Messages From Zimbabwe

Two Harare men who allegedly swindled a United Arab Emirates agricultural company of shares worth US$103000 and vehicles worth US$28500 yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts facing two counts of fraud.

Peter Valentine (50) and Alan Leslie Alison (57), who were represented by Mr Francis Katsande of F.M. Katsande and Partners and Mr Chris Mhike of Atherstone and Cook, were granted bail of US$500 each when they were arraigned before magistrate Ms Cathrine Chimanda.

Ms Chimanda ordered them to report to the police once a week and to surrender their passports.

Prosecutor Mr Public Mpofu told the court that the complainant, East Island Agricultural Services Company, is based in the UAE and a financier of Mydale International Marketing (Pvt) Ltd, a duly registered Zimbabwean company.

East Island Agricultural Services representative Mr Abbas Omar Bashir is also the managing director of Mydale.

Mr Obaid Salem is the director of East Island Agricultural Services.

It is alleged that Mydale was incorporated in Zimbabwe on October 12, 2006 in terms of the company laws of Zimbabwe.

Upon inception, the appointed directors were Mr Doubt Chinembiri, Mr Tonderai Chiguvari, Mr Golden Rwavi and Mr Abbas Omar Bashir.

The other two directors resigned leaving Mr Rwavi and Mr Bashir as the two directors controlling 65 and 35 percent of the firm respectively.

It is further alleged that Mr Rwavi ceded his 65 percent shares in Mydale to East Island Agricultural Services.

This left East Island owning 1000 shares in Mydale through its nominee directors Mr Rwavi and Mr Bashir.

The shares were to remain in the nominees’ names for administrative purposes.

Mydale’s mandate was to buy and export Katambora seed from Zimbabwe and export to the UAE where it would be sold through East Island.

In September 2008, the court heard, Mr Bashir had to leave the country for the UAE to attend to family business and so Mr Obaid Salam had to look for someone to represent his interest, resulting in him bringing Valentine as a partner to run the affairs of Mydale.

It is further alleged that they signed a partnership agreement on September 19 last year in which they clearly stated that Valentine could only become a 51 percent shareholder and director in Mydale after paying US$103000 to East Island.

Pursuant to the agreement, Mr Rwavi and Mr Bashir signed some share transfer certificates and transferors and left all the other portions blank to be signed by the transferees after the $103000 was paid by Valentine.

The uncompleted share transfer certificates were left in trust with consultant, Alison.

Mr Bashir and Mr Salem left Zimbabwe for the UAE on September 29 last year and Valentine and Alison connived and gave themselves 14 and 51 percent shares in Mydale respectively contrary to the partnership agreement, the court heard.

Valentine made himself a managing director through a meeting he convened with Alison.

On the second count Mr Salem allegedly sent nine vehicles from the UAE to Mydale.

The vehicles belonged to East Island and Mydale was the recipient.

Mr Salem instructed Dr Rob Kelly to sell the vehicles on his behalf.

He sold six vehicles and took the remaining three to Hammer & Tongues Auctioneers for sale.

Valentine and Alison, it is alleged, using the fraudulently acquired directorships and shareholdings in Mydale, misrepresented to the High Court that the vehicles belonged to them hence they should be surrendered to Mydale.

The High Court, on the basis of the alleged falsehoods presented by the pair, issued an order compelling the auctioneers to surrender the vehicles to Mydale.

The two took possession of the vehicles and started using them, prejudicing East Island of US$28500, the court heard.

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Zimbabwe has secured $400 million in credit lines from African states to revive its ailing industries, state media reported on Wednesday, in the first major financial package since a unity government was formed. Industry and Commerce Minister Welshman Ncube was quoted as by the Herald newspaper as saying African countries had committed to provide the credit lines to companies in Zimbabwe as it struggles to rebuild its shattered economy.

A unity government formed by rivals President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has appealed for about $8.3 billion to help revive the economy.

“Minister Ncube said Zimbabwe had managed to secure about $200 million from countries in the Southern African Development Community and another $200 million from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa to meet urgent and pressing working capital requirements for local companies,” the Herald reported.

