Zimbabwe: Last Chance for Tsvangirai
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The Herald (Harare)
4 September 2008
Posted to the web 4 September 2008
Caesar Zvayi
PRESIDENT Mugabe says if MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai does not sign the power-sharing agreement today, he will proceed to appoint Cabinet as the country cannot be frozen forever.
To this end, the facilitator of the inter-party talks, South African President Thabo Mbeki, is expected in Harare today to get Tsvangirai to append his signature to the agreement for the last time, failing which Cabinet will be appointed.
A new Cabinet has not been announced since the June 27 presidential election run-off as its composition was supposed to reflect the deal reached in the talks among the three main political parties.
Zanu-PF, MDC-T and MDC have been engaged in talks since Sadc — at its extraordinary summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, last year — mandated President Mbeki to mediate dialogue among the three parties.
The talks picked pace after the run-off, culminating in a power-sharing agreement that would have Tsvangirai as Prime Minister.
Zanu-PF and MDC signed the agreement, but Tsvangirai refused, saying he wanted more time to consider though he began demanding a power transfer instead of the power-sharing agreed to during the talks.
Speaking to journalists just before leaving Lusaka for Harare after the burial of the late Zambian president, Levy Mwanawasa yesterday, President Mugabe said Tsvangirai was being compromised by the British government.
‘‘We know that it is the British government behind it. It is the British government, which does not want an agreement, and as long as they do not want it, he (Tsvangirai) will not sign.
"They want the sanctions to continue to punish us into an agreement with them. It is the land question, and all this talk about democracy is nonsense.’’
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his EU counterparts are on record as saying they will not accept a Government headed by President Mugabe as they want Tsvangirai to be the head of state.
Cde Mugabe said his is a Government born out of elections with a mandate to serve the people.
‘‘We are a Government, and we are a Government that is empowered by elections. So we should form a Cabinet. We will not allow a situation where we will not have a Cabinet forever.
‘‘If after tomorrow (today) Tsvangirai does not want to sign, we will certainly put together a Cabinet. We feel frozen at the moment."
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The President told the journalists that land reform was at the core of Zimbabwe’s dispute with London, and dispelled Western claims that he had pushed out all white commercial farmers, saying about a third of them remained in possession of estates, particularly sugar estates.
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WAIT wait wait you advise ...in the mean time Zimbabweans are starving because of your 'selective' sanctions. Go away muzungu. You are not in the frying pan nor in the fire nor anywhere near there. All is theory for you. Wait you say ..typical!!!
The fact people are starving in Zimbabwe has nothing to do with sanctions.
Pres.,Mbeki,if (Vice)Tsv.,can't get an ok from Bush and Brown then you sign up today Zanu-PF and MDC.Let that group including Vice Tsv.,worry about Russia,Iraq,etc.Notice! Bush/Brown dont't want sanctions against Russia.Thugs with power talk to each other.After 5 years Mugabe can let MDC go it alone with out (T).If Brit could have 100% controll over many,many,many,years, then Zanu-PF and MDC look's like Angels.no sanctions, no colonizations,never again.Oweij Liebo. Tarboro, North Carolina USA of America.
you really are dumb arent you. "USA of America." haha. You are so deluded you actually think that Britain wants control over Zimbabwe. What a joke!
you really are dumb arent you. "USA of America." haha. You are so deluded you actually think that Britain wants control over Zimbabwe. What a joke!
I think everybody know that the Americans and the british dogs are wanting the African resources including and moreso the Zimbabwean resources. that is all the white man want.
Another poor deluded fool. Brainwashed by the government. Reading the Herald too much, listening to Mugabe, believing lies. Dear oh dear.
I guess it would be a terrible thing for Zimbabwe to sell its resources to the west for a market price and then use that money to build schools, infrastructure, educate people, build hospitals etc.
Ok for Mugabe to sell it all to the Chinese though. For less than a market price. He gets his mansion. Zimbabwean people get nothing. Wheres the fairness?
Awt perhaos this Levibaboone is sniffing Greenbomber's paprika.
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What government that is empowered by elections?
Mugabe, the big liar! The lunatic is fooling himself if he thinks people will buy his rotten logic. 29 March elections voted him out overwhelmingly!!
He is clinging to power illegitimatemy. People will tackle him and his thugs in the appropriate manner that he desreves!
Let's just wait. The quality change is coming.