Mugabe
says he is happy with the SADC outcome.
Of
course Mugabe would very happy with the outcome; even he would have never believed
that five years after signing the GPA which was committed to dismantling the
Zanu PF dictatorship he would still have it untouched!
Chinamasa also warned
the MDC formations that any further reforms must be agreed with his Zanu PF
party.
“As Zanu PF we are of
course contesting the idea that there is any need for reforms whether its media
reforms, whether it’s Posa, whether it’s Aippa, we are contesting and we made
it clear in the summit that the MDCs are accustomed to making generalised calls
for reforms," he said.
“In particular I made a
point that in 2011, July 2011 they were making these generalised calls and I
specifically asked them to make their proposals specific and to table them with
the forum of negotiators but up to now since 2011, no specific proposals to
Posa or Aippa or to any of the pieces of legislation they complain about have
been tabled for our consideration.
“We can
only implement that which we have agreed, we cannot implement disagreements,
they are not implementable. We can only implement that which we have agreed. If
we do not agree then there is nothing to implement, until we agree on a
particular reform then there is nothing to reform. If there are disagreements
then it is up to the political parties to take those issues to an election so
that those disagreements are part of the election manifestos of the respective
parties...’’
After
five years in which Zimbabwe's political system was supposed to be rewritten it
is amazing that Mugabe has managed to emerge with the Zanu PF dictatorship
untouched. Yeah he did manage to out fox Tsvangirai, that was piece of cake,
the people of Zimbabwe and SADC leaders too. I never thought he would out fox
SADC leaders so easily but he has just done that! The Maputo meeting was the
crowning moment!
“These past five years have exposed all of us and exposed us in
terms of what we are. Our sense of honesty or lack of it, our purposefulness or
lack of it, and naturally the serious intent with which we have to govern.’’ As
usual Mugabe had the final say and he could not resist a left hook to the
temple of Tsvangirai whose knees are knocking already and is having SADC to
prop him up.
4 comments:
@ Basideo
Listen it is only the political naive who would think that after failing to implement any meaningful reforms for five years that can now be done in two weeks.
Chinamasa has already said Zanu PF will have to agree to any reforms! Zanu PF's greatest rebuff on this is that why did MDC not submit their proposed reforms all these last five years and not come up with these reforms scribbled on the back of cigarette pack on the flight to the SADC meeting.
@ Joemuda
Of course we all know "Zanu PF is trying to make sure that Zimbabweans are masters of their own resources" by beating, raping and murdering all those who dare demand to have a mean-ingful say in how the nation should be governed and how the resources should be shared.
Mugabe and Zanu PF bamboozled Tsvangirai and MDC, but let me tell you now the tyrant did not bamboozle me! We will have meaningful democratic reforms in Zimbabwe; take that as read!
@ Paul
If you can honestly tell me one reason why MDC had failed to get even one reform implemented these last five years, other than that they are incompetent, then I would like to hear it!
@ kufandada
Was there any reason the voter registration that had just been completed on 19 May had been unsatisfactory other than that MDC had failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that is satisfactory? What is there to ensure that the present exercise will not be a failure too?
It does not matter from what angle you look at it; the fact still remains that MDC's failure to implement the reforms is the root cause of the political mess. The two weeks granted by SADC is not going to help end the mess because no reforms are going to be implemented!
"We are barred by the Officials Secrets Act from going into the precise details of what hap-pened in Cabinet." We are all very impressed with your cabinet appointment; still there is nothing you have said that will ever change the fact that we are NOT going to have free and fair elections!
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