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Written by CZ Correspondent
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 21:14 |
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Simukai Tinhu, the Cambrige graduate whom we criticised recently for being out of touch for suggesting that Zanu (PF) would win the next election because of the diminishing popularity of the MDC-T, has come back with another gem.
This time, and closer to reality, he argues that Zanu (PF) violence and corruption, including internal blackmail that ensures that everyone remains "loyal," are the real reasons Zanu (PF) might be able to retain power.
The analysis exposes much about Zanu (PF)'s internal dynamics, but seems to fail in not considering how this loyalty is now being tested to the limit in the current fall-out which which is tearing the party apart.
Many attribute the fall-out to tribalism and believe that the party will not survive Robert Mugabe's exit. Tinhu also seem to fail to consider the increasingly important role of the region - SADC and the African Union - which forced Zanu (PF) into the current set-up with the MDC, a party which Mugabe did not want to recognise.
How might SADC and the AU react to Zanu (PF) flagrantly ignoring an agreement which they brokered and guaranteed at a very high cost to the region.
Maybe, like many others, Tinhu has also concluded that the SADC and the AU will simply talk and at the end of the day tell the parties to continue talking to each other, even while the country continues to burn, bringing the region down with it. Read his analysis here.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 12 May 2013 16:10 |
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Written by CZ Correspondent
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 19:23 |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 09 May 2013 19:29 |
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Written by CZ Correspondent
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 13:57 |
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Something for Energy Minister Mangoma to think about? Read it here |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 09 May 2013 15:23 |
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Written by Makusha Mugabe
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Wednesday, 08 May 2013 21:10 |
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 Minister of Constitutional Afffairs, Eric Matinenga, in a Catch 22?
While MPs are debating the Constitutional Bill to pave the way for the draft charter and elections, VOA reports that the mobile voter registration exercise has been totally hijacked by Zanu (PF).
Despite the government controlling newspapers and radio, the simple message that confirmations by chiefs is no longer required for registration has failed to reach rural registration official - some would say that it has been deliberately been kept out of the newspapers and radio.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 12 May 2013 17:39 |
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Written by CZ Correspondent
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Wednesday, 08 May 2013 21:02 |
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After losing several court cases brought by Kenyan victims of torture by colonial authorities, which some say the UK government stonewalled in the hope that the Mau Mau claimants would die, the UK government is now set to compensate them.
The Foreign Office is currently holding confidential talks with the claimants' London-based solicitors with a view to settling their long-standing legal case over torture, including sexual abuse by British forces during the 1950s independence struggle.
Peter Tatchell comments on the New Statesman that the likely payments to thousands of Kenyans would hopefully lead to similar redress for the victims of Britain’s other bloody colonial wars in Malaya, Aden, Cyprus and the north of Ireland, where detention without trial, torture and extra-judicial killings also took place. Read it here. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 09 May 2013 12:50 |
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Written by CZ Correspondent
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Wednesday, 08 May 2013 12:57 |
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 The inclusive government's failure to put election observers on the ground by now is a key omission, as the political environment is already deteriorating and the fear is that by the time election observers come, intimidation and election process irregularities will already be so embedded in the system that it will be difficult to detect or retract at that late stage.
And ZANU-PF’s insistence on excluding international observers is also retrogressive, especially considering that the African Union (AU) encourages this prospect, says, Crisis in Zimbabwe coalition in its latest Zimbabwe Transition Barometer, which concludes that citizens, civil society, SADC and the international community at large need to all play their part to save Zimbabwe from a failed transition to democracy.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 May 2013 18:37 |
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