Zimbabwe's Military Government Has Now Shown Its Hand
Harare, Zimbabwe 02 October 2009 After the shocking developments of Wednesday, when Commissions and Boards of Directors for Zimbabwe's media were packed full of military men by Mugabe and ZANU PF, it has now emerged that, in fact, Zimbabwe is a military state in the mould of Angola. A senior ZANU PF official who I spoke to yesterday afternoon was quite clear to me about this. He stated quite openly: "There was a military coup in this country on June 27 last year (the date of the violent presidential run-off election between Mugabe and Tsvangirai ). The Inclusive Government changed nothing because Tsvangirai did not negotiate with the military. He negotiated with Gushungo (Mugabe)." Apart from the breach of the spirit behind the Inclusive Government, I was merely now trying to find out what the reasoning is behind putting soldiers in charge of media matters across the board, from Supervisory bodies to the functional boards of directors. This was the answer. Zimbabwe is i...