By Farai D Hove| Botswana’s president Ian Khama was for a long time the MDC-T’s best friend and at one time Morgan Tsvangirai would even flee to Khama’s private residence and spend weeks inside there. But the events of the last 5 weeks suggest that the man has turned his back on Tsvangirai, according to a ZANU PF leader.
Khama is now full swing behind ZANU PF and has done several things so so far including deporting Emmerson Mnangagwa’s arch enemy, Phelekezela Mphoko, the ruling party’s UK chairman Nick Mangwana claims.
Mangwana writing on Tuesday morning, scoffed at the MDC saying, “who are the MDC’s fraternal allies in the region? Botswana’s BDP is back in brotherhood with Zanu PF.
“President Khama attended ED’s inauguration, sent PR Mphoko back in a Kombi and sent Rtd Lt Gen Masire to Congress with high praises for the new admin showing, a turn in relations,” he wrote on his Twitter portal.
Has Khama truly turned his back on Tsvangirai?
No conclusion can be made perhaps until and after both Khama and his BDP have made an announcement to the effect because Khama used to attend the former President Robert Mugabe’s functions during the time of his public scuffles with the 94 year old.
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Who da fuck is nick MangwAna, why even consult him for anything
SADC leaders lost all confidence in Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friend after the later failed to implement even one democratic reform in five years of the GNU. If Nick Mangwana thinks that President Khama has been fooled by the Zanu PF thugs into believing Zimbabwe is now a stable country ruled by law and capable of holding free and fair elections then NIck is talking nonsense, as usual.
SADC leaders wanted the 2013 elections postponed to allow democratic reforms to be implemented, of all the SADC leaders President Khama was clear on that point. That is still SADC’s position; 2018 elections must be postponed until the reforms are implemented. Only a first-class fool like Nick Mangwana would believe the reforms are no longer required just because Zanu PF jettisoned its old dictator Robert Mugabe.
Mnangagwa and the majority of the member in the Joint Operation Command, the Junta that has ruled the nation with an iron fist, were forced to stage the November coup to boot Mugabe out of office because the tyrant was booting them out of Zanu PF and power. “Operation Restore legacy”, as the coup plotters call the coup was about stop Mugabe giving State power to his wife and her G40 faction and returning it back to the Junta. Other than a change of the leader the Zanu PF dictatorship has otherwise not change one bit. Zanu PF is set to rig next year’s elections just as it was going to do before Mugabe was booted out.
President Khama would know the pivotal role President Mnangagwa and many of his fellow JOC members, now in his cabinet, played corrupt, tyranny and vote rigging that are a hallmark of Zanu PF rule. These thugs are now just as determined to rig the vote and stay in power as they were before the coup. Of all the SADC leaders, President Khama knows and understands that, without implementing the reforms, Zimbabwe will never ever hold free and fair elections.
This is not newsworthy. Tsvina zvayo.