Robert Gabriel Mugabe the SADC imposed Zimbabwe President is an untrustworthy partner in the GPA who is causing the delays in implementation of the agreement he says he understands the meaning of.Stung by the partial disengagement of the MDC-T from the coalition government laboriously worked out to legitimize his continued tenure as Zimbabwe’s President octogenarian Robert Mugabe bared his anguish over the development at the “Heroes Acre” interment of the late Zanu PF Senator Misheck Chando.
The supposedly National burial shrine for Zimbabwe’s outstanding life achievers that has bees desecrated by its reservation as a burial place for Zanu PF loyalists who participated in the Liberation war against British colonists no matter how mediocre their contribution was, has become the most convenient rallying ground for President Mugabe.
With his party in turmoil and having lost all credibility as a democrat after his antics following defeat in the March 2008 Presidential elections by the coalition government Premier Morgan Tsvangirai Mugabe is no longer able to attract the crowds he used to pull to Zanu PF rallies throughout the country other than at the Heroes acre.
After MDC-T announced its partial disengagement from dealings with Zanu PF in the Council Of Ministers and Cabinet to force compliance with implementation of outstanding GPA issues, President Mugabe and his party propagandists fell over each other to trivialise the move as a none event.
President Mugabe has convened two Cabinet meetings attended only by Zanu PF and MDC-M nominees in the coalition Cabinet and pretended that it was business as usual in Cabinet notwithstanding the boycott by MDC-T nominated Ministers.
But coalition government business will never be business as usual without MDC-T participation and after the 2nd successive week boycott of Cabinet by those Ministers panic gripped Zanu PF and they started singing the discordant song about sanctions being the main outstanding GPA issue still to be addressed and President Mugabe mulling appointment of Acting Ministers in place of those boycotting Cabinet to ensure decisions reached are implemented.
The death of the late Senator Chando provided Mugabe the perfect opportunity to speak publicly in front of a captive audience about his anguish over the MDC-T disengagement initiative.
The MDC has demanded that for it to re-engage Zanu PF in the coalition government organs it is boycotting President Mugabe must forthwith implement agreed GPA issues and bring to finality outstanding implementation issues that include;
Swearing in of Roy Bennett as Deputy Minister of Agriculture
Swearing in of the 5 MDC-T nominated and 1 MDC- M Provincial Governors
Reversal of the unilateral appointments of the Attorney General and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor by President Mugabe
Appointment of the Media, Human Rights and Electoral commissions as per recommendations from Parliament.
Cessation of punitive judicial persecution of MP’s and activists on party political considerations and
Cessation of hate publication and hostile press coverage of the party in State Media.
But Mugabe having become accustomed to having his way against feeble and mediocre political challengers since he became head of State in 1980 has become delusional and believes he is the benchmark of political integrity in the country.
His political life has been such a massive lie that he is now convinced he is not just the benchmark of ethical politicking but also the champion of political correctness and ethical practice when to the contrary most Zimbabweans see him as a desperate political despot with unrivalled inclination towards dictatorship.
This was aptly demonstrated in his eulogy at the graveside of the late Senator Misheck Chando on Saturday 31 October 2009.
"Even if some person is not mentally stable he is still your partner,” he stated in reference to his coalition government relationship with Premier Morgan Tsvangirai.
Most Zimbabweans believe it is Mugabe who has lost his mind and not the Premier he was denigrating
"We bound ourselves to work together even though we had disparate positions. We will continue talking, no matter what,"
Mugabe believes that the bond between him and his Zanu PF Party on hand and the MDC-T in particular is to work together only if he is allowed to appoint his loyalists to key government positions without them having a say in who should be appointed.
He is deranged into the belief that working together with the MDC means he can flagrantly refuse to swear in nominees from other parties in the coalition government, selectively order the arrest and persecution of Ministers MP’s and activists from any other coalition partners’ formations, allow the State owned media to retain information dissemination monopoly and spread heresy against Zanu PF competitors and opponents alike, renege on written agreements between Zanu PF and any other party as and when he deems it fit to do so and use State power to deny access to anything Stately for opponents of Zanu PF.
That is the extent of the delusion that informs Mugabe to act as he often does. He believes that he has the mandate to do as he pleases and does not brook any opposition to his desires.
