Category Archives: Articles
Mugabe wages war on poor and jobless
Sunday Independent (SA) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR In the course of this week, thousands of poor Zimbabweans living in Harare, Bulawayo and other urban centres have had their lives destroyed by an increasingly vicious, brutal and paranoid regime. On the pretext of a “clean-up”, the regime’s police and army have systematically gone through our cities […]
The ball is now in SADC’s court
David Coltart On July 20, President Mugabe, in his speech marking the opening of parliament, announced that a number of electoral reforms would be introduced that would level the electoral playing field. Mugabe and Zanu PF disingenuously claimed that these reforms (including the establishment of a new Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, the reduction of polling days […]
Response to Iden Wetherell’s opinion piece in the Mail And Guardian
The Zimbabwe Independent Iden Wetherell’s opinion piece “where is the yellow card?” in the Mail and Guardian 3rd September 2004 cannot go unanswered. It is argued that we should have given the Mugabe regime a yellow card prior to making the collective decision to suspend participation in all elections until there is full compliance with […]
The MDC – 5th Anniversary
On the MDC’s 5th Anniversary Zimbabwe has an extremely troubled history. It has never experienced true peace or true democracy since it was colonised in the 1890s. Our political culture has been dominated by violence, tyranny, racism, sexism and tribalism. The MDC from its inception has been determined to break Zimbabwe out of these shackles. […]
MDC article for Changing Times
Zimbabwe has an extremely troubled history. It has never experienced true peace or true democracy since it was colonised in the 1890s. Our political culture has been dominated by violence, tyranny, racism, sexism and tribalism. The MDC from its inception has been determined to break Zimbabwe out of these shackles. The MDC has a vision […]
The Mugabe Regime – tyranny about to end?
David Coltart South African President Thabo Mbeki in a recent State visit to Canada assured Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien that talks were taking place in Zimbabwe between the Mugabe regime and the opposition MDC and that a settlement was likely soon. These comments follow similar confident assurances given by President Mbeki to President George […]
FALL TO RISE, SLEEP TO WAKE
When I woke up this morning and thought of the thousands of Zimbabweans who confronted tyranny with their votes this weekend I was reminded of Robert Browning’s words: “One who never turned his back but marched breast forward; Never doubted clouds would break; Never dreamed though right were worsted wrong would triumph; Held we fall […]
Mugabe must face trial for his crimes
The Telegraph (UK) One of my Parliamentary colleagues in the Movement for Democratic Change is Fletcher Dulini’Ncube. A veteran campaigner for human rights and a former detainee in the Rhodesian era, he is diabetic. Last November Fletcher was detained by the Mugabe regime on trumped-up charges and held in solitary confinement for over a month […]
Zimbabwe in 2002
The New York Times In the last two years Zimbabwe has been transformed into a state that increasingly resembles Cambodia under Pol Pot. The government seems set on adding famine to the list of oppressions visited on the nation. In May, a law was passed decreeing that any commercial farmer who continued to farm 45 […]
It’s Time to Complete the Change: A New Year’s Message – 2002
In June 2001 I wrote that the political tide in Zimbabwe had turned and that the process of change was inevitable. Nothing has happened since then to alter my view except that we are now only two months away from a watershed election that will enable Zimbabweans to vote into power a man who has […]