Editors ‘bribed’ by Tsvangirai named
Posted by By Our reporter at 10 January, at 17 : 19 PM
A source who claims to be privy to the alleged bribery of local private newspapers by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Gabriel Chaibva has named three editors whom he alleges received money in return to give favourable coverage to the MDC-T president and his party.
Chaibva alleges that The Standard editor, Nevanji Madanhire (above main pic), Newsday editor, Brian Mangwende (above inset) and Daily News editor, Stanley Gama received money from the Prime Minister’s office to give favourable coverage to Tsvangirai and his MDC-T party.
Another source, Goodson Nguni, who says he had been closely monitoring the scam, said it is not a secret that the Prime Minister’s office is working in cahoots with private media editors and some western agents and alleged that a fund to co-ordinate the state of affairs of the private media has been established.
It is alleged that the Prime Minister’s spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Jameson Timba, are the key point-men in the whole saga.
It is alleged that strategic meetings were held in sports and golf clubs dotted around Harare and in surrounding towns.
The two sources say they will provide evidence if the named editors try to deny the stories or initiate some legal action.
Attempts by The Zimbabwe Guardian to reach the three editors failed as they were said to be out of the office.
The prime minister’s office on Tuesday refused to comment on the saga, referring all questions to the sopkesman Tamborinyoka who was unreachable at the time of going to press.
Labels: GABRIEL CHAIBVA, MDC CORRUPTION, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI
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Tsvangirai must resign: Zanu PF
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11/12/2010 00:00:00
Zanu PF officials have demanded that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai resigns from Government or face prosecution for possible treason following allegations made in the leaked communications from the United States’ Harare embassy.
Some of the information leaked by Wikileaks suggests that the MDC-T leader privately urged Western countries to maintain sanctions against Zimbabwe while publicly appearing to back their removal. Zanu PF blames the sanctions for the country’s economic troubles.
"There are only two things that could happen in any civilised democracy, for him to resign not just from Government but public life altogether. He must also be prosecuted for a litany of treasonous acts against the State.
"The only questions about those two things is not whether they should happen but when they are going to happen," Tsholotsho North legislator and former information minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo.
Moyo said it was “shocking” that Tsvangirai continued to campaign for the retention of sanctions and for use of unlawful means to change a Government of which he was a senior official.
"As early as 2000 he was actively asking the US to bring troops to Zimbabwe to effect a coup," he said.
Gabriel Chaibva, a former MDC-M official who has since defected to Zanu PF said it was treasonous for Tsvangirai and his party “to craft ZDERA” and continue to call for the retention of sanctions against Zimbabwe.
"This is treasonous and Tsvangirai should be held accountable for his actions. The only sensible thing for him to do now is to resign because more evidence is coming from WikiLeaks.
“(Alternatively), those in the MDC-T must push him out because he is a traitor and has become a liability to the people of Zimbabwe. The quicker he goes, the better," Chaibva said.
He said the country could also call elections in order to “get rid Tsvangirai and his party”.
"There has never been a more compelling reason for elections than there is to get rid of this political party. More importantly when we go for elections, the people of Zimbabwe now know that this man (Tsvangirai) all along has been working to advance the US and British interests in Zimbabwe.
"He never worked for the people of Zimbabwe and this explains why he has been making senseless demands on the so-called outstanding issues. It has been about usurping powers through the back door. Zimbabweans must punish him at the polls for who wants to associate with an American puppet," added Chaibva.
Labels: GABRIEL CHAIBVA, JONATHAN MOYO, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, TREASON, WIKILEAKS
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Chaibva abandons Mutambara for Zanu-PF
By Our Correspondent
February 5, 2010
HARARE – Former MDC legislator for Harare South constituency Gabriel Chaibva has abandoned the smaller MDC party led by Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara to rejoin President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF.
In a letter to the MDC-M’s deputy president Gibson Sibanda dated, January 1, the controversial politician described Zanu-PF as the “people’s party” while branding his party as a “tribal grouping”.
“You know I have tremendous respect for you as a person,” Chaibva was quoted in the Herald Tuesday, “and it is for that reason that I felt it necessary to advise you in particular of my resignation from the party, which you now have christened MDC-M, for the love of personality cults, I guess.
