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Morgan Tsvangirai last week took delivery of his official car, a brand new black Mercedes Benz S600 (pictured above). Mrs Tsvangirai was allocated a brand new S320. These are state vehicles, which means the country is spending money on things like this while it goes begging for handouts outside the country. If I were a donor, I would see no reason to reward such irresponsible spending. ************* Robert Mugabe, the dictator of Zimbabwe, has struck a deal with Morgan Tsvangirai which has already seen Jestina Mukoko "freed" - (sort of, I'll explain), and which will also result in the freeing  on bail of Roy Bennett, the MDC Treasurer and Deputy Agriculture nominee, who has been in custody since mid-February. Mugabe and Tsvangirai finally came to an understanding regarding the formation of a Truth and Reconciliation commission for Zimbabwe, which will look only at the electoral violence going back to 2000. They have agreed to specifically leave Gukurahundi out of the ambi...

Zimbabwe should soon see the launch of a Truth and Reconciliation-style Commission to help the nation go through what Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai calls "healing". It is also confirmation of what I told you here a few days ago that Tsvangirai had agreed on a deal with Mugabe to guarantee that a head of state is never prosecuted for crimes committed while he was in office and in the line of "duty." The news comes as Welshman Ncube told journalists a couple of days ago that JOMIC, the monitoring committee set up by all the parties, has discussed the fate of prisoners like Jestina Mukoko and Roy Bennett. Ncube says the MDC is pushing for an end to all this in exchange for a general amnesty on all crimes, especially those around June 27. One ZANU PF member of JOMIC is said to have told the MDC that they could not speak for anything before 2000, when they were formed. Gukurahundi, he said, had "nothing to do with" the MDC. The MDC, after initially doing a ...