The East African (Nairobi)
5 October 2008
A day or two before he signed the power sharing agreement with Morgan Tsvangrai and Arthur Mutambara, Robert Mugabe spoke to an assembly of Zimbabwean chiefs, resplendent in their colonial-era red robes and white helmets. He told them that Zanu/PF and the MDC were completely different from each other -- as different as fire and water.
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For some of us who experienced the real liberation struggle and seen it all, this is smelly rubbish from opportunists misrepresenting the liberation struggle. The song "Do not take things belonging to the masses, Do not Rape or commit adultery, Give back what you have taken from the masses" was a liberation war song. It meant exactly what it said and still means the same today. This illegitimate leadership in Zanu PF has lost it and clearly opposition today stands for the good of the nation. Not sure how long this cruelty will last, but one hoped this was a graceful way for Zanu PF to stop its crime-ridden journey and undergo rehabilitation. But somehow they do not seem ready for a soft landing. They hope to stage another false election where they murder, torture, intimidate - and still hope to remain in power. This is sickening and hopefully one way everyone everywhere, including Charamba and Mugabe, will agree that what is bad to the nation is bad for them and for the world, and that leaders are supposed to serve the people, not themselves.