Messages From Zimbabwe

Today Judge Buhnu was supposed to hand down judgement on Hon Bennetts case at 10 am. The Judge only graced the Court with his presence one and a half hours later at 1130am, to say it would be postponed to May and was about to leave the court, when the defence council Ms Mtetwa requested that bail conditions on Hon Bennett be removed i.e. his passport returned to him and his requirements to report twice weekly to the Police be lifted. The State disagreed. However the Judge ruled that Hon Bennett would no longer have to report to the Police station and if he wanted to travel outside the country he could request in writing for his passport to be released.

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Zanu PF bigwigs in the politically volatile Masvingo province have unleashed the partisan police force to arrest hundreds of MDC-T activists in Masvingo West under the guise of a clampdown on illegal mining activities in a well-orchestrated plan to weaken the former opposition party now part of a coalition government.

It emerged this week that police had rounded up mainly known MDC-T activists in Masvingo West following a government-sanctioned clampdown on illegal mining activities at Kimberly and Kismet ranches, in an attempt to weaken the MDC led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai that wrestled the seat from Zanu PF during the 2008 harmonised polls.

At least 150 suspected illegal miners, mostly MDC supporters were arrested and locked by police following a brutal crackdown in the gold-rich  Masvingo West in what is believed to be an attempt to reduce the influence of the former opposition party which gave President Mugabe and his Zanu PF party the sternest challenge to his vice-like grip rule since independence.

Zanu PF Masvingo special interests and self-proclaimed war collaborator Namatirai Chivanga together with her acolytes linked to a faction led by presidential aspirant Emmerson Mnangagwa,is  reportedly behind the operation to lock up MDC supporters in Masvingo West in an attempt to weaken the former opposition party.

Chivanga has reportedly started campaigning in Masvingo West in the event of fresh elections next year as revealed by President Mugabe and wants to muscle out the MDC’s Tachiona Mharadze Chiminya who is the sitting legislator.

‘’We were just told point blank to go and arrest MDC supporters who were identified to us by members of the Zanu PF youth league who accompanied us to carry the operation against illegal panners. There was no choice for us because during the crackdown the youths(Zanu PF) openly told us that some of the panners who we wanted to arrest were sacred cows and were supposed to be left out,’’said a policeman who took part in the operation against the illegal panners but refused to be  named for fear  of reprisals.

MDC’s Chiminya confirmed the arrest of his staunch supporters in Masvingo West under the guise of a clampdown on illegal mining saying the operation was an exercise in futility.

‘’There is a clear strategy to weaken the MDC in the Masvingo West by targeting our supporters and as I speak right now they arrested over 100 MDC supporters under the guise of trying to rid the constituency of illegal panners. However I must point out that the MDC will never surrender and will triumph against all sorts of evil and malicious operations,’’said a fuming Chiminya.

Masvingo police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Prosper Mugauri refused to comment and referred all the questions to the police headquarters in Harare.

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A man charged with the murder of a woman in Leicester has been remanded in custody.

The body of Julia Mubvumba, 44, was found at an address in Gotham Street, Highfields, on Friday.

Archibold Gurure, 34, of Humberstone Road, Leicester, was remanded by magistrates in the city to appear at Leicester Crown Court on 5 July.

Ms Mubvumba was originally from Zimbabwe but lived in Leicester, police said.

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The fact that the MDC led by  Prime Minister Morgan Richard Tsvangirai is Zimbabwe’s most popular and dominant political party is not an accident of history. As the ZANU PF moribund dictatorship is slowly but surely collapsing, the rise of the MDC became spontaneous. The majority of the  people of Zimbabwe rejected the ZANU PF dictatorship a long time ago; in fact, as long ago as around 1990. Although regular elections have been held in Zimbabwe since independence, all right-thinking people know, for certain, that these elections were marred by massive intimidation, violence, ballot box stuffing and all sorts of shenanigans that one may imagine. The birth of the MDC in September 1999, thus brought a breath of fresh air on the Zimbabwean political landscape. For the first time since independence in 1980, ZANU PF was confronted by a massively popular, national and broad-based political opponent that had the muscle to peacefully wrest power from the incumbent regime. Fearing for its very survival as a political party, ZANU PF, since the formation of the MDC in 1999, has engaged combat mode. This is a crudely intolerant and morbidly violent mode of political existence that has perfected a scorched earth policy; a policy that ensures that as ZANU PF faces its inevitable disintegration, the whole nation of Zimbabwe should also collapse with this party.This scorched earth policy is the very anti-thesis of patriotism; it ruthlessly decimates anything good that is still left in Zimbabwe.

