Mugabe and Tsvangirai and their deputies are expected to get hefty
packages running into hundreds of thousands of dollars, while ministers would
each get US$30 000, residential stands in affluent suburbs, three luxury cars
including Mercedes Benz and top-of-the-range SUVs.
SADC leaders have complained of PM Tsvangirai and his MDC friends getting
"too comfortable in government and forgetting their presence was meant to
create an environment conducive for credible, free and fair elections".
Well we can see for ourselves just how comfortable and cozy the MDC leaders
have become and no wonder they did not want to upset Mugabe by demanding the
implementation of the GPA reforms.
Implementing reforms = free and fair elections
free and fair elections = regime change
regime change = Mugabe incessant screaming rage!
Rather than risk Mugabe’s rage and to say
nothing of this latest golden handshake PM Tsvangirai and his MDC friends
thought it best to betray the people who are literally dying for free and fair
elections!
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If MDC think Mugabe is going to accept any reforms now that the Copac constitution has been approved then he is whistling in a graveyard, no one will hear him; the dead do not hear!
“The election will be determined by processes and fundamental reforms. It’s a waste of time to talk of elections without reforms. Without reforms, it’s an empty discourse,” MDC-T na-tional organising secretary Nelson Chamisa said.
“The good thing is Sadc is superintending this whole process and we are a creature of a nego-tiated process and elections are supposed to be a process. Why should elections be a Zanu PF affair?”
SADC’s role as guarantors of the GPA will end the minute the new Copac constitution is en-acted into law. Mugabe cannot wait to sign it and see the back of SADC!
MDC was warned by SADC repeatedly that they should implement the reforms but have failed to get even one reform implemented in these last four and half years. The last throw of the dice was to vote no in the referendum and MDC campaigned for a yes vote and they even lied to the people that the elections will be free of violence, just to get them to vote yes. Now it is too late to get to get reforms implemented!
EU lifted targeted sanction on 81 of Mugabe’s cronies leaving only 10 on the list. Zanu PF dismiss the gesture as a “none event”!
“We are looking for the total and unequivocal lifting of sanctions which were not justified in the first place," said Zanu PF spokesman Rugare Gumbo.
"There is no reason why some should be removed from the list while some remain. There is nothing we have done to deserve these illegal sanctions anyway.”
The sanctions were gesture politics made even more so in this case when the very people who are supposed to be benefiting for the gesture, PM Tsvangirai and MDC, are at the front campaigning for them to be lifted. Regardless what happens in the coming months the chances all the sanctions will be lifted!
This Copac constitution is fundamentally flawed in that it has allowed Mugabe and his friends in Joint Operations Command (JOC) to be above the law, to control key institutions and for them to even have their own source of funds in the form of above board mining activities in Marange that netted US$ 2 billion last year alone. This has placed the nation is the pathetic situation in which parliament now has to beg JOC to the Police to do their work!
"We will continue to insist that those who have control over the security apparatus of the state allows the security people to police fairly, impartially and without fear and favour, which is not happening at the present moment," said Professor Ncube. What kind of nonsense do we have here; cabinet asking an illegal body to allow organs of State to do their work!?
How we have rule of law if we have a constitution that accepts from the word go that some people above the law, above the constitution? And Professor Ncube had the audacity to calling this Copac rubbish a "good constitution"!
Zimbabwe had a really good chance of ending the Zanu PF dictatorship peacefully these last five years but given the sorry quality of the MDC leaders, it is not surprising that the chances have all gone begging!
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