We disenfranchised Zimbabweans think that Zanu (PF) spokesman Gumbo can’t be serious in describing President Zuma’s advisor Lindiwe Zulu as ‘a mad woman’ for insisting on the promised reforms before elections.
Gunboat diplomacy is unlikely to endear Zanu (PF) to Zuma and the Vigil hopes that the South African President will dismiss the decision of the aptly-named ‘con’court to order elections by the end of next month. No doubt the ‘mad woman’ will have informed him of the opinion of Deputy Chief Justice Luke Malaba that the ruling ‘defied logic’. The media quoted her as saying that her boss and SADC leaders want free and fair elections in Zimbabwe ‘with or without the court ruling’.
A SADC ambassador based in Harare is quoted in the same article as saying that the postponed summit will be the most important since the GPA was signed in 2008. The ambassador said the court’s judgment ‘will be followed to the extent that it is feasible to do so and this means that people have got to be rational and flexible in dealing with these issues’.