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Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has reprimanded Zimbabwean leaders for failing to resolve election disputes telling them to prioritise “what is in the best interest of Zimbabwe”. Mbeki suggested that a Government of National Unity (GNU) like the one he helped broker in 2009 could solve the crisis in Zimbabwe.
Forced to resign three years ago in the face of a litany of corruption scandals, embattled former South African president Jacob Zuma is due back in court on Monday in a graft case dating back more than two decades.
Three years after a coup ended Robert Mugabe’s rule, the situation in Zimbabwe has gone from bad to worse, as political tensions mount, the economy falls apart and the population faces hunger and Covid-19.
Opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has all but dumped foreign-meditated talks with his nemesis, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, preferring a home-grown solution to the current economic and political crises facing the country.
Former president Thabo Mbeki has stayed true to his word that he would send the country’s last apartheid president, FW de Klerk, the UN Convention declaration that apartheid was a crime against humanity.
In a new twist regarding the claims by former apartheid leader FW De Klerk that apartheid was not a crime against humanity, former President Thabo Mbeki says the last Apartheid president was not aware that the system was declared a crime by the UN.
Opposition MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he would gladly accept dialogue convened by former South African President Thabo Mbeki to end political hostilities between him and President Emmerson Mnangagwa and resolve the country’s deepening economic crisis.
Opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says his party would only go into talks for the purpose of enforcing a cocktail of reforms for the country to move forward, unlike the ruling Zanu PF which he said seemed to be obsessed with positions and power.
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki, who was in the country this week to facilitate dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, is reading Excelgate, a book by exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo, which details how last year’s contested poll was rigged, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal.
By Brighton Mutebuka
1. The Zimbabwean political question is simply about misgovernance and rampant / unbridled corruption. ZANU PF + the Military control the levers of state power. It’s a quasi political military-party hybrid / organisation. This dates back to the 1970s war of liberation. It’s a deeply ingrained concept. In fact, it isn’t even ZANU PF, it’s a small clique, a cabal which exerts control and focuses on looting state resources and targeting real and perceived opponents.
2. This cabal has got no appetite for genuine reforms. It thrives on crony capitalism / state patronage and weakened state institutions. It wields its power disproportionately and flexes its muscle to calibrate how far the “state” is prepared to yield in any negotiations which are meaningless if they do not facilitate hegemony / power retention at all costs.