Zimbabwe: The turmoil, reconciliation, and the future!

[Dua]

Gang Chomba

Hoja zako ni hafifu sorry! Bado umegubikwa na ndoto ya ukoloni ondoa matongotongo. Afrika itasonga mbele tu haiwezi kurudi nyuma.

 

[Gang Chomba]

dua...
afrika haiwezi kusonga mbele kwa misingi ya woga na ya kuwasujudia wakoloni kama ambavyo viongozi wenu wengi wa kiafrika wamekuwa wakifanya...mugabe ni shujaa aliyeutafuta na kuupata uhuru wa zimbabwe hivyo hata mkimuita joka kubwa, dikteta na majina mengine mlioamua kumbatiza still atabaki kuwa shujaa tu, na hawezi kumuachia kibaraka nchi.

 

[Dua]

Life in Zimbabwe

Last night the Zimbabwe currency was trading at about Zim$200-million dollars to US$1

With inflation now running at over 165 000%, Zimbabweans get
little change out of two Z$50-million for a single loaf of bread.



Zimbabwe: Catholic Church says Election Commission can no longer be trusted

HARARE - 7 May 2008

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) can no longer be relied on as a "neutral and nonpartisan electoral umpire." That is the view of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Zimbabwean Bishops' Conference. In a statement. issued on Sunday, the commission condemned the climate of violence in the country and says: "All fair minded Zimbabweans have lost faith and confidence in ZEC, which can no longer be trusted to superintend a runoff."

On May 2, the ZEC finally published the results of the presidential elections held March 29, now over a month later. The opposition's candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai received 47.9% of the consensus, versus incumbent Robert Mugabe's 43.2%. Mugabe had been the head of the country for 28 years. According to electoral guidelines, an absolute majority (50% plus 1, of the votes) is needed in order to win the first round. If none of the candidates receive the absolute majority vote, a second round of voting must be held. Tsvangirai affirms that, based on independent calculations, he had already won elections, however the opposition appears to accept the second round.

The date of the second voting has not yet been determined and should take place within 21 days, according to the law. The day after the second round of voting was announced, the party of President Mugabe (ZANU-PF) announced that it would file a complaint against the assigning of 52 seats of Parliament to the opposition. The Movement for Democratic Chande (MDC), Tsvangirai's party, also contested the 60 seats of the party in power.

As the country prepares for the vote, violence and intimidation on the part of the military and militias, has increased. The teachers' union in Zimbabwe has announced they were the main targets of the violence that followed elections March 29. According to union representatives, last week 133 teachers suffered assaults and 496 were interrogated on "electoral matters." Over 1, 700 teachers have had to leave the country due to threats.

Facing this situation, the Justice and Peace Commission of the Bishops of Zimbabwe have asked for intervention from the United Nations and the African Union to supervise a planned presidential runoff.

Source: Fides

© Independent Catholic News 2008


SADC Ministers Fly for Crisis Talks

A delegation from the Southern African Development Community left Luanda, Angola for Harare to hold crisis talks with the regime and follow up the current situation in the country...........................

Zim voters vow to go back home and finish off Zanu PF in re-run

Tuesday, 06 May 2008 13:54
JOHANNESBURG - REGISTERED Zimbabwean voters based in South Africa have vowed to return home and help end President Robert Mugabe's 28-year reign, during a run-off election against Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai. The exiled voters maintain they will finish off President Mugabe (84), who lost the March 29 presidential poll, and his ruling party, which also surrendered its stranglehold on parliament to the opposition. The pledge comes hot on the heels of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) releasing the results of the controversial presidential poll, which despite President Mugabe's defeat, produced no outright winner, thus paving way for a run-off poll, whose date is yet to be announced.......

One thing for sure, Zimbabweans are resilient people and believe me Mugabe is living on borrowed .......time just wait and watch.

 

[Gang Chomba]

kuporomoka kwa uchumi kunatokana na vikwazo alivyowekewa dua na si uongozi mbovu...mbona toka mwaka 80 uchumi haukuyumba mpaka walipoamua kumbana jemadari yule?

 

[JokaKuu]

..hivi msimamo wa Tanzania kuhusu huu mgogoro ni nini?

..naona Benard Membe yuko kama hayuko.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Kheee! hivi nini kinaendelea huko Zimbabwe? Wameshatangaza mshindi wa uraisi au mazingaombwe (kama ilivyo kawaida ya Waafrika) bado yanaendelea?

