Zimbabwe: The turmoil, reconciliation, and the future!

Catherine Sasman
Windhoek

The Embassy of Zimbabwe in Windhoek yesterday emphatically denied allegations that opposition leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Morgan Tvangirai, was beaten while in police custody in that country.

The incident has caused a worldwide outcry against the ZANU-PF government.


"The Government of Zimbabwe does not brook any violence; we are a peaceful government," said new Ambassador to Namibia, Chipo Zindoga.

News reports alleged that Tsvangirai was brutally tortured by a commando unit based in the Cranborne Barracks in Harare on Sunday after a prayer rally in the Zimbabwean capital.

A police officer based at the Machipisa Police Station purportedly claimed that Tsvangirai and other opposition leaders were beaten for nearly two hours by "drugged soldiers disguised as police officers", according to ZimOnline.

Ambassador Zindoga said investigations are underway to establish who is responsible for the violence against the MDC leaders, "but right now nobody knows who beat them up".

She claims that the Sunday MDC meeting which sparked the violence was not a prayer meeting as the opposition party maintains, but in fact a political rally held illegally by the opposition party.

"It should be noted that the planned gathering was not a prayer meeting as the opposition had claimed under the so-called 'Save Zimbabwe Campaign' coordinated by the MDC's purported Democratic Resistance Committees (DRC) and other anti-government civic organizations. It was actually a political rally made to launch the violent demonstrations," said Zindoga.

"It was a well-orchestrated defiance campaign by the MDC factions and their allies to launch a united assault on the government following the meeting they had on 9 January, where some Western ambassadors ordered them to unite under the ambit of the so-called 'Save Zimbabwe Convention' to confront the Government.

"The same ambassadors pledged US$1million for the political project," Zindoga charged.

A blanket ban was imposed on all politically-related demonstrations and rallies in Harare and Chitungwiza since February this year, presumably after disturbances that occurred at an MDC-organized rally. The ban is likely to remain in place for the next three months, according to Zindoga.

Although the MDC had appealed to the Minister of Home Affairs in that country to hold the demonstration, the appeal did not suspend the order for the ban.

"The order was therefore still standing, but the groups decided to go ahead and convene the so-called prayer meeting. The planned gathering was thus unlawful, and police had the lawful authority to disperse the demonstrators and arrest those who defied the order to disperse, hence the consequent action," said Zindoga.

The demonstration on Sunday, said Zindoga, was meant to attract the attention and to coincide with the UN Human Rights Council currently sitting in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as the forthcoming EU-Africa Summit to be held in Portugal.

She further claimed that Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara "commanded hooligans using children as shields" to attack innocent citizens. She said the MDC supporters attacked a bus of mourners coming from a funeral and stole cell phones and money from the passengers, and left one woman with a miscarriage.

"The police were also beaten up and sustained serious injuries, and one lost his life. The police had to use minimum force to deal with the demonstrators," the ambassador maintained.

"It should be stated that the Government of Zimbabwe will not brook any form of defiance campaigns," she continued.






She also took a swipe at the British government which, she says, has since 1997 actively tried to destabilize and derail Zimbabwe's land reform process. She further charged that it wants to remove President Robert Mugabe from power and replace him with a "more pliant and directionless MDC and its puppet president".

The British government, she continued, uses coercive diplomacy in the EU, the Commonwealth and the United States to "conscript them to impose declared and undeclared sanctions on the Government and the people of Zimbabwe", and to fund non-governmental organizations to "arouse and incite internal domestic upheaval to make Zimbabwe ungovernable".

She also charged that the MDC had campaigned in Western capitals for the imposition of illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe.


Zindonga azidi kumkumbatia Mzee Mugabe..............................!
 
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Morgan arudi nyumbani hoi.
 
huyo mama ni moto,si alikuwa pale dar,naona sasa ameamishiwa namibia.huwa anaitetea nchi yake kwa nguvu zote.
 
Lunyungu

''ya Tunduru'' Ni Yapi Hayo Yanayomshinda Rais?

Hivi Jk Anapofanya Jitihada Katika Jumuiya Ya Kimataifa Kama Mwakilishi Wa Sadcc Hilo Ni Tatizo.

Mambo Mengine You Have To Put Politics Aside Kweli....

