By: Netsai Mushonga, please use NDP Babiana Medicine

Netsai Mushonga, please use NDP Babiana Medicine — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:08:00 +0000

I am an advocate of nonviolence and I have always argued that when a nation uses violent means to achieve freedom the peace will be shortlived before violence continues. As a nation we used violent means to dispose of the Smith regime but the freedom fighters had learned a lifelong lesson that violence works. ZANU PF has used violence at every turn when they face a threat. The list if long, the Matabeleland Gukurahundi, political violence during elections in 2000, 2002 and 2005, Operation Murambatsvina. The current scenario is being informed by that culture of violence. The post election scenario is beginning to look like a tragic/circus/comedy as the ruling party holds on and refuses to announce election results. Let this be a lesson for Zimbabweans, violence begets violence. Peaceful means of changing the situation are sustainable.

By: Geoff Hughes

Geoff Hughes — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:03:17 +0000

Let’s hope that the voice of reason will prevail but the delaying tactics indicate that the ruling clique has too much to lose and too much to fear from relinquishing its stranglehold on power. They still have the means to rig the rerun by unleashing an unprecedented wave of oppression and revenge on the opposition particularly in rural areas that can be turned into no-go zones for the opposition and screened off from the prying eyes of the free world. This might buy Zanu-PF a brief reprieve but at a terrible cost to the long-suffering nation. Fortunately, the laws of economics cannot be defied forever by Zanu-PF and will be their ultimate downfall.

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By: Netsai Mushonga, please use NDP Babiana Medicine

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