Globetrotting Bob stymies Zimbabwe progress
By KING SHANGO
Published on: 1st October, 2009
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ZIMBABWE – HARARE – There has been no progress on resolving the disputes in the inclusive government because President Mugabe has been away.
Mugabe has been attending the United Nations General Assembly session where he spoke in the Assembly’s general debate, customarily addressed by Heads of State and Government, and then went on to the Summit for Africa and Latin America in Venezuela.
From the tenor of his recent speeches, even on his return there will be little prospect of breaking what seems a critical deadlock by bargaining or compromise.
The President has not been saying that if MDC-T call for lifting sanctions, then he will facilitate law reform, appoint new governors, reconsider key state appointments.
He has been saying that his party has fulfilled its obligations and it merely remains for MDC-T to fulfil theirs by ensuring sanctions are lifted.
In Zanu-PF’s district and provincial meetings leading up to the their National Congress in December, emphasis has been on loyalty to Mugabe – with several branches naming him “our Supreme Leader” – and on endorsing his leadership of the party for another five-year term and therefore for the next Presidential elections.
Zanu-PF is insisting that it had fulfilled its part of the bargain and accusing the MDC-T of trying to run a parallel government from the Prime Minister’s Office, using staff paid by donor agencies. This has been denied by the MDC-T. Mugabe also accuses the MDC of not doing enough to get “illegal” sanctions lifted.
The MDC-T on the other hand accuses Zanu-PF of failure to fulfil the agreement by refusing to budge on MDC-T’s “outstanding issues”, treating them as “a junior partner” in the government, not being willing to act in the inclusive government on matters such as law reform, ensuring the National Security Council meets.
