Tsvangirai and his elected party were sold down the river and given little choice but to accept a deal which will leave them totally marginalized, and the people of Zimbabwe overwhelmingly reliant on overseas aid.
XHEAD – The sham GNU
Regardless of the expedient garbage and the distorted picture that SADC and the African Union (AU) will now try to paint for the international community this is not a solution for the people of Zimbabwe. It is merely more of the same old Mugabe-Zanu (PF) stupidity, now being rubber stamped by the MDC, as opposed to genuine change and the chance to plot a course for safer waters. Had a genuine power-sharing deal been implemented, I would have endorsed it.
This sham posing as a GNU will only confirm to Mugabe that the bullet is mightier than the ballot and to the SADC that self-preservation of elitist groups can still be maintained in Africa.
Of course now that the President has been preserved, SADC will be racing off to the UN and Western powers with the begging bowl. This will be along the lines of: Please sir, we know that we told the UN to stay out and called Western powers imperialists but we really need you to pour in aid so that they can use the aid as a tool to further oppress their people and retain most of it for themselves.
XHEAD – Sort of Oliver Twisted
Keep out of Africa until we're ready with the begging bowl.
The western powers must refer SADC and South Africa to Russia and China to bail out Zimbabwe. If this results in only a few pennies for all of Zimbabwe's mining rights then the liberation parties within the countries making up SADC must find the money they promised Mugabe.
Without doubt this is not the time for the United States and the European Union to lift sanctions in Zimbabwe. As SADC has made patently clear, they are the biggest danger to Africa.
In reality they are the biggest threat to elitists because they expect accountability in respect of loans, stability for investment and democratic processes to be observed. That is why they are portrayed as demons before elections. They threaten the continuation of the elite in power by pointing out corruption, cronyism and crimes against humanity.
XHEAD – A complete betrayal
Worst of all is that it is a betrayal of everything that the ending of apartheid stood for.
The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court which established the International Criminal Court as, Inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity committed in the context of an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.' It lists such crimes as murder, enslavement, deprivation of physical liberty, forced relocation, sexual violence, and collective persecution.
If you substitute racial group for an elite group and forget the fact that the Zimbabwean regime is many times more murderous than the apartheid regime, can anyone tell me where the difference between the two lies? I trust that those that point out that the Zimbabwean rulers are black aren't for a minute suggesting that black people are quite happy to be murdered and starved to death by elitist blacks and that racism is all that concerns them.
Moreover, if there are suggestions of pride and independence then I trust that SADC will be informing these Western imperialists that their aid is no longer welcome. – BY MICHAEL TRAPIDO
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