By Nqobile Mafu
Is it the beginning of the war in Zimbabwe? 27 years ago things where in good condition, when pound was equivalent to Zim dollar. The first black prime minister in new Zimbabwe under Zanu PF, by then it was on the 18th of April 1980 when we got our independence. Robert Gabriel Mugabe was full of happiness and joy, all he was talking about was peace, harmony and co-operation. Robert Mugabe was regarded as a nice and intelligent person, a leader who was raised in the Roman-Catholic church, he promised reconciliation and democracy, but he was later disrupted by the opposition party ZAPU PF which was lead by the Late Dr Joshua Nkomo. But now it’s all history because of the situation and what is happening in the country. Zimbabwe will never be the same again and it will take time to recover the entire mess. I think we are going back to days of Gugurahundi the days of Toyi-Toyi. Mugabe regime is violence the human rights policy and takes the law to its cause. The Movement for Democratic (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, the secretary-general; Lovemore Madhuku, chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA); Nelson Chamisa, the MDC Secretary for Publicity and Information, Sekai Holland, Secretary for Policy and Research, deputy Grace Kwinjeh, and Mike Davies, the chairman of the Combined Harare Residents' Association (CHRA) are among more than 100 people arrested in Harare for planning to attend a prayer meeting for Zimbabwe they where detained and tor
tured.
Thousands of opposition supporters were singing and waved the party's open hand salute as the MDC leaders and about six other injured activists living from the police custody. Grace Kwinjeh was described as having had "her right ear nearly severed from her head" while in police custody Tsvangirai’s shirt totally unbuttoned, full of blood, appeared so confused as he walked slowly and boarded an emergency vehicle without help. Mr Tsvangirai accused police of “a brutality which was done to the opposition people” also he said “struggle continues as police defy court order”one man was shot dead as the riot grows in the city.
South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki, who has continued to refuse to make any public statements against the authorities in Harare, despite the shocking brutality of the police, Thabo Mbeki remained silent and received much criticism himself for ignoring such brutal actions to her neighbours. The question is why the blame goes to South Africa? What about other African countries that are kept quiet even the super powers such as America, Britain and European countries, only what they do is keep on talking than making it practical. Is it that Zimbabwe doesn’t have any resources such as oil, gold and weapons of mass destruction?
From now on we will keep on hearing different catastrophe up until the end of 2008 elections. An Ngiyesaba source said “One activist was taken from court on a stretcher, two stumbled on crutches, and a young woman unable to walk was helped into an ambulance by paramedics. The chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) Madhuku suffered a broken arm.”
Is it the beginning of the war in Zimbabwe? 27 years ago things where in good condition, when pound was equivalent to Zim dollar. The first black prime minister in new Zimbabwe under Zanu PF, by then it was on the 18th of April 1980 when we got our independence. Robert Gabriel Mugabe was full of happiness and joy, all he was talking about was peace, harmony and co-operation. Robert Mugabe was regarded as a nice and intelligent person, a leader who was raised in the Roman-Catholic church, he promised reconciliation and democracy, but he was later disrupted by the opposition party ZAPU PF which was lead by the Late Dr Joshua Nkomo. But now it’s all history because of the situation and what is happening in the country. Zimbabwe will never be the same again and it will take time to recover the entire mess. I think we are going back to days of Gugurahundi the days of Toyi-Toyi. Mugabe regime is violence the human rights policy and takes the law to its cause. The Movement for Democratic (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, the secretary-general; Lovemore Madhuku, chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA); Nelson Chamisa, the MDC Secretary for Publicity and Information, Sekai Holland, Secretary for Policy and Research, deputy Grace Kwinjeh, and Mike Davies, the chairman of the Combined Harare Residents' Association (CHRA) are among more than 100 people arrested in Harare for planning to attend a prayer meeting for Zimbabwe they where detained and tor
tured.Thousands of opposition supporters were singing and waved the party's open hand salute as the MDC leaders and about six other injured activists living from the police custody. Grace Kwinjeh was described as having had "her right ear nearly severed from her head" while in police custody Tsvangirai’s shirt totally unbuttoned, full of blood, appeared so confused as he walked slowly and boarded an emergency vehicle without help. Mr Tsvangirai accused police of “a brutality which was done to the opposition people” also he said “struggle continues as police defy court order”one man was shot dead as the riot grows in the city.
South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki, who has continued to refuse to make any public statements against the authorities in Harare, despite the shocking brutality of the police, Thabo Mbeki remained silent and received much criticism himself for ignoring such brutal actions to her neighbours. The question is why the blame goes to South Africa? What about other African countries that are kept quiet even the super powers such as America, Britain and European countries, only what they do is keep on talking than making it practical. Is it that Zimbabwe doesn’t have any resources such as oil, gold and weapons of mass destruction?
From now on we will keep on hearing different catastrophe up until the end of 2008 elections. An Ngiyesaba source said “One activist was taken from court on a stretcher, two stumbled on crutches, and a young woman unable to walk was helped into an ambulance by paramedics. The chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) Madhuku suffered a broken arm.”
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