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Zimbabwe: Walk the Talk Morgan Tsvangirai
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The Herald (Harare)
OPINION
7 May 2008
Posted to the web 7 May 2008
Caesar Zvayi
Harare
According to Tendai Biti, the motor mouth MDC-T secretary general, "Zimbabwe is a war-zone" and it's high time the US and its allies invaded Harare to install an MDC-T-led puppet regime.
Reading the headlines in the Western Press and watching the hysterical footage on BBC, France24, SkyNews and CNN, blood and gore congest the streets of Harare and Bulawayo while shrapnel and stray rounds litter the countryside.
Zimbabwe is gripped by terror, a humanitarian crisis, and in the words of the excitable Nelson Chamisa is "on the verge of genocide."
Sponsored groupies like the so-called Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition rattle off gory scenarios by the minute, alleging arrests, murders and evictions of opposition supporters countrywide all in a bid to justify their names and existence; "crisis in Zimbabwe."
To cap it all, the chief Trojan horse, Morgan Tsvangirai claims he fears for his life and has gone into self-imposed exile in Botswana, or is it South Africa? From where he launches periodic sorties to Western capitals masquerading as a displaced statesman keen to get on with the job of governing.
The US and Britain have dutifully issued travel warnings advising their citizens against travelling to Zimbabwe in addition to trying to have Zimbabwe on the agenda of the Security Council as a threat to international peace and security.
Anyone reading and watching the Western media would be forgiven for thinking Iraq and Afghanistan are safer than Zimbabwe, and Kenya is a virtual paradise. That is how badly Zimbabwe has been trashed in the Western media with the green Biti and Chamisa playing dutiful altar boys.
How different the reality is, particularly as Zimbabwe recently hosted two highly subscribed international events in the two metropolitan centres, Harare and Bulawayo, that are purported to be virtual "war zones".
Bulawayo hosted the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair while Harare hosted the Harare International Festival of the Arts that were both patronised by a multi-racial clientele as Western embassies and their staff came out in full force with Zimbabweans from all walks of life and political persuasions mixing and mingling without incident.
The ambience at Hifa would have made the likes of James McGee think they were on Broadway, which leaves many wondering at the "crisis" caged parrots like Biti babble about.
The question that comes to mind is, why is there an attempt to create a non-existent crisis in Zimbabwe in a world torn by real crises stretching from Somalia to the cyclone-ravaged Burma where more than 22 500 people have lost their lives over the past few days?
The answer is obvious, London and Washington badly need a crisis in Zimbabwe to justify an invasion to "liberate" long-suffering Zimbabweans when their real aim is to ensure that their lackey, Tsvangirai assumes power and delivers Zimbabwe on a silver platter. For Tsvangirai, a crisis would overshadow the impending run-off or at least give him an excuse for his imminent loss.
Contrary to the false pretences at confidence and claims of popular support, Tsvangirai knows very well that March 29 is not repeatable and if he misses on power on the back of the 47 percent he fraudulently got on March 29, that may be the end for him as the chicanery that characterised the first round is not replicable.
What is more Zanu-PF has been on the ground since March 29 while the MDC-T leadership have been gallivanting on a purported "diplomatic offensive" which appears to have backfired spectacularly because, apart from Levy Mwanawasa who has apparently never recovered from that horrible accident that nearly claimed his life, no other sane African leader bought Tsvangirai's wild claims.
Some may say Tsvangirai can't dread a run-off as he leads the first round. But then they only need unpack Biti's pledge that MDC-T and Zanu-PF form a government of national unity minus President Mugabe to uncover the fear at Harvest House.
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Why would "a popular party, that won a clear mandate" as Tsvangirai claims, want to compromise with "an unpopular loser" like Zanu-PF?
For governments of national unity are predicated on shared mandates. If Zanu-PF is so unpopular that the MDC-T can beat it "any day, anytime, any hour," as Chamisa claims, then Tsvangirai should be girding for the run-off.
Either way, he is between a rock and a hard place. Boycotting the run-off would give President Mugabe victory without the hassles of hitting the campaign trail, while for Tsvangirai contesting under close scrutiny and losing will vindicate Zanu-PF's claims that the first round was manipulated to favour the opposition.
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Cry the beloved country. Is there anyone in the world that actually still thinks this election was free or indeed fair? Why did it take so long to release the results? To me it just points to one inescapable fact - President Mugabe lost. Equally obvious and transparent is the attempt at forcing a run-off election. If he had been declared the winner after all the recounting no-one would have believed it. Much more believable that the MDC won a few more seats and that there now has to be a new election. Much easier to generate the necessary fear... [Read Full Text]
Go home shiri you moron.
Morgan Tsvagirai reminds genuine Panafricanists of Moise Tsombe and his acts of betrayal, launched from Katanga and spread to the whole of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Zimbabweans should not forget that just like Moise Tsombe was supported by Britain and the USA to destabilize the Congo - these countries actually sabotaged the efforts of the United Nations to contain the situation in those days - it is the same countries which are pushing Morgan Tsvangirai to eventually destroy Zimbabwe beyond the point of economic recovery. It is just to reverse all the positive gains of the liberation struggle... [Read Full Text]
Nobody buys your propaganda. Im just wondering how much you have been paid to write such a false and blatant attack. I hope your family will be targeted by the next round of "non violence".
How can you believe this rubbish? And don't pretend to know about the UK and human rights just because you read The Herald. UK laws give people more human rights than you can imagine.
Can you imagine this happening in Zim?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1520534/KFC-meal-%27ensures-siege-man%27s-rights%27.html
I don't think so!
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