Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Fiddles While Nation Burns
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Movement for Democratic Change (Harare)
PRESS RELEASE
8 October 2008
Posted to the web 8 October 2008
Three weeks after the signing of the political settlement by the three principals of the political parties in Zimbabwe, the country finds itself in extreme distress as Zanu PF’s intransigence over key ministries and governors sends all sectors of the economy facing collapse.
Zanu PF’s insensitivity has left many people across the country dying of starvation, pupils failing to attend school because the teachers are on strike, parents failing to access their money from the banks, patients failing to get treatment as doctors and nurses are on strike and the hospitals have no medicine.
In short, there is a national paralysis. Zanu PF does not seem to appreciate the magnitude of the crisis in the country. The whole nation is hanging characterised by anxiety, uncertainty and speculation.
The paralysis has resulted on a serious catastrophe as it has affected families who will starve to death. It has been a wasted academic year. It has been a lost business year.
It also looks like a wasted agricultural season, as Zimbabwe cannot be expected to make adequate preparations for the current farming season. We must always put the people first ahead of petty interests as Zanu PF is doing. We cannot take the people for granted.
Zanu PF is insisting on running all the key ministries in the country when the same party has in the past 28 years crippled the economy of a once vibrant country.
Our argument for equal sharing of responsibilities is motivated by the desire to change the way we have been doing business in order to improve people’s lives. Unlike Zanu PF our religion is not power but the people’s aspirations.
We are glad that Zimbabweans in their majority understand and support our position of insisting on genuine power sharing. The people are on our side.
The MDC is calling for equal distribution of key ministries so that it is in government in a partnership of equals.
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Zimbabweans want a new and responsive government in place so that it begins to address the people’s concerns of food, jobs, medicines and education.
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I find it strange that as his position in SA became increasingly insecure, Mbeki finally pulled an agreement out the hat, despite having 8 years to make a real difference to Zimbabwe's issues. The deal was rushed through to signature as Mbeki's fate was becoming clear, and who knows what pressures were brought to bear on Tsvangerai to sign so that Mbeki could have his glory moment and try to shore up his position. I note that since Mbeki lost his position he has been in no rush to resolve the critical issues his agreement didn't cover. Zanu PF's behaviour… [Read Full Text]
You will notice that Jacob Zuma has not put himself forward to step into the mediator's seat. Instead he has pushed Thabo Mbeki's name whilst Mbeki, as you quite rightly say, appears to have kept a very slow profile. I suspect that Zuma knows that the power sharing agreement has not got an earthly chance of success and does not want to be seen in any way to have been associated with a failure. Similarily, I think that Mbeki realises that his coercion of Tsvangirai could only work for a limited time and that he would like some one else… [Read Full Text]
Katz, the problem in Zimbabwe is not Mbeki or Zuma, but Zimbabweans themselves. I think enough has been said about Mbeki who bowed out/booted out by his own party. True change in Zimbabwe will come when all the parties are tired and the country has totally collapsed, then an inside Zimbabwe regime change will happen. I cannot see foreigners effecting real changes in Zimbabwe. Not even the BBC can influence Zimbabweans, with their many propaganda articles on Zimbabwe!!
Zanu-pf, has been plotting each day and night how to weaken Tsvangirai. I was never too craze about government of national unity… [Read Full Text]
Phiri - I don't disagree with your comment. You say "True change in Zimbabwe will come when all the parties are tired and the country has totally collapsed, then an inside Zimbabwe regime change will happen. "
What is remarkable is the capacity of Zimbabweans who are living in the country to endure what is going on there.(Perhaps its the frog in the boiling water syndrome.) It is equally remarkable the degree to which Mugabe and his cohorts have put their desire to protect their positions ahead of the suffering of their fellow citizens.
MDC MUST pull out of… [Read Full Text]
Tsvangi and his MDC can always leave and go and leave in exile, eg, in Lobatse. Let the MDC walk out of the talks and also walk out of the country and leave ZANU to contend with the mess. l am sure ZANU is capable of sorting out the problems in the end. When??? Dont ask me! Alternatively, the MDC should stop bickering and join the imperfect Gvt of Unity and let things take their course. Politicians come and go .... all born of a woman are born to die, all born of fresh are born to die and so… [Read Full Text]
just wait to see how the imminent ANC split would spur competitive politics in SA, which will be a deathblow to the lunatic Mugabe. The ANC was too complacent with the comrade in arms of the liberation era!
Where will Mugabe and his cronies run to for protection? The suffering Zimbabwe people will certainly go for his skin!
All zim ever needed was and is a voting system which cannot be frauded. The west refused to allow this. Alex weir. Harare
Alex, stop talking out your ar$e. You have no evidence of this, yet you continually post it. The west would love to have the people of Zimbabwe heard. Do you think Mugabe would have ever accepted a voting system that he couldnt rig in his favour if he had too? Wake the fuck up.
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Can someone in MDC explain to the country what with all the combined brains and years of passive resistance experience, WHY, WHY, WHY THEY HAD SIGNED WITHOUT FIRST AGREEING ON THE CONTETIUS ISSUES. Power sharing is about the government not being included in the government.