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Original Post Date: 2011-07-25 Time: 20:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Chege Mbitiru
Nairobi – President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party seem to exhibit jitters. Last Monday’s never-was treason trial illustrates.
Six Zimbabweans turned up for the hearing. It carries the death penalty. They found a lesser charge, inciting public violence.
Their alleged crime is attending, with 40 others, a Harare seminar in February. The seminar asked “What lessons can be learnt from the Egyptian uprising?”.
To the prosecution, the six planned to incite an uprising and overthrow the government, treasonous. The downgrading of the charge follows the rough treatment Mugabe has lately received from southern Africa leaders.
The SADC’s rough treatment began at an April mini-summit of the Southern African Development Community, SADC, in Zambia. Present were presidents of Zambia, Mozambique and South Africa. Namibia’s president attended as the SADC chair, Mugabe as the principal in the matter under discussion.
South African President Jacob Zuma is the facilitator of dialogue between Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change party in the implementation of the 2008 Global Political Accord that established Zimbabwe’s coalition government. Zuma presented a report.
On its basis, “the summit noted with grave concern the polarisation of the political environment as characterised by, inter alia, resurgence of violence, arrests and intimidation in Zimbabwe”.
“There must be an immediate end of violence, intimidation, hate speech, harassment, and any other form of action that contradicts the letter and spirit of the unity accord.”
The mini-summit also recommended a three-member SADC team be included in the Zimbabwean parties’ Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee. That’s to hasten a new constitution.
Zimbabwe lobbied for the dilution of the statement. However, the full SADC summit in Johannesburg last month didn’t oblige. It “noted” but did not “adopt” the statement, saving Mugabe a little face.
The net result is that the elections Mugabe and ZANU-PF want this year are out. Hence Mugabe’s outburst, “Zuma cannot prescribe anything.
We prescribe what we should do in accordance with our own laws…” That an autocratic rule passes oppressive laws and acts accordingly isn’t a virtue.
By downgrading the treason charges, Mugabe (“No it’s the police!”) might appear to be responding to SADC’s scolding. Hardly! It’s a smokescreen. Mugabe and ZANU-PF aren’t about to change.
That’s because the thinking of the security apparatus, in the grip of the Joint Operations Command comprising of army, air force, intelligence, and police chiefs, is the heart of Mugabe’s political machine.
Last month, a raucous Brigadier-General Douglas Nyikayaramba declared Mugabe will step down if he “see fit, or dies.”
He added Tsvangirai is a “national security threat than a political one.” Police chief Augustine Chihuri issued an even more chilling warning.
Calling the MDC people “puppets and running dogs” of the West, he said, “You don’t allow puppets to run the country.”
Translated: The security top brass will never allow MDC to run Zimbabwe.
Now immune to Mugabe and ZANU-PF’s bashing, Tsvangirai and allies told the generals to resign and join politics. Mugabe’s reply: Leave my generals alone! At 87, he has chosen guardians of his successor.
The SADC leaders don’t seem to have addressed this undemocratic phenomenon. They had better. It’s a recipe for bloodshed.
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Original date published: 24 July 2011
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201107251377.html?viewall=1