He should answer for his sins

Robert Mugabe, like Ian Smith, is now known by all parties and people of Zimbabwe as the enemy of the people. His revolution was to enrich himself and the chosen few. Robert Mugabes Zanu (PF) is still as defiant as before.

The whole Zanu (PF) killing systems are still intact, the CIO is harassing people as before, the police/soldiers/war vets and the green bombers are as cruel as before. Robert Mugabe was warned in 1980 to cleanse the country of innocent blood that was spilt on cross-fire and grudges before rushing for power and he ignored reconciliation. The whole world now knows that Robert Mugabe is illegitimate, a looter and a great cheat only interested in hogwash at summits, which people of Zimbabwe cannot feed on.
We fought for our soil, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement, freedom of religion and many unfulfilled promises. Killing and arresting MDC (Tsvangirai) legislators will never stop the change process that is taking place, whether he likes it or not.
It is a pity that Robert Mugabe has chosen to go with his Zanu (PF) into the grave. The international judiciary should apply international law on Robert Mugabe before he gives up the ghost. We want Robert Mugabe to answer for his sins live and not dead.
At almost a century old, his days are numbered. Action should be taken now.
There will be no reconciliation process conducted by the killers.
Many of us have now left Zanu (PF) for good because it has failed to deliver the will and expectations of the masses. Zanu (PF) is now beyond redemption. Shame!
JJ BAZOOKA, by email

ZBC ignores more than half population
EDITOR Many Zimbabweans do not want to renew their listeners licences for the following reasons:
ZBC/ZTV have acknowledged that they serve the interests of their major shareholder, Zanu (PF).
ZBC/ZTV refused to flight campaign messages from the MDC during the recent presidential run-off elections.
ZBC/ZTV acts as a propaganda tool for Zanu (PF) and presents biased and untruthful programmes.
The quality of services to outlying areas such as Marondera is extremely poor.
Zimbabweans demand a democratic broadcasting service. The election results confirmed that more than half the people of Zimbabwe support change in this country and have a different point of view from that expressed by ZBC/ZTV. They cannot afford to ignore more than half the population.
We demand that ZBC/ZTV agrees to allow all political parties and social justice organisations free, equal and fair access to the broadcasting media, thereby encouraging open political debate in Zimbabwe.
We demand that news programmes are presented in an unbiased manner, and that comment is sought from all representative voices of the population in documentaries and current affairs programmes.
We demand an immediate investigation into the poor service currently being experienced by viewers outside of capital cities
We hope that they will treat these concerns with the importance that they deserve and that they will work with us to develop a broadcasting service that serves the people rather than an unpopular and incompetent party.
ANON, by email

UZ opening exposes a lie

EDITOR As the University of Zimbabwe opened this week, the fees issue at the university exposed a problem far bigger than that it was closed because of a water and sanitation crisis.
I felt the Vice-Chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura was being hypocritical and held the whole nation in contempt when he reduced all UZs problems to plumbing matters. These water shortcomings had been part of UZ ever since I enrolled in 2006. What was special about 2009?
He did not tell the nation that UZ closed after a massive demonstration on February 3 against a fees structure introduced a day earlier. He did not tell the nation that the halls of residence had been closed on July 9, 2007 following a demonstration two days earlier against Z$1m top-up fees. Students were police-marched out of campus residences with a mere 30 minutes notice.
He even went on to ignore, in contempt of court (and was not arrested), a High Court order of July 13 by Justice Ben Hlatswayo to reinstate students into halls of residence.
Why did he conveniently leave this out? Would it have exposed the governments bankruptcy and his lack of the respect for rule of law?
The more one looks at it, the more it starts to dawn that this has been the methodology of our government. These folks make a lie and believe it.
Jonathan Moyo was the climax of this propaganda. It means they choose to identify the wrong problem and go on a policy illusion.
The government of national unity should not fall into that pitfall. The result is always the same: its catastrophic and shameful. A problem persists until it brings everything down. The prioritisation is all twisted.
UZ closed because the government and UZ were bankrupt. Students and parents failed in and resisted covering for the mishaps of government mostly because the demands were outrageous.
The vice-chancellor did not tell the nation that lecturers and other university staff had been on an intermittent strike for about a year. The Association of University Teachers (AUT) had repeatedly walked out of tripartite labour negotiating instruments demanding better salaries.
Zimbabwe was not told that the university did not have stationery to run examinations or its administration.
The authorities ran to the corporate world on that false ticket and got boreholes from UNICEF.
It was noble until the fallacy started to be exposed.
Students are failing to pay the fees of between US$404 to US$678; the lecturers are constantly on the edge of an industrial action; everything is delicate; it threatens to spill over.
Its actually alarming: government has no money and students have no money.
If all persist in the current position, a clash looms.
A third factor, with money, is needed. These authorities must tell the world their real problems. This pyrrhic hide and seek is unacceptable and retrogressive.
MAYIBUYE, University of Zimbabwe