 

[Kipanga]

Huyu Mkapa ndio anataka kututoroka kiaina wakati msalaba wake hapa Tz unamsubiri?? Halafu majitu mengine mambo yao yanawashinda huku nyumbani lakini wako mijicho mbele kujifanya kwenda kusuruhisha matatizo ya wengine...Lakini anapoza maumivu tu lazima kichapo kiendelee...

 

[Gang Chomba]

..hivi msimamo wa Tanzania kuhusu huu mgogoro ni nini?

..naona Benard Membe yuko kama hayuko.

tanzania haiwezi kuwa na msimamo wowote juu ya zimbabwe kwa sababu ya zanzibar yanawashinda je watayaweza ya zimbabwe?
na kuhusu huyo membe sijui kama ataweza kupiga hata chafya mbele ya mzee mugabe, kwa sababu hana hoja na hawezi kuongea chochote mbele ya comred mugabe...

 

[Alnadaby]

Zimbabwe inanuka damu ,Mkongwe hana hata utu wa kujali wanamchi wake alimaradi aendelee kutawala hadi kifo kitakapomchukua.Mambo mengine kama siasa za mashamba ni michezo tu ya kujaribu kugeuza chuki kuwa mapenzi.msimamo wa nchi za Kiafrika ni unafiki mtupu.

 

[Gang Chomba]

Kheee! hivi nini kinaendelea huko Zimbabwe? Wameshatangaza mshindi wa uraisi au mazingaombwe (kama ilivyo kawaida ya Waafrika) bado yanaendelea?

matokeo ya uchaguzi zimbabwe yametangazwa na kibaraka tshivangirai amepata 47% ya kura na comred mugabe kapata 43% ya kura. hivyo kwa mujibu wa katika ya zimbabwe wanatakiwa watu hawa waongezewe dakika 30 au ikiwezekana zipigwe penati.
ila kibaraka tshivangirai amechomoa kurudia kwa uchaguzi.
na kwa mujibu wa katiba ya zimbabwe endapo mgombea atasusia uchaguzi huyo atakayebakia atatangazwa kuwa mshindi, hivyo kama kibaraka tshivangirai ataendelea na msimamo wake huo ni wazi kuwa rais mugabe atakuwa rais tena wa zimbabwe nchi aliyopambana kuhakikisha anaitoa mikononi mwa wakoloni.

 

[Gang Chomba]

Huyu Mkapa ndio anataka kututoroka kiaina wakati msalaba wake hapa Tz unamsubiri?? Halafu majitu mengine mambo yao yanawashinda huku nyumbani lakini wako mijicho mbele kujifanya kwenda kusuruhisha matatizo ya wengine...Lakini anapoza maumivu tu lazima kichapo kiendelee...

kipanga...
wala usiwe na wasi wasi juu ya fisadi mkapa, ni wazi kuwa huko anakokimbilia anakwenda kukutana na bingwa wa majibu, bingwa wa hoja, na mtu msomi so atakachokutana nacho huko hawezi kudiriki kukaa huko zaidi hata ya wiki.

 

[Gang Chomba]

Zimbabwe inanuka damu ,Mkongwe hana hata utu wa kujali wanamchi wake alimaradi aendelee kutawala hadi kifo kitakapomchukua.Mambo mengine kama siasa za mashamba ni michezo tu ya kujaribu kugeuza chuki kuwa mapenzi.msimamo wa nchi za Kiafrika ni unafiki mtupu.

alnadaby...
zimbabwe si nchi ya kwanza kunuka damu afrika, na kwa kifupi nchi haiwezi kuongozwa na utu tu huo unaoutaka wewe.
tume ya uchaguzi imetangaza matokeo na sasa watu wanajiandaa kurudia uchaguzi, sasa ni kitu gani kinawafanya mnamchukia "bob" jamani? kama ni katiba anaifuata na ndio imemuweka mpaka leo madarakani, so nyie wazalendo wa kikwete mnamchukia nini mzee wa watu?

 

[Dua]

Mass challenge over Zimbabwe poll

Half of the results from Zimbabwe's parliamentary polls in March have been challenged in court, state media says.
Lawyers say the 105 petitions should not disrupt the work of parliament, but could in the end overturn the opposition's historic majority. The announcement came as southern African mediators arrived for talks over the presidential run-off impasse.

