Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai - Please Grow Up

editorial

Harare — Morgan Tsvangirai, the man aspiring to lead a nation of 13 million enlightened Zimbabweans is at it again, grandstanding for a foreign audience while pretending to be doing it for the benefit of the people.

On Sunday, Tsvangirai announced at a Press conference in Harare that he was withdrawing from the presidential run-off slated for Friday citing concern for Zimbabweans he claimed were bearing the brunt of violence at the hands of Zanu-PF. The violence, Tsvangirai said, did not bode well for a free and fair poll. We agree with him that violence is anathema not only to politics but to basic human decency, and it was high time he condemned the barbarism being visited by his supporters on innocent people countrywide.

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