Zimbabwe and the battle of ideas (The Herald)

From Reason Wafawarova in SYDNEY, Australia

04 February 2010

MDC-T mouthpieces, together with mainstream Western media, as well as the party’s information department have over the years been in a splendid overdrive manufacturing credibility for Morgan Tsvangirai, but true to the dictates of the saying, easy come easy go; Tsvangirai has this terrible reputation for squandering this manufactured credibility — and that must be a cause for concern for those whose job it is to build the status of the Western controlled politician.

Zimbabwe has become a battle of ideas and it does not appear like Tsvangirai is too much of a man of ideas and clearly he is playing like a reckless boozer in a team of professionals.

The Prime Minister’s call for the phasing of sanctions removal is not only uncalled for, unpatriotic and ill informed, but is also a deadly disaster by way of political strategy.

MDC-T: Aristocracy or democracy? (The Herald)

By Reason Wafawarova in SYDNEY, Australia

28 January 2010

ZIMBABWEANS were left in no doubt that the unpopular adumbration of describing the illegal and ruinous economic sanctions on Zimbabwe as mere "restrictive measures" as preferred by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, and the vainglorious claim that it is "only Zanu-PF" that can get the sanctions removed is all mischievous hot air from the lips of ‘‘aristocrats’’ whose regard for the ordinary man is akin to that of Satan for those under his temptation.

David Miliband, the British foreign and Commonwealth secretary articulately enlightened the whole world in the clearest of terms that the British foreign policy on Zimbabwe is "above all" guided by the MDC-T leadership.

He did not call the sanctions by any scanty name like "restrictive measurers", as would those from MDC-T, notably Tsvangirai and the bunch of cheerleaders from his office.

Constitution-making: Securing home front (The Herald)

By Reason Wafawarova in SYDNEY, Australia

21 January 2010

The canton approach taken by some people involved with the current efforts towards the drafting of a new constitution is not only unfortunate, but also a gross mockery of the invocation call for the input of the grassroots; something that has become the declared and preached epicentre of the whole constitution-making process, never mind the rhetoric.

These political cantons of MDC-T, MDC, Zanu-PF, civil society, labour and so on are not part of what one would call diversity but rather rival power centres driven more by the need to outflank each other politically than to produce a document for a national common cause.

One needs to read articles on constitutional matters in the Prime Minister’s tabloid, The Changing Times, and you do get this impression that the constitution-making process is seen by some as party business aimed at defeating political rivals.