The opposition might boycott a run-off, saying candidate Morgan Tsvangirai was the rightful winner in the first round.
Results published by Zimbabwe's electoral commission last week gave Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Mr Tsvangirai more votes than President Robert Mugabe, but not the 50% needed to avoid a run-off.

The MDC says he won at least 50.3%. Mr Mugabe has said he will stand in a run-off, but a date for the second round of voting has yet to be set. The MDC says the official death toll of their supporters killed in post-election violence has risen to 25, but the party fears the figure could be higher.

The Southern African Development Community (Sadc) has been at the centre of efforts to resolve the deadlock in Zimbabwe following elections in March. On Tuesday, African Union foreign ministers discussed the crisis in Zimbabwe. AFP news agency reports that the body called for "a free, transparent, tolerant, and non-violent" run-off.

'Vote-buying'

The ruling Zanu-PF party has filed petitions challenging the results in 53 constituencies and the MDC has challenged 52, Zimbabwe's Herald newspaper reports. That is exactly half of Zimbabwe's 210 parliamentary seats. The petitions were filed by losing candidates for alleged electoral malpractice like vote-buying, intimidation and corruption. To cope with the extra legal work, the chief justice has appointed 17 more judges to hear the cases in the electoral court.

Under the law, the court has six months to deal with the cases, with another six months allowed for appeals. But constitutional lawyers say the cases should not disrupt the work of the government and parliamentarians can still be sworn in. There will be by-elections only if the electoral court declares the seats vacant. Normally, the newly elected MPs would be sworn in within a week of the election, but because of the ongoing impasse over the presidential poll, there is still no indication of when that might be.

Meanwhile, the MDC says that five more of its supporters were beaten to death on Monday night by Zanu-PF supporters, bringing the number of MDC members killed in post-election violence to 25. "We think the actual death toll is even higher because there are some farming areas that have been cordoned off by militias and vigilante groups," MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa told AFP.
The BBC's Orla Guerin, reporting undercover in Zimbabwe, says there is a systematic attempt under way to change the political landscape.

She says the aim is electoral cleansing - to drive opposition supporters from their voting areas, or make them too afraid to vote for the MDC again.

Gukurahundi by any other name

No Arrests made

South African investigators arrive

The death toll of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters killed in post-election violence that is being investigated by South African officials has increased to 24. Shepherd Mushonga, an MDC MP for Mazowe Central, said four MDC members had been killed in Chiweshe, 100 kilometres north of Harare, on Sunday night after being beaten by youth militia loyal to Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party.

Mushonga told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that the youths went door to door looking for MDC members and that several other people had been hospitalized with injuries following the attack. It was not possible to immediately verify the report, which the MDC says brings to 24 the number of people from within its ranks killed in revenge attacks by mainly Zanu-PF youth militia and soldiers following Mugabe’s party’s defeat in March parliamentary elections.

The MDC defeated Zanu-PF in the 210-seat House of Assembly. MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai also took more votes than 84-year-old Mugabe in the presidential election, but not enough for an outright win. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is expected to announce a date for a runoff between the two leading candidates in the coming days. Mugabe has said he will participate but Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change, which insists he won decisively, has yet to announce whether their man will partake.

A team of South African officials led by Local Government Minister Sydney Mumafadi has arrived in Zimbabwe Monday night to investigate the violence. “They are already here and they are busy conducting wide-ranging interviews. This is not going to be a selective process. They are going to talk to all relevant players,” William Geerlings, First Secretary at the South African embassy in Harare, said.

The African Union (AU) was also due to discuss the Zimbabwean crisis at a two-day meeting in Tanzania’s northern town of Arusha starting Tuesday, the country’s foreign minister Bernard Membe confirmed. MDC activist in Hurungwe North, Tapiwa Mubwanda(Pictured) was reportedly killed by Jawet Kazangarare and Private Peter Madamombe, a militia of the Zanu-PF and soldier of Zimbabwe National Army, respectively. But no arrests have been made,the perpetrators are still in Hurungwe.

MDC supporters say they have
been attacked by Zanu-PF supporters

Zanu-PF groups are accused of
destroying MDC supporters' property

Huyu fedhuli hawezi kuondoka kwa amani ataondoka tu kwa Mtutu wa Bunduki kama alivyoingia.

 

[Dua]

ZANU PF admits Violence

May 8, 2008
ZANU PF admitted on Thursday to foreign observers that there has been violence against MDC supporters and that government militias were instilling terror in the rural areas. As the opposition alleged that 30 supporters had now been killed and a union leader said 40 000 farmworkers and their dependents had been made homeless, the authorities played down the levels of violence.

