The mainstream MDC on Friday launched a stinging attack on negotiators from the MDC-M, branding their counterparts as 'mischievious and insincere' for delaying talks to resolve the outstanding issues in the unity government.
In a statement posted on their party website and widely circulated by email, the MDC-T said it was extremely concerned at the lack of urgency shown by ZANU PF and Arthur Mutambara's party, in resolving the outstanding issues as soon as possible, as instructed by the guarantors.
'The deadline set by the SADC troika for the resolution of outstanding issues has once again been missed because of the intransigence, mischief and insincerity exhibited by the political players who are not taking the plight of the people of Zimbabwe seriously,' the statement said.
SW Radio Africa is reliably informed that dialogue between the parties will now begin on Monday, though low level consultations will be held over the weekend. Negotiators from the MDC-T and ZANU PF have been on standby since Monday, waiting for the return of Ncube and Mushonga.
When negotiators from the MDC-T and ZANU PF met on Monday Welshman Ncube and Priscillah Misihairabwi-Mushonga, the lead negotiators from the MDC-M, were absent. Both are reported to be in Europe attending a World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial conference.
The SADC Troika summit that convened in Maputo, Mozambique on 5th November resolved that the political parties' who were signatory to the GPA must engage in dialogue within 15 days and not any delay this beyond 30 days.
The summit also said dialogue should include all outstanding issues in the implementation of the GPA and that Jacob Zuma was tasked to evaluate progress and report back to the chairperson of the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation.
The MDC is extremely concerned about the delays in appointing provincial governors, ambassadors and other senior government officials and the fact that Mugabe unilaterally re-appointed the Attorney General and the Reserve Bank governor.
ZANU-PF meanwhile is only interested in the lifting of targeted sanctions on the ruling elite and the closure of external radio stations broadcasting into the country.
The 15 day deadline set by SADC is Saturday and its clear the parties will not meet that timeline. This has left the MDC-T seething.
'For two weeks, Zimbabweans have waited in vain for the political gridlock to be unlocked. We note with concern that the body language from both ZANU PF and the Mutambara-led political outfit does not show sincerity and faithfulness to resolve the outstanding issues,' the party said.
'Ncube and Mushonga have chosen to prioritize flying to world capitals at the expense of resolving critical issues that will deliver real change to the people of Zimbabwe. We expect that all parties, especially those that have chosen to ignore the important time-frames, targets and deadlines set by SADC, should urgently meet and clear the deck of the outstanding issues,' the MDC said.
Mujonzi Mutandiri, the National Constitutional Assembly coordinator for South Africa, said the reason why the MDC-M is delaying the talks is the realization that 'very soon' they would be history, if the GPA is implemented fully.
'They are buying time, just like their colleagues from ZANU PF. These guys are unelected, they were rejected by the people so they don't have a constituency that they serve apart from their own vested interests,' Mutandiri said.
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The feud between the MDC-T and MDC-M political parties is bad for Zimbabwean politics and democracy. This really weakens the opossition to Mugabe. The alliance between MDC-Mutambura and Zanu-pf has the potential of making MDC- Tsvangirai a minority party in Zimbabwe. Politics is all about alliances and increasingly I do not think MDC-Tsvangirai are strategically creating meaningful alliances. MDC-Mutambura senses that and he has been making strange moves.
Already MDC-T is beginning to look like a minority in parliament due to the process of elimination by Mugabe and Mutambira. Tsvangirai won the elections in Zimbabwe and most people are still behind him. But, Mugabe and Mutambira's intellegestia are beginning a propaganda mission to label Tsvangirai as a "Rhodesian" Lover. He needs to fight that label!!
Phiri;
Tsvangirai is indeed a ""Rhodesian" Lover" and he is going to find it extremely difficult if not impossible to "fight that label". Tsvangirai sold out during the war of liberation. He teamed up with the Rhodesia Special Branch between 1975 and 1980 and caused the death of hundreds of freedom fighters and innocent civilians.
As ZCTU Secretary-General, Tsvangirai aligned himself and his organization with employers who were and still are exploiting workers. Tsvangirai accepted filthy lucre from Rhodies, the CIA and the MI6 run Westminster Foundation to create the monster we have now come to know as MDC-T.
At that meeting with Rhode farmers in Mash West Province he publicly received cheques from those land grabbers who were "investing in the MDC". When you invest money into anything you expect profit. If I may ask you Phiri, what profit are Rhodies expecting from the sellout party? LABEL WILL NOT GO!!
The MDC lead by Mutambara, especially Welshman Ncube and Misihairambwi-Mushonga, have realized that they made a grave mistake by aligning themselves with a total and accomplished sellout. Thus, they are now aligning themselves with a revolutionary party that brought independence to Zimbabwe and is still fighting for the rights of and for the betterment of Zimbabweans. I just hope that the sellout demon will not once again engulf Mutambara because he is the only one with no firm ground on which to stand.
MDC has decided, and rightly so, to disengage from criminals who are out to make money at the expense of the people of Zimbabwe. They have said, and I saw it several times with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears, that they no longer want to associate themselves with thuggery being perpetrated by MDC-T. They are a separate entity from MDC-T and so do not want to be seen or suspected to be associating with puppets of western imperialism.
Very soon Biti will also realize that he, by his own actions, is creating a mini-god in Tsvangirai the dictator, and so will abandon that party leaving the uneducated and retarded stooge alone.
That will be the final stroll and the last nail on the stupid idiot's coffin. The only problem will be that no one will accept Biti in their fold and so he will have to form his own party.
Tsvangirai's two terms, according to the MDC constitution, expired in February 2009 but he continues to precariously cling on strolls. That will force Biti and other better enlightened people in MDC-T to leave the party and form their own.
Therefore, it is a good thing that MDC has or is disengaging from sellouts. No democracy is served by aligning with the CIA and MI6 funded and run MDC-T. How can any sane person align themselves with a party that has invited agents of imperialism to run a parallel government in the stooge's office?
Mutambara is fully aware that the parallel structure and the pirate radio stations are NEVER going to benefit him and his party, hence he is telling sellouts to back off.