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Shame upon the Troika!

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Friday, 06 November 2009 06:26

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Either Mozambican President Armando Guebuza (pictured) and his Troika are totally ignorant about events in Zimbabwe or they take us all for fools.
Otherwise how on earth would they dare try to make us believe that with more dialogue – yes more cheap talk – President Robert Mugabe will eventually agree to deliver on his commitments under the global political agreement (GPA).
After a meeting of the Troika in Maputo last week to discuss Zimbabwe, all what Geubuza and his group could do was to repeat yet another meaningless call on Zimbabwe’s political leaders to "engage in a dialogue with immediate effect". What utter incompetence from these African leaders that ordinary Zimbabweans look up to for help!
What more, if we may ask, does Mugabe need to be told in this dialogue suggested by Mr Geubuza? Doesn’t Mugabe know what he signed up to in the power-sharing agreement of September 2008?
Or could it be that Geubuza and his eminent Troika honestly do not see what even the most politically obtuse have long discovered? That the reason why Mugabe has not fully implemented the GPA is because he simply has no intention of doing so now or at any other point in the future.
Mugabe’s strategy is simple. He has decided to simply hold on and delay the political reform agenda of the unity government. All talk about the MDC not calling for lifting of sanctions against Zanu (PF) is merely a diversionary tactic.
The hope of Mugabe and Zanu (PF) is to take Zimbabwe back to elections under the same horrible conditions that have always yielded them victory. Given that the lifespan of the unity government is 18 to 24 months Mugabe only has at most about 15 months to wait before he can call new elections regardless of whether there is a new constitution or whether the political filed has been levelled.
We all know this and we have every reason to believe that Geubuza, Swaziland's King Mswati III, Zambian President Rupiah Banda and President Jacob Zuma of South Africa all know that this is what Mugabe is playing at. That the four leaders will not stop Mugabe is simply because they have chosen to abdicate their duty to do the correct thing. Their attitude last week or at least that of Troika leader Guebuza said it all.
Asked what would happen if Mugabe did not fully implement the power-sharing agreement, all Guebuza could say was that the Troika would make a decision on what steps to take on Zimbabwe after the next round of talks at an as yet unknown date. To the uninitiated that means: we will do exactly nothing but hold more talks.

Shame upon the Troika!

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Comments (2)

|2009-11-08 09:12:42 bobymafi - SADC lethargy!

The SADC's original plan was to deliver MDC to Mgabe and let him reduce its influence.This was done in the name of former liberation movements who support each other unconditionally.I think the MDC has done fairly well to have gone this far and have managed to arm twist the SADC to convene the talk shop.We all know how the same issue was raised in Kinshasa and the same body did exactly nothing.One of the major strategies that the MDC should use in addition to keeping the SAD on its toes is to keep the Zimbabwean issue on the international dialogue that would make it impossible for the SADC to act because even though they need regional solidarity they unlike mugabe know they can't survive without international assistance.Now would be the best time to arm twist Zuma because with 2010 so close he would like the mess to be less unpleasant otherwise FIFA would have change of heart.As long as we have remnants of the liberation struggle around it is going to be difficult to get one who wil...

|2009-11-08 18:11:40 Nozzer

Mugabe knows what he got himself in when he signed the gpa agreement. Tsvangirai seems to have read the document after signing it.Why would anyone get into an abusive agreement like the one the MDC got us into.Mugabe is just buying time so he can rearrange his plans again. He has the backing of sadc

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