President Mugabe transformed into a puppet political leader by targeted sanctions imposed by the EU,USA and their allies
Zanu-PF has over the years preached the gospel of national sovereignty and independence as its founding principle.
Many Zimbabweans were fooled into believing this mantra which was later spiced by the lies that the MDC was a puppet party of the British and USA imperialists bent on re-colonising our country.
But for the targeted sanctions against its leadership most would have never known that the party masquerading as the vanguard of our sovereignty is nothing more than a wild bunch of inextricably dependant s of White settlerism.
After frothing on the mouth over imperial interference from Britain and the USA and their allies’ attempts to effect regime change through their hidden hand within the MDC, it is saddening to hear Zanu PF now making former settler imposed sanctions a scapegoat for refusing to do what is good for the nation.
After negotiating the GPA with the MDC and before the brotherly Sadc facilitation and agreeing a raft of reforms necessary to save the nation from the political social and economic abyss it had plunged into, the party that boasts being the vanguard of our sovereignty is putting most of us to shame by its squirming over the sanctions.
President Mugabe and his Zanu PF acolytes are demanding as they have done over the past decade without much success, the lifting of sanctions imposed on Zanu PF leadership by the USA and the EU countries together with their associates.
Whatever has become of the look east alternative the party has been drumming up prior to the signing of the GPA one is left wondering?
Could it be that the look east alternative was a political ruse that Zanu PF never believed and has never managed to benefit from despite a decade of devotion to making the strategy work and render USA and EU sanctions inconsequential to the country’s economic progression?
Even if that was the case, which appears to be the case with each passing day after the signing of the GPA, Zanu PF is expected to show the spine and grit it is reputed for in the face of this adversity than to crumble in the manner it has done and hold the nation it helped attain liberation from colonial bondage at ransom because the former colonial masters have slapped the country with an economic embargo.
Addressing the 80th Ordinary Session of the Central Committee at the party’s headquarters in Harare recently, President Mugabe proudly declared that;
“Zanu PF had not reached any agreement with the two MDC formations over outstanding Global Political Agreement issues and will not do so until the issue of sanctions is fully addressed.”
"References to Gono, Tomana and Bennett is nothing because it has never been part of the agreement.”
"The reply from Zanu-PF has always been the same: Gono and Tomana have no case to answer while Bennett has a criminal case in the courts.
"The position is that they cannot be any further concessions from us unless the illegal sanctions are gone.”
In saying this President Mugabe may not have realised or intended it but he came through as the leader of not just a dependant and colonised nation that cannot survive without aid and or some form of economic support from former colonial masters and their allies but also as a leader of a bankrupt political party whose value of sovereignty is overshadowed by the desire for economic support and puppetry of the Western democracies.
By making implementation of the GPA conditional on the Western Nations’ lifting of sanctions they imposed against his party leadership, President Mugabe showed that he was more concerned with gaining access to the resources of the nations that imposed travel restrictions on him and his party leadership than he is in seeing Zimbabweans recover from the economic mess he plunged the nation into.
For how else does he expect us to understand why he should make the implementation of an agreement he entered into with other Zimbabwean political leaders at the total exclusion of the sanctions imposers’ dependant on the reaction of countries and persons that were, are and will never be beneficiaries of the agreement?
If in entering into the GPA Zanu PF were interested in improving the economic and political wellbeing of the country without compromising its sovereignty to the former colonists and their friends it does not make sense for him to make normalisation of economic relations with the same countries which are a threat to our sovereignty a condition for implementing the part of the agreement that does not require the normalization he and his party are demanding.
But the geriatric President shamelessly argues that the MDC party he has spent a decade accusing of puppetry must now lead a crusade that will bring Zanu PF into the fold of the former colonial masters by vigorously campaigning for the lifting of sanctions that are a wedge between his party and the bloodsucking, politically distablising and economically pillaging imperialists.
"They are just paying lip service to the issue of sanctions and they need to do more. The sanctions must go first," whined President Mugabe over the MDC-T enthusiasm to do his party and personal bidding for the lifting of sanctions.
The outstanding GPA issues are now Constitutional imperatives that the President is duty bound to uphold as the GPA in its entirety was annexed to Constitutional Amendment No 19 which none other than President Mugabe signed into law.
His failure to implement these constitutional provisions must be viewed as serious dereliction of duty that requires some form of sanctions from Parliament through an impeachment motion even if the motion will not secure the requisite 2 thirds majority to carry it will scare him to the core to know the numbers in the legislature that do subscribe to deliberate failure to uphold the constitution by anyone in power least of all the President.
More pertinently Zanu PF and President Mugabe need to be reminded that Zimbabweans do not expect any concessions from Zanu PF over and above those it consented to in CA No 19.
All Zimbabweans want is for Zanu PF and President Mugabe to abide by their signatures on the GPA and Constitution Amendment No 19 which was endorsed unconditionally and thus must be implemented in like manner.
The rant about Gono, Tomana, Provincial Governors appointments being outside the GPA is the kind of political tomfoolery that President Mugabe and his acolytes must desist from as it leads to unproductive conflict for nothing.
If there was any element of truth in the argument why is it that SADC is accommodating the issues as outstanding from the GPA it facilitated?
The argument that Bennett is not attested to his office because he faces serious criminal charges is equally unconstitutional and requires no serious consideration.
After exposing the Zanu PF desire to be in the former colonial master’s fold through the lifting of sanctions the rant from President Mugabe about the recently gazetted controversial Indigenisation and Empowerment regulations made the President look very dishonest in his accusation of opponents of the regulations.
The evidence of backward mentality and servitude is not in opponents of regulations that harden the resolve of sanction imposers to consider more stringent measures but in the thinking that the same countries must directly engage Zimbabwe and invest in Zimbabwe and loose 51% of their investment to empower Zimbabweans.
What is evident is that Zanu PF is holding no further concessions that it is purporting will be conceded if sanctions are lifted and in any event the threat of withholding such superfluous concession does not hurt the Western democracies to the extent of making them relax the sanctions but rather it is Zimbabwe that continues to bleed from the self inflicted ransom scars.
The relaxation of sanctions will benefit a few Zanu PF leaders while the implementation of the other outstanding CA No 19 clauses will benefit millions of Zimbabweans.
Whose interests is the Zanu PF President serving then?
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