He said: "At the moment, we feel in partnership with those who have joined the Government. It is smoothly running. It is now in our rhythm. It's like tradition we no longer have an opposition and we are working together towards the same goals we have set as a government."
He also went on to appeal for international financial help, but insisted it must have no strings attached.
Observers have commented on how worrying Mugabe's statements are. As far as he is concerned, nothing had changed, as he's managed to get rid of the irritating opposition.
The only thing that has changed is that after years of food shortages, goods are returning to shop shelves and prices of basic commodities are beginning to fall, but the basic infrastructure remains broken.
Journalist Jan Raath reported this week, saying: The sense of optimism is alive, but after the repeated violent destruction of expectations of the past decade people have also learnt to recognise the fragility of their hope. It’s like walking into a pool of delicious, cool water, while knowing that broken glass lies on the bottom.
Exactly a year has gone by since the disputed March elections (which many feel the MDC convincingly won) and some months have elapsed since the agreement leading to the power sharing government, but there is an on-going avoidance of key policy reform issues. Land reform and tenure, repressive legislation, a transitional justice mechanism and constitutional reform still remain as just some of the major outstanding issues.
The political leaders in the coalition government are still stuck on appointments and a display of unity and togetherness, while human rights abuses continue.
Finance Minister Tendai Biti made a passionate appeal to the international community to pump in aid to avoid the collapse of this fragile government, warning of anarchy if it fails.
Threats of this may have been evident Thursday with reports from the Zimbabwe Observer website that soldiers and police officers engaged in fist fights in the capital city. The report said that uniformed forces were waiting for the arrival of their foreign currency salary allowances at a local bank in Harare and that desperate civil servants invaded Biti’s office after they failed to withdraw their US$100 salaries, using their vouchers at Agribank. It went on to say that the Finance Minister went to the Bank to try and resolve the problem. We were unable to get through to anyone to clarify this story.
Many observers say the energy Biti is expending in trying to persuade the international community to provide massive funds is wasted, because Mugabe just takes to his podium, insults these same nations and ensures Zimbabwe remains trapped in the crisis he has created.
Furthermore, calling for international investment and engagement when the foundation of the Zimbabwean economy- the agricultural sector – is still being pillaged and violently invaded, is a complete waste of time.
A number of critics have said that the greatest block to any recovery plan is Mugabe’s belligerence and the MDC obsession with appeasement.
Father Oscar Wermter, a Jesuit Priest who works with the poor in Harare's Mbare suburb, says many victims of Mugabe regime's disastrous policies are crying out for out for vengeance, as they continue to suffer. He gives an example of 90 year old James Banda, a victim of operation Murambatsvina, who lost everything that he had ever worked.
It is an outrageous injustice which cries to high heaven for vengeance that a good worker whose labour has sustained our economy for so long should end up as a beggar, having to ask for charity, as if he had never done a day's work. His work record is such that he deserves a carefree retirement, Father Wermter said.
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