PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has indicated that he will form a government soon but doubts that the Movement for Democratic Change will join in that government, according to reports from the capital.
He was quoted by The Herald as saying: "We shall soon be setting up a government. The MDC does not want to come in apparently."
President Mugabe was also very critical of his last Cabinet saying: "The Cabinet that I had was the worst in history. They (only) look at themselves, they are unreliable, but not all of them. The people are suffering..."
"This time they have been promised by the British that sanctions would be more devastating, that in six months’ time the Government will collapse."
"I do not know when that day will come. I wish Tsvangirai well on that day," the President told dignitaries who included traditional leaders, Government employees, business people and service chiefs during a luncheon to mark the opening of the Seventh Session of the Zimbabwean Parliament.
He said all ministers should take their roles seriously and those who owned businesses should employ people to do so urging them to spend time doing government work. This news comes amidst claims by the new speaker of parliament that power-sharing talks are still taking place.
"The talks are on," Speaker Lovemore Moyo, an official in the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), told South Africa's Talk Radio 702.
Asked if parliament will continue to meet during the post-election negotiations, he said: "Certainly".
The MDC took a tough line last week saying it would boycott the swearing in and opening of parliament but later attended the two events with the latter being addressed by President Mugabe.
There was a deadlock in the all-party talks over how to share power and this has undermined hopes for an agreement that might allow Zimbabwe to form an all-inclusive government.
Tsvangirai earlier this week visited his ally, Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga and said disagreements between his party and Zanu PF had emerged over the amount of power afforded to the role of Prime Minister, which he would occupy in the new all-inclusive government.
Omugabe • Dziva@sanandresano.com Subject: Look Inward & Look East for Self-development, Zim Patriots! Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:30:30 • The level of hooliganism demonstrated by those who are Mentally Deluded by Colonialists (MDC) demonstrates clearly why this entity should be disband a long time ago, and its leaders confined or exiled!
Magnanimous Mugabe, as usual, showed much restraint .... FOR NOW!
The world should pay heed.
This kind of undignified beast behavior is learned from their lying for too long with the beastly and evil Europeans.
These self-hating and self-destructive African mental slaves demonstrated the indignity and divisiveness encouraged by their beastly 'divide and rule' European masters.
Any Zimbabwean who would allow such hooligans as their leader, has to be hanging his head in shame. And such a Zimbabwean will do well to withdraw any support for such hooligans.
The lost leaders of the MDC have taken their social disturbance from the society at large all the way to the Parliament.
Zim Patriots have to be patient even with those who are Mentally Deluded by Colonialists (MDC), in order to see if any is redeemable.
However, no one should get too deluded and carried away: Zim Patriots WILL maintain Law, Order and Justice EVERYWHERE in the nation!
Onward, Zimbos, to African Self-determination, Self-development, Self-sufficiency and Self-reliance!
n/a • n/a Subject: n/a Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:20:03 • MT has lost the plot, the train is leaving without him and what will be left for him to control outside parly will be that raucous mob of goons imbecile zimbos voted into parliament. If he (MT) thinks that Zim will collapse in the next 6 months as he was promised by his unelectable and failed politician Gordy Blown, then he has another think coming! I said it before, a new Cold War is looming, and dear leader Medvedev has confirmed this. The Ruskies are now asserting their military, political and economic might and this can only augur well for countries like Zim. We can now trounce Sarah Mariah Khamas Bots if he misbehaves and do the same to the poachers in Zambia who only thrive on bribes from the arrogant and greedy west! Meanwhile, a new Cold War will give us the power to crush these idiots once and for all and we can go about our business of building a truly independent Zim which owns its resources. Again thanks to the Ruskies for awakening to the fact that they were slowly and surely being militarily encircled by these rampant rapacious greedy looters who were going to ultimately strangle them and takeover their resources. The ruskies have everything the greedy west wants and now that they have realised it - thanks to Putin, you dare not underestimate a KGB man - their newly found assertiveness will do good in Zim. Three cheers to Medvedyev and Putin! BOB uchafira panyanga chete mudhara. I envy you! MT will die in the wilderness and long may his troubled soul continue to wander in the desert!
