allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: GNU Deal Better Than Going It Alone, Cdes (Page 1 of 2)

Dear Cabinet and Politburo members,

COMRADES, the talks are going on well. From the briefing that I have been given by our party's representatives to these talks, looks like something is definitely shaping up, something that posterity will remember us for. Anytime soon, you will be getting the outcome of the talks, and I can assure you the result will be good for this country and everyone.

I know many of you have been dead against these talks and that others are feeling downright betrayed that I decided to engage Morgan Tsvangirai in talks. But you all know that as much as we might have won the elections so convincingly, there are some situations where we need to put the interests of the country first.

It was not an easy decision for me to make, but I had to go that route because that was the best available.

I share your concerns that the government of national unity means that quite a number of you will no longer be accommodated as Cabinet ministers in the new government as we will have to make way for officials from the other parties, but this is not the end of the world. If anything, most of you should be grateful that you have had the privilege of serving your country at such high levels, not many get that chance.

If any of you were in my shoes, what would you do?

Sanctions are real, they are biting hard and there is a limit to which our friends in the East can help us. Like in the case of note paper, they cannot help us import it, last week we had to resort to revaluing some old coins that had long been discarded, and some bank notes that we could not introduce in the market last year after they had been overtaken by events.

But to do all this, we had to wait until such a time when it was possible to remove 10 zeroes so that the re-valuing process became logical and easy to explain to the people out there. I just cannot help but wonder what we will do in the next few weeks when the coins become worthless again. Right now you all know that we hardly have any fuel, not because our own Noczim is unable to import, but because these sanctions make it difficult for us to easily access the commodity. Remember most of the world's largest oil companies operating in our country are either British or American.

Everything is simply not going the way it is supposed to be. As much as we have our own egos, sometimes we have to put the interests of the people first. In fact, I should confess Cdes, that it was a very hard decision for me to make. You all know that "Never, Ever" had grown to become one of my middle names, but I realised that I needed to face realities on the ground.

Let us wait and see what comes out of these talks.

Kindest Regards

Yours Sincerely

Abused

CZ is told that some war veterans are fleeing their homes in some parts of Matabeleland South after being invaded by some injivas, those no nonsense Zimbabwean fellows who work and stay in South Africa. They have been returning and heading straight to homes of those war veterans who terrorised their relatives in the run-up to the presidential run-off election and dealing with them thoroughly.

CZ is told that the trend is that when the hapless war veterans rush to make police reports, the police officers, most of whom are fulltime opposition acti-vists, do nothing about it. If they do something, it would be to arrest some of these same war veterans "for their own safety".

Isn't it sad that some of our liberators are now sleeping with one eye wide open in a country that they have just re-liberated because they don't know when next an injiva will strike.

That is the unfair part of politics. Many are still nursing wounds, some of which many never heal. Others are counting the wealth they lost in the madness, and worse still, more are yet to come to terms with the death of their loved ones.

The poor villagers, who were made to axe each other, remain troubled. Some of them cannot even join the same queue for BACOSSI hampers. This is the sad side of African politics. We use and abuse each other.

Grabbed

The BACOSSI hampers are being distributed well around the country, save for cases in which ZANU-PF thugs are reportedly following known opposition supporters and grabbing the groceries from them. The victims are told that they should get their share from Tsvangirai and the British.

In cases where chiefs and village heads double up as ZANU-PF officials, the poor villagers have no one to report to, lest they are expelled from the villages. CZ is told of cases where some opposition members only get candles. Knowing this country as much as we do, that was expected.

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