"We are looking
for mutually beneficial economic relationships not confrontation. We are too
small a country to pursue a policy of confrontation," Chinamasa said.
Minister, not even the
big countries have ever gone out looking for a fight, particularly a fight in
which they would have little to gain and might walk out with a black-eye.
Mugabe, on the other hand, has gone out of his way to annoy the big guys
bad mouthing them at every chance. The big guys have never answered back
preferring instead to squeeze the big spender.
Mugabe picked the
verbal fights to hide the corruption and brutal repression of his rule. In the
six year period 2002 to 2008 the Zimbabwe economy shrunk by a staggering 84% -
a world record.
It was always going to
be tough to get the economy back on track, not without massive financial
aid. Mugabe was caught in a real fix whilst he desperately want financial
assistance from the West he simply could not resist throwing one or two insults
to keep his macho image. The West has once against kept its mouth shut and the
purse strings too!
Desperate for cash to
finance the economic recover the Mugabe regime has been wooing the West like
crazy, especially Minister Chinamasa.
The West has made it abundantly
it wants to have confidence that there is rule of law and that property rights
will be honoured. Mugabe has given verbal assurance but of course Mugabe’s word
is worthless, the regime is notorious for going back on its word.
The only way out is
for Zimbabwe to hold free and fair elections and thus a legitimately elected
government and not this illegitimate in power after rigging the vote. Regime
change is the one thing Mugabe has resisted all these last 34 years spurring
him to commit murder and high treason and rig the vote.
However unless Mugabe
and his Nikuv friends can conjure up a plan to rig the economic recovery similar
to the one used to rig last year’s elections; then Mugabe will have to finally
swallow the regime-change bitter pill or the Zimbabwe economy now in a comatose
state will never recover.
2 comments:
You clearly do not have clue what the reforms were and what was the process to get them implemented.
To end Mugabe's dictatorial control of the Police, for example, it was for MDC to propose in parliament that the Police Commissioner, although appointed by the president would be subject to approval by parliament and that parliament would have the power to have him dismissed if he failed to perform.
MDC has never made any reform proposals and so it not true that SADC was ever called on to "resolve fights in which the MDC were calling for reform and Zanu PF stoodfast for repression".
In the parties in the GNU agreed to hold the elections without any reforms implemented there was nothing SADC could do about it. SADC's role was to facilitate the implementation of the GPA and advise. MP Sipepa Nhomo has admitted that SADC advised MDC not to take part in the elections without the reforms and MDC ignore SADC. There was nothing else SADC could have done.
How many Zimbabweans lost their lives to attain independence; 300 000! That failed to bring freedom!
Mugabe has murdered over 30 000 in politically motivated killings and will not count how many the tyrant has had beaten and raped. That too has failed to bring the freedom we all been craving for.
It is not that enough blood has been shed for us to finally get our reward but that Mugabe and Zanu PF, tasked to deliver freedom and liberty in 1980, betrayed us just as Tsvangirai and MDC have too repeatedly betrayed us.
Tsvangirai and MDC failed to implement the reforms necessary to end the Zanu PF dictatorship because they are breathtakingly incompetent. If you and the herd of blundering wildebeest out there do not get that - and clearly they do not - then more innocent lives will be lost and still freedom will remain as elusive as ever.
The moral of our tragic story is that freedom and liberty and justice belongs to those nation who have shown the willingness to think and not those whose people would follow blindly even some one as breathtakingly incompetent like Tsvangirai! Tragic but true!
No, I will not join in another demo, I leave you the brave ones to follow Tsvangirai. (He does no know where he is going but that does not matter, the sheep will never ever notice that!)
14 MDC members were injured following a violent clash with Zanu PF supporters following an MDC rally in Epworth. S W Radio Africa carried a photo of a lady, MDC supporter with a head injury.
Here we go, the madness has started again.
If only MDC had implemented the Police reforms when they had all the five GNU years to do so!
It is sad that she does not have the foggiest idea that she is the victim of Tsvangirai's breath-taking incompetence and she had been out singing his praises. She is blissfully ignorant of what the blundering Tsvangirai will lead her into next.
Of all the human affliction ignorance is the worst. A dirty face you can wash, you can get a hearing aid if you are deaf; the ignorant do not even know of their limitations and will therefore continue to act in a manner contrary to their own good and interest!
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