“Botswana
Minister of International Affairs and Cooperation Dr Pelenomi Vincent Moitoi
has delivered a special message to President Emmerson Mnangagwa from his
counterpart President Ian Khama congratulating him on his recent appointment
and also indicating areas of further cooperation between the two countries,” reported Bulawayo 24.
“Dr Moitoi
said the relationship between the two countries is bound to grow from strength
to strength following the smooth transition of power in Zimbabwe.”
Given
Zimbabwe turbulent political history under this Zanu PF dictatorship, forcing
Mugabe to resign at gun point was always on the cards the fact that the thug,
on this occasion, did not pull the trigger has to be seen as a bonus and thus constitute
a “smooth transition of power”.
It is
a great pity that President Ian Khama was the only SADC leader who refused to
endorse Zanu PF’s
2013 rigged election as a free and fair. If the other leaders had followed his
lead Zimbabwe would have been forced to implement the democratic reforms and
last month’s
coup would have been avoided.
Next
year’s election will not be free,
fair and credible because none of the democratic reforms agreed in 2008 have
been implemented. The regime will not produce a verified voters’ roll because the voter
registration exercise which should have started three years ago only got
underway three months ago. There is no free press. The regime continues to
spend billions of dollars from looted diamonds to bankroll its various vote
rigging schemes, etc.
If
SADC rubber stamp another rigged Zimbabwe election then we should not be
surprised if the next transition of power is not as smooth. After waiting for
over four decades for free, fair and credible elections, who can guarantee that
not even one of the next coup thugs will have a twitchy trigger-finger.
SADC
leaders have another chance next year to end Zimbabwe’s political crisis before
these Zanu PF thugs drag the nation and the region into the abyss, “kwamvura yacheka makumbo,” as one would say in Shona.
MDC-T official Chalton Hwende has said the MDC-T delegation to US is over government's defiance on human rights upholding.
ReplyDeleteIs this not the same Chalton Hwende who was suspending for assaulting MDC-T VP Khupe. MDC-T is a party of thugs just like Zanu PF. MDC-T will be doing the same things Zanu PF is doing right now if they got back into power. This is just a revolving door!
The American have excellent memory and they will remember that MDC-T failed to implement even one democratic reform in five years of the GNU. If MDC leaders had implemented the reforms the country would not be in this mess!
Now that absolute political power has been restored back into the hands of the JOC members, President Mnangagwa can sleep with both eyes shut. If he should try to implement the democratic reforms and threaten JOC's strangle hold on political power then he can be certain the putsch will be on his case. Mugabe was lucky that none of the last coup plotters had a twitchy trigger-finger, Mnangagwa may not be so lucky!
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