“I do not want to leave you doubting as to what my next political move would be. I want you to know that I have joined Zanu-PF immediately.
“I seek to work hard for the people’s party, Zanu-PF, to regain its revolutionary image as the defender of our freedom, democracy and the gains of our liberation struggle.”
“Your faction of the MDC has degenerated into a small group of people numbering three who have now become the party unto themselves.
“On many occasions as secretary of information and publicity, I refuted the allegations that we were a tribal grouping, but it has become evidently and visibly clear that this is indeed the case.”
Chaibva accused the MDC leadership of pretending to be progressive during the day “yet in the pitch of darkness, they sup with the devil”.
He also said the MDC was being sponsored by America and that both factions of the MDC were only concerned with jobs for “blue-eyed boys and bootlickers” in the inclusive Government.
“I cannot be part of that and have decided to re-dedicate my energy and a modest 26 years experience in politics to working amongst and with cadres who know where we have come from and who cherish our liberation struggle legacy, in deed and in word. I am a child of Zanla and back home I am going!” he said.
Chaibva was part of the young crop of founding legislators in the then united MDC in 2000.
But since he joined a group of legislators who broke away from the mainstream MDC party led by founding president Morgan Tsvangirai in 2005, Chaibva has seen his political fortunes wan.
Perhaps the biggest signal that he had lost popularity was during the Budiriro by-election in 2006 when he suffered a humiliating defeat to Emmanuel Chisvuure, who was candidate for the MDC-T.
Chaibva, who was the MDC-M’s candidate, polled 504 votes against Chisvuure’s 7 949 votes.
In the same election, Zanu-PF’s Jeremiah Bvirindi polled 3 961 votes.
The former lawmaker has also stocked more controversy in Zimbabwe’s acrimonious sanctions debate by “revealing” that top officials within the then united MDC drafted the controversial Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (Zidera) at a hotel in Nyanga, Zimbabwe.
“I was there when Zidera was crafted in Nyanga by the MDC,” Chaibva told the State controlled ZBC TV during a current affairs programme in September last year.
“At that point Munyaradzi Gwisai (former MDC MP) stood up in protest and told everyone present that the MDC had been taken over by the US and Europe and business was no longer controlled from Harvest House (MDC headquarters).”
Zanu-PF blames Zimbabwe ’s economic collapse on the sanctions, allegations which the MDC dismisses as propaganda.
Chaibva was in August 2008 deported from the neighbouring Botswana after a visit in which he intended to confront the Ian Khama government for adopting a negative stance towards President Mugabe’s government.
“I had gone there to meet some government officials to discuss a few issues; among them their negative stance about Zimbabwe ,” Chaibva later told the media.
“They are ill-treating our people there and their foreign policy on Zimbabwe is basically bad, but they would not listen and accused me of being a government spy and their police accompanied me all the way from Gaborone to Plumtree.”
A month before, Chaibva was fired by Mutambara as party spokesperson for attending Mugabe’s inauguration as President at State House.
Mugabe won the election after Tsvangirai, his challenger had pulled out citing the impossibility of holding a free and fair run off election due to increased state sponsored violence which claimed over 200 of his supporters.
The MDC-M had also distanced itself from the “sham” election.
Chaibva joins independent Tsholotsho North legislator Jonathan Moyo who has also rejoined Zanu PF.
At party level, he becomes one of its frustrated senior officials in the MDC-M who have abandoned the embattled party citing alleged abuse of power by Mutambara’s executive.
Job Sikhala, a former legislator who lost his St Mary’s seat for siding with the less popular Mutambara group, left the party last
year.
Last year MDC lost three legislators; Abednico Bhebhe (Nkayi South), Njabuliso Mguni (Lupane East) and Norman Mpofu (Bulilima East) after the party’s disciplinary committee found them guilty of indiscipline.
Labels: ARTHUR MUTAMBARA, GABRIEL CHAIBVA, MDC, ZANU-PF
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Chaibva quits MDC-M, joins Zanu PF
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02/02/2010 00:00:00
DEPUTY Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara’s MDC faction has suffered a setback after national executive member Gabriel Chaibva decided to ditch the party and rejoin Zanu-PF. In a resignation latter addressed to MDC-M vice president Gibson Sibanda and dated January 1 2010, Chaibva accuses the faction of being a "tribal grouping".
" I felt it necessary to advise you in particular of my resignation from the party, which you now have christened MDC-M, for the love of personality cults, I guess. I do not want to leave you doubting as to what my next political move would be. I want you to know that I have joined Zanu-PF immediately.
" I seek to work hard for the people’s party, Zanu-PF, to regain its revolutionary image as the defender of our freedom, democracy and the gains of our liberation struggle," Chiabva said.
The former MDC-M spokesperson has had a number of run-ins with the party hierarchy and was suspended in July 2008 after defying the leadership by attending President Robert Mugabe’s inauguration. He was re-instated in March 2009.
Meanwhile Chibva claimed in his letter that the MDC-M had degenerated into a click of just three people who have become a “party unto themselves.”
"On many occasions as secretary of information and publicity, I refuted the allegations that we were a tribal grouping, but it has become evidently and visibly clear that this is indeed the case," alleged Mr Chaibva.
He accused the party leadership of pretending to be progressive during the day "yet in the pitch of darkness, they sup with the devil” adding that the party was being sponsored by the US.
"I cannot be part of that and have decided to re-dedicate my energy and a modest 26 years experience in politics to working amongst and with cadres who know where we have come from and who cherish our liberation struggle legacy in deed and in word. I am a child of Zanla and back home I am going!" he said.
Efforts to get comment from the MDC-M leadership were unsuccessful. The party also lost three legislators Abednico Bhebhe (Nkayi South), Njabuliso Mguni (Lupane East) and Norman Mpofu (Bulilima East) after its disciplinary committee found them guilty of indiscipline.
Chaibva’s defection is certain be welcomed by Zanu PF after the party was recently boosted by the return of Tsholotsho North member of parliament, Professor Jonathan Moyo.
Labels: ARTHUR MUTAMBARA, GABRIEL CHAIBVA, MDC-M, ZANU-PF
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Biti undermining STERP
By Tafataona Mahoso
ON August 30, 2009 we responded to Finance Minister Tendai Biti’s Standard newspaper declaration that "There is only one Finance Minister" in Zimbabwe by warning that: "Yes, There is only one Finance Minister and 14 million Zimbabweans" facing an acute economic emergency.
That emergency, as former MP Gabriel Chaibva confirms, was brought about by the same illegal economic sanctions which Biti’s party asked to be imposed on the people to help MDC-T grab power in a hurry. That emergency,
precipitated by MDC-T- invited sanctions, is the one reason why 14 million Zimbabweans believe it is wrong for Biti’s ministry to continue sitting on the US$881 million offered by the G20 (via the IMF) and the African Export-Import Bank for the purpose of resolving that same emergency.
Almost two months after the Standard story, Biti’s outbursts in the same paper on October 11, 2009 clearly indicate that either the minister has never taken the economic emergency seriously or that he and his party’s leadership enjoy watching people suffer from the continuation of the same emergency because MDC-T leaders are cushioned by corrupting allowances and retainer fees paid to them through Prime Minister Tsvangirai’s Office.
In both the Standard version (October 11, 2009) and the Herald version (October 12, 2009) of Biti’s interviews, the minister was consistent. He refuses to confront the catastrophic conditions caused by illegal sanctions invited by his party. He wants 14 million Zimbabweans to continue believing that the hardships they have faced since the imposition of sanctions in 2000-2001 were solely caused by Zanu-PF "mismanagement and misrule."
He fails to explain why such mismanagement would start at the same time as the MDC-invited sanctions. He forgets that Zanu-PF’s rule in fact covers 30 years of the history of this country and includes the good days of the "free education" which Biti’s generation received all the way through law school.
Indeed, whatever criticisms Biti and his party may wish to level against Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono and previous ministers of finance, there is no question that these people fought against the MDC-invited sanctions, enabled this nation to pull through the worst period of illegal sanctions, and left some real achievements which will last and be counted far beyond the life of the inclusive Government.
