tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-960370043342228756.post7560523501503458884..comments2024-01-31T16:19:59.446+02:00Comments on Denford Magora's Latest Zimbabwe News Blog: Mugabe Refuses To Open Parliament - New Parliamentary Elections Early Next yearUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-960370043342228756.post-49743027096566482262009-09-05T00:40:16.186+02:002009-09-05T00:40:16.186+02:00MDC can not pull out because they know for certain...MDC can not pull out because they know for certain that political violence will rise because MDC will be viewed an outright bandit organisation.At present zanu pf view MDC as a weakened force,short of workable strategies and ineffective as long as they are in the inclusive government.Musatambe ne Zanu pf shasha.MDC ngaikwinye nekuti yakadenha Mangwiro(MDC slapped the leopard in the face so they must take on the beast)mabaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-960370043342228756.post-37000679015156402902009-09-04T19:01:16.532+02:002009-09-04T19:01:16.532+02:00@Vulindlela:
Tsvangirai did have a strategy going...@Vulindlela:<br /><br />Tsvangirai did have a strategy going in, but the problem was that he overestimated his capabilities or underestimated the power and influence Mugabe still has.<br /><br />It reminds me of a late 1800s cartoon from Britain, soon after the British were beaten black and blue by the Zulu army in Zululand.<br /><br />It shows a Victorian Englishman sitting on a stool, like in a class. A "native" in loincloth was standing in front of him and writing on a blackboard the following words:<br /><br />THOU SHALT NOT DESPISE THY ENEMY...!<br /><br />It is a common mistake in the MDC to mistake their wishful thinking for reality.<br /><br />Simply because you wish Mugabe to have no more power does not mean that he is finished.<br /><br />Simply because you THINK Mugabe "would not dare do that" does not mean that he wouldn't dare.<br /><br />The farmers here in Zimbabwe found that out to their cost, after they told me, point blank in the mid-1990 when I had meeting with David Hasluck that Mugabe would not dare take land "just like that. He would be finished."<br /><br />He did dare. And ten years after he did, he is still around, strutting about like an inflated Peacock.Denfordhttp://denfordmagora.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-960370043342228756.post-14014901222002164212009-09-04T18:54:29.927+02:002009-09-04T18:54:29.927+02:00@ Farai - howzit going my friend? The way forward ...@ Farai - howzit going my friend? The way forward appears to be that Morgan Tsvangirai will stick it out in government, staring at Mugabe and daring him to "fire" him, which the dictator can not do, of course. Tsvangirai will hang on in order to push the wider democratic agenda, such as ensuring that a constitution is in place, a new Electoral body is in place, as well as a media commission and that perhaps, by some miracle, Mugabe will allow press freedom.<br /><br />Once this is done, Tsvangirai will have no reason to hang around but will then walk out and dare Mugabe to call and election.<br /><br />Mugabe is hoping that the humiliations he gives Tsvangirai, the refusal outright to do anything the MDC demands anymore, will see the party walk out rather than lose face.<br /><br />But I think he is miscalculating.<br /><br />Tsvangirai has a larger frame in mind and that means sticking it out and harping on and on about the things that will widen the democratic process, while giving Mugabe due respect so that he can have some hope of extracting these concessions from the dictator.<br /><br />For parliament to be opened, Tsvangirai will have to concede to Mugabe on the following:<br /><br />Roy Bennett<br /><br />Governors<br /><br />And become almost as loud as Mugabe himself in denouncing "sanctions".<br /><br />He will also have to at least make a statement like he made infamously to the diaspora at Southwark Cathedral, but this time to the "foreign-based" radio stations run by Zimbabweans, asking them to immediately abandon their operations overseas and bring them home.<br /><br />Just the statement on the above issue will suffice, if Tsvangirai is clever, because he will then ask Mugabe what more he can do. Does Mugabe expect him to physically go to Britain and bomb the SW Radio studios as Mugabe did with the Daily News in Harare?<br /><br />That ought to shut the dictator up.<br /><br />But Tsvangirai is getting bad advice and is buckling to pressure from within the MDC to burn his bridges.<br /><br />His instinct, I think, will save him in the end, since he also still retains dictatorial powers in the MDC.Denfordhttp://denfordmagora.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-960370043342228756.post-12863710908064664992009-09-04T18:19:25.736+02:002009-09-04T18:19:25.736+02:00It is as clear as mud that Tsvangirai had no strat...It is as clear as mud that Tsvangirai had no strategy in entering into this GNU, but driven by ambitions of assuming a title, and of course a better asset balance. <br /><br />Our people are still dying in the midst of this mutt scuffle and resource wasting. <br /><br />My only hope is that a higher power will perceive the situation at hand and intervene to save the lives remaining.Vulindlelahttp://vulindlela.yahoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-960370043342228756.post-70090591519742293752009-09-04T15:06:42.230+02:002009-09-04T15:06:42.230+02:00If indeed that is the case, then what then Denford...If indeed that is the case, then what then Denford?<br /><br />What is the way forward?Farainoreply@blogger.com