Meanwhile, six days on from the announcement of results from an inconclusive March 29 presidential poll, there was still no word on when a second round should take place nor whether the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) will participate.

MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who believes he secured an overall majority over veteran President Robert Mugabe in the first round, has argued his rival is trying to spread fear in the population to ensure his victory in the run-off. In its latest toll, the MDC said it now had information that 30 supporters
had been killed by Mugabe supporters in attacks in rural areas.

“What is worrying is that each day comes with gory stories of how human beings are being treated,” said MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa. “This is why we are appealing on bended knees to the international community to assist in ending the carnage.” In a press conference in South Africa, the leader of a Zimbabwe farmworkers’ union said that 40 000 people had been driven off their land either as a result of direct attacks by militias or through fear.

“Since the elections we have recorded a total of 40 000 people who have been displaced,” Gertrude Hambira, general secretary of the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe, told reporters in Johannesburg. “Our members and their families have been left homeless. They have been attacked by a group of militias wearing army uniforms. “They have been accused of voting for the opposition. Most of them are either on the roadside or sheltering at some farms.”

A number of human rights groups, including the New York-based Human Rights Watch, have accused security forces of complicity in attacks since the elections on March 29 which have been concentrated in rural areas. However the army has disputed the allegations, with a spokesperson saying earlier this week that it “categorically distances itself and any of its members from such activities”.

Police spokesperson Wayne Bvudzijena admitted that almost 30 MDC members have been killed but questioned the death toll, saying “Of the 30,three of the cases had no basis whatsoever while others were under investigation.” International disquiet however is growing, with the UN’s secretary-general adding his voice to calls for international observers to oversee the
run-off.

Gordon Brown, prime minister of former colonial power Britain, has asked for the run-off to be “monitored by the whole international community”. In a statement, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said “future stages of the electoral process must be conducted in a peaceful, credible and transparent manner in the presence of international observers” while also voicing concern about
violence.

The run-off should in theory take place on May 24 but the electoral commission has dropped strong hints that the deadline will be missed. According to results released last Friday by the commission, Tsvangirai fell just short of an overall majority needed to avoid a run-off but his party says the figures were doctored to save Mugabe’s skin.

Yaani sasa Mugabe na thugs wake watakiona cha mtema kuni kilichomtoa kanga manyoya maana bila International observours hakuna re-run ile propaganda yake ya wakoloni imeshindwa kufanya kazi. Yeye ndiye amekuwa mkoloni

 

[Gang Chomba]

dua la kuku hilo, nadhani hujamjua mugabe ni nani na huwa hababaishwi na mkoloni yeyote...yeye anawasikiliza makamanda wake waliopambana kumng'oa mkoloni kisha ndo wanaendesha nchi na si vibaraka kama MT.

 

[Dua]

On Saturday, Ivorians in the annual Popo Carnival in Bonoua recreate a scene from colonial times, when the first French governor of Ivory Coast went on his travels.

Zimbabweans sell dried fish over the border
in the Mozambican town of Manica, a popular
destination for Zimbabwean traders.

Sasa mkoloni kawa Mugabe and his thugs.

 

[Gang Chomba]

dua naomba tuufunge huu mjadala mpaka maestro robert "bob" mugabe atakapoapishwa...adios

 

[Dua]

Mugabe hints at exit

...as succession issue refuses to die PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has hinted to his close lieutenants that he will resign in two years if he wins the impending run-off to be held this month,
but details remain sketchy on how the veteran nationalist plans to manage his exit without causing further harm to the fractious ZANU-PF.

The contentious succession issue surfaced at the party’s politburo meeting held last Wednesday at which reform-minded ZANU-PF members openly told the meeting that the revolutionary party would have to renew itself soon after the tricky run-off in which President Mugabe squares up against Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

While the meeting of the party’s supreme decision-making body renewed its pledge to support the incumbent in the run-off, consistent with President Mugabe’s endorsement at last year’s special congress held in Harare in December, it took the unprecedented step of lifting the lid on the succession issue, once considered a hot potato in ZANU-PF. In 2004 President Mugabe invited ZANU-PF members to discuss his succession
openly, but the Zimbabwean President had to kill the debate fearing it would tear apart the party.

At the time, intense jockeying for the high-pressure job had emerged between Rural Housing Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Joice Mujuru, backed by her husband, retired army general Solomon Mujuru. The defection of former politburo members Simba Makoni and Dumiso Dabengwa from the party and ZANU-PF’s loss of its majority in Parliament has however, jolted the party’s leadership to revisit the succession debate albeit after
the run-off.

Highly placed ZANU-PF sources told The Financial Gazette this week that it became apparent at the politburo meeting that President Mugabe would not complete his term of office that is supposed to end in 2013 if he won the impending second round of voting. According to presidential results released by the Zimbabwe Electoral commission (ZEC) last Friday, President Mugabe lost to Tsvangirai but neither of them garnered sufficient votes of more than 50 percent as required under Electoral Laws to avoid a run-off.

ZEC said the ruling party leader garnered 43,2 percent; Tsvangirai had 47, 9 percent, independent candidates Makoni and Langton Toungana had 8,3 and 0, 6 percent of the vote respectively. But the MDC claims that its presidential candidate won the poll with 50,3 percent of the vote and there was therefore no need for a run-off.

ZEC is yet to decide a date for the polls and it remains to be seen whether or not it will comply with the country’s election law that requires that the second round of voting should be conducted within 21 days. Sources this week said President Mugabe indicated he would not finish his term and the person to succeed him would be chosen at the party’s congress to be held next year.

They said ZANU-PF is also amenable to a government of national unity (GNU) but would want to buy into the proposal once it has secured victory for President Mugabe who will then take charge of the resultant governing structure. “Buying into the proposal now would mean that Tsvangirai as the winner of the first round of voting would assume control of the GNU, which we (ZANU-PF) may avoid if President Mugabe is to win the runoff,” said a
source.

Asked why the ruling party leader could not stand down now, the source said: “ The president felt standing down now would confuse the electorate. It is like the casino, you cannot change the bet when the ball is already rolling. We have to make sure that the wheel spins full circle.” The source added that the politburo also deliberated on the reasons why the president had lost to Tsvangirai.Divisions brought about by the party’s primaries that witnessed ZANU-PF having two candidates representing some constituencies before some were ordered to withdraw were cited as one reason for the poor showing.

“It was decided that next time, primary elections should be held long before the elections unlike the situation that prevailed. This would enable party members to solve differences before the elections are held. We went into the last election when wounds were still fresh among some losing candidates in the primaries,” the source added.

ZANU-PF’s Patrick Chinamasa who heads a recently established information committee could not be reached for comment.
But the party’s parliamentary chief whip, Joram Gumbo, who is also a member of the politburo yesterday told The Financial Gazette that he was not aware that President Mugabe would retire in 2010, but confirmed that the party would appoint new leaders next year. “What you are saying is news to me. However, ZANU-PF appoints new leaders at congress and the next congress will be held next year. In ZANU-PF the first secretary of the party is the president,” Gumbo said.

He said President Mugabe’s representation of the party in the last presidential election was above board as he had been elected as the party’s first secretary at the party’s 2004 congress. “At last year’s special congress, there was only confirmation and endorsement because the president had received the nomination at the 2004 congress,” Gumbo added. There have been calls for President Mugabe, in power for almost three
decades, to step down and allow a leadership renewal in his party by people such as South African Nobel Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu.

President Mugabe has resisted pleas from his peers to step down. Most post-independence regional leaders like Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Joachim Chissano of Mozambique, Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania and Festus Mogae of Botswana have passed on the leadership baton.

Ati Anataka miaka miwili kilichomshinda miaka 28 ni kipi? Machozi ya mamba. Zimbabweans have decided whatever the cost he must go .................

 

[Gang Chomba]

Mpatanishi mkuu katika mzozo wa Zimbabwe rais Thabo Mbeki wa Afrika kusini , amewasili leo mjini Harare kwa mazungumzo na rais Robert Mugabe kwa ziara yake ya kwanza tangu kutangazwa rasmi matokeo ya uchaguzi mkuu wa rais.

Mbeki ambaye anakosolewa kwa kuchukua msimamo laini dhidi ya rais Robert Mugabe, anatarajiwa kukutana na kiongozi huyo mkongwe wa Zimbabwe, lakini haijafahamika iwapo atakutana pia na upande wa upinzani.Kiongozi wa chama cha MDC Morgan Tsvangirai hivi sasa yuko nje ya nchi hiyo akikutana na viongozi wa Afrika pamoja na wanadiplomasia katika juhudi za kuongeza mbinyo dhidi ya Mugabe mwenye umri wa miaka 84 kujiuzulu baada ya miaka 28 ya utawala wake.