Although the funds from African states may help, Zimbabwe is in dire need of aid from Western donors, who have demanded broad economic and political reforms, including ending a new wave of farm invasions targeting the few remaining white farmers.

Western donors should not resume development aid until Mugabe’s ZANU PF party ends human rights abuses and backs serious reforms, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.

The group said police intimidation, arrests of activists and violent invasions of commercial farms by ZANU PF supporters were continuing.

Despite the formation of the unity government early this year, donors remain reluctant to lend money. Land invasions, at the root of the collapse of the once vibrant economy, have continued, farmers say.

Ncube did not say which countries had offered the funds, but said companies would start accessing the credit lines in the next few weeks.

Zimbabwe’s industries are currently operating at an average 10 percent of capacity, but a new government economic plan hopes to raise this to about 60 percent by the end of the year.

The country’s manufacturing sector has been affected by the decline in agriculture following Mugabe’s seizure of white farms to resettle landless blacks.

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Air Zimbabwe’s passenger jets could be seized at Gatwick airport after an international tribunal ruled that the country’s assets could be confiscated and sold in order to compensate farmers whose land has been seized.

The decision by the Washington-based International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) came after a six-year legal battle between a group of Dutch farmers and President Robert Mugabe’s government.

It finally ruled last week that Mr Mugabe’s government had broken a bilateral investment treaty with the Netherlands and awarded the group more than £14 million in compensation.

The ICSID is part of the World Bank and the judgment can be enforced by seizing Zimbabwean state assets - such as Air Zimbabwe’s aircraft - in any of its more than 100 member countries, which include both Britain and America. Embassy buildings, though, are excluded from seizure under the Vienna conventions.

At a hearing in Paris, which was closed to both the public and media, Zimbabwean officials defended the eviction of more than 4,000 farmers saying the best agricultural land was taken by white “settlers”, mostly British, during the colonial era.

One of the farmers, Ben Funnekotter, 49, born of Dutch parents in Zimbabwe and who now lives in Australia, was one of the first forced off by Mr Mugabe’s thugs in 2000.

“We need to see if the award will be paid,” he said. “If it is not, then I will start proceedings to impound any assets belonging to the Zimbabwe government.”

Matthew Coleman, a British lawyer who represented the farmers in Paris, said: “We hope this encourages others to come forward and bring claims under the bilateral investment treaties.”

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The African Development Bank said on Sunday Zimbabwe needs to do more work before the country’s full scale reengagement with the global community, a sign that foreign funding to rebuild its shattered economy will be tough to secure.

ADB President Donald Kaberuka told reporters the bank was working together with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to ensure Zimbabwe normalized its relations with the international community.

“There are many things to be done for full scale reengagement,” said Kaberuka, side stepping the issue of whether the ADB would step in with some form of funding.

Zimbabwe’s new unity government has asked for international funding to rehabilitate an economy, once described by the World Bank as the fastest shrinking outside a war zone. Over 90 percent of the country’s working population is unemployed and the government is broke.

Despite the formation of the new government early this year by political rivals Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, donors remain reluctant to lend money. More worrying, farm invasions, at the root of the collapse of the once vibrant economy, have continued.

Policy differences with President Mugabe’s government, including the often violent seizure of white-owned farms for the resettlement of landless blacks, have left it without international funding. The land seizures started in 2000.

The IMF, which suspended Zimbabwe’s voting rights in 2003, said on Friday the country had to clear its arrears with the fund, now amounting to $130 million, before it could get any money. The World Bank, which is owed over $600 million, has maintained a similar stance.

There had been speculation that either the ADB or the Southern African Development Community could arrange a bridge loan to pay off Zimbabwe’s arrears with the IMF. However, Kaberuka’s remarks appeared to pour cold water on suggestions that a rescue package was in the works.

“I don’t think the strategy of making Zimbabwe dependent on foreign aid is the right one. What we need to do with Zimbabwe is to work with them to establish business confidence, rehabilitate their infrastructure and ensure that skilled Zimbabweans come back to their country,” he said.

“I very much welcome the political arrangement in Zimbabwe. It may be imperfect but it represents a chance for that country’s recovery and return to its previous prosperous status.”

The US has indicated it is not yet ready to give money to Zimbabwe.