Despite the debilitating sanctions, Zimbabwe now boasts a vigilant African farming community, nursed by Dr Gono through the worst of the sanctions and capable of defending the Third Chimurenga. People understood what Gono was fighting against and what he fought for. They do not understand why Biti is fighting them.
All along we had assumed that by announcing to the whole world the Short-Term Emergency Recovery Programme on March 19, 2009, Minister Biti had at last started to live in the same world as the rest of the majority of Zimbabweans suffering the effects of the devastating sanctions.
We believed then that the minister had at last accepted the harsh realities facing the people and would therefore run the Ministry of Finance as a national institution serving a people facing an emergency, the very same emergency implied in the Short-Term Economic Recovery Programme.
Six months after that open declaration of an economic emergency, six months after that open statement of the need for economic recovery in the shortest term possible, we read the minister’s remarks according to the Standard newspaper of October 11, saying: "The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has proposed that part of the Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) [worth US$510 million] from the IMF be used to settle . . . debts. But Biti said this could only be done after a parliamentary process, which has not been initiated yet. Once the necessary legal measures have been taken, the funds can be released."
The minister then takes the position of a defensive lawyer who is out to win a legal point against an accuser or adversary. He is definitely not speaking as the finance minister of a country that invited the whole world to help it overcome a financial crisis as part and parcel of STERP six months ago. Here is a defensive lawyer out to win legal points but not bothered about the economic emergency, which remains, six months after STERP.
He says: "The law is very clear, if the Government is taking over the debt of another corporate body, it just cannot do it unless a Debt Assumption Act is passed by Parliament. This is an elementary legal position which is self-evident that it shocks me certain institutions don’t know about it."
There is no concern about the financial emergency declared through STERP six months ago.
Now, as the povo of Zimbabwe reeling under the crushing burden of the same illegal sanctions invited by Biti and company, we need to try to understand in povospeak what the learned minister is saying in his doublespeak and legalese.
First, he is definitely saying there is no economic emergency and no hurry, even though he told us and the rest of the world, six months ago, that we were facing an acute emergency, which required a short- term recovery plan.
Second, the learned minister is saying, because there is no emergency here, the G20 and the African Export/Import Bank (Afreximbank), were foolish to advance to Zimbabwe so promptly the US$510 million and US$371 million, respectively, before we were organised to action the disbursements! So the cash can wait.
The third thing he is saying has two possible meanings: Either that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is not part of the inclusive Government; therefore debts incurred through it are presumed to be unauthorised debts requiring Parliament’s condonation and assumption; OR, even more preposterous, that the inclusive Government cannot accept debts incurred before it became inclusive.
Therefore, we must wait for the inclusive Parliament to tell us whether or not it accepts the debts incurred via the RBZ. The latter theory can be used to try to bolster the idea that we are in a transition from one regime to another. Therefore the transitional regime cannot accept the debts of the one before it!
The fourth point Biti is making is equally questionable. That is, that neither the US$510 million from the G20 nor the US$371 from the African Export/Import Bank can be spent before all old debts are settled. In other words, settling old debts becomes more urgent than the short-term recovery in STERP and in the G20 plan for the global economy.
Before dealing with all these hair-splitting points one by one, it might help to consider the view of the expert language scientist Professor Noam Chomsky in Understating Power. He was asked why it was that when ordinary people wanted their straightforward needs and aspirations met, lawyers always seemed to come up with half a dozen reasons why their needs and aspirations had to wait forever.
Chomsky said: "Well, law is a bit like a printing press . . . you can make it do anything. I mean, what lawyers are taught in law school is chicanery: how to convert words on paper into instruments of power. And, depending on where the power is, the law will mean different things . . . what has a legal basis is a matter of power, not law . . ."
Biti is, in fact, attempting the sort of law-school chicanery which Chomsky warned about, converting words on paper into instruments of power on behalf of the same external sanctions lobby and regime change forces who have denied Zimbabwe credit for the last six years.
