Global Political Agreement Archives

Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye: Morgan Tsvangirai’s epic speech on epic day

By Luke Tamborinyoka

Memory is a site of the struggle. Only in the rubric of yester-year memories can we trace where we have come from so that we use the lessons of the past to forge and sharpen future struggles on the anvil of a history that has been seriously reflected upon.

Exactly 14 years ago to the day, political leaders in Zimbabwe who had tenaciously rivalled for almost a decade turned the proverbial swords into plough shares in what became known as the Global Political Agreement (GPA) which poised our country for peace, growth and development.

Superintended by the regional body SADC in the aftermath of a contested election in which Mr Robert Mugabe had famously lost to his arch-rival Morgan Tsvangirai before engaging in retributive violence on a hapless electorate in a contrived bloody run-off poll, the GPA became a historic backdrop to the consummation of an inclusive government that was to give respite to a despondent nation.

Sep 15, 2022 Read more

Buck still stops with the MDCs

AS expected, Sadc’s observer mission report on Zimbabwe’s July 31 general elections to end a dysfunctional coalition government endorsed the poll as “free, peaceful and generally credible”.

Sep 09, 2013 Read more

No elections without credible reforms, Zimbabwe CSOs urge AU

ETHIOPIA – Zimbabwe Civil society organisations who are on a regional advocacy blitzkrieg in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia have urged the African Union (AU) to exert pressure on Zimbabwe to implement critical and credible reforms before the watershed elections.

May 23, 2013 Read more

Zimbabwe headed for another GNU

HARARE – Zimbabwe is headed for a prolonged transition if elections are to be held within the next two months before the full implementation of necessary reforms, The Zimbabwe Transition Barometer has warned.

May 06, 2013 Read more

Zanu PF snubs Zuma team

President Mugabe’s negotiators to the Global Political Agreement have snubbed South African President Jacob Zuma’s facilitation team. The meetings were supposed to tackle the contentious security sector and media reforms among other issues.

Feb 15, 2013 Read more

GPA reform relegated to back burner

WHEN Zanu PF and the two MDC formations signed the Global Political Agreement (GPA) in September 2008 ahead of the formation of the unity government in February 2009, most Zimbabweans pinned their hopes on the pact to usher in a democratic dispensation that would allow credible, free and fair polls.

Jan 19, 2013 Read more

Why elections in Zimbabwe are unlikely in 2013

The expectation ever since the inauguration of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) on September 15, 2008 and its Government of National Unity (GNU) on February 14, 2009 that harmonised elections would be held sooner rather than later, has been integral to the Zimbabwean political psyche.

Dec 30, 2012 Read more

Transcript 2: Jessie Majome on Mutambara vs Ncube

In the continuing discussion with Copac spokesperson Jessie Majome, journalist Lance Guma asks if Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara is being protected and kept in the position by President Robert Mugabe as a Trojan horse to influence the outcome of the constitution making exercise.

Nov 28, 2012 Read more

Zuma gets tough with Mugabe

HARARE – South African President Jacob Zuma says elections in Zimbabwe can only be held when the security sector is de-politicised, in a move largely viewed as a flexing of muscles amid growing reckless political statements by military generals.

Jun 08, 2012 Read more

Unpacking the political madness of Michael Sata

Sata is of the view that because Mugabe is one of the many Zimbabwean nationalists who participated in the liberation struggle his leadership, irrespective of egregious human rights violations, lawlessness, economic ruin and stolen elections, should not be challenged.

Jun 08, 2012 Read more