SADC
"should use a full Summit to assess whether Zimbabwe was ready for free, fair
and credible elections," said Prime Minister Tsvangirai in statement
following the arrest of three MDC officials and prominent lawyer, Beatrice
Mtetwa.
He
added that there seemed to be "no political will" from Mugabe's
Zanu-PF party to fully implement the peace deal brokered by the SADC.
By campaigning for a yes vote in the
referendum PM Tsvangirai has taken the country beyond the point of no return;
there is no return to the GPA and SADC overseeing Zimbabwe’s politics because
GPA will expire with the enactment of this Copac constitution; there will be no
reforms to be implemented because the new Copac constitution calls for no such
thing and there elections will go ahead regardless of the increasing political
violence!
6 comments:
It is a great pity that innocent people like Mtetwa are going to be caught in the lawlessness that is svangirai and MDC's own making in that they stubbornly went ahead with the voting yes to Copac knowing fully well that the reform had not been implemented and that the failure of imple-menting the reforms was a repeat of the 2008 violence! Over 500 innocent people lost their lives that year to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands who were beaten and/or raped. We are now set to see a repeat of all that again!
You are now giving the feeble excuses why you failed to get the reforms implemented. The truth is MDC was too comfortable and did not want to rock the boat.
The reforms had to start with parliament changing the law or enacting new laws to effect the reforms. What laws has MDC passed in parliament tho that end? Not a sausage! So please spare us your feeble excuses!
Even if you had tried to implement the reforms and Mugabe had refused; why have you been lying that the Copac constitution on its own will bring about the free and fair elections? Mugabe did not arm twist you to do that.
@Tomtom
I have asked you a simple question: what reforms did MDC come up with and Mugabe refused to sign?
MDC failed to push the reforms through that is a given; why did the party lie about the Copac constitution bringing about free and fair elections contrary to what everyone else was saying that this would not happen without the reforms.
"Will the elections be free, fair and peacefull, probaly not completely but will definately be better than than the ones in 2008," you say. In other words you didnot want to rock the boat by insisting on the reforms and gamble with other people's lives!
All you care about is for you tp get back on the gravy train; we all understand you very well, just do not insult our intellegence with all the other b***s***!
@Shumbar
No my friend, what Tsvangirai has done is allowed Mugabe to get away with no implementing the democratic reforms which would have dismantled the dictatorship brick by brick. The new constitution was written round that reality of the dictatorship remaining in place untouched. Nothing has really changed here. You and Tsvangirai can pretend this is a new Zimbabwe and a new start the reality on the ground is saying something else - business as usual!
Forcing Mugabe and Zanu PF to give up this weak and feeble constitution is going to be a very difficult task. This is a complete f** up we have to clean up the mess and do the work all over!
It pays in the end, to get the best in the beginning! This is so true here!
@ Tomtom
I blame MDC for failing to push for the reforms to be implemented because they were too "comfortable in government" as SADC have rightly said.
Having failed to get the reforms implemented; I blame MDC for going ahead without the reforms to cover for their incompetence and then lying to the people that the Copac rubbish on it own would deliver free and fair elections.
I have never betrayed anyone for selfish political gain. Can you say the same?
Why should I be worry that someone as thick as you "doubt" my intelligence.
The result of the referendum will be announced Tuesday 2.30 pm, ZEC said. Mugabe will move swiftly to have the Copac constitution enacted and bury the GPA and with it all talk of implementing reforms and SADC's supervisory powers! He can not wait.
Poor Tsvangirai he is still blabbing about a SADC summit to set the rules for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe. Frankly SADC leaders will be glad to wash their hands of Zimbabwe, they are sick and tired of Tsvangirai crying to them one minute and then ignore everything they tell him; how many times did they tell him to implement the reforms and in five years not even one reform was ever implemented!
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