It is never easy to dismantle a deeply-entrenched dictatorship, a dictatorship that had become a way of life in Zimbabwe for the past three decades. The MDC has given the dictatorship a rude awakening. The resounding victory of Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC during the harmonised elections held on March 29, 2008 was the last straw for the dictatorship. The popularity of the MDC dazzled and puzzled the dictatorship. They didn’t know what hit them. Up to now, most ZANU PF functionaries are still in need of therapy and counselling to reconcile them with the massive victory of the MDC in March 2008. The fact of the matter is that the people’s victory of March 2008 was not an accident. Some of us had seen it coming. Whilst ZANU PF believed its own propaganda to the false effect that its support base was in the rural areas, the MDC election campaign was slick, incisive and hugely effective. While ZANU PF used intimidation, machetes and knobkerries to bludgeon the rural voters into submission, the MDC resorted to a campaign of preaching peace and tolerance. They moved around spreading the message of hope and real change. They won the hearts and minds of the people of Zimbabwe; moreso in the rural areas where ZANU PF falsely thought they were most popular. To this very day, the majority of the people of Zimbabwe no longer support ZANU PF. Even if the dictatorship still manipulates and controls both the print and electronic public media, the increasing popularity of Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC is breath-taking; it is simply unbelievable. Just over a week ago I attended a deceased relative’s  funeral in Gokova village in Zaka. As I mixed and mingled with the mourners of various age groups, one thing struck me. All the villagers that I talked to at this funeral showed remarkable faith and trust in the leadership of Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC. Comrades, we should never let these people down. That would be a travesty of justice; a betrayal of the toiling masses of Zimbabwe.

Real change is coming. That’s for sure. However, the dictatorship will not go away without a fight. History has taught mankind that a cornered dictatorship is at its most lethal point. It is capable of delivering a vicious knock-out punch to anyone and/ or anything that it perceives as a threat to its continued existence. Going forward, we should be more focused and tactful in order to ward off the dictatorship’s last desperate offensive to cling to power. To begin with, the constitution-making process will be deliberately targeted for disruption. Why? Because the dictatorship knows that as soon as a new people-driven constitution is in place, the freedom train will be fast approaching its final destination. They know that ZANU PF will never win a free and fair election. Infact, they will do everything within their power to sabotage the constitution-making process. As we are already witnessing in areas such as Mudzi in Mashonaland East province, the dictatorship will resurrect its instruments of terror and brutality. It is folly to expect that the outreach program will be a stroll in the park. Several obstacles will be placed along the path of the constitution-making process with the ultimate intention of derailing the true wishes of the people. For the record, ZANU PF is allergic to a genuinely people-driven constitution for they know that the people have long since rejected them. We shouldn’t be fooled into believing that ZANU PF is ready for an election. They are not and they will never be. All they want is to hold the people to ransom and where necessary; to preach peace and tolerance by the day and be purveyors of hate, intolerance and violence by night. Once bitten twice shy.

The MDC’s biggest trump card is simply that the majority of the people are on our side. No amount of intimidation and violence can persuade the people of Gokova village in Zaka to freely vote for ZANU PF. Similarly, no amount of hate-mongering against Morgan Tsvangirai and the top leadership of the MDC by the ZANU PF controlled media can make the majority of the people like this moribund party. If anything, the more they malign and denigrate our leaders, the more popular our leaders become. It is amazing, really. The Real Change rallies currently being held across the length and breath of Zimbabwe are a crucial communication tool with the grassroots supporters and communities. These people are the real owners of the party for without them, we will lose legitimacy in the same way that the dictatorship has long since lost its legitimacy and relevance amongst the majority of the people. While  the MDC is basking in the blaze of popular support; we should not under-estimate our political adversaries. Day and night our competitors are plotting against us. They would like to weaken and divide us.Just witness the manner in which Ignatious Chombo is going all out to ‘ protect” the Chitungwiza councillors who were recently dismissed from the party on allegations of corruption. While corruption and ZANUPF are two sides of the same coin, in the MDC, we have vehemently and vociferously rejected corruption as a way of life. That is as it should be. Those MDC cadres who prefer practising corruption should promptly join ZANU PF; the natural home and haven of corruption.

