Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
19 July 2008
There is a general consensus in Zimbabwe that the only way out of the current crisis is dialogue between the two main political parties, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF).
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Please let us not forget the bare truth! A political party is a political animal and various civil society pressure groups and legitimate state institutions are necessary to tame and domesticate the animal. It's a long time mission in Zimbabwe.
In the meantime, a transition government composed of a majority of civilian representatives to prepare for a new constitution and democratic elections would be the ideal way forward.
MDC should have the humility to realise that bloodstained maverick Mugabe helped raise chances for people to flock to the MDC. The tragedy is that MDC failed to wipe off monster Mugabe through the ballot box! One can understand that Mugabe cronies might have stuffed ballot boxes in many regions!!
A clean way forward therefore would be to side step bloodstained Mugabe, suspend cronies of Mugabe, put in reserve MDCs and allow the country to go through the normalisation process.
Every group will have to put some water in their wine for the sake of the higher interest of a nation sucked of almost all its blood by the monster maverick and illegitimate President Mugabe.