It is simply not true that the so-called inclusive government has been working well. It has not. Zanu (PF) has made it impossible for the Global Political Agreement to be implemented in full. That is why there is still talk of outstanding issues.
More than two years after the inclusive government was sworn in, they are still haggling over the points agreed and signed up to by the three participants including Zanu (PF).
During that time, Mugabes party has even introduced new conditions, which it demands must be met before any further progress can be made. There were never any conditions. There was a list of things to be done. None of them depended upon progress being made on any other.
In fact, some of the conditions would fall away if only Zanu (PF) would implement the GPA in full.
It is simply untrue to tell SADC leaders that there is peace in Zimbabwe today. There is not. We constantly publish reports of villagers being beaten, women being raped, homes being burnt down and activists being arrested on trumped up charges needless to say they are all members of the MDC. Even an MDC minister, Elton Mangoma, and several MPs have found themselves manacled and treated shockingly in a grotesque show of who is really in charge.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai himself has been publicly humiliated on several occasions. Zanu (PF) ministers have countered or ignored his instructions. Senior civil servants have openly reviled him. He has also been on the receiving end of information permanent secretary George Charambas acid tongue.
No civil servant has ever verbally attacked a Zanu (PF) minister and survived. It just does not happen. Furthermore, Mugabe himself considers it beneath his dignity to consult Tsvangirai – as was agreed in the GPA. He continues to make unilateral decisions on appointments to various senior posts in government.
Zanu (PF) has employed gridlock tactics to slow down the MDCs legislative programme by constantly adjourning the Senate, where it has a majority. The MDC-inspired amendments to POSA are busy collecting dust.
Perhaps most worrying of all is the doctoring of official police records to show that the MDC, and not Zanu (PF), is the major perpetrator of violence. We can only hope that SADC leaders will not fall for these lies – but will determinedly seek out the truth.
Post published in: Editor: Wilf Mbanga