History has taught us that a dictatorship cannot last forever. From outside; the dictatorship might appear strong and invincible but in reality, this ‘ strength” is just but a facade. This is the main reason why Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Nicolae Caecascu, Idi Amin, Mobutu Sese Seko and Jean Baptist Bokassa were eventually toppled by popular uprisings. The MDC is guarded by the principle of peaceful democratic resistance. Using hammer and tongues, the dictatorship has persistently sought to crush the people’s peaceful resistance. We take comfort in the fact that good can never succeed over evil. In the end, the people shall triumph. They will achieve real change; sooner rather than later. Victory is certain.

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The British Parliament’s Africa All-party Group’s latest report, “Land in Zimbabwe: Past Mistakes, Future Prospects” claims that Britain never made nor betrayed any promises on land reform made at Lancaster House as claimed by President Robert Mugabe.

Some of the “most interesting evidence of all” came from ZANU PF and the Zimbabwean embassy in London did not claim that there was a secret deal that the UK would provide funds to pay for land reform.

“It is true that both Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo sought commitments on land reform… but the UK had to broker a deal between Ian Smith and his regime’s military on the one hand and the liberation movements on the other hand, and there was no agreement on land,” said the researchers who undertook the research presented in Parliament by Hugh Bayley, Labour MP for City of York.

At one stage in the talks, Mugabe and the late Dr Joshua Nkomo, who lead the Zimbabwean Patriotic Front delegation to the Lancaster House talks, threatened to walk out, but “a great deal of pressure was put on them by the Presidents of the front-line states, particularly Zambia and Mozambique, which were used by the Zimbabwean liberation movement fighters for their training camps and supply lines.

“Pressure from those neighbouring countries was put on the Zimbabwean liberation movements to agree a deal so that the war might end. The leaders of those movements were urged to compromise, and they did,” he said.

“There is nothing in the Lancaster House agreement promising to pay for land reform, and nothing in our conversations with the principal western Ministers involved at the time - Lord Carrington and Chester Crocker - suggested that there was any secret deal to do so.”

Britain, however, made aid available for land reform on a “willing seller, willing buyer” basis, and by 1986, 71,000 families had been resettled on land formerly owned by commercial farmers in what the Economist described at the time as “one of the most successful aid schemes in Africa”.

However, by 1985, the scheme had slowed down, and in the 1990s it stopped altogether, and when, in 1997, Robert Mugabe was losing support within ZANU PF, and came under pressure from war veterans for pensions, he capitulated to their demands.

But his capitulation did not end the demands.

“The veterans came back with more demands, including demands for land, and in 2000 Robert Mugabe instituted a fast-track land reform process. From that time onwards, Zimbabwe’s relationship with the UK, the European Union and the United States deteriorated,” said Bayley.

The All-Party Parliamentary Group had chosen to investigate this subject because the violence from farm invasions has destroyed the livelihoods of 200,000 farm workers and halved the commercial agricultural output of Zimbabwe, and because because of concern that UK policy is misunderstood in Africa as the UK having reneged on its promise made during the Lancaster House talks.

“Furthermore, many in Africa believe that we oppose farm invasions in Zimbabwe principally because it is white farmers whose land is being expropriated, and many believe that we support the European Union’s restrictive measures because we have political differences with the President of Zimbabwe.

To set the record straight and to look forwards, the Group sought to establish what was actually agreed at Lancaster House and to document what development assistance has been provided by the UK to Zimbabwe for land reform, and to examine what future land reform policies would re-establish productive agriculture to support rural livelihoods and offer job opportunities for the many farm workers who have lost their jobs through the farm invasions.

They sought and obtained evidence from representatives of the UK Government, the Secretary of State for International Development, the Zimbabwean ambassador in London, and even ZANU PF negotiating teams and their legal advisers, Lord Carrington, academics in both the UK and Zimbabwe; from Chester Crocker, the US Assistant Secretary of State who had special responsibility for Africa at the time of the Lancaster House talks, and many more.

