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Plans for Massive Civil Disobedience in Zimbabwe

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Original Post Date: 2004-05-26 Time: 13:06:36  Posted By: Jan

[I’m glad to see this. More than a year ago, I met at different times with black MP’s in the MDC. The men seemed more keen for action than the one obnoxious woman I met. She had a really big mouth and told me how TALK was going to solve all the problems. I thought she was a total idiot. I told her, and the others, that all this day dreaming about negotiating with Mugabe wouldn’t get them anywhere EVER. I have said all along… Mugabe has no intention of ever negotiating with the MDC. In his book and his speeches, he makes it clear that the MDC is a “neo-colonial” organisation with links to the British. It is irrelevant whether he is right or wrong (I have my suspicions that he is not as stupid or as wrong as people think). Either way… Mugabe has made it clear: The MDC will rule Zimbabwe OVER HIS DEAD BODY!!! And that’s precisely how it will be.

If the MDC think a couple of strikes will finish Mugabe off, they’re wrong. I said it to the MP’s and to every black person from Zimbabwe: I said to them, there is only one way: Get weapons, train people, start a guerilla war against Mugabe from the neighbouring states (but not South Africa). There is no other way… NO OTHER WAY… Even then… be prepared for blood, blood, blood…. on a scale like that country has never seen… EVER. Don’t think 1,000 dead, or 10,000 dead and it will be game over… Be prepared for hundreds of thousands dead… Be prepared for that. Nothing else will do…

I told the blacks they must engage in sabotage… We discussed attacking the businesses of Mugabe’s elite, etc. The blacks were great at talking. They were big talkers. But nothing ever came of it… Sad.

Now, they’ve wasted a year… a year in which Mugabe has grown stronger.

Rest assured if the black opposition in Zimbabwe ever make headway that the African Union and South Africa will send in troops to beef Mugabe up.

If the black opposition in Zimbabwe want to win and show us whites in Africa that there is reason for hope in a multi-racial society, then they had better be prepared for blood and violence and a war to be waged with unrelenting ferocity. Even then… they might lose. But if they have balls and if they believe in their principles then they should do it – and also prove to us whites that there is reason to have even a smidgeon of faith in blacks. My experiences with black Zimbabweans left me very disgusted last year. I would still like to see them succeed. But I am skeptical.

The problem with them, is like you see above: Talk, talk, talk… too much talk. Militarily, history shows that talk leads to inaction. Look at Haiti… nothing happened until one black man with balls, led 200 men into the attack… and then in a matter of weeks… almost bloodlessly it was all over.

But in Zimbabwe, Mugabe is going to be a really tough nut to crack. There… if the blood runs… it will run in the streets. Mugabe is extremely vicious and very determined, and the ANC is 100% behind him.

If the opposition ever truly made a determined effort… you would see more blood than in any colonial liberation war… Jan]

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party and civic groups have begun consultations to launch a major civil disobedience campaign.

The decision was taken after President Robert Mugabe slammed the door on negotiations to end the crisis in Zimbabwe.

On Tuesday, Lovemore Madhuku, chairperson of the National Constitutional Assembly, Zimbabwe’s largest civic group, said there was no alternative to a civil disobedience campaign, based on a set of demands, to open the way to democracy in Zimbabwe.

“We are in serious consultations and we will announce a comprehensive outcome in three to four weeks’ time,” said Madhuku.

‘We cannot look forward to South Africans for help’

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and civic groups had hoped they could engage Mugabe in dialogue to draw up a new constitution and create a democratic environment, which has been dissipated by draconian security and media laws. They had hoped that, through dialogue, they could achieve an electoral framework to guarantee free and fair elections next year.

But after Mugabe’s decision to slam the door on any talks – and after South Africa this week reiterated its softly-softly policies on Zimbabwe – the civic leaders said they had no option but to mobilise for a major civil disobedience campaign.

“It seems that the only realistic way of forcing Mugabe to negotiate is by making the country ungovernable. We have mobilised for successful protests before, and this can be done. There is no other way,” said a civic leader who preferred not to be named.

“We cannot look forward to South Africans or other Africans for help. Our salvation can come only from within ourselves, and it is high time we made the sacrifices.”

MDC secretary-general Welshman Ncube said the only option left for his party was to concentrate on “building a coalition of forces to mobilise strongly for the fulfilment of conditions that will guarantee free and fair elections.

“We have to mount intensive internal pressure to ensure our rights don’t continue being appropriated by the Mugabe regime.”

Ncube emphasised that everything would be done in terms of the constitutional rights of citizens to express themselves.

He reiterated his party’s threat to boycott the next elections unless Mugabe agreed to hold them in terms of the Southern African Development Community norms and standards for free and fair polls.

The MDC has drawn up a list of 15 demands to democratise the electoral process. These include giving the opposition access to the state media, setting up an independent electoral commission, allowing United Nations supervision of elections, and restoring the rule of law.

This article was originally published on page 3 of The Star on May 26, 2004

Source: Independent Online (IOL)

URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=84&ar…/p>