Comments on: Give us the Plan B (please) http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/give-us-the-plan-b-please/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=give-us-the-plan-b-please Kubatana.net speaks out from Zimbabwe Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Oliver Chettle http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/give-us-the-plan-b-please/#comment-177058 Oliver Chettle Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:48:41 +0000 http://kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=1172#comment-177058 Mugabe and Mbeki are the responsible men, not Mugabe and Tsvangarai. Perhaps Tsvangarai could have played his cards a little smarter, but he might still have got nowhere. The blame belongs entirely with those who have trampled over Zimbabwean democracy, not with any of their victims.

]]> By: Sophie http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/give-us-the-plan-b-please/#comment-176995 Sophie Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:17:25 +0000 http://kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=1172#comment-176995 What establishment does Makoni have behind him. He had promised us some of the big guns in ZANU PF were going to join him once he came out. Did that happen? No! Besides the vote that Makoni got was mostly in Matebeleland which is the MDC vote and not his own.

If Makoni is Plan B he has already missed the boat because he is nowhere to be seen in terms of being the alternative!

]]> By: Eusebia http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/give-us-the-plan-b-please/#comment-176973 Eusebia Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:50:43 +0000 http://kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=1172#comment-176973 Denford if Makoni has the Plan B then why is he not letting people know that now when they are
in desperate need of a ray of hope. Sophie wouldn’t have asked for a Plan B if Makoni had come out in the open about his plans for the country.
He lost timing in the March 2008 elections and if he doesn’t start letting his vision be known now he will forever be known in history as the potential leader who could have saved Zimbabwe had his timing been right.
Its about time you, the team, Mavambo and Makoni started acting instead of just talk.

]]> By: Denford http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/give-us-the-plan-b-please/#comment-176925 Denford Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:14:10 +0000 http://kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=1172#comment-176925 The Plan B has always been there from the beginning but Zimbabweans have a death wish, or they listen to diasporans who do not want a resolution to the Zim crisis because that will mean no more asylum claims.

Here’s the plan B: Makoni. So many people in both ZANU PF and the MDC want him to be president, but the population was not ready for him in March last year.

Still, did you notice that the March election was virtually violence-free? That is because the people who normally do the bidding of Mugabe on violence were restrained by the presence of Makoni on the ballot.

He and he alone has the power within ZANU PF to dive a wedge between Mugabe and the rest of the party. IF he had own and if he should win in future, you will find that no one will listen to Mugabe as he seeks to hammer the population and bend them to his will. He will be alone.

And Makoni does not even want to be a 5 year president. He campaigned on the platform that if he won he would form an inclusive government, together with MDC and civil society so that he could solve the economic crisis and draft a new constituion together with civil society.

And then he will call new internationally supervised elections, whoever wins, carries the day.

It is do clear that this is the only man capable of removing Mugabe that it beggars belief that some people are still pinning their hopes on Tsvangirai who will NEVER EVER be able to remove Mugabe without going to war, a war that he obviously will not start because it is not within him.

But you all voted for Morgan who is being outwitted by Mugabe left right and centre.

He wants the votes but does not know what to do with them once he gets them.

Makoni has the establishment behind him. Like Mugabe did with Smith, he would be able to take away Mugabe’s power base and leave him exposed. If he then arrests the soldiers and torturers of our people a year after he is president, he would have stabilised the country and the torturers will have no power from which they can try and hit back at him.

Tsvangirai could have done this by going int a GNU and attacking Mugabe’s power base from within, but he just wants posts for his mates, so he will not go in until he is sure that he will get ambassadorships, governorships (and he is now demanding to appoint a “Minister Withuot Portfolio in the Prime Minister’s Office!)

Makoni says he can run this country with a ministry of 15 ministers in the cabinet.

The plan B is there, but Zimbabweans just have a death wish.

And to Nicky, who left a comment for me on my site: You should leave your comments on the same site that the comment you are responding to appears, otherwise readers will not know what on earth you are talking about.

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