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The creation of a new Zimbabwean constitution is severely straining relations between Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and its civil society partners, who are usually united by their opposition to President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF.

A draft constitution was agreed on by ZANU PF, the MDC, and a break-away grouping led by Arthur Mutumbara, at a meeting in the Zimbabwean resort town of Kariba in September 2007.

What has become known as the Kariba Draft paved the way for the Global Political Agreement (GPA) between ZANU PF and the MDC, signed on September 15, 2008, although the unity government it ushered in only came into effect on February 11, this year after months of political bickering.

The Speaker of parliament, Lovemore Moyo, from Tsvangirai’s MDC, announced earlier this month that a 25-member parliamentary committee comprising legislators from the MDC, Mutumbara’s breakaway MDC and ZANU PF and would lead the process of writing a new constitution.

“The historic inter-party political agreement places the responsibility of leading the constitution-making process on parliament and, more importantly, provides an opportunity for the country to create a constitution by the people and for the people,” he said.

The committee is expected to finish the process by 2010 and subject the new constitution to a referendum by July 2010.

Lovemore Madhuku, chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), an organisation of labour movements, churches, business, human rights and civic groups, said the process should be driven by civil society, not politicians, and that they would begin campaigning for a “No” vote in the expected referendum in protest.

“As the NCA, we reject the parliamentary committee that has been announced to lead the process of writing a new constitution. The process should be people-driven and not led by parliamentarians. “We will campaign against it and ask people to reject the flawed constitution during the referendum,” Mr Madhuku told journalists.

The NCA successfully thwarted Mugabe’s attempt to introduce a new constitution in 2000, giving ZANU PF its first electoral defeat since coming to power after independence from Britain in 1980.

Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga told a recent meeting of civil society representatives, “The Kariba Draft is not, and will not determine, the final constitution. The draft will only serve as a point of reference.”

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), the largest trade union federation and birthplace of the MDC, also condemned the fact that the new constitution would be written under the leadership of parliament.

ZCTU secretary-general Wellington Chibhebhe said: “We have always stood by the belief that a constitution-making process should be people-driven and led by an independent body of people, and that position has not changed.

If the process is not adjusted so that it is people-driven, then we will be forced to come up with a position to say ‘No’ to the whole process and outcome.”

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I have not bought a Herald newspaper for at least 10 years. The reasons are many but mainly relate to the fact that for as long as I can remember your paper has been an apologist for the government and what in the past has been called the “ruling Party”.

However on Wednesday this week some colleagues said that I had to read an Op Ed that appeared in your newspaper that morning. I borrowed a copy and with disbelief at first and finally anger, I read what you had written on the front page of the paper about the American and the British Ambassadors. An article under a pseudonym on the centre page of the paper further compounded this.

Firstly I am disgusted by this blatant example of how your paper, under your leadership, continues to flagrantly violate the fundamental tenants of your profession and the terms of the Global Political Agreement signed in September last year in an attempt to restore some pride and dignity to this broken nation.

Secondly I think this was a cowardly act in that there is no way that either of these two men, at the pinnacle of long and distinguished careers can respond or defend themselves in any way. You are secure in this knowledge and the fact that the corrupt and distorted legal system in this country would not allow them to take legal action against you for slander as I am sure would be possible in more balanced and just societies.

But my criticism goes way beyond this in our present situation. Both men are due for reassignment and in the case of the US Ambassador, retirement after his term in office. They are therefore our guests, honoured guests, representing at the highest level, their countries and their own people in Zimbabwe. As guests, our own culture demands that we respect them and make them welcome, even if their views differ from our own. In fact, when you insult Mr. McGee, you insult the President of the United States of America, Mr. Obama and that is a stupid thing to do.

On purely political grounds, these Ambassadors speak, not for themselves, but for their Governments, when they demand that we adhere to the principles and values that guided the liberation movements and the world community in the struggle for justice and freedom in Zimbabwe. I defy you to defend, in public, the continued denial of these freedoms and rights to the people of Zimbabwe by the Zimbabwe government.