"There can be disagreement but that's ours to handle," he said. "We are glad we are talking about it.On an odd day, one party decides it should not be fully in the process. It has one leg in, and one leg out and you begin to wonder if you are with people who know what agreement means," Mugabe told the ‘Heroes Acre’ captive audience as he berated his Prime Minister who was conspicuous by his absence from the event because he and his party had not been involved in determining the Hero status bestowed on Chando by the government he supposedly heads.
It beggars belief that a President fails to understand that agreements by their nature impose obligations on parties to the agreement and where a party refuses to live by its obligations it cannot reasonably expect the others to abide by their obligations.
If Mugabe understands the meaning of agreement as he claims to do can he tell the nation on what basis he refuses to swear in a nominee from a party in the coalition government quoting the clause of the GPA that allows him to act as he has done to date over Roy Bennett?
While at it he may as well put the minds of the nation at rest by quoting which clause of the GPA he had signed on 15 September 2008 allowed him to appoint Provincial Governors, the Reserve Bank Governor and the Attorney General without consulting the Premier.
Simply pointing out that he appointed the incumbents because the Premier was not yet in office will not suffice because if that were the case he should have appointed the incumbents in an acting capacity pending the finalization of the Premier’s appointment which was within his realm in terms of the GPA he and his Party had entered into.
Is it the President’s understanding of the 15 September agreement that he entered into with the Premier and Deputy Premier that he could delay the appointment of the Premier to create the excuse for appointing his loyalists into senior positions in government and thereafter the Premier?
If that is the case then it is the President who does not understand the meaning of an agreement if you ask me.
"The countries of Europe and America want to dictate which way our politics should go and they talk about regime change. They want us to go down on our knees and beg. One day we should think about fighting them in the international courts," Mugabe told the nation from the Zanu PF Heroes Acre.
Whenever he has staged elections during his tenure as President it appears Mugabe was not concerned about the electorate choosing a new regime to lead them but rather the electorate endorsing the old regime to continue even if the electorate had misgivings about its competencies.
While there is merit in President Mugabe refusing external interference in initiating regime change in our country it is absolutely ludicrous for him to suggest that it is America and Britain that want regime change in Zimbabwe when there is evidence from elections in which these countries were completely excluded from not just funding but also organizing and observing, that the electorate voted overwhelmingly against Zanu PF and President Mugabe.
Those votes against him and his party are the real demands for regime change that he refused to heed that causes countries like Britain and America to remind him that Zimbabweans demanded regime change that he did not heed and must of necessity take heed if he wants them to recognize his tenure as President’s legitimacy.
After stealing the election and negotiating a regime change convenient to Zanu PF and himself President Mugabe is now failing to live by that agreement and still wants us to believe it is because America and Britain are demanding regime change in Zimbabwe when to the contrary it was before SADC that Zanu PF conceded to the current changed regime order obtaining in the country.
The problem with a delusional Mugabe is that he is afraid that he and his party have lost favour with the electorate and the hard line stance they are publicly displaying is camouflage for deep rooted fear that the Party will lose any election to the MDC-T unless the electorate remains gripped with fear of reprisals like those they witnessed post elections ever since Zanu PF took charge of the governance of our country.
But it is the attempt to portray the Premier and his party as the violators in chief of the GPA that exposes the extent of Mugabe’s derangement.
Zanu PF has lost its political marbles and in Mugabe it carries its greatest liability. Who in his right frame of mind would vote Mugabe for another day in
office as President when he does not even understand why he is currently regarded as such less than a year after he was legitimized by the very GPA he is failing and or deliberately refusing to implement fully.
By reneging on the GPA and holding onto the tired sanctions mantra Mugabe is dragging Zanu PF into the dungeons of political obscurity.
Now he is facing another unsavory experience of explaining himself to Sadc over issues he undertook to implement in writing before them.
His defense that the MDC-T has refused and or failed to get the sanctions lifted is without merit as the MDC was not held accountable for that issue but rather the parties were agreed that sanctions were not necessary but counterproductive to the coalition government’s economic turnaround initiatives and should be lifted.
The major obstacle to the lifting of sanctions is not the MDC-T but rather Zanu PF culture of impunity.
Obviously a President Mugabe who does not understand why his coalition partner is protesting unfulfilled GPA agreements and who does not subscribe to regime change as the only constant in governance will not appreciate what it takes to have the sanctions lifted until he falls prey of the regime change initiative that will conclude the coalition government.
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