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Power-sharing between Mugabe and Tsvangirai may have been just eyewash
With the handshakes over and promises being made and broken, it is business as usual for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe: sucking the nation dry of resources and pride.
- Gulf News
- Published: 00:11 October 20, 2008
With the handshakes over and promises being made and broken, it is business as usual for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe: sucking the nation dry of resources and pride.
The marriage of power-sharing between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai could be a short but eventful union. Or perhaps it is just eyewash and not an alliance at all. With inflation hitting a record 231 million per cent Mugabe has continued to stall and even renege on certain elements of the power-sharing deal.
One would assume that perhaps the president's intentions are not honest to begin with. By awarding himself the key posts in the government, including the military and police force (the perpetrators of human rights abuse), the path is clear for Mugabe to drain his nation. The time has come for Tsvangirai to walk away from the man who deliberately wrecked the country he once fought to create.
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