WHAT THEY SAID IN 2010
“It is as clear as pikestaff that ZANU PF is creating the conditions for the total breakdown of the Inclusive Government. It is clear to us that ZANU PF is making a case for the establishment of irreconcilable differences among the parties leading to a total breakdown of this relationship… our message to ZANU PF is that we will not be baited by these nocturnal acts of self destruction. However we will not allