SW Radio Africa (London)
Alex Bell
4 September 2008
Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC faction has reportedly forwarded video clips of police arresting MDC MPs at the reconvening of Parliament last week to South African President Thabo Mbeki - the SADC appointed facilitator in Zimbabwe's power sharing talks.
The move comes days after ZANU PF made a similar strategic move, after it forwarded to Mbeki and other heads of SADC, footage of some MDC MPs booing and humiliating Mugabe during the official opening of parliament. The footage, ZANU PF claims, will 'expose MDC-T's insincerity to the ongoing talks.'
The MDC's information department reportedly told Radio VOP on Tuesday it was finalising the compilation of video clips of the arrest of its MPs by police while entering parliament. It's understood the party also planned to include clips of victims of political violence at the hands of ZANU PF youths and supporters in mostly rural areas.
VOP on Tuesday quoted a highly placed source within the information department as saying that ZANU PF's attempt to portray the MDC as insincere in the talks 'will not work because we have overwhelming evidence of ZANU PF breaching the talks agreement.' It's understood that Tsvangirai's MDC was set to personally deliver the clips to Mbeki and other SADC heads of state during the burial of the late former Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa in Lusaka on Wednesday. The MDC has been unwilling to confirm if the clips were delivered.
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mbeki is probably just ignoring it as he does everything important
It's quite revolting to note that MDC has to send Mbeki videos of violence against its MPs!
Mbeki has dozens of spies operating in Harare. Does it mean that the SA embassy in Harare is turning a blind eye to Mugabe's terror causing untold misery and sufferings to the commonfolks? Mbeki's collusion with murderer Mugabe to sweep under the carpet every monstrous act of the lunatic illegitimate President will further taint his already damaged image. It is high time that South Africans redouble their vigilance and exert maximum pressure on Mbeki to act responsibly in that he has to ensure executive power goes to the MDC - the party that received the votes of a majority of Zimbabweans.
South Africans have to show appreciation to Zimbabwean citizens who actively helped them do away with the apartheid minority regime. It is not time now for South Africans to sit idle and allow Mbeki to manoever to impose an illegitimate President upon the Zimbabwe people. It's some sort of apartheid in reverse where a minority party is maintained in power through the brutal force that a murderer and monster exerts over its people through a corrupt Army, Police and Prisons services.
Direct intervention in Zimbabwe is a must now to put an end to the illegitimate rule of a hero turned monster!! Otherwise, SA will have to bear the burden to providing sanctuary to the remaining millions of Zimbabweans who cling to some hope that the situation under the MDC would anyhow start to redress itself.
Judging from the fact the the SA government is presently engaged in expelling Zimbabwean refugees, Mbeki will surely remain the main culprit if more Zimbabweans cross over to SA should he insist for monster to retain executive power.
South Africans should tackle Mbeki now in return for the support Zimbabweans extended to them to get back their freedom. Zimbabweans cannot be left to rot under devil Mugabe!
The world already knows the violence that Zimbabweans have experienced at the hands of Robert Mugabe the President of ZANU PF. This is why he and his mates in ZANU PF are on travel restrictions (Sanctions.) He has tried to portray the sanctions as economic sanctions to the poor Zimbabweans but this appears to have failed because Zimbabweans are slowly realising that MUGABE is the real problem in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is the only country in world with a dodgy president who thinks he is not accountable to the people. Indeed this is a shame, so it is indeed justifiable to keep the world informed as Mugabe through his dodgy tactics he banned foreign media in Zimbabwe. Hatina kupusa Kazi, tirikuketa minyati yose, une ropa rawakadeura rinopfuura raIan Smith uchatiripa nei Mugabe?
during the elections MDC claims that hundreds of its suppoters were killed by zanupf millitia. both parties agree that they were all responsible .why zanupf mpS are not arrested.
Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC faction has reportedly forwarded video clips of police arresting MDC MPs at the reconvening of Parliament last week to South African President Thabo Mbeki - the SADC appointed facilitator in Zimbabwe's power sharing talks.
President Mbeki do not use these videos.use the SADAC OBSERVER team's report.