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Zimbabwe leader relaxes grip on power
The parties began negotiating Monday which ministries they would hold and an announcement was expected later this week. Opposition leaders want the Home Affairs Ministry that would give them charge of the police who have terrorized them and their supporters this year, and Mugabe would retain the Defense Ministry.
Tsvangirai saluted members of parliament for their willingness to work across party lines. "If you were my enemy yesterday, today we are bound by the same patriotic duty," he said, calling on legislators to be "driven by the hope of a new, better, brighter country" and the "hope of a new beginning."
Tsvangirai said his first priority would be getting food to hungry Zimbabweans.
Mugabe, in a speech that was often combative, again accused Britain and the United States of wanting regime change in Zimbabwe and sneered at the democratic process.
"This thing called democracy is a problem. It's a difficult proposition because always the opposition will want much more than what it deserves," he said.
A new constitution is to be drafted, with input from civic groups. Consultations are to start within a month and a referendum on the constitution is to be held within two years.
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Posted By: mrkenzoh @ 08/18/2008 6:56:34 AM
Comment: THERE ARE SOME QUARTERS OF THIS WORLD, WHERE ARE THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT MOVED AN INCH FROM THE AFRICA OF RHODES AND HIS FRIENDS. WHY A GOVERNMENT WHICH HAS EDUCATED ITS PEOPLE AND APPLAUDED AS A ROLE MODEL FOR TWENTY YEARS IS SUDDENLY BEING THRASHED AS MISMANAGED BECAUSE OF RIGHTING THE MISKEWED OWNERSHIP OF LAND? I CAN ENDURE ANYTHING EXCEPT TO BE LANDLESS IN MY MOTHERLAQND. THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE PREPARED TO BE SO CYNIC TO THE EXTENSION OF WISHING US THE BLACK PEOPLE TO BE PERPETUALLY 'THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH' AND 'THE INVISIBLE MAN'. THAT IS WHY THE WESTERN LEADERSHIP'S SHORTSIGHTEDNESS HAS DONE NOTHING BUTSOWING EXTREMISM. WHY THE WESTERN DID NOT RIGHT THIS WRONG FOR OVER A CENTURY? WHO WILL NOT CLING TO EXTREMISM IF SOME PEOPLE ARE ARE UNDER INFLUENCE OF COLONIAL SUPEREGO?
Posted By: GAMEOVER @ 07/11/2008 9:26:38 AM
Comment: ZIMBABWEAN TRADERS IN MOST BORBER TOWNS HAVE STARTED TO REJECT THE ZIMBABWEAN CURRENCY THE ZIMBABWEAN CURRENCY HAS BECOME WORTHLESS AS THE LARGEST NOTE BEING $50BILLION CAN NOT BUY A LOAF OF BREAD. THE TRADERS ARE ACCEPTING FORIEGN CURRENCY AND OLD ZIMBABWEAN COINS AS PAYMENT.AS THIS IS HAPPENING MUGABE IS STRUGGLING TO CLING ON TO POWER AS THE THE PRESSURES OF YEARS OF ECONOMIC MISRULES TAKE IT TOLL AS THING BEGIN TO FAST FALL APART IN ZIMBABWE
Posted By: techresmgt @ 06/29/2008 11:53:32 AM
Comment: 'Discredited vote'? This is the strongest condemnation the media can come up with for someone that has ordered people murdered and babies legs broken to ensure his illegitimate 'victory'? Supporters of this regime are not our 'friends', in spite of their rhetorical and incoherent poetic ramblings.