Zimbabwe Cabinet Frozen
"And who are you again?" Mugabe puts government in suspended animation every time he is away. This started before the Inclusive government and to Mugabe, nothing has changed. Morgan Tsvangirai has only made matters worse by telling an interviewer that Mugabe is "irreplaceable and indispensable." The dictators head can only grow bigger. Harare, Zimbabwe, 13 January 2010 Morgan Tsvangirai should not take it personally, I suppose. Mugabe will not let him chair Cabinet, despite the Prime Minister's persistent requests. He has even made it an "outstanding issue." Tsvangirai is, after all, Deputy Chair of Cabinet, according to the Global Political Disagreement. It turns out, however, that Mugabe has always run government like personal property. His property. Even before the MDCs joined him at the national feeding trough, he would not let anyone else chair cabinet meetings in his absence. Dr Nkomo knew better than to make an issue of this. As did Simon Muzend...