The MDC are saying that they are happy with the SADC Summit and that Mugabe has a 30 day deadline to implement the GPA.
The SADC communiqué arrived late Friday and having read it, it is unclear how Prime Minister Tsvangirai and his delegation have arrived at this conclusion.
The SADC communique does not actually state that there is a deadline for the implementation of the GPA. It says: 'The parties should engage in dialogue in order to find a lasting solution to the outstanding issues towards the full implementation of the GPA'.
The timeline in the Communique says that the 'political parties who are signatory to the GPA should engage in dialogue with immediate effect within 15 days, not beyond 30 days', and the dialogue should include all outstanding issues.
And what must have kept Mugabe happy was the point that said the international community must lift all forms of sanctions on Zimbabwe.
So it is unclear how it's possible to read this document as a deadline on Mugabe to implement the GPA within 30 days.
It would appear to be a document that says nothing more than; remove sanctions on Mugabe and his ruling elite - and start talking again within 30 days.
Read the full SADC Communique Issued Thursday 05 November
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It seems to me that the MDC decided to re-engage not because of SADC support but by realizing that disengagement was counterproductive. I don't see how the MDC could tolerate the SADC call for the lifting of sanctions. They know it's just insincere political bluster. I guess the MDC would rather go back to only having a few dozen of their supporters abused every week instead of hundreds or thousands. I'll be suprised if anything changes in the next month.
Mrzyphl;
Why are you not saying that MDC-T and its bunch of idiots are showing their stupidity and foolishness by interpreting the communiqué as setting a deadline on President Mugabe? SADC did not, in any way, set a deadline as Tsvangirai would like everybody to believe.
The communiqué talks about the really issues of the GPA that include sanctions imposed on the people of Zimbabwe at the instigation of Tsvangirai and his fellow puppets. It is the sellout Tsvangi who travelled from one western capital to another campaigning for sanctions on the people of Zimbabwe so that he could, through the suffering of ordinary Zimbabwean, gain power by hook and crook - through the back door.
Nobody is being abused as you, Mrzyphl, put it. It is criminals and fugitives who are facing the full wroth of the Zimbabwean law. If you buy arms of war to supply to bandits for the purposes of insurgency then you are a criminal and need to stay behind bars for some time. If you organize assassinations of those whom you do not agree with then you are a criminal that should be thrown in jail.
If you rape a child of 12 years you should not expect mercy simply because you are an MDC-T politician with the sympathy of imperialists. If you organize youths and go about stealing and destroying people's properties, you are a criminal that should be removed from within society.
AND if you refuse to vacate state land, that was legally acquired and given to an indigenous black Zimbabwean, you should not expect to be spared of a jail term simply because your stooge, your puppet, the retarded Tsvangirai, the one you invested money in and expect returns of protection of the ill-gotten land, is now Prime Minister. It is not possible and will never happen in Zimbabwe that you will be protected simply because you have financed or are financing criminals in MDC-T.