"Good people, good, good people, it has been an incredible and
unbelievable day here in this great beautiful coastal capital of Maputo,"
announced Finance Minister Tendai Biti. There is the one thing one can always
count on when Minister Biti speaks; a flowery and colourful language.
Minister Biti is what Chinua Achebe would have described as having the
"art of conversation (where) proverbs are the palm-oil with which words
are eaten"!
Sadly for Minister Biti, often than not he is talking nonsense; not even
the most flowery language can hide that the SADC resolutions are not going to
change much on the ground.
After the sham 2008 elections we set out to carry out a number of
democratic reforms and write a democratic constitution with one end objection
"to deliver free and fair democratic elections and prevent a repeat of the
wanton violence of 2008". We had five years to carry out these tasks.
After four long years and at cost of $ 100 million this GNU produced the
Copac constitution and MDC praised it to the high heavens with the same passion
and flowery language as they are using now. They promised the new constitution
will deliver free and fair election. It was all nonsense of course.
Some of us said that Copac was too weak and feeble to deliver any of the
democratic rights including the right to free and fair election. Before the indelible
ink used in the referendum vote in which Copac was approved had worn off MDC
were calling for the reforms they had neglected all along to be implemented.
The two additional weeks granted by SADC are not going to make any
difference; none of the democratic reforms are going to be meaningfully
implemented in that time!
“I want to thank and acknowledge the electric
delivery of Dr. Morgan Tsvangirai our party president, what a delivery. Simple
straight forward passionate and effective,” said Minister Biti.
As if whatever it was Tsvangirai had said could
change the fact that after five years he had failed to get even one democratic
reform implemented!
“Today the man from Vungu fought like a lion,”
said Minister Biti referring to Professor Ncube. What is it that the lions
killed? Some ant-lion!
The Minister himself was very careful in all his praise to say nothing
about free and fair elections because he knows nothing can be done now to deliver
that.
"It
(life) is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing,"
wrote William Shakespeare. All this MDC excitement and euphoria is just hot air
signifying nothing.
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"We will attend to those amendments of the media, security and reform the security sector. This is the hard message coming from SADC and Chinamasa must stop misleading people," Biti said.
If SADC was serious about seeing all these reforms implemented then they must have known that no meaningful removes can be implemented in two weeks! SADC leaders know MDC has had five years to get these reforms implemented and it is because of MDC's incompetence that not even one reform was implemented.
If the reforms are implemented then no doubt have free and fair elections. I do not see that happening but let time, the great leveler, decide who is misleading the people here.
@ Mike
If anyone can keep they cool in a case like this one it can only be because they do not under-stand what is happening, if they do, then they be a saint.
It is the voiceless masses who are going to pay the heaviest price of MDC’s failure and betrayal. Someone has to get angry for them; so I am sure you will excuse for venting the anger and frustration of millions!
Mike, the only thing that makes the sacrifice the nation made in 2008 worthwhile is if MDC had carried out the democratic reforms as promised so that we would be saying right now; 2008, never again. As it happened they did not and here we are facing yet another election in which there will once again be the mindless violence and with no prospect of getting out of this political and economic mess.
There is absolutely no excuse why MDC failed to get the reforms, other than they were incompetent and/or they sort to appease Mugabe for selfish gain. They did not even try; even SADC leader have complained about this.
There is no chance of meaningful reforms being implement now; take that one as read!
@Denny
What Mugabe had feared, dreaded even, was that SADC would insist on the implementation of meaningful democratic reforms. Do you realize how glad he was that he had managed to get away without even having even one single reform implemented? He had guessed that MDC were corrupt and incompetent but even he must have been pleasantly surprised at how cheat and incompetent they had turned out to be!
So being told by SADC that he did not have to implement the reforms but only delay the elections by two weeks was great news.
FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti said Sunday President Robert Mugabe must sack his advisers if they do not have the decency to resign of their own accord, claiming their poor advice had subjected the Zanu PF leader to “embarrassment and humiliation” at the SADC summit in Mozambique.
Minister Biti, those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. It terms of advisers Tsvangirai not Mugabe was ill advised here! You may be the one who will have to take the poison in a few months’ time; time, the great leveler, will expose that all your vitriolic claims are nothing but hot air!
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