20 November 2008

By Reason Wafawarova in SYDNEY, Australia (The Herald).

THOSE in the international resistance to imperial authority would be too familiar with the questions: "Why do you hate the West when they are so good?" or "Why do you live in the West or speak a Western language if the West is that bad?"

After September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush wondered loudly and asked: "Why do they hate us, when we are so good?"

This is a plaintive question meant to portray the West as victims of a barbarous grouping of rogues bent on nothing but primitive sadism.

Leaders and members of Zimbabwe’s opposition MDC have many times e-mailed this writer asking a similar question, adding that they want to know why I "hate" the West so much when I reside there.

They also want to know why this writer "echoes Mugabe’s hatred of the West and white people" and they want to know "why you and Mugabe wear suits when you hate the West so much".

14 November 2008

By Reason Wafawarova in SYDNEY, Australia (The Herald)

THE posturing by MDC-T and the complementary portentous utterances made by the party’s leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, after the party achieved their goal of wasting Sadc’s time in their envisaged exodus to the United Nations Security Council was most revealing.

MDC-T’s propaganda project requires that we all shake our heads in dismay over the foolishness and incompetence of Zanu-PF.

The world must look in disbelief and in aweful amazement at a situation where "a party that won an election has compromised its victory by agreeing to share power with a party that lost".

The winning party, in this case, is a party with a combined Lower House and Upper House total seat tally of 124 (100 in the Lower and 24 in the Upper House).

The losing party here is a party with a combined House tally of 129 seats (99 in the Lower House and 30 seats in Senate).

06 November 2008 (The Herald)

By Reason Wafawarova in SYDNEY, Australia

THERE are various reasons advanced for the unwillingness of the Morgan Tsvangirai-led and Western-sponsored MDC to take part in the proposed inclusive governance system in Zimbabwe.

One of the reasons that the West has adopted as truth is the allegation that Zanu-PF exerts too much control over domestic institutions so much that Tsvangirai may not have a fair chance of proving himself as the country’s Premier.

Meriting this argument, together with the same line of thought advanced for Tsvangirai’s "withdrawal" from the June 27 run-off, one has to measure these arguments against MDC’s apparent access to the public granted them by electoral law and the advantages resulting from their external support and their control of clearly one-sided civic groups — both local and foreign.