holger982 Beiträge · seit 200622. Juli 2008 · 
Andreas Cierpka2’732 Beiträge · seit 200626. Juli 2008 · 
holger982 Beiträge · seit 200619. Aug. 2008 · How Mbeki tried to trap Tsvangiraihttp://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=101175&sn=Detail
A paradise loved and losthttp://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3045&art_id=vn20080824084804762C934159
Food rots as Zim aid ban continueshttp://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-08-23-food-rots-as-zim-aid-ban-continues
Zim's 'death sentence'http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=nw20080827165945637C885302
Defiant Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, reeling from a parliamentary setback, said on Wednesday he would form a new government without the Movement for Democratic Change, in what Morgan Tsvangirai's party called "a death sentence" for Zimbabweans.
...und bevor das unter den Tisch fällt:Abwarten, und zwar in zweierlei Hinsicht!
Wieso dann nicht auch bei SA einfach abwarten und nicht jetzt schon immer draufhauen? Deine Maßstäbe werde und will ich nicht begreifen......und bevor das unter den Tisch fällt:Abwarten, und zwar in zweierlei Hinsicht!
Zunächst ist einer der beiden Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Es reicht, sich seinen politischen Lebenslauf anzuschauen, um festzustellen, dass Papier nicht unbedingt die Quelle ist, aus der seine Macht oder mögliche Ohnmacht entspringt.
Weiterhin ist Zimbabwe ein schwarzafrikanisches Land, und in denen haben sich vermeintliche Lichtgestalten (z.B. Kenia: Moi und Kibaki) schon häufiger als schlimmer als ihre Vorgänger entpuppt.
Ob es also tatsächlich Hoffnung für dieses geschundene Land geben kann, ist eine Frage, deren Antwort erst in einigen Monaten gegeben werden kann.
Gruß, Michael
jaw2’047 Beiträge · seit 200712. Sept. 2008 · West poised to 'help' Zimbabwe…http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=vn20080912111643878C999608
Though President Mbeki, the mediator, gave no details when he announced the deal last night in Harare, sources said Mugabe would remain president and would still chair cabinet. Tsvangirai would chair a new council of ministers - from which Mugabe would be excluded - which would assist in the formulation of policies, the supervision of government ministries by the prime minister and implementation of cabinet policies.
Hallo,Hallo jaw,
in dem Spiegelbericht, auf den Volker hinweist heißt es so nett, Mugabe versuche "ich auch weiterhin seinen Anteil an der Macht zu sichern".
Aus anderen Quellen, leider nicht aus dem "deutschen Nachrichtenmagazin" kann man erfahren, das es um den Oberbefehl über das Militär, die Polizei und andere ebenso unwesentliche Verwaltungsbereiche geht, die bisher legal oder illegal von Mugabe zum Erhalt seiner Macht mißbraucht wurden. Daher kann ich die Skepsis von Yoshikawa sehr gut verstehen.
Und zu Südafrika: Immerhin existieren dort (noch?) Bedingungen, wo Gesetze nicht nur auf dem Papier stehen und Gerichte eben nach solchen Gesetzen entscheiden können, auch wenn ein politischer Druck spürbar ist. Keine behauptet wohl, darin ein Musterbeispiel eines Rechtsstaates zu finden - aber Unterschiede zu Zimbabwe kann doch niemand übersehen. Da habe ich jedenfalls mit meinem Maßstab keine Probleme. Außerdem sorgt die WM für massive Öffentlichkeit, auch das sollte niemand unterschätzen.
Viele Grüße
jaw
Basildon Peta: Call this progress? Not if you care about Zimbabwehttp://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/basildon-peta-call-this-progress-not-if-you-care-about-zimbabwe-932014.html
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How will Mr Tsvangirai revive Zimbabwe's agro-based economy without reversing Mr Mugabe's destructive land reforms and taking land back from incompetent cronies and redistributing it among Zimbabweans who can actually farm, both black and white.
How will Mr Tsvangirai persuade investors to come, without entirely repealing unsustainable empowerment laws which prescribe majority shareholding by black Zimbabweans in all firms? How will Mr Tsvangirai endeavour to accommodate international donor prescriptions for aid without being accused of compromising on national sovereignty?
Until yesterday, the power-sharing agreement itself was a status symbol. You could not access a copy unless you were Messrs Tsvangirai, Mbeki, Mugabe or Mutambara, or one of their few close associates involved in the negotiations. The outcome of the talks is hardly based on the will of the people. It is not dependant on the masses, but on the extent to which the elites who packaged the agreement are willing to cohabit with each other – a potential recipe for disaster.