The words which Biti seeks to deploy as instruments of power are not being deployed on behalf of the 14 million Zimbabweans suffering the effects of illegal economic sanctions and waiting for a short-term recovery. There is no mention of the economic emergency, which the people face.
The words which Biti seeks to deploy as instruments of power are directed instead against the 14 million people under the pretence that Biti is engaged in a deadly struggle with RBZ Governor Dr Gideon Gono. The catastrophic financial emergency is not the enemy. Sanctions are not the enemy. Only Gono is.
How do we reach this conclusion? We reach this conclusion, first because the G20 resolution made it clear there were no conditions attached to the disbursement of the US$510 million. It was Biti who asked the IMF to impose conditions.
Second, if the real and only problem were the absence of a Debt Assumption Act to be passed by Parliament, such an instrument would have been created and presented for ratification as an integral part of STERP on March 19, 2009.
Indeed, how could STERP be taken seriously as a short-term recovery plan if it was known and it was true that any funds advanced by the international financial institutions in response to STERP could not be accessed until after the creation, presentation and approval of a Dept Assumption Act by Parliament?
Third the G20 allocated the US$510 million to Zimbabwe as part and parcel of a global financial emergency fund worth US$250 billion. Most countries have already disbursed their allocations to their relevant sectors as a matter of urgency and without preconditions imposed or volunteered. Any debts they have can be paid back using revenue earned from production stimulated through use of the loan funds.
The logic behind the refusal to set stringent conditions is that lack of liquidity is currently the main bottleneck in the national economy as in the global economy. Therefore, the removal of that bottleneck will lead to increased production and job creation which will enable the various countries to better meet their loan repayments.
Biti has instead put the cart in front of the horse. He wants the funds to remain idle and all past debts to be cleared before the IMF and Afreximbank funds can start contributing to production and employment creation.
Now, in any normal business organisation, whether private or public, anyone who allows funds to remain idle, even for a few days or weeks, is fired, transferred or demoted. Now, in Biti’s case the US$510 million has been stuck in the system for 46 days. The first tranche of US$408 million arrived on August 28, 2009. The second arrived on September 7, 2009.
In that 46 days, Biti has not requested the President to call an emergency session of Parliament to pass the enabling instrument, which he claims, is necessary. This lack of urgency leaves citizens in no doubt that Biti’s explanation is yet another excuse to justify his ministry’s enforcement of illegal sanctions upon the people on behalf of Britain, the EU and the US who have made it clear they want only charity funds to reach Zimbabwe through NGOs.
Labels: GABRIEL CHAIBVA, SANCTIONS, STERP, TENDAI BITI, ZDERA
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Tsvangirai's staff not civil servants, says MDC-T party senator
Ralph Mutema
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:29:00 +0000
AN MDC-T senator says
the people from his party who work in the Prime Minister Office with their salaries being paid for by the World Bank, are not civil servants. The shocking statement was made by
MDC-T senator Obert Gutu in a heated debate aired on ZBC Current Affairs program Melting Pot recently.
Gutu also confirmed that
11 party functionaries are indeed
working in the Prime Minister Office with their
salaries being taken care of by the World Bank.
“There is a small bureau made up of about 11 people employed by the Prime Minister. The people are not civil servants,” revealed Senator Gutu.
Another guest on the same programme, former MDC-M member Gabriel Chaibva said these workers in PM’s office are masquerading as government workers yet at the same time receiving hefty salaries from Western institutions and NGOs to set up a parallel government.
“These people are there at the PM offices. They are associating with such organizations and receiving funding from the like of USAID and European government at the expense of the honest majority whom they claim to represent in the inclusive government.
"This really exposes the PM office agenda to run a parallel government,” said Chaibva.
The Prime Minister’s office has come under the spotlight from many political fronts with some analysts demanding transparency in its operations.
The selected elite within the Prime Minister’s Office are said to be earning salaries ranging between US$700 to US$7 000 while the majority of civil servants are earning an average of US$100.
Gutu's statement comes after the World Bank made an unusual confession that they were indeed secretly making extra payments to the Office of the Prime Minister which have not been approved by government.
