For eight months, Zanu (PF) and the so-called Attorney-Generals Office were saying that Bennett would have his day in court, a case that is reminiscent of the early 1980s when innocent national heroes Lookout Masuku and Dumimiso Dabengwa had to be send back to Chikurubi Maximum Prison when they had been acquitted by the High Court for trumped-up treason charges.
Zanu (PF) thought this day would never come and when October 14 arrived they had not a single evidence to present to the courts.
In an attempt to personally hurt Bennett, his family and the people of Zimbabwe at large, Zanu (PF) decided to use Michael Mugabe and Chris Mutangadura to fight on its behalf and have Bennett imprisoned for a crime that even Zanu (PF) knows he did not commit.
Zanu (PF) and Robert Mugabe are buying time for it knows that when its day in court comes it will be truly discredited.
Bennett, being a true farmer at heart and patriotic Zimbabwean, will only take a few days to expose the rampant farming abuse that has been taking place.
It is now public knowledge that Mugabe and his wife Grace own 12 farms and these guillotines will do anything at their disposal to see to it that Bennett does not step anywhere close to where the records of their abuse are.
Zanu (PF) has once again exposed itself as a party that will never transform it a truly modern party like the MDC. Bennett will bring back sanity to farming without anyone being subjected to agriculture.
The move by Zanu (PF) today shows that the party is truly desperate and clinging to the straws for its survival, which is however slipping away by the day. TRYMORE MAZHAMBE, Mutare
Something wrong with GNU
EDITOR – If it is true that Roy Bennet (Pachedu) is custody again then there must be something wrong with this GNU.
Those who severely assaulted MDC leadership (Tsvangirai, Holland, Kwinje, etc) at Machipisa Police station in Harare during broad daylight are known but still free.
Kitsiyatota must be arrested today and his trial must take place first before we talk of the trial of Pachedu.
Before this GNU, many MDC members were assaulted, tortured, killed, disappeared or detained. Now during the GNU, MDC officials are still being harassed.
Power is not being shared at all. Its one sided. Its not fair. ZVIDZAI RUZVIDZO, by e-mail
Not an easy decision
EDITOR – Nobody is saying the decision MDC has to take on withdrawing from the Unity Government is an easy one. But there is one thing that would be more disastrous than making the wrong decision that is taking a decision that is not genuinely grassroots.
There is no place in the fight to restore the voice of the people nationally, for a party that does not listen to its own voice.
No-one is denying that being chauffeur-driven, like their predecessors Chirau and Muzorewa, to take their seat in the august House must feel like a dramatic improvement in personal circumstances. But 30 years on, they too could still be in the political wilderness for having settled for a half-empty glass of the peoples expectation of rediscovering their voice.
Already, it is not only Zanu (PF) apologists in the Herald who have lost all embarrassment when explaining how those who won the 2008 elections fair and square, would need to invite those they branded as traitors to join them. Zanu (PF)s militarization of the media boards makes it clear the MDC is powerless to prevent the next elections from being as predetermined as ever.
The only difference will be that Gonocomics will be indistinguishable from Biticomics. I fear by then the last of the MDCs political capital will have been poured into the sand.
Muzorewa and Chirau may have lost their voice, but does anyone know whether they kept their Mercs? JOHN, by e-mail
Light at the end of the tunnel
Did you hear about the teacher who was helping one of her students put his boots on? He asked for help and she could see why. With her pulling and him pushing, the boots still didn’t want to go on. When the second boot was on, she had worked up a sweat. She almost whimpered when the little boy said, “Teacher, they’re on the wrong feet.” She looked and, sure enough, they were.
It wasn’t any easier pulling the boots off than it was putting them on. She managed to keep her cool as together they worked to get the boots back on-this time on the right feet. He then announced, “These aren’t my boots.”
She bit her tongue rather than get right in his face and scream, “Why didn’t you say so?” like she wanted to. Once again, she struggled to help him pull the ill-fitting boots off. He then said, “They’re my brother’s boots. My mother made me wear them.”
She didn’t know if she should laugh or cry. She mustered up the grace to wrestle the boots on his feet again. She said, “Now, where are your mittens?” He said, “I stuffed them in the toes of my boots…”
As I read that, I thought about how many of our frustrations come about as the result of having to do something over and over.
Only when you’re at the end of the tunnel and you have taken about all you can take, you realize that there’s more adversity ahead and the light is barely visible. I understand; I’ve been there.
The Christian life is long and sometimes difficult. There are times we feel we just can’t take it anymore and we want to give up, especially when we’ve had to face the same adversity over and over and over again. May this passage serve as a source of comfort and strength to you:
“He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:29-31).
I pray that your strength will be renewed this day as you wait upon the Lord. Hang in there!
Redcliff gets top hotel
REDCLIFF – Plans to build a state of the art hotel in Redcliff Town have moved up a gear up with the municipality signing a memorandum of agreement with the Rainbow
Tourism Group (RTG) the municipality’s marketing and project Manager, Paul Shongera has said.
According to Shongera, the new hotel would have six stories overlooking Kwekwe River.
“The hotel’s conference centre will arguably be the largest in the country with 155 rooms and a sitting capacity of about 1000 people. It will also have a 21 hole golf course,” he said.
Shongera said the new RTG hotel would be part of the relocation of the Redcliff central business district to a new area alongside the Harare-Bulawayo highway, in line with the trend in other cities.
He said four shopping complexes developed by other private players would compliment the hotel project.
“This will help establish Redcliff as a competitive investment destination in the province, he said.
The construction of the hotel would create employment opportunities while at the same time generating income for the almost bankrupt municipality. Shongera said the hotel was projected to be complete by 2010. Paul Ndlovu
Zanu (PF) temper rises
BULAWAYO – Simmering tensions could reach boiling point within Zanu (PF) over the appointment of a vice president to replace Joseph Msika.
An order issued by Zanu (PF) secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa, was apparently perceived as a snub by the former sole ruling partys partners from PF -ZAPU who feel marginalised under the Unity Accord signed in 1987.
Zanu (PF) politburo member, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, told The Zimbabwean that the next vice president could not be chosen by groups based in Matabeleland North and South.
ZAPU was not a regional party but a national movement and we believe that the process of choosing the next co-vice president should be national and involve all the provinces in the country.
Ndlovu, however, declined to elaborate, referring further questions to acting Zanu(PF) political commissar, Richard Ndlovu, who was said to be attending meetings. – Bradshaw Muzanenhamo
Farm inputs politicized
SANYATI – Zanu(PF) officials in Sanyati have instructed Grain Marketing
Board (GMB) and Agritex staff to exclude MDC supporters from receiving farming inputs provided under a government programme.
Peasant farmers in Sanyati said senior Zanu (PF) officials had ordered GMB staff to ensure that inputs such as seed and fertilizers only benefited the partys supporters.
“They are saying the beneficiaries of the inputs are those who benefited under the 2000 fast track land reform programme, from which all MDC supporters were excluded. They are accusing us of selling the country to whites, saying we are anti-land reform and therefore we are not eligible to receive inputs, said some farmers who declined to be named for fear of reprisals.
“We dont think this is fair because since the year 2000, only Zanu (PF) supporters have benefited from the land which they grabbed from white commercial farmers, and we believe this programme is neither for Zanu (PF) nor MDC; it must benefit everyone.
MDC deputy organizing secretary, Senator Morgan Komichi said the farm input distribution programme should not be politicized.
“We what to urge the affected people to report such actions to the authorities because this is a government programme. – Joel Mzhiza
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