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#7676 - 08/27/04 09:18 AM
Re: Tswangirayi's Death: Could It be a Blessing in Disguise?
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Ndunankulu
Registered: 02/06/04
Posts: 649
Loc: Mtubatuba
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Bhudas
Hhayi, kuhle mfowethu. Kushukuthi uma kuyiqiniso leli, cha uMvuyelwa ukhathele ngamadimoni kaMgakla noTsangarayi wakhe. Kusobala ukuthi he's losing patience with the lack of appreciation of the honest brockerage efforts brought on by his harbingers of peace (Njongonkulu Ndungane, Lekota, Mdladlana) and the honest pronouncements of Dlamini-Zuma that Mgakla and Tsangarayi must put their egos in their backpockets and negotiate.
Mvuyelwa appears fed up at the lack of appreciation of the fuel, ubhokide and electricity that he ships to Mgaklaland everyday without payment. I think the time is nigh for Mgakla nomzala wakhe uTsangarayi to face up to the reality of maturity, flexibility and wisdom that is expected of leadership. Therein lies the bright future for all. This tug-of-war yabo is dragging everyone down (the SADC region included).
Thabo has my support on this score.
uMntongenakudla kaNgogwane waKwaDlangezwa. uVeyane. Inkwali yenkosi. umcondo yegusha.
Inxangiphilile. KwaMtubatuba. KwelikaMthaniya.
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#7679 - 08/27/04 05:08 PM
Re: Tswangirayi's Death: Could It be a Blessing in Disguise?
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Nduna
Registered: 05/08/03
Posts: 304
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Potshoza,
Wena ungomunye wabantu abakwazi mhlophe ukuthi b4 Jonathan in the Zanu gvt Zimbabweans had never had any free or fair elections.Whether Jonathan got the Minister of information job or not I doubt if the situation would have improved.
Yes his POSA and AAIPA worsened an already critical situation however what I am not sure of is whether there were signs that free and fair elections have obtained.I dont see how Jonathan is to blame for the violence perpetrated by the state machinery against the electorate since independence.I also doubt if he had not joined Zanu whether the situation would have improved.
The executive presidential constitution penned by non other than the late drunkard ZIVOBO is a source of all the chaos in Zim.To some of us who lived through the war of liberation and the Gukurahundi era POSA and AAIPA are a joke.
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#7681 - 08/29/04 09:10 AM
Re: Tswangirayi's Death: Could It be a Blessing in Disguise?
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Sikhulu
Registered: 07/03/04
Posts: 230
Loc: Eguswini
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MDC expected to pull out of Zimbabwe polls
Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is expected to announce later on Wednesday that it has "suspended" participation in all future elections at both national and local government level.
The MDC will also withdraw its elected councillors, who control the Harare City Council, with immediate effect.
The announcement will be made under the banner, "the spirit of Mauritius", at a press conference and briefing to diplomats in Harare on Wednesday.
'The MDC will also withdraw its elected councillors' A working committee met near Pretoria last week and returned with recommendations for the MDC national executive that participation in elections was "a waste of time and resources" until electoral standards adopted at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Mauritius last week are in place.
If there is no substantial move to amend or repeal laws to allow for "real" electoral reform in accordance with the SADC protocol, then the MDC will not participate in next year's parliamentary poll either, according to party insiders this week.
The MDC says it will not stop political activity and has already applied for police permission for a series of rallies to explain its decision and celebrate its fifth anniversary.
The working committee, lead by secretary-general Welshman Ncube on his way back from Mauritius, analysed reports arising from MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai's consultations with the party's structures around the country over the past three months.
According to reports from each district, elected party officials recommended that the party "suspend" participation in elections at all levels.
"It's one thing to be beaten up or killed for taking part in elections, but it's another to have the election rigged as well," was the message Tsvangirai reportedly brought back to his national leadership.
The MDC has "reserved the right" to pull out of all municipalities - and its candidates won most urban elections - depending on "circumstances on the ground".
The government arrested then sacked Harare mayor Elias Mudzuri a year after he won with a massive majority in 2002.
Ncube is scheduled to tell Harare City councillors today that if they don't quit they will not be representing the MDC.
The MDC's 38-man national executive is expected to endorse the working committee's recommendations today as many of them have debated among themselves, and in the media, that participation in elections did nothing but give "legitimacy" for President Robert Mugabe's administration.
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