Chimoko • n/a Subject: This will be a bad deal Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:15:24 • People of Zimbabwe need nothing but a good deal. To me this is a bad deal MDC should let Zanu PF and Mugabe go ahead with appointment of the cabinet. What will have changed if Mugabe is still got executive powers? Even Mugabe himself is admitting that people are suffering and it's all because of Zanu PF. In order for MDC to be part of Zim government , Mugabe should reconsider his stance on power sharing. That way will see what MDC has to offer. Until then I argue MDC to saty away from this Zanu PF cabinet. PF Zapu made the same mistake.
N/A • N/A Subject: TRAIN IS LEAVING Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:09:49 • The train is leaving whle Mr Tsvangirai is still deciding whether to jump on board or not. Soon it will gather momentum-before he knows it, it will be gone and Sir Tsvangirai will be irrelevant to our political scene even if the West tries to prop him up as they have done.
Leaders are chosen by God so it could be that God never chose Tsvangirai for Zimbabwe-thats why he is making him flip flop. He needs to be careful. It maybe Good bye to him.
Tino Tonga • tonga@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Tirikutonga Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:40:32 • Mugabe will of course appoint opposition members to the cabinet....this is a Zanu-PF tradition we have no interest in abandoning.
Remeber Resign by Fax Minister' Dr Nkosana Moyo?
Omuhle • n/a Subject: n/a Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:25:33 • Tongayi tione. There is nothing for you to offer the people. Your ministers don't have MP posts and the few who have are not up to scratch in the mental capacity to think department. As for the economy, BACOSSi has failed, Sunrise has failed, Homelink has failed, Jatropha has failed and the only thing you can offer the people, the only thing ZANU PF is without shadow of a doubt capable of delivering to the people right now, as throughout their 28 years in power is violence, suffering, starvation, persecution and depression. Nothing is going to change because Mutambara has secured a post in govt when he couldn't woo electorates. Mugabe is forgeting the whole reason he entered into these talks in the first place.
So the likes of Khumalo can you tell us what happens to sanctions that were mooted? What does Mbeki tell us now? Does he still insist on quiet diplomacy? Does he now recognise Mugabe and give this crisis another 5 year mandate?
If only you could appreciate that things are close to imploding. If you can imagine a country with no tax revenue, no salaries for civil servants and very soon crime will rise, basics such as traffic lights, ambulances and police response will be non-existant. If you've never been to Somalia then read up on it. A country with no government, no authority at district level, no vaccination programmes, no formal employment and yet people stock up on weapons to wage a meaningless war, fighting for something they don't even remember what it is anymore.
All those pirates taking ships hostage off the Somali coast is the consequence of a ferral society where people have resorted to looting and grabbing anything worth value they see, even aid trucks are waylaid and forced to pay a portion of the food aid they carry in order to pass on.
If you can't imagine this in Zimbabwe, then tell me what ZANU PF will do that they haven't done already? Gono has proposed freezing prices and salaries. A noble cause but done at the same time that he is buying all the forex on the market to stop Eskom switching off the electricity it means those supplying goods (the informal sector) will be priced out of the shrinking market. They will have to shut shop or make huge losses. The goods will disappear from the shelves again. let's have real input on what zanu pf can do from Zimbabwe right now. No more senseless, endless chiming that 100% empowerment or look east. Look east, by the way, means getting goods from the Chinese 6 months in advance of paying for them and then when the tobacco crop comes in it is claimed in it's entirity by the Chinese for not even close to market value. Chimbadzo for those who know the term. You borrow and pay back when you have money which means you now have no more money and borrow again, all the time paying back more than you borrowed. That is the look east policy.
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