On Wednesday I sat next to the new Director of the World Food Programme in Zimbabwe. He told me that from January to March 2009, Zimbabwe had the largest food aid programme in the world. In fact, over those three months – the hunger months in our country, the international community, without fanfare or publicity, fed an astonishing 7.1 million people. Nobody was more responsible for this amazing feat than the two men you now slander at the end of their tenure.

Both Ambassadors have overseen a doubling of official development assistance and humanitarian aid to Zimbabwe during their terms of office. Only this week I was informed that Britain will double its aid again this year and I am informed that the US has agreed to a massive increase in assistance to help get our small scale farmers producing food for themselves next summer.

Last year Zimbabwe received the equivalent of 15 per cent of our Gross Domestic Product in aid; this is among the highest ratios of official development assistance and humanitarian aid in the world.

Nobody, nobody was more responsible for this than the two Ambassadors who worked tirelessly to persuade a sceptical watching world that we were worth the effort. I would like to take you (the Editor) to any part of Zimbabwe and introduce you to hundreds of people who would tell you that they owe their lives to the aid agencies. Then I would take you to the offices of the agencies doing this amazing work and we would ask them who was funding them.

In half these cases you would be told it is American Aid. Between Britain and the USA they provide over two thirds of all aid reaching this country..

I would like to take you to a clinic in my constituency where I would show you a clinic, which 6 months ago was derelict and overgrown, with few staff on duty and no drugs. Now you would find it spotless – cleaned by staff who are suddenly able to come to work. You would see lines of people receiving health services, much of it free. Ask them what has made the difference and they will tell you it is the allowances they are receiving from an organisation funded by DIFID – the aid arm of the British Government. The Ambassador is personally responsible for this initiative where they are trying to help us retain staff in the medical field. I spoke to the CEO of the Bank that handles these payments and they did not even know that the millions of dollars they were handling came mainly from the UK.

By slandering and abusing these men you are failing in your duty as Editor of the largest daily in Zimbabwe to tell the truth and to work for the people who pay your salary. But more than that, you fail to recognise their unsung efforts for our country and our people. You make it more difficult for the dedicated men and women who work for these diplomatic missions and who are trying to do their best to support us as a nation.

You must know that key decision makers in many capitals will have read this piece of writing in your newspaper. It will have been read by Susan Rice at the United Nations, by the new Under Secretary of State for Africa – himself a former Ambassador to Harare and a black American like James McGee. It makes Tendai Biti’s job in Washington this week that much more difficult. It makes Elton Mangoma’s task in Holland less achievable this weekend.

Donors from foreign lands are today spending US$3 million a DAY in Zimbabwe.

In January, the total tax receipts of the Zimbabwe government were US$4 million. In 2009 foreign donors, led by dedicated Ambassadors like Jim McGee and Andrew Pocock, will match every dollar we pay in tax with a dollar raised from taxpayers in their own counties. Your actions in writing what you did last Wednesday put all of that in jeopardy. If I had been the Prime Minister on Wednesday morning, I would have called your Chairman and asked for your head. You owe your liberty to the fact that the Prime Minister is trying to make this thing work but believe me you are on borrowed time.

Eddie Cross
24th April 2009
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

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A gun battle erupted on Thursday at Chegutu’s Stockdale Farm, which was invaded by senate president Edna Madzongwe, leading to the arrest of the farm owner Peter Etheredge

The chaos erupted after the Chegutu ZANU PF land committee led controversial former sports personality turned politician Temba Mliswa defied an order by the Zimbabwe Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara to stop the illegal farm invasions.

Themba Mliswa is now the operations leader of a new Zimbabwean terrorist group operating from Robert Mugabe’s office and it commandeered by the Minister of State Security in the President’s office Dydimus Mutasa.

No-one was injured in the gun battle but Police confirmed the arrest of Etheredge.

Mliswa said the order by Mutambara was “ill advised and will go ahead with occupying the commercial farms has they had offer letters from the government”.

This follows a meeting of new farmers in Chegutu on Thursday.

During  a tour of the farms in Chegutu, Mutambara said the illegal farm evictions should stop immediately.

“There will be no holy cows. The axe will hit where it may and we will not tolerate any government official who is prolonging lawlessness in the country,” Mutambara said then while leading a government team in Chegutu.