Although Sen. Gutu said the staff were not civil servants, the WB confirmed that it was paying civil servants over and above their government salaries.
Dr Mungai Lenneiye of the World Bank office in Zimbabwe confirmed that the payments to civil servants were indeed being made through the multilateral lending agent.
Sen. Gutu's statement also contradicts Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, Gorden Moyo's revelation in an interview with a UK based Zimbabwean radio station that the office of the PM was indeed receiving funds from the World Bank to supplement "the salaries of civil servants in that office".
Labels: GABRIEL CHAIBVA, MDC CORRUPTION, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, OBERT GUTU, World Bank
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MDC’s Chaibva slams Tsvangirai
Herald Reporter
A SENIOR opposition MDC figure has blamed MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai for the lack of progress in implementing the September 15 Global Political Agreement and the formation of an inclusive Government.
Former MDC spokesperson Mr Gabriel Chaibva said
Mr Tsvangirai was getting instructions from Washington and London not to be part of any Government that included President Mugabe and that he had an "endless list of demands".
In a scathing critique of Mr Tsvangirai and his party, Mr Chaibva said: "What is glaringly obvious is the lack of strategic thinking, serious commitment and sense of civic duty on the part of Mr Morgan Tsvangirai and his party.
"In all fairness, Tsvangirai — whose list of demands is endless and is growing by the day — is stalling this inclusive Government. He behaves as if he signed the agreement under duress and without reading it.
"One can only begin to suspect that he may not have understood its contents and import given Tsvangirai’s limited academic exposure."
Mr Chaibva said it was imperative to recall that the MDC-T leader thrice refused to sign the agreement because he needed to "consult and reflect" with his party and "advisors".
"When he finally agreed to append his signature on September 15, Zimbabweans were dead certain that all outstanding issues had been "reflected and consulted" upon thus a Government would soon be formed.
"It is now more than 10 weeks since and the MDC-T leader’s shopping list is growing daily and Zimbabweans do not know any more what this man and his gangsters want."
He said the agreement made it clear that President Mugabe would remain Head of State and would "share executive power with the Prime Minister on a consultative basis".
"It seems that Tsvangirai hopes to become President at the negotiating table which is impossible and would be a miracle in the mould of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ!"
He slammed MDC-T’s use of the adverse economic and social situation in the country as a negotiating tool.
"MDC-T is using the intensity of the suffering of our people as a bargaining chip and this is abominable.
"It is the MDCs who are not in Government and the negotiations were on how they could be integrated in an all-inclusive Government.
"It is not Zanu-PF which is being invited to join Government because they are already in it. That is the reality on the ground and, like it or not, it remains a fact."
He said it was unfortunate that Mr Tsvangirai had all the hallmarks of a puppet leader.
"Regrettably, Tsvangirai fits very well into the category of suitable Western puppets who wittingly and unwittingly promote US and British permanent interests of amassing natural resources from other countries.
"A clever leader will know that the US and Britain have never been constructive allies who care to see Africa develop.
"The problem Tsvangirai faces today is how to get out of the clutches of the West. When America gives you money they expect a huge return on their investment and it is now payback time for Tsvangirai.
"He may want to join the inclusive Government without giving into all the concessions that the West seek, but that cannot happen as long as he is tied to America and Britain.
"It is on record that the MDC-T national council resolved to join the Government, but they have not because America has said no."
Mr Chaibva said it was a tragedy that MDC-T’s decision-making was conducted in Western capitals.
Mr Chaibva was suspended as MDC spokesperson after he attended President Mugabe’s inauguration at State House following his landslide victory in the June presidential election run-off.
Labels: COLOUR REVOLUTIONS, GABRIEL CHAIBVA, MDC, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, NEOCOLONIALISM
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MDC’s Chaibva slams Tsvangirai
Herald Reporter
A SENIOR opposition MDC figure has blamed MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai for the lack of progress in implementing the September 15 Global Political Agreement and the formation of an inclusive Government.
Former MDC spokesperson Mr Gabriel Chaibva said
Mr Tsvangirai was getting instructions from Washington and London not to be part of any Government that included President Mugabe and that he had an "endless list of demands".
