the dark. Of course the Police are still able to act in this partisan way because the reforms that were meant to sever the undemocratic umbilical cords linking the ZRP to the Mugabe presidency are still in place! How you come up with the conclusion soon Tsvangirai will be "commanding the ZRP" is beyond me!
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