Mugabe Anahitaji Kuelezwa Alichofanya Ni Makosa, Wananchi Wake Wanataabika Kwa Kile Tunachoweza Kurekebisha Basi Tuchukue Jitihada Beside We Were Emissaries Of Sadcc...
 
naamini JK alikwenda "kumpasha" Mzee Mugabe. vinginevyo angekuwa huru kueleza kwa waandishi wa habari kilichojiri ktk mazungumzo baina yake na Mugabe.
 
jokaKuu said:
naamini JK alikwenda "kumpasha" Mzee Mugabe. vinginevyo angekuwa huru kueleza kwa waandishi wa habari kilichojiri ktk mazungumzo baina yake na Mugabe.
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You kidding Jokakuu,
JK kumpasha Mugabe kwa ubavu upi? JK ni mpenda sifa anataka jumuia ya kimataifa imuone kuwa naye yumo katika kujaribu kutafuta suluhu wakati polisi wake wanafanya yale yale huko Tunduru.
Hakuna kiongozi wa Kiafrika mwenye kuweza kusema lolote la maana hapo zaidi ya kupeana mbinu zaidi za Kidikteta ili waendelee kuwa madarakani milele.
Nilisoma article moja kwenye Monitor la Uganda, mwandishi anawashangaa polisi kwa vitendo vyao nchini Uganda wakati wao hao hao ndio wa kwanza kwenda kwenye viosk kukopa sukari na (sigara nimeongezea). Hao Wazimbabwe wanafanya yale yale wakati inflation rate inazidi kuwaumiza wao watoto wao na wajukuu zao na mapaka hapo Mugabe atakapokufa bila shaka na vitukuu vyao navyo vitakuwa vimeonja joto la jiwe.
 
Wenzio hawakuchukua ili wazalishe chakula, wamechukua ili wakulima wadogo wadogo waende kwao wakakodi vijisehemu kwa ajili ya kulima kwa vijembe vya mkono. Kilimo cha wazungu kilikuwa mechanized sasa hivi ni kilimo cha ngwamba. From machines to hand hoe. Mkulima ambaye hawezi kuilisha familia yake kwa mwaka atawezaje kulisha taifa
 
Tabasamu said:
Wenzio hawakuchukua ili wazalishe chakula, wamechukua ili wakulima wadogo wadogo waende kwao wakakodi vijisehemu kwa ajili ya kulima kwa vijembe vya mkono. Kilimo cha wazungu kilikuwa mechanized sasa hivi ni kilimo cha ngwamba. From machines to hand hoe. Mkulima ambaye hawezi kuilisha familia yake kwa mwaka atawezaje kulisha taifa
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Kweli zumbukuku..............na hili nalo linahitaji dawa.
 
Nimesikia kuwa Mugabe ametishia kuwa-deport Mabalozi wote wanaokosoa serikali yake. Alisema hivi: "Those foreign diplomats who criticise the government should leave the country or we will throw you out, this is not part of Europe but Africa"
 
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"Kikwete was here to tell Mugabe that world leaders are now fed up with him and he must shape up or ship out," the sources said. "Mugabe was very shaken by the world reaction to the assaults on MDC officials, but he is putting on a brave face."...........................................................
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Habari kamili hapa:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200703160388.html
 
Je tunweza kujifunza nini kutoka Zimbabwe? Kuna mtu amejaribu kulinganisha Zimbabwe na Rhodesia na kujiuliza kwa nini Zimbabwe imeporomka vile; angalia hapa chini.


The reasons Rhodesia prospered and Zimbabwe doesn't is as follow:
(1) Even though some critics say that Rhodesia had support from other countries there are some foreign countries that support Zimbzbwe too, the infamous "Look East and beg" policy, which by the way, is a dismal failure. At least Rhodesians could survive during the crunch, could make their own spare parts, and could keep industry growing and moving. Zimbabweans don't have the guts or wisdom to know where to even begin. They are puppets of an idiot who continues to lie and steal from them, but that's just typical though, WE WANT EVERYTHING THE WHITE MAN BUILT AND WORKED HARD FOR, BUT WE ARE NOT WILLING TO LEARN HOW TO TAKE CARE OF IT AND PROMISE TO DESTROY ALL OF IT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. You could give a black Zimbabwean an anvil and he/she would figure out a way to break it! They measure their success in how much they can steal and get for free. You must be so proud of that, but the rest of the world only laughs at you. I am sure that a troop of baboons from the Gwaai area (where I grew up, lived and worked), would be able to do a more honest, hard working, thoughtful and consistent job of running Zimbabwe, than the current communist morons!