As a result pressure from war veterans the fast-track land reform was introduced, leading to a 60 per cent fall in commercial agricultural output, an economy in free-fall and mounting inflation, with prices doubling every 24 hours at its worst.

Sir Robert Smith, a Liberal Democrat from West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine bemoaned the collapse in productive capacity and said it would be difficult to bring back the productivity without legal title to the new owners which would underpin investment in farming.

“We therefore need to bring back legal stability and a proper legal process to land ownership in countries such as Zimbabwe, to enable investment for the future so that productive capacity can be restored.”

“Willing seller, willing buyer” apparently did not work very well because the seller could not repatriate the money to the United Kingdom or wherever else they wanted to send it, as it was in the mining sector, where Lonrho negotiated a deal enabling it to take mining money out of the country, said Conservative William Cash of Stone, adding that this contributed to generating “a lot of the pressure”.

But said Bayley, since 2000, when political relations between the UK and Zimbabwe became strained, far from penalising Zimbabwe for farm invasions, the UK recognised the country’s growing humanitarian needs and increased aid from $ 20 million in 2000 to $ 89 million in 2008, which, according to independent figures from the OECD’s development assistance committee contributed to the $ 1.128 billion in aid from the UK to Zimbabwe since independence.

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The police have for the past two weeks arrested scores of MDC supporters across the country on trumped-up charges in a worrying partisan move as cases of ZANU PF-instigated violence against MDC members are on the increase.

Reports coming in show that, 10 MDC supporters from Mutasa North are detained at Mutare Remand Prison in Manicaland province after they were arrested last week on trumped-up political violence charges.

The 10 are; Godfrey Samhare, Enerst Maringa, Masai Mandeya, Noah Mwamuka, Agnes Mtetwa, Zvishamiso Mandeya, Tendai Mawende, Michael Mheredza, Luckson Samhere and Lovemore Zvarevamambo.

Another 12 from the same area are facing the same charges and are detained at Ruda Police Station in Mutasa and are yet to appear in court despite being in police custody for two weeks.

The 12 are;  Enia Mawende, Maria Sigauke, Melody Mabvirakare, Listen Shoko, Violet Mose, Martha Mushunje, Tedy Mwamuka, Barbra Bote, Maria Nyamunda, Cecilia Matere, Agnes Tumbakonde and Florence Kamundimu.  One of the arrested women is pregnant.

They are being held under bad conditions at Ruda police station and are being charged with violence and disturbing a ZANU PF rally in the area. Mutasa North MP, Hon. David Chimhini said he was worried by the selective application of the law.

“There is a selective application of the law because serious and worse things have happened and we have evidence of real political violence in Ward 4 in Mandeya, where people were brutalised and beaten up by known soldiers. But the people have not been arrested.”

There are similar reports of an upsurge of violence in other rural areas, such as in Mudzi in Mashonaland East and in Masvingo. The violence has been initiated by ZANU PF ahead of the forthcoming Constitutional outreach programmes.

In Epworth, Harare, two MDC youth activists were seriously injured in a hit-and-run on Saturday while walking off the roadway. Alice Banda and Rutendo Bvute were taken to hospital and are sure that it was a punishment attack by the ZANU PF militia.

Banda has a deep head wound, now with eight stitches, severe grazing on her right shoulder, and extensive bruising while Bvuke has a dislocated shoulder and elbow.The pair had just distributed clothes to some Epworth youths.

Another MDC activist, Arefa Muronda was attacked and wounded on Monday by six ZANU PF youths at Golden Valley mine in Kadoma for wearing MDC party regalia.  The ZANU PF thugs were led by Shepard Tinashe Marimanyika.

Meanwhile, in Epworth and Harare South, ZANU PF militia bases have been re-opened under the guise of licensed wood-selling businesses, run by ZANU PF youths.

The bases are: Donoro in Ward 2, Harare South; in Epworth Ward 7 - Garakara and Mai Mawire, Ward 6 - Makandira, Ward 5 - Kadumbu and Solani, and Ward 4.

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Police will put adequate measures to ensure that their members’ lives are not endangered when carrying out their duties, a senior officer has said.

