ZANU PF Hardliners Now Going After Judges
Mugabe is seen here chatting with Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara on Friday at Heroes Acre for the burial of Misheck Chando (Mugabe had a day earlier told his party's central Committee that Mutambara was like Nicodemus: "They are with us during the day, but during the night, they are with the other party", he said. A day after this picture was taken, a meeting held in Harare resolved not to let judges "reverse the gains of the liberation struggle." Harare, Zimbabwe, 02 November 2009 An "emergency meeting" attended by the so-called hardliners that the Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai is too scared to name was held on Saturday, I have just learnt. At least three of those attending are also members of the JOC, the Joint Operations Command which has now deployed more than 2000 soldiers into the countryside to intimidate villagers ahead of a possible election being mulled by Mugabe. From reports of the meeting, it appears that it was triggered by th...