(2)Yes, the white Rhodesians owned the economy, but that's because they owned the country. Now the black Zimbabweans own the country AND the economy. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the joke here. Difference? the answer is simple, white Rhodesians worked hard and could figure out how to do difficult things with little help. Black Zimbabweans are lazy, liars, thieves and don't have the widom or fortitude to get things done the right way, the first time.

(3)Why did black Zimbabweans not flock all over the world during the Rhodesian era? Because they had JOBS, FOOD TO EAT, BUILDINGS TO LIVE IN, and a SENSE of PURPOSE!! The white man provided that for them! It's that simple. What do they have today? NOTHING but a PRAYER! Western countries tend to not take in people who are lazy and are at a high risk of sponging off of other tax payers. There, another simple answer.

(4)Democracy in Zimbabwe? Are you for real? What democracy? You can't be that stupid. Oh, I forgot, Zimbabwe has to find someone else to blame for its failures and bad choices. It could never be at fault because, afterall, Mugabe knows how to run a country right? Right down the toilet. Proof is in the pudding buddy, and it's there for all the world to see.
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Kichuguu

Huyo aliyeandika hiyo artical ni White Rhodesian ambao wanausongo na Zimbabweans. Sio kweli kwamba wazimbabe ni wavivu, wao wazungu ndio wavivu walikuwa wanawatumia waafrika kufanya hizo kazi.

Mugabe is just another dictator like Hitler or Mobutu na ni mtu ambaye anaua waafrika wenzie kwa uchu wa madaraka ni mtu asiyetosheka. Hivi shida yote hii ni kwa sababu ya mke aliyenaye ambaye bado kijana wakati mzee amekwisha na ana uchu wa kutanua.

The latest Mugabe amewatishia western diplomats kwamba atawafukuza, the guy has run out of ideas and he is a killer.
 
Dua said:
Kichuguu

Huyo aliyeandika hiyo artical ni White Rhodesian ambao wanausongo na Zimbabweans. Sio kweli kwamba wazimbabe ni wavivu, wao wazungu ndio wavivu walikuwa wanawatumia waafrika kufanya hizo kazi.
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Hata kama aliyeandika ni kaburu wa kirhodesia, article yake ina ukweli fulani. Kwa mfano Zimbabwe hamna kazi tena kama ilivyokuwa wakati wa Smith, mashamba yote yaliyochukuliwa na Mugabe na kupewa waafrika hayazalishi kama ilivyokuwa hapo mwanzo. Hata sisi hapo bongo tunajua kuwa baada ya serikali kutaifisha mashamaba kama yale ya mkonge yalikufa. La muhimu ni kwamba kama wazungu alikuwa wakifanyiwa kazi na waafrika, kwa nini sasa waafrika wenyewe wasijitume kujifanyia kazi zao wenyewe kwa vile wazungu wameondoka?

Mimi nilikaa pale Harare mwaka 1989-1990 nikiwa mgeni wa University of Zimbabwe pale Mount Pleasant. Wakati huo ndipo huyu Mutambara ambaye ndiye mmoja wa viongozi wa upinzani alipoongoza wanafunzi kumpinga Mugabe. Hata hivyo misha yalikuwa mazuri sana kwangu niliyekuwa nimetokea Tanzania, wakati huo wenyeji walikuwa wakilalamika kuwa nchi inakeda pabaya. US$ 1 ilikuwa ikibadilishwa kwa Z$2.50 tu; ile barabara ya Julius Nyerere Way ilikuwa inapendeza kweli kweli. Mwaka juzi nimefika pale Harare sikuamini kabisa macho yangu. Utadhani nchi imepigwa mabomu, vibanda vya machinga wanaohangaishana na City Commision kama ilivyokuwa hapo Dar vimetapaa sehemu nyingi za jiji.
 
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