President Zuma is stepping his efforts to ensure there are free and fair elections in Zimbabwe by demanding that the parties must agree to a roadmap to elections. There will be a SADC summit this Sunday in Mozambique to discuss the roadmap.
“As the facilitator put it at the summit, we want the comfort of having a clear roadmap to the elections, with timelines agreed upon by the parties themselves. The ultimate is to have credible elections. We want to avoid the 2008 scenario,” said Lindiwe Zulu, President Zuma’s facilitation team leader.
If SA was serious then President Zuma should have cracked his whip and got PM Tsvangirai to implement the reforms and to write democratic constitutions. Tsvangirai has wasted the last five years glob-trotting and chasing women of ill repute and President has done nothing to stop him. It is too late now to do anything.
Every freedom and justice loving Zimbabwean would want nothing else but “credible elections”. They will not because the nation was betrayed by an incompetent leader by the name of Morgan Tsvangirai and let down by an inapt regional grouping called SADC.
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Yes is it important to have leaders who are committed to the rule of law, “constitutionalism” as you and Mutambara call it. But if the law itself is so weak and feeble that it allows the leaders to commit all manner of injustices without breaking the law what good is it to have leaders who are committed to the rule of law.
The Copac constitution is weak and feeble it is only the politically naive who expect it to deliver free and fair elections and any of the other rights and freedoms.
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