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(HERALD) US in fresh bid to divide Zim

US in fresh bid to divide Zim
Herald Reporter

The United States Congress is pushing a piece of legislation to maintain the illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe and to bolster parallel government structures in the Prime Minister’s Office.

The Zimbabwe Renewal Act of 2010 will amend the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act that instituted the current sanctions regime. In a Press release this week, the US Information Centre in Zimbabwe said the proposed law maintains what it called "targeted sanctions".

The new legislation will extend financial assistance to ministries under MDC-T in the inclusive Government while sidelining the rest of the State.

Observers yesterday said the proposed law exposed American "hypocrisy and insincerity".

The proposal says "some members of Zanu-PF" are obstructing democracy, while lauding PM Morgan Tsvangirai and Finance Minister Tendai Biti.

"It reflects strenuous debate in both the Democratic and Republican parties, influenced by the (Congressional) Black Caucus," it reads in part.

Political analyst and Tsholotsho House of Assembly legislator Professor Jonathan Moyo said the US Congress was trying to create divisions in the inclusive Government through the new law.

"The notion of singling out Tsvangirai and Biti in the inclusive Government is mere nonsense because Government is a collective enterprise.

"We don’t know of anything they have done as individuals and these are only attempts by the US to cause chaos and confusion in the inclusive Government.

"Heaping of praises on these two officials is an attempt to create a government in another government, a move that was even criticised by President (Jacob) Zuma," he said.

Zimbabwe Revolutionary Volunteers Front chairman and political analyst Mr Godwine Mureriwa added: "The continuation of sanctions is a campaign strategy to prop up the MDC-T position ahead of polls.

"The US cannot claim that it wants to help Zimbabwe when it is maintaining sanctions. This seems to be contradictory."

He said Zanu-PF should make it clear that no elections could be held as long as sanctions and parallel government structures subsisted.

Another observer with the University of Zimbabwe asked: "Why does the United States think that it has the right to legislate on behalf of another country?

"The arrogance displayed is not only staggering but also nauseating. It is amazing that Tsvangirai and Biti do not show their public embarrassment when their names are used in such shameless onslaughts on their own country."

Labels: GODWINE MURERIWA, NEOCOLONIALISM, SANCTIONS, ZTDERA

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