Chama cha MDC pia kimesema kuwa hakipangi kushiriki katika uchaguzi wa duru ya pili. Tsvangirai hajatoa jibu kamili iwapo atashiriki katika uchaguzi huo na iwapo hatatoa jibu kamili Mugabe mwenye umri wa miaka 84 atakuwa mshindi moja kwa moja.

Pia chama cha MDC kimesema kuwa hadi sasa hakijapata mwaliko kutoka kwa Mbeki kukutana na uongozi wake katika ziara yake ya siku moja mjini Harare.

 

[Gang Chomba]

Rais Thabo Mbeki wa Afrika Kusini, tayari amekuwa na mazungumzo na Rais wa nchi hiyo Bwana Robert Mugabe.
Hata hivyo mazungumzo hayo yamemalizika pasipokutolewa kwa taarifa yoyote juu ya nini walichokijadili katika mazungumzo hayo.
Wakati huo huo mabalozi wa nchi za kigeni wamewatembelea waathirika walioshambuliwa na wapiganaji wanaosadikiwa kuwa ni wafuasi wa rais Mugabe.
Rais Mbeki amekuwa na mazungumzo mazito na rais Robert Mugabe juu ya hali ya mgogoro katika Uchaguzi wa mwezi machi.
Mbeki ambaye ni mpatanishi mkubwa, baada ya kuwasili mjini Harare alikwenda moja kwa moja kwa ajili ya mazungumzo na rais Mugabe ikiwa ni ziara yake kwanza nchini humo tangu kutangazwa kwa matokeo ya uchaguzi wa urais.
Mazungumzo hayo ambayo yamefanyika katika Ikulu ya nchi hiyo yamechukua muda wa masaa matatu kabla ya Mbeki hajaelekea kwenye ubalozi wa Afrika Kusini mjini harare pasipo kutoa taarifa yoyote kwa waandishi wa habari juu ya mazungumzo yao.
Chama cha Upinzani cha MDC, ambacho kilishinda uwakilishi mwingi Bungeni na ambacho kiongozi wake alimshinda rais Mugabe katika awamu ya kwanza ya Uchaguzi Machi 29,kilitaka Bw Mbeki avuliwe wadhifa wake kama mpatanishi wa mgogoro huo kutokana na kushindwa kumwambia ukweli rais Mugabe.Juhudi hizi mpya za upatanishi zinakuja huku kukiwa na madai ya kuendelea kwa ghasia nchini humo ambazo zinalaumiwa kufanywa na magenge ya mgambo yanayounga mkono serikali ya Mugabe.
Kiongozi wa chama Kikuu cha upinzani cha Movement for Democratic Change -MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai amabaye Rais Mbeki nimpatanishi wake na Rais Mugabe, amesema hajakaribishwa katika mazungumzo yeyote na Rais huyo wa Afrika Kusini.
Msemaji wa chama hicho, George Simbotshiwe, amesema wanatambua kuwa kiongozi huyo yuko Zimabwe na anakutana na Rais Mugabe lakini kama Chama hawana mawasiliano yoyote ya kiofisi kuwa atakutana na chama cha MDC au kiongozi wake.
Bwana Tsvangirai, amekuwa nje ya Zimababwe kwa kipindi cha wiki kadhaa sasa, akikutana na viongozi wa Afrika na mabalozi ikiwa ni juhudi za kutaka kuongezwa nguvu ya kumshawishi Rais Robert Mugabe kuachia madaraka baada ya miaka ishirini na nane kumalizika akiwa madarakani.
Viongozi kutokaka mataifa kumi na nne wanachama wa SADC, mwezi uliopita walikutana mjini Lusaka Zambia,na walimtaka rais Mbeki aendelee na kazi yake ya upatanishi baina ya Chama Tawala cha ZANU-PF kinachoongozwa na rais Mugabe pamoja na chama cha MDC.
Rais Mbeki amekuwa akikata kumpinga rais Mugabe hadharani, mbali na kwamba nchi yake imejikuta ikiingia katika gharama mbalimbali za kiuchumi, huku kiasi cha raia wa Zimbabwe milioni tatu wakiaminika kuwa wanatafuta kazi nchini Afrika Kusini.


mbeki anajua ukweli ndo maana hamuungi mkono kibaraka MT