There is something nauseating, if not tragic, about African politics. It happened in Kenya. Now in Zimbabwe. A bad precedent is being entrenched. After losing elections, incumbent dictators bludgeon their opponents and find their way to the negotiating tables and thereafter cling to power.
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Nutty Bob’s bizarre speech stuns worldhttp://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=844100
It was clear from his speech that the formation of an inclusive government — the parties begin horse-trading today — will not be smooth sailing.
From accusing the opposition of using violent means to take power, to taking a dig at Botswana President Ian Khama — one of the few African leaders to have criticised Mugabe openly — it was a vintage performance by the octogenarian.
At one point, Morgan Tsvangirai, who will be Zimbabwe’s prime minister, looked both exasperated and bemused by Mugabe’s antics on stage.
Zimbabwe settlement. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert – political analysthttp://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page55?oid=224776&sn=Detail
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ALEC HOGG: It appears as though stability any time soon might be a forlorn hope?
FREDERIK VAN ZYL SLABBERT: Well, I can't see investors rushing in there to help with economic revival, economic development. The European Union is still sort of backing off, taking a look-and-see attitude; they want more detail. It's a country desperately in need of economic revival - you just have to look at the agricultural situation to realise this. But also it's not a highly urbanised country. You've got two towns, if you want to call them that. You've got Harare and Bulawayo. You can fit 50 of them into Soweto. So I really don't know how they think they can achieve stability by entering into a power-sharing deal in which, as you say, you have an executive president with the army under his control and an executive prime minister supposedly in control of the police. It seems to me a recipe for conflict.
Supporters clash outside Rainbow Towershttp://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/?p=4240
HARARE - Supporters of the Zanu-PF and the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change clashed outside the Rainbow Towers hotel after the signing of the power sharing deal between the two parties.
Riot police were called in to restore order as the clashes intensified.
Mugabe recalls his old Cabinet amid deadlockhttp://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/474004/-/148ukhvz/-/
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has recalled his old Cabinet to fill the vacuum created by delays in the setting up of an inclusive government, a senior aide has announced.
Zimbabwe starves as Robert Mugabe stalls on new governmenthttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Thousands of Zimbabweans are close to starvation as President Robert Mugabe delays forming a new government.
By Sebastien Berger in Garanyemba
Last Updated: 4:09PM BST 23 Sep 2008
Robert Mugabe wants Morgan Tsvangerai's party to win back foreign aidhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/3134627/Robert-Mugabe-wants-Morgan-Tsvangerais-party-to-win-back-foreign-aid.html
Robert Mugabe is trying to force the opposition Movement for Democratic Change to take charge of rekindling Zimbabwe's foreign aid and investment while denying it real power, insiders have admitted to The Sunday Telegraph.
Saturday 4th October 2008http://www.cathybuckle.com/
Dear Family and Friends,
In the three weeks since a power sharing deal was signed between the winners and losers of Zimbabwe's election, nothing has happened except arguments. So many of us had such high hopes but these are fading fast. There is no sign
of leadership, either from the old or the new, and all we hear is bickering and whining about wanting more mediation when all we really need is action.
No one knows who is in charge, or who is going to be in charge of what and while this vacuum continues we have virtually turned into a gangster state.
Refugees still pouring into South Africahttp://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/?p=5191#more-5191
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwean refugees are still pouring into South Africa in a shocking display of lack of faith in the power-sharing agreement recently signed by the country’s main political leaders.
Zimbabwe chaos wipes out education for 4.5 million pupilshttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article4902920.ece
The class of 2008 will not receive an education. Since the school year began in January, Zimbabwe's 4.5 million pupils have had a total of 23 days uninterrupted in the classroom, teaching unions say - a sorry state for a country that once had the highest standard of education in Africa.
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2 inmates die per day at Zim’s biggest prisonshttp://www.zimonline.co.za/Article.aspx?ArticleId=3755
HARARE – At least two inmates die everyday due to hunger and disease at two of Zimbabwe’s biggest jails, a grim statistic that a local prisoner’s rights group said on Wednesday illustrates the dire conditions in the country’s badly overcrowded jails.
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Zim inflation soars to 231 million percenthttp://www.zimonline.co.za/Article.aspx?ArticleId=3758
Malawi Ministers want Mutharika for Life Presidenthttp://www.nyasatimes.com/national/1495.html
Cabinet Ministers Khumbo Chirwa and Khumbo Kachali on October 3 and 6, respectively, called for President Bingu Mutharika to become President for Life, a development that has serious ramifications for the young democracy in Malawi.
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