Zimbabwe: RG's Office 'Denies' Tsvangirai Passport
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Zimbabwe Independent (Harare)
2 October 2008
Posted to the web 3 October 2008
Loughty Dube
THE Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC yesterday alleged that government was refusing to renew its leader's passport in a deliberate attempt to bar him from travelling in the region and beyond to appraise leaders on political developments in the country.
Tsvangirai, who is prime minister-designate in an all-inclusive government made up of his party, Zanu PF and the smaller formation of the MDC led by Professor Arthur Mutambara, is still without a passport three months after it expired and he applied for a new one.
The Registrar-General (RG)'s office in Harare was reportedly reluctant to issue Tsvangirai with a new passport or an emergency travel document for him to visit regional and international leaders to update them on the impasse between him and President Robert Mugabe on the formation of a new cabinet.
Sources in the MDC said the RG's office was claiming that it had run out of materials to produce passports, but senior officials in the same office said hundreds of Zimbabweans were issued with the travelling documents after Tsvangirai's application.
George Sibotshiwe, Tsvangirai's spokesperson, yesterday said the refusal to give the MDC president a passport was a deliberate move by the state to bar him from travelling.
"There is a deliberate plot in government to prevent Tsvangirai from accessing regional and international leaders at this very crucial moment for Zimbabwe," Sibotshiwe said. "It is critical for him to consult with leaders in the region and internationally and denying him a passport as a Zimbabwean is an infringement of his human rights."
Sibotshiwe said the delay in issuing the passport was affecting the party's regional and international diplomatic activities.
"The president has to engage colleagues in the region and internationally, especially now, to find ways of how he can help to make Zimbabwe move forward and to appraise them on the progress of the negotiations," he said.
Tsvangirai applied for a new passport in May after the pages in his old one had been exhausted.
In Zimbabwe, it normally takes two working days for an emergency passport to be issued, but Tsvangirai was told on several occasions that there were no passport materials.
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What a vile, spiteful, rotten Mugabe. He is not even worth throwing into the dustbin of history! How can the lunatic humiliate to such an extent the new hero? Jealous he must be as deep as to his inner bones. This dictator must face the gollows. Let us all put a stop to this rotten banana republic and allow Zimbabwean citizens to breathe again the air of freedom and dignity.
"Let us all put a stop to ..." you urge those who think like you. Very well. How do you propose to carry out your mission given that all you do is bray incessantly insults and vulgar expletives on the Head of State of Gt Zimbabwe, RMG. Not once have you come up with political ideas to help Zimbabweans resolve the impasse and move forward! Of course l would give your group my support provided you do not invite me to join in shouting insulting slogans to RMG. That does not solve our immediate problems guiven the political climate prevalent… [Read Full Text]
How about this for a political resolve to the impasse Aka'....Impeach the President!!
And after impeachment? ...well, naturally comes conviction. In the case of evil Mugabe, it's for high treason!! for deliberately keeping under famine conditions millions of citizens while he spent millions of US Dollars with his hilarious circus members in New York trying to woo US and USA!!
While at home, he lambasts both of them as being the worst enemies of Zimbabwe. That's high treason indeed.
Yes. Impeachment followed by conviction. The democratic way. Through Parliament. The island of St. helena is still around and not far from Zimbabwe. May be UK will allow him to be dumped there given… [Read Full Text]
Impeach first. But as for finding him guilty and a conviction ... its up to Parliament and not to you sir. Dont pronounce things you do not have control over unless youhave the means mit out under the country's laws unless you want to carry out mob justice ... usa medze usati watsenga ..unodzipwa mwanawewe. Remember earlier in the year when the MDC announced to the world that they were going to send RMG and his cohorts to the Hague.How puerile!! That became a source of the stubborness and obdutrance coming out of ZANU. Why announce mere intentions when you… [Read Full Text]
'Impeach him' you say. Nobody is stopping you from impeaching, hauling RMG before the highest court ... the national assembly of Parliament of Gt Zimbabwe. Do it now if you can. Thats my problem with you lot, despite your genuine emotionally charged anger with the ZANU administration, you try to cross the bridge before you reach the river. Get to the river Jordan first Ooh Joshuwa!! Perhaps thats we do not understand each other. And when l express disagreement you accuse me of all terrible sins under the sky and call mukhulukhulu to destroy me. Very well ...let it be… [Read Full Text]
'Impeach him' you say. Nobody is stopping you from impeaching, hauling RMG before the highest court ... the national assembly of Parliament of Gt Zimbabwe. Do it now if you can. Thats my problem with you lot, despite your genuine emotionally charged anger with the ZANU administration, you try to cross the bridge before you reach the river. Get to the river Jordan first Ooh! Joshuwa!! Perhaps thats why we do not understand each other. And when l express disagreement you accuse me of all terrible sins under the sky and call mukhulukhulu to destroy me. Very well ...let it… [Read Full Text]
AK 47 , You are as bad as loser , phiri, and many of the other ZANUPF Mamparas that write absolute rubbish on this esteemed site. So many times excellent advice has been offered here by many , that Mugabe who was once a good and decent man, step down and move on. For all the attrocities he has committed with the joke JOC and the young turks or is it turds from ZANUPF , he should actually swing, but he was offered an honorable way out for his original good ways , he foolishly refuses to take take… [Read Full Text]
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The headline says it all.Contemptable, arrogant behaviour on behalf of Zanu gestapo!!Time that the cowards within Zanu-pf stood up and stopped being the stooges for this junta of criminally insane thugs.Their frantic snouts are busy making so much noise in the trough that they are unable to hear,care or realise their own peril and that of all Zimbabweans.It is time to rid the land of this pestilence.