Last week the “Group of Elders” comprising notable individuals like the former UN Secretary General Koffi Annan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Ms Graca Machel advised SADC leaders to facilitate “a transition in Zimbabwe”. The group was concerned with Zimbabwe’s worsening economic crisis and warned the country could slide into the abyss and take the region with it. Sadly the regional body paid no heed.
Instead the group has been getting abused left, right and centre in the state controlled media.
Sadc leaders are furious with the “Group of Elders” for trying to nudge them into discussing Zimbabwe’s internal matters, Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi has said.
“Minister Mumbengegwi said, “There was no discussion on Zimbabwe, but one country did mention that it had received this letter from three people who said they were part of an NGO calling itself ‘The Elders’. The Heads of State were actually quite angry about that letter. They said, ‘These three think that we are puppets. Summit should reject this attempt by the three individuals to set an agenda for us,” reported the Sunday News.
“The Head of State who had brought it said, ‘I agree that we should reject it totally. I just wanted to find out if others had received the letter that I received.’ It turned out that the majority of Heads of State, including Zimbabwe, had not received the letter which was unanimously thrown out in the end. In Sadc, we have our own way of doing things if we think something needs to be done. In this particular case, no one thinks there is anything that needs to be done.”
My guess is the minister is being very selective and quoting from the one SADC leader who is sympathetic to the Zanu-PF regime and, like Mugabe himself, refusing to acknowledge the reality that Zimbabwe is sinking deeper and deeper into the economic abyss and is now totally helpless to stop the sinking. Zimbabwe is not new to having political and economic crisis and forcing SADC to step in to help.
The Zimbabwe economy sunk to new world record breaking lows in 2000 to 2008 when inflation reached 500 billion per cent, there was nothing in shops, etc. It was not surprising that Zimbabweans risked life and limp to force regime change just to end the economic crisis. Mugabe’s response was to use even more brutal violence to force people to vote for him. Not even SADC could turn a blind eye to such barbarism; they demanded that Mugabe accepted to formation of GNU which would be tasked to implement democratic reforms so the vote rigging and wanton violence of 2008 will never be repeated.
Sadly none of the reforms were implemented allowing Mugabe to blatantly rig the 2013 elections and putting the country back where it was in before the 2008 elections with the same corrupt and tyrannical Zanu-PF regime back in power.
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We don’t want to have anything to do with this dark and backward continent called Africa.
SADC AND AU,,,USELESS BODIES WHICH ARE CLUBS TO PROTECT DICTATORS AND ONLY THERE FOR THE POLITICIANS NOT THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA……….THESE TWO ORGANS NEED TO BE BANNED ..THEY SERVE ZERO PURPOSE TO AFRICA……THE WORLD WAS SHOCKED BY AU WHEN IT MAKE MUGABE ITS CHAIRMAN RECENTLY CONSIDERING MUGABE S RECORD……………………SHAME
SADC intervened in the Lesotho Crisis ??? Too …….scared the 92 year old will turn on them!Scared of the 92 year old what a shame on SADC
Whether it is discussed or not it will not change the fact that Zimbabwe is about to implode and the old fossil must be deposed. He is pulling the country down with him to the grave. We are tired!!!!
Shame on SADC !
“Birds of a feather flock together”
Go Mugabe, go alone
for the sake of our children´s future !
Exactly. The SADC was destroyed by Mugabe remember the troika
In New Zimbabwe we don’t want to be part of SADC or anything to do with it
Wakataure kuti, “In Sadc, we have our own way of doing things if we think something needs to be done” ndiani? Was he simply expressing his opinion or he was spokesperson of a group assigned to look into the matter? The tendency to vote by raising hands in an open forum versus secret ballot typically produces such comments.
Kuita majenandebvu zvemahara!