In a scathing critique of Mr Tsvangirai and his party, Mr Chaibva said: "What is glaringly obvious is the lack of strategic thinking, serious commitment and sense of civic duty on the part of Mr Morgan Tsvangirai and his party.
"In all fairness, Tsvangirai — whose list of demands is endless and is growing by the day — is stalling this inclusive Government. He behaves as if he signed the agreement under duress and without reading it.
"One can only begin to suspect that he may not have understood its contents and import given Tsvangirai’s limited academic exposure."
Mr Chaibva said it was imperative to recall that the MDC-T leader thrice refused to sign the agreement because he needed to "consult and reflect" with his party and "advisors".
"When he finally agreed to append his signature on September 15, Zimbabweans were dead certain that all outstanding issues had been "reflected and consulted" upon thus a Government would soon be formed.
"It is now more than 10 weeks since and the MDC-T leader’s shopping list is growing daily and Zimbabweans do not know any more what this man and his gangsters want."
He said the agreement made it clear that President Mugabe would remain Head of State and would "share executive power with the Prime Minister on a consultative basis".
"It seems that Tsvangirai hopes to become President at the negotiating table which is impossible and would be a miracle in the mould of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ!"
He slammed MDC-T’s use of the adverse economic and social situation in the country as a negotiating tool.
"MDC-T is using the intensity of the suffering of our people as a bargaining chip and this is abominable.
"It is the MDCs who are not in Government and the negotiations were on how they could be integrated in an all-inclusive Government.
"It is not Zanu-PF which is being invited to join Government because they are already in it. That is the reality on the ground and, like it or not, it remains a fact."
He said it was unfortunate that Mr Tsvangirai had all the hallmarks of a puppet leader.
"Regrettably, Tsvangirai fits very well into the category of suitable Western puppets who wittingly and unwittingly promote US and British permanent interests of amassing natural resources from other countries.
"A clever leader will know that the US and Britain have never been constructive allies who care to see Africa develop.
"The problem Tsvangirai faces today is how to get out of the clutches of the West. When America gives you money they expect a huge return on their investment and it is now payback time for Tsvangirai.
"He may want to join the inclusive Government without giving into all the concessions that the West seek, but that cannot happen as long as he is tied to America and Britain.
"It is on record that the MDC-T national council resolved to join the Government, but they have not because America has said no."
Mr Chaibva said it was a tragedy that MDC-T’s decision-making was conducted in Western capitals.
Mr Chaibva was suspended as MDC spokesperson after he attended President Mugabe’s inauguration at State House following his landslide victory in the June presidential election run-off.
Labels: COLOUR REVOLUTIONS, GABRIEL CHAIBVA, MDC, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, NEOCOLONIALISM
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MDC’s Chaibva deported
Bulawayo Bureau
MDC senior official Gabriel Chaibva was last Friday deported from Botswana after authorities there accused him of being a Government sympathiser. Chaibva, who was recently suspended from his post as spokesman of his party for attending President Mugabe’s swearing-in ceremony in June, was escorted by police from Gaborone and left at the Plumtree Border Post to make sure that he had indeed left Botswana.
In an interview with AFP, Chaibva said he had gone to Gaborone to meet Botswana government officials and ruling party members over their hostile attitude towards the Zimbabwean Government.
"I had gone there to meet some government officials to discuss a few issues, among them their negative stance on Zimbabwe.
"They are ill-treating our people there and their foreign policy on Zimbabwe is basically bad, but they would not listen and accused me of being a Government spy and their police accompanied me all the way from Gaborone to Plumtree," he said.
On the same day, former Herald political editor Caesar Zvayi was also deported from Botswana where he had been engaged as a university lecturer.
In a move roundly condemned as political, the deportation order was reportedly based on his being on the European Union sanctions list. Botswana has of late been sucked into the British-led political onslaught on Zimbabwe.
On Friday, political analyst and independent legislator Jonathan Moyo lashed out at the Botswana government for deporting Zvayi who had a work permit that entitled him to work at the University of Botswana as a lecturer.
According to an online agency report, Moyo warned that such moves had the effect of straining relations between Gaborone and Harare.
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