The MDC formations accuse Chinamasa
of deliberately filing a court application that is designed to fail. In the
court papers submitted by the justice minister he says Mugabe is happy with the
31st July ruling but it’s Tsvangirai and Ncube who want an extension. Chinamasa
further says he is only making the application because of a directive by SADC.
The MDC parties say no court,
anywhere in the world, would grant an application worded like that, which
implies that foreigners are influencing when the elections should be held.
Zanu PF will drive for a July 31 election date with the party's usual zeal;
it is clear they have MDC wrong footed and they would want to milk that to the
full.
MDC are threatening to boycott the elections if the Court should refuse to
uphold their appeal for a two week extension. SADC has already made it clear
that it will abide by whatever the Court decide and so MDC will be seen as the only
ones who do not want to honour the Court’s decision.
Anyone with any brain accepted that the two week extension, even if the
Court granted it, was not going to be long enough to allow any reforms, MDC has
been hot about, to be implemented. MDC had five years to get these reforms
implemented but failed to get even one reform implemented because of the party’s
own breathtaking incompetence.
PM Tsvangirai has been threating to boycott the elections if the reforms
are not implemented for the last three months. None of his advisers have had
the guts to tell him that strictly speaking he would be protesting at his own
incompetence!
Instead of dismantling the Zanu PF dictatorship MDC have done a great job
in sprucing the dictatorship's image. And now by boycotting the election MDC would
be granting the dictatorship the winning home run without ever having to bat.
It is clear that these elections were not going to be free and fair; no amount
of sprucing was going to make the Zanu PF dictatorship a democratic party but a
boycott will mean Mugabe and Zanu PF democratic credentials will never be
tested.
The boycott will hand political power to Mugabe
in a silver platter and it will have to be assumed that the elections were
going to be free, fair and democratic! As for Tsvangirai he and his lunatic
fringe can protest MDC’s incompetence until the donkey has horns!
1 comment:
Welcome to the club, you are sane yourself and therefore a member of this very tiny minority!
In a country where many will get very hot in the collar just to hear anyone else speak other than the leader; it is not surprising that the mob will get boiling mad to hear the lone voice question the leader. Calling the leader incompetent is simply asking for more the mob can bear. It is like the baboon pissing on the lion. Well sometimes it is the only way for the baboon to tell the lion to f*** off!
It took many Zimbabweans 15 years to acknowledge Mugabe was a tyrant; it will take many of them 20 years of serious blundering before the same idiots will accept Tsvangirai is in-competent. And when that happens they will be ready to elect some other idiot to worship!
Like it or not; the Zimbabwe electorate are like sheep; you have to whip them to move, whip them to stop, whip them to turn left, whip them to turn right. A functioning democracy de-mands an electorate with initiative and will not just ask why but also why not; not an elec-torate that will follow blindly like sheep to the slaughter.
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