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(TALKZIMBABWE) Leak confirms regime change agenda: Zanu-PF

Leak confirms regime change agenda: Zanu-PF
By: Our reporter
Posted: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 1:08 am

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party says the latest leak by whistleblowing website Wikileaks confirms the West's regime change agenda in Zimbabwe. The party said the rest of the revelations were not worth commenting on.

Wikileaks published at the weekend a cable sent by former US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell where he criticised former ally, MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai as "weak and ineffectual".

Rugare Gumbo, a spokesman for the Zanu-PF party, told reporters the text of Dell’s cable confirmed Washington’s commitment to “a regime change agenda” to oust President Mugabe with Mr Tsvangirai as its token figurehead to replace the President.
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The leak, however, said Mr Tsvangirai was incapable of leading a country as president.

"Tsvangirai is ... a flawed figure, not readily open to advice, indecisive and with questionable judgement in selecting those around him," wrote Dell in his 2007 cable.

"He (Mr Tsvangirai) is the indispensable element for (regime change), but possibly an albatross around their necks once in power.

"In short, he is a kind of Lech Wałęsa character: Zimbabwe needs him, but should not rely on his executive abilities to lead the country's recovery."

Wałęsa is a former Polish president and trade-unionist, who offered to collect this year's Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

The revelations, however, put a strain between the former allies, the US embassy and the MDC-T party, which responded harshly to the sentiments of the ambassador.

Nelson Chamisa, spokesman for the MDC-T party, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Mr Dell’s statement on Tsvangirai’s failings was not “the collective opinion of the people of Zimbabwe who will determine the future of this country.”

Labels: NEOCOLONIALISM, WIKILEAKS

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