Farmers in the area, 120 kilometres south west of Harare, told officials that 17 farms had been affected since January and that Zimbabwe’s senate president was behind one of the seizures.

Fresh farm grabs have further tarnished the country’s image abroad as it desperately seeks foreign investment to kick start the economy after years of ruin, Mutambara told reporters.

“Our country is trying to attract investment, attract foreign aid, we can’t afford to be damaging business confidence in this country,” he said.

White farmers have reported a surge in violence despite a power-sharing deal between long-time President Mugabe and new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai who formed a unity government in February.

Chegutu farmer Peter Etheredge told reporters that Zimbabwe’s senate president Edna Madzongwe had forced his family off their farm Stockdale.

The land reforms launched in 2000 aimed to resettle blacks on 4,000 white-owned commercial farms, but the process was marred by politically charged violence.

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Former Personal aide to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai Gandhi Mudzingwa claims security agents robbed him his valuables last year in December when he and several other Movement and Democratic Change (MDC) activists were abducted and subsequently detained for allegedly plotting to topple the Robert Mugabe government.

Mudzingwa told RadioVOP in an exclusive interview from his Avenues clinic bed, in Harare on Wednesday, that he lost his valuables to unidentified security agents who abducted him last December, and up to now had not received them.

“Upon my abduction some unidentified men took my black pair of shoes, driver’s license wallet with US$ 320 and some business cards in it, belt, and my car. When we got to Chikurubi Maximum Prison I lodged a complaint and we made an application to the police through the Prisons Officer-In-Charge, who called my police investigating officer who up to now has not given me any response as to who took my valuables and where they are.”

“I am not a bitter man, despite the abductions and torture I went through which include denial of medication and food which I am confident were clear attempts to eliminate me for belonging to MDC. I believe this nation needs national healing and I think I should also play my part in that process. I also want to warn those who are anti-the inclusive government to respect the will of the people and allow Zimbabwe to move forward,” added Mudzingwa.

Mudzingwa and Kisimusi Ndhamini are still detained at the private clinic after they were last Friday released on bail.

The two including Zimbabwe Peace Project Director and former ZBC newscaster Jestina Mukoko and freelance journalist Shadreck Manyere were together with several other MDC activists abducted in December last year and later charged and detained at Chikurubi Maximum Prison being accused of plotting to topple the Mugabe led Government.

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Zimbabwe’s central bank took hundreds of millions of euros from private bank accounts, including 300,000 euros from a bank account belonging to Hivos, a Dutch development organisation. Corina Straatsma, director of Hivos’ regional office in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, says 90,000 euros is still missing although the rest has been paid back.

Dr Gideon Gono, governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), released a statement on Monday admitting that the bank took hundreds of millions in foreign currency from private accounts without either the permission or the knowledge of the account holders. According to the statement, the government needed the money in order to fund loans to state-owned companies and buy grain and energy supplies. According to Mr Gono, “The unorthodox measures helped keep the country afloat”.

Hivos pressuring MDC

Hivos, which is largely dependent on subsidies from the Dutch foreign affairs ministry, is pressuring contacts within the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to try and get its money back. Last February, the MDC joined a unity government with President Robert Mugabe’s long-governing ZANU-PF party. According to Ms Straatsma,

“The MDC is aware that Zimbabwe needs foreign aid and knows that this situation cannot continue indefinitely”. Mr Gono promised that the RBZ will repay the money - estimated at 1.5 billion euros - it took from private bank accounts but he did not say when it would actually be repaid. Most of the plundered accounts belong to private companies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as Hivos. Last year, the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria said 5.64 million euros was missing from its bank account in Zimbabwe. The money has since been returned.

The Zimbabwean government will have to repay almost one billion euros to the RBZ before the central bank can itself repay the money ‘borrowed’. However, the government does not yet have that money.

Local NGOs also affected

Apart from Hivos, Dutch aid organisation SNV also has an office in Zimbabwe. Although SNV’s bank account was not raided, local manager Rik Overmars says numerous local NGOs had their bank accounts plundered. SNV is almost completely dependent on Dutch government subsidies.

Ms Straatsma has confirmed that many of Hivos’ local partner organisations had money taken from their bank accounts. Hivos, in co-operation with the United Nations development fund, is attempting to get the money back. Ms Straatsma says the central bank’s ‘move’ has not jeopardised Hivos’ activities. The aid organisation opened a new bank account in neighbouring Botswana, and Dutch government subsidy money was paid into that account.

Governor under pressure

Analysts say Mr Gono’s admission is an attempt to hold on to his job. In September 2008, just before a coalition accord was agreed with the MDC, President Robert Mugabe reappointed Mr Gono to a second five-year term as central bank governor. However, since Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC joined the unity government in February, there has been considerable pressure on Mr Gono to resign.

The central bank governor is one of the Mr Mugabe’s close allies and his policies have been blamed for the severe economic turmoil in the country. There have been severe food, fuel and cash shortages as well as hyperinflation. The health, education and agriculture system has collapsed and the Zimbabwean dollar became next to worthless. The recent introduction of the US dollar as legal tender has helped bring prices down and there are some goods in the shops again.

South Africa’s finance ministry is investigating the possibility of allowing Zimbabwe to use its currency, the rand, and allowing Harare to join the South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho monetary union.

Just this week, the new Zimbabwean government called on foreign companies, and in particular South African companies, to invest in Zimbabwe. A government spokesman said, “It’s an investment well worth risking”.

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I now have it on very good authority that the announcement that Thabo Mbeki was going to come to Zimbabwe to “define Mugabe’s powers in the context of the Global Political Agreement (GPA)” was nothing but CIO and ZANU PF disinformation.

ZANU PF wanted this to happen, absolutely certain that Mbeki would take the (correct) legal position that Mugabe’s presidential powers remain intact and, as he heads cabinet, has the authority to make changes to ministries as he did with Chamisa’s.

But it could only happen if the Prime Minister falls into the trap and agrees to ask Mbeki to come back to Harare to deal with the matter.

But the Prime Minister moved quickly to dismiss the disinformation. He may have actually wisened up on this one and it appears as though, for the first time, he has anticipated the dictator and has a wonderfully workable counter-strategy.

Hence, he is insisting that, yes, he knows that Mugabe has all of those LEGAL powers, but that this is not a legalistic matter, rather a moral one.

He intends to keep hammering home to Mugabe that, although he has the “legal” powers, he must approach this whole matter from the moral viewpoint: there are things he can do to ensure that money is unlocked by the international community.

If Mugabe relents on some of the “smaller issues”, Tsvangirai tells the dictator, then the job of asking for donor funds to revive Zimbabwe would be that much easier.

Tsvangirai’s problem, however, is that Mugabe apparently believes that no matter what he does, the West will not come in to help the Inclusive Government.

He is still of the view that the fight with Britain and America is about land and he is actually hoping that Tsvangirai fails to convince the donor nations to help, so that he can turn around to the electorate and the African constituency and tell them, ” I told you this was about Land Reform… they will not help us until we give back the farms to white farmers.”

I think the one thing even Tsvangirai’s enemies agree on is that the man has a dogged determination.

It appears he is putting this to good use here, unrelenting even as he uses a pinhead to poke the ZANU PF lion repeatedly.

Perhaps, just perhaps, he may irritate it into moving, even if it is just for a bit.

I think we have entered a very interesting time in the affairs of Zimbabwe and the next couple of weeks, while not delivering a clear verdict on whether ZANU PF stands or falls, should indicate to us just how much moral power the Prime Minister can wrestle from the ruling party, in the name of asking for space to right the economy.

The only let-down may be from the West, who may indeed refuse still to listen to him and resist all efforts to bring in money to help the economy.

If they do that and continue on that path, they may well be sabotaging the Prime Minister at a time when he is emerging with what I personally see as the strategy that has the best prospect for success.

It appears he has found a ZANU PF weak spot and that spot is Gideon Gono, who is being abandoned by people with ZANU PF, although not yet by Mugabe. If Tsvangirai succeeds on Gono, it would be correct to say he would have badly wounded ZANU PF. Whether the wound would be fatal will then depend on what he (Tsvangirai) does for an encore.

Brace yourselves, Zimbabwean politics is about to get even more turbulent!

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