Patrick Guramatunhu | The Group of Elders has appealed to SADC leaders ahead of the regional meeting next week to once again intervene in Zimbabwe. SADC played a major role in the formation of Zimbabwe’s 2008 to 2013 GNU. Sadly not even one democratic reform was implement during the GNU in spite SADC’s repeated warning to do so. The failure allowed President Mugabe to blatantly rig the 2013 elections and SADC had no choice but to accept the result and wash its hands of Zimbabwe.
Since the rigged 2013 elections Zimbabwe’s economy has gone into total meltdown; President Mugabe rigged the elections but could not rig economic recovery. The economic meltdown has now reached dangerous level with unemployment now at 90%; looting has now reaching nauseating height of $15 billion by looted by one or two individuals in six years; government is failing to pay its workers let alone pay for anything else; etc.
Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is unsustainable and yet, without meaningful political reform, it is set to get worse. The country is staring down the abyss and if it is left to fall, it will drag the whole region with it.
Political reform is the one thing the country was supposed to achieve during the GNU but failed to do. Having bamboozled Tsvangirai and his MDC friends to kick reforms into the tall grass during the GNU President Mugabe now feels he has the right to resist any political reforms; which is why the Group of Elders is right to call on SADC leaders to pressure Mugabe to accept meaningful political reform.
“A group of former pre-eminent persons including former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan and wife of the late Nelson Mandela Graca Machel known as the Elders has called on the leaders of the Southern African Development Community to consider supporting a smooth transition in Zimbabwe,” reported Spotlight Zimbabwe.
“It is not clear what prompted the Elders to make the appeal but they said they firmly believed that a successful transition was not only vital for Zimbabwe but for the region as a whole.”
As a Zimbabwean who has followed the goings on in the country I have to put my hands up and admit that SADC leaders did their best, notably President Ian Khama of Botswana, to help Zimbabwe end the Zanu PF dictatorship throughout the 2008 to 2013 GNU. It was Tsvangirai, his fellow MDC leaders and the people of Zimbabwe themselves’ fault that not even one democratic reform was implemented in five years.
However I would like to assure SADC heads of State and the international community that a few, but the finest and brightest, Zimbabweans have learnt the lessons of the blundering incompetence during the last GNU. Give the country another chance and this time ALL the democratic reforms will be implemented fully and timeously. Just give Zimbabwe another chance, please!
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It was not the Elders, SADC or anyone else other than MDC and ourselves who are to blame for failing to get even one reform implemented. If you cannot get your head round that simple fact then it is your problem!
True but Chamisa too is a failure. The same Chamisa is now out recruiting rogue war veterans so they can impose him on the nation just as they imposed Mugabe!
Chamisa was part of the MDC cabinet that failed to get even one reform implemented in five years!
Many Zimbabweans have failed to see MDC and we ourselves did wrong during the GNU and instead wagged the finger of blame at everyone else including SADC. This has not help our cause, who would want to help someone who not only does not know what should be done, refuse to do what they are advised to do then after the thing has failed blames everyone else!
I will put my vote on young blood Chamisa can do
We want to see Shonas self-destruct. And they are doing that in a perfect way. The fight with the Shona in every which way will never stop, come what may. Majority or no majority, we simply dont care!!!
We want to see Shonas self-destruct. And they are doing that in a perfect way. The fight with the Shona in every which way will never stop, come what may. Majority or no majority, we simply dont care!!!
Shonas always obsessed with what they call Ndebeles – what is that? How many are those people?
Shonas always obsessed with what they call Ndebeles – what is that? How many are those people?
But do you think the Shonas will support someone who is not one of their own when people like you show that a non-Shona is prepared to do anything to them if he/she takes power? Accept it or not, Shonas constitute the majority in Zimbabwe and whoever wants to rule needs their vote. There are good non-Shona leaders but their chances are destroyed by views and comments such as yours.
Tsvangirai is a failure. Step aside. Let Chamisa take over MDC.
Like it or Not Ndebeles will never ever rule Zimbabwe muri vatengesi. Tinotengeserwa zvNyika nekuda Tea. MaSHONA ndizvo next President Karanga from Zvishavaneeeeeeee His Excellence ED Mnangagwa.
We cannot afford to let another Shona rule our country again, look what they did to it in 36 years, they destroyed it, they stole everything that they could lay their dirty hands on and if they couldn’t steal it they destroyed it. They have done nothing for our country. Look how many stole and looted from the farms and then ran to England with the money they got from the looted items…all these atrocities were done by Shona’s and they must be made to pay for their sins! They do not know how to run a tuck shop let alone a business and if they can’t run these two properly they could never run a country, they need a white boss over them!!! Unfortunately the truth hurts and this is the truth!!!!!
Its you Shonas who are the problem. What a useless majority!!
If the so called group of elders attempted to force Mugabe to implement democratic reforms several years ago, what makes them think they will achieve a different outcome this time around?
Mukare wakati doing the same thing over and over expecting different results, ndiko kupenga. Vakuru musadaro. Tinozoshaya pekunyarira.