Last Friday, the Sunday Times newspaper reported that Tsvangarai optimistically declared that the Zimbabwean crisis can be resolved in talk and that he is committed to the mediation of president Mbeki.
I am really wondering about Tsvangarai strategy toward Mugabe’s dictatorship in Zimbabwe. Looking at how most dictators in African countries were overthrowned, we can realise that enough has not been done yet in order to mobilise a general uprising in Zimbabwe. The event of 11 mars whereby Tsvangarai and his opposition members where molested and jailed were just a starting point of a fire which should be fuelled more then it is. The picture and footage of Tsangarai himself and his peers wounded on those days was of a major point of official declarations’ rise around the world in condemnation of human right violation by the Zimbabwean government. I think it is wrong that Tsvangarai believes that he can get more from foreign government and decline Mugabe’s regime from outside. I will suggest that he learns from those who had to resist to doctrines and had to pay the ultimate price for what they believed. For example, the history tell us that few hours before the famous “I have a dream’s” speech, Martin Luther King speaking to his peers said that there was no more a way out for him and that he had to write the history with his blood if possible. Therefore, I really doubt about Tsvangarai’s determination to go to the end of his thoughts. It is a big mistake to think that diplomatic pressures will shake such an African dictator. Tony Blair knows something about this. For instance, I know by experience after participating in national’s riots against Mobutu that such dictator should be fought from inside to extend of rising is own army against himself.
As I am spending a month with the work place training here at Wits I can see around the campus a lot of writing and posters about the situation in Zimbabwe. I do think that it is irrational to think that a dictator will be willing to administrate a cure of democracy to his regime if he is not forced. The African Union and Southern African Development Community’s pressure will not do better than a revolution coming from within. Surely Mugabe has learned from his colleagues Mobutu and Idi Amin Dada.
I have been told for the few days at the Wok place training that job seeking is not an easy task. I will have to go an extra-mile sometimes in order to achieve my goal and definitely find the job I am dreaming about. My opinion is that there is not petrol in Zim so that we can expect marines in Bulawayo in the coming days or a military organisation to launch an attack on Harare. Tsvangarai must show determination and go back in Zim and preach by example. What do you think?
2 comments:
These are some seriously radical recommendations you are proposing. I am not entirely sure that dialogue, mediation, sanctions and all other non-violent conflict resolutions methods have been rendered futile. Call for civil up-rising should be the last option. [... and how like a Kenyan I speak...]
Hi Adam, I like your topics and the debates raised, but I find them a bit difficult to read because of the language barrier. I have offered to assist with editing if you wish.
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