Spineless SADC endorses chicanery
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
This was somehow encouraging considering the softly-softly approach that had prevailed in the past, most recently at the dismal Troika summit in Harare.
Shockingly, the regional grouping connived behind closed doors, with Mugabe defiantly in attendance, to disregard the wishes and dash the hopes of peace-loving Zimbabweans whose patience is now wearing thin, understandably so. By endorsing ZANU-PF chicanery at the summit, SADC has relegated itself to a club that no Zimbabwean should ever take seriously. Anybody who believes that MDC cannot have Home Affairs because "they are training militias", should ask which party has been openly training militias since 2000, some of whom actively created the dilemma we now find ourselves in as they violently forced Tsvangirai to pull out of the run-off?
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...