SADC is pushing hard to have the security sector reforms,
media reform, etc. agreed in the GPA implemented.
This is a last second of the last minute push because these
reforms should have been implemented a few months after the signing of the GPA –
it was signed back in September 2008! MDC should not have agreed to a new Copac
constitution which did not have the reforms included into the supreme law and before
the reforms were implement. But is exactly what MDC did!
The new Copac Constitution does not call for any of these reforms;
it was approved by 95% in the referendum and is now just a few days away from
being proclaimed the supreme law in the land. It is really naïve to think that
Mugabe and Zanu PF having resisted pressure to implement these reforms all
these years will do so now when neither MDC nor SADC have any GPA leverage left
to force Mugabe to comply!
“The purpose of the facilitation team is to make sure what is in the GPA is implemented and to make sure all the necessary institutions and frameworks for free and fair elections are in place” argued Lindiwe Zulu, the head of President Zuma SADC team. “That is the responsibility of SADC. Nothing in the GPA is a closed chapter until it’s completed.”
That was the responsibility of SADC; nothing is going to stop Mugabe signing the new constitution into law and thus end the GPA and SADC’s role in it.
We have been heading for this all these years and both MDC and SADC paid no attention and now there is this mad dash to have the reforms implemented but, of course, it is too late!
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The penny has finally dropped, PM Tsvangirai GPA reforms to be implemented if there are going to be free and fair elections. But like most of his decision, it is too little too late; Zanu PF has resisted these reforms for the last five years and they are not going to give in now a few weeks before the elections!
‘All Zimbabweans must vote in peace without intimidation, victimization, violence or being forced to attend a political meeting of this or that party. No ‘bases’ and vigilante groups in our villages, suburbs or communities. The people’s will must be respected and guaranteed,’ PM Tsvangirai announced.
‘The security sector must be professional, impartial, and non-partisan and desist from overtly making partisan political statements and abusing state resources to further the narrow partisan interests. Security forces are a national asset belonging to the people of Zimbabwe for peace and tranquillity and not the opposite,’ Tsvangirai added.
Last month when he campaigned for the yes vote in Copac constitution referendum he as-sured the people there will be “free and fair elections and a new Zimbabwe”. Now he com-pletely lost his confidence, free and fair elections are hostage to the reforms been implement-ed!
Yes, yes, we know these reforms are critical for free and fair elections, Mr PM Tsvangirai. The important question PM Tsvangirai, is how long have you known these reforms are im-portant? It now seems you learnt this yesterday!
These reforms were identified at the signing of the GPA back in September 2008 and for the last five years MDC has done nothing to get them implemented. And now at the last second of the last minute and when you have lost all the leverage you had to force Mugabe to accept reforms by accepting the defective Copac constitution, you want the reforms implemented. What a joke! You, PM Tsvangirai, you are a joke and a tragic waste of space!
@GBZ
Hundreds of thousands of ordinary Zimbabweans were beaten and or raped and over 500 lost their lives in the violence of 2008. PM Tsvangirai didnot only fail to get the reforms implemented and thus ensure the violence is not repeated but has lied about it.
He assured the people there will be no violence in the coming elections to get them to vote yes in the Copac constitution referendum. I bet you most of them would have voted no and get the reforms implemented if they had known the truth.
Now the nation faces the certainty of the wanton violence of 2008 being repeated and all you GBZ is salvaging Tsvangirai's shattered image as an incompetent and indecisive leader without sparing a thought for the innocent Zimbabweans who will pay for his folly! With people like you, it is little wonder we are in this mess!
Both PM Tsvangirai and President Zuma are now desperate to get Mugabe to agree to some face saving reforms now that the whole world is dismissing them as incompetent for having failed to get any reforms implemented so far. Even with all the best will in the world it is hard to see any meaningful reforms can be implemented now and make any difference. The sad reality is that both men are breathtakingly INCOMPETENT especially the Zimbabwe PM!
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