SW Radio Africa (London)
Tichaona Sibanda
29 October 2009
The SADC Troika on Defence, Security and Politics began its fact finding mission in Harare on Thursday in an effort to narrow the differences between Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe.
The ministerial mission is being led by Oldemiro Baloi, the Mozambican Foreign Affairs Minister, Zambia deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Fashion Phiri and Lutho Dhlamini from Swaziland.
Two South African facilitators to the Global Political Agreement dialogue have been included in the mission, Frank Chikane and Monjaku Gumbi.
SADC's Executive Secretary, Dr Tomaz Salamao, is also in Zimbabwe and our Harare correspondent Simon Muchemwa said he briefed journalists in the morning and outlined how the Troika team was going to undertake its mission.
'The team first met Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara before having another meeting with ambassadors from the SADC region. Salamao said the Troika will meet with the other two principals in the inclusive government later in the day,' Muchemwa said.
SADC chairman Joseph Kabila, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is expected to fly to Harare from his visit to South Africa, either on Thursday or Friday. Concerns continue to be raised by observers because of the fact that Kabila is a very close associate of Mugabe.
The Troika intervention comes in response to MDC-T's disengagement from government two weeks ago. So far Tsvangirai has boycotted two consecutive cabinet meetings and has cut all contact with Mugabe and his ZANU PF party, and says he will maintain that position until all outstanding issues in the GPA are resolved.
However the two did meet on Monday, under the mediation of Mutambara but that meeting ended in complete deadlock. They are reportedly still 'worlds apart' over key appointments to government.
Mugabe has also been using his usual strong arm tactics to force the MDC to either submit to his will or leave government altogether, with renewed violent attacks on the MDC.
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The stupid, foolish and idiotic sellouts in the puppet MDC-T party, in their previous announcement of the decision to boycott, said that they have disengaged from Zanu-pf when in actual fact they are boycotting government. Because of their foolishness, and their retarded minds, Tsvangi and his fellow sellouts do not even know the difference between govt and Zanu-pf structures.
Cabinet is govt; Council of Ministers, created specifically for the sellout Tsvangi to have something token to chair, is govt. So how on earth are they boycotting (as is their tradition) Zanu-pf?
Now even their mouth-pieces like Tichaona Sibanda and others CIA recruited journalists are contradicting the initial announcement by saying that MDC is boycotting govt. What they are not saying is that Tsvangirai is no longer Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. For how can you remain a Prime Minister that boycotts his official functions?
The bid to want to retain the title is only so that he and his former ministers can continue enjoying the benefits that go along with the offices they used to occupy.
After the SADC team review of the GPA, if they do not come back to the Government, President Mugabe should go ahead and appoint an Acting Prime Minister and fire all boycotting ministers.
Dear Takunya, I will never agree with you and I always have the urge to insult you and put you down for your idiocy. I must admit that, for a narrow-minded brainwashed Zimbo, you can still sort of organise arguments, unlike many other Zanu-shits like you who write comments here. Anymay, having myself lost everything I had in Zim (I didn't have any of your precious land, by the way), I would like to finish by telling you to kindly piss off.
Fredion;
In all my posts on this site, I have never sought to have you or any other person for that matter, see things the way I do because I realize we are different, we do not have the same upbringings - you are a-----(you know who you are); I am a liberator. We will always see things differently but what is important is to always remember that Zimbabwe is ours together and we should work for it.
You are as free as air to hold your opinion on issues Zimbabwean. As is the culture, brought about by the liberator and revolutionary President Mugabe, every Zimbabwean is free to make a choice as to who and what to support or align with, you included.
Equally true is the fact that you are free to take up land or not to. Tsvangirai did not want land when the revolution started and he at one time insulted me and all those who were demonstrating for land by saying; "Munongomera pose pose sehowa.... Murikuti murikufa nanzara, muchanyatso fa chaizvo izvo".
He was insulting me (his liberator who did not mind his selling out during the struggle when he caused the death of scores of freedom fighters) and all those who have applied for and got land (our heritage). At first I was angry with him only to realize that he was a lost sheep since he was used to selling out, what else could he say to please his masters who expected him to vomit something however rotten? What is surprising and should surprise many people, though, is that he and many of his ministers and MPs have now submitted their applications for land - Vavakuda kungomera pose pose sehowa!
It is also your choice to decide to abandon your country and settle elsewhere where you are writing from. Roy Bennett ran away from his crimes and exiled himself in South Africa where he started organizing bandits from. It was his choice to exile himself and team up with his fellow Rhodes like Zungairwa, who now calls himself God, and was daily demonizing his country and calling for sanctions against Zimbabweans.
It remained his choice that he returned to a country he had now destroyed economically but the good thing is that on his return he came face-to-face with the crimes he committed - mhosva hairovi!
Similarly, when one day you decide to return home, feel free to do so but always remember that if you raped anyone before leaving or committed any crime, that crime will greet you at the airport or at the border on your return.
"Council of Ministers, created specifically for the sellout Tsvangi to have something token to chair, is govt"
So much a GNU!
Mugabe lost the election and has refused to give up power.
takunya what good will it do if Mugabe appoints more Zanu-PF ignorant beggars? He will remain sanctioned, useless, and spat on - pthoo!
The SADC has done nothing to this point and had plenty of chances but they just kept overlooking the problem and now we are where we all knew this would come too.
I have no confidence in the SADC so they will only try to make everyone temporarily happy but does not fix the long term problem (Mugabe and the Zanu-Pf) so again their words without actions and accountability is useless.