Minister of Justice Patrick Chinamasa brings his Zanu PF violence to London.
Chinamasa had to be held back by Zimbabwe Ambassador to UK Gabriel Machinga from causing harm to Kate Hoey, the Labour MP for Vauxall in London. Nobody knows exactly what triggered the fight, but sources told SW Radio Africa that the incident happened as soon as Hoey went over to greet Chinamasa.
‘They had barely exchanged pleasantries when Chinamasa raised his
voice and charged at Hoey accusing her of ‘speaking like an imperialist.’
Ambassador Machinga quickly moved in and separated them,’ a source said
Zanu PF is itching for a fight with the West, Britain in particularly. The party is going to do ride rough shod over the people of Zimbabwe once again deny them their right to a meaningful vote in the coming elections by using all manner of dirty tricks including violence. The party is not going to tolerate regime change and it is not going to stop at anything to ensure there is no regime change. And when the criticism starts, the party will have a ready-made lightening conductor - the fight it has just picked with the West.
For the last ten years Zanu PF has hidden its repressive political agenda by accusing the West of seeking regime change in Zimbabwe before the party had seized farms from the white farms. Now with all but a handful the white farms still left in the hands of whites; Mugabe has to find something else to quarrel with the West over and he is not going to rest until he has found it.
PM Tsvangirai and his MDC friends were real naïve in allowing Mugabe and Zanu PF to retain their dictatorial powers and, worse still, the people of Zimbabwe were foolish enough to believe Tsvangirai’s lies that the rubbish Copac constitution would bring free and fair elections in Zimbabwe. The nation is now at Mugabe and Zanu PF’s mercy and they are a merciless lot!
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Church leaders get Mugabe’s “blessing” to monitor the coming elections.
“The church has always played a vital role in peace, conflict resolution, and mediation throughout Zimbabwe’s turbulent political history and we are simply carrying forward that role. The church has also exposed human right abuses and pointed out the excesses of the state,” Tendai Maregere said.
The Churches in Zimbabwe, like most other civic organizations in the country, have been too close to the Mugabe dictatorship and instead of defending and strengthening the people against the dictatorship they done the exact opposite!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions! Of course these church leaders welcomed the opportunity to hobnob and have their photo taken with Mugabe, no doubt the photograph will have the place of honour on the wall of the homes and offices. As for to whether or not the tyrant will heed their call for peaceful elections they know as well as anybody that he will NOT pay heed.
Considering that some of these Church Leaders were calling on their followers to vote yes vote to the Copac constitution only a few weeks ago; one has to ask whether they did that because they believed MDC's promise that the proposed constitution would bring free and fair but have already lost faith in the promise or was it that they never believed the country could have robust and democratic constitution capable of delivering free and fair elections.
No nation in its right mind can ever entrust the delivery of rule of law, conduct of elections free of violence, justice, peace, etc. to civic organizations regardless of how well intentioned and pure-of-heart the leaders organizations may happen to be. These church leaders should know this by now; Zimbabwe’s dictatorship is 33 years old. What the nation needed to do was to entrust these functions to democratic state institutions and the civic organizations’ role in this was to ensure Zimbabwe implemented the GPA democratic reforms and produced a democratic constitution.
By supporting of the weak and feeble Copac constitution the Church Leaders together with all the other civic organizations that did so undermine the nation’s chance of having free and fair elections. By hobnobbing with the tyrant Mugabe these misguided leaders are making matters worse, no better, in that they are, tacitly, acknowledging the nation is totally at the mercy of the tyrant as to whether or not there are peaceful elections. Why would a Zimba-bwean need the “blessing” of anyone to monitor a public process like an election!
The Zanu PF dictatorship has usurped the people’s democratic power to hold those holding public office to account. Have weak and feeble opposition leaders like PM Tsvangirai and now these equal weak and feeble church leaders was made a bad situation even worse! It is their good intentions have landed the nation in this hell-hole and, will no doubt, keep it there will all this stupid muddling in affairs their do not have clue about!
Maternal mortality rate in Zimbabwe still remains a problem with 960 out of 100 000 women dying during delivery.
This Mugabe's legacy to Zimbabwe and the nation will that it is a lot easier to fall down the abyss but a lot tougher to climb out again - if we ever climb out!
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