Deputy Commissioner-General (operations) Innocent Matibiri said the force would continue working hard to ensure that all hardcore criminals are brought to book.

“We will not sit and watch them terrorise the people. Let it be known that the force will work tirelessly to ensure a crime free environment,” he said.

He was speaking at a church service for Detective Sergeant Joseph Maximus (29) who was killed on Saturday morning in a shootout with robbers believed to be behind the heist at ZB Bank’s Juliasdale branch in Nyanga.

Last Thursday, the robbers struck the ZB Bank and made off with over US$116 000 and R14 000. Detective Sgt Maximus was shot in the abdomen and chest by one of the three suspected robbers along Samora Machel Avenue in Harare at around 2am on Saturday.

Police have since arrested two of the robbers and recovered US$59 000 and R4 000 believed to be part of the money looted after the Nyanga heist.

Deputy Comm-Gen Matibiri said it was disheartening to note that bank robberies had increased countrywide.

He said over the past few years there was a decline in bank robberies but suddenly the cases were on the increase.

“We are worried as police and it is also our hope that we will work together as a nation to curb criminal activities,” he said.

Deputy Comm-Gen Matibiri described Detective Sgt Maximus as a diligent policeman who was dedicated to his duties.

Several senior officers attended the church service at Morris Depot Chapel in Harare yesterday.

Detective Sgt Maximus will be buried today at his home in Rusape. Police have warned that they would not hesitate to use force on criminals resisting arrest.

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A 35-year-old Zimbabwean man Allan Dambuka who committed burglaries at a number of B&Bs, by gaining access to rooms with filed down keys, was jailed for 12 months this week and could face deportation following his release.

Allan Dambuka with an address at 203A Collins Avenue, Whitehall, Dublin 9, appeared before Galway District Court on Monday where he pleaded guilty to the offences brought against him.

Garda Patrick O’Shea gave evidence that on January 4, 2010, there had been a report of a burglary at Griffin Lodge, Fr Griffin Place. When he arrived at the scene a French couple, who had been staying at the B&B, told him that when they had returned to their room after breakfast they had found the defendant rifling through their belongings.

Dambuka, who had also been a guest at the B&B, had been seen taking money from a wallet but immediately put it back when the couple entered the room. Garda O’Shea said that the defendant had only been in Galway for the night and had returned to Dublin.

Dambuka then returned to Galway on March 12 last and booked into Anbelle Lodge in Lower Salthill. From his investigations, Garda O’Shea was able to track the defendant down and when he entered the room Dambuka was seen discarding a “quantity of keys”.

Garda O’Shea explained that a lot of older B&Bs use Basta door keys and that there is only a small number of these types which means that “one key can open many doors”. He said that the defendant had filed down one key “in an effort to gain access” to doors in the B&B. Garda O’Shea later told Judge Mary Fahy that B&Bs that have been in existence for a number of years, and which would use these types of locks and keys, were targeted.

“To say that he was caught red-handed would be appropriate,” said Judge Fahy.

Defence solicitor Adrian MacLynn said that his client was orginally from Zimbabwe and that his application for aslyum was currently in process. He said that Dambuka, who is married with one child, had left his country because of political turmoil and has been in Ireland since 2008.

Inspector Sean Glynn then informed the court that Dambuka has no previous convictions in this jurisdiction. Garda O’Shea also explained that Dambuka had been refused asylum in this country in August 2008, and that this was affirmed in August 2009. He also said that according to the immigration system Dambuka did come to the attention of the UK authorities when he was residing there.

“You’re here seeking the mercy of this country and this is the thanks you give by stealing from the inhabitants,” Judge Fahy told the defendant who then attempted to go down on his knees to beg for leniency.

“Just get up, I don’t want any of that nonsense,” said Judge Fahy, before imposing a total of 12 months in jail. Judge Fahy then told Garda O’Shea that it was incumbent on him to ensure that Dambuka was deported.

“He’s of no use to this country,” she said, before commending Garda O’Shea for his work in preventing the defendant from targeting more B&Bs.

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South African President Jacob Zuma Wednesday began talks with Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, amid growing pressure for the country to move toward new elections.

“The principals are meeting this morning,” Patrick Chinamasa, the chief negotiator for Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party told AFP.

Mugabe and Tsvangirai formed a unity government in February last year under stiff international pressure, aiming to end an economic freefall and curb deadly political violence after disputed presidential elections in 2008.

They have deadlocked over a slate of key appointments, including the central bank governor and the attorney general, while Tsvangirai complains that his supporters remain the target of official persecution.

But pressure has been growing for the parties to shelve their differences and focus on drafting a new constitution, which is meant to pave the way toward fresh elections.

Under the power-sharing deal, Zimbabwe was meant to draft a new charter and put it to a referendum by November 2010, paving the way to new elections by February 2011.

Both sides have already begun positioning themselves for the polls, with 86-year-old Mugabe - in power since independence from Britain in 1980 - saying that he is prepared to run again.

Tsvangirai has called for international peacekeepers to supervise the polls to prevent a return of the bloodshed that marred the 2008 presidential race.

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The recent hint by octogenarian President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, that he will, again, contest the country’s presidential election billed for next year deserves the condemnation it is currently attracting across the globe. No right thinking person would accept Mugabe’s further imposition of himself on the hunger-ravaged Zimbabwe.

Mugabe, in a session with editors of various media organizations at Zimbabwe House declared that he will contest the next election if his party, ZANU-PF fields him. The disclosure, apart from raising the political temperature in Zimbawe, has, rightly, sent shock waves across political circles around the world.

Two reasons informed that. First, it is unthinkable that Mugabe, who is currently 86 years would still be desperate to hang onto power. Second, one would have thought that the man, inspite of his thirst for power, would have been persuaded by the grim realities in the country presently to tell himself the bitter truth that it is time to sign off.

The planned election is in conformity with the Global Political Agreement between the ZANU-PF and the opposition MDC, represented by Morgan Tsvangirai. The opposition favours the decision to hold a new election. But the move is a violation of a section of the agreement which recommended that a new constitution should be in place before the election.

Tsvangirai became Prime Minister following a power-sharing agreement between ZANU-PF and MDC, brokered by former South African President, Thabo Mbeki on September 15,2008 after the public outcry that trailed the election of that year in the country. The Prime Minister recently voiced his frustrations in the government, accusing Mugabe of emasculating the opposition.

We are not against Zimbabwe holding election next year, but we are wholly opposed to Mugabe offering himself as a contestant in the exercise. Apart from the issue of age, the man’s participation will definitely cause the election to follow the ignoble path of the recent past exercises in the country.

Knowing full well that he may not win in a free and fair contest, Mugabe will most likely employ all manner of untoward strategies, including openly manipulating the electoral processes so as to hold onto power. He did exactly that in 2008 and that led to loss of thousands of lives of innocent indigenes of the country who were on the streets protesting the outcome of the poll.

Zimbabwe is yet to recover from the fall out of that election. The stories that emanate from the country on a daily basis have remained heart- wrenching and unbelievable. There is hyper inflation and people are dying of starvation as a result of food shortages, massive internal displacement and emigration, pitiable health care situation, collapse of infrastructure and indeed unmitigated downward spiral in Zimbabwe’s economy.

The power sharing deal was brokered as a desperate bid to use Tsvangirai to reach out to Britain and other western powers to relax the sanctions imposed on the country. The calculation had shown some promises at the initial time. But collapsed following Mugabe’s decision not to respect some sections of the agreement especially areas that deal with control of the police and other security institutions.

The non-lifting of sanctions by western nations has been, largely, responsible for the worsening economic hardship in Zimbabwe. Mugabe contesting next year’s poll means that the parlous situation in the country will remain. This, obviously, cannot be in the interest of residents of the country. It can also not be the wish of most people on the African continent and even beyond.

It is time for Mugabe to go, at least, in the overall interest of the country. He has spent more than his fair share of time in office and his place is secured in history. The man should know that willingly giving others a chance will tremendously burnish his presently uninspiring political image.

Zimbabweans deserve to see their country wear a new face. They deserve a new era with new leadership and with investors returning to their country and opening doors of employment for the teeming jobless youths. This cannot happen unless a new person with fresh ideas is voted in by the people.

We urge African leaders and the international community to step up pressure on Mugabe to give way for an acceptable government to be enthroned in Zimbabwe next year. Only then can the current drift in the country, which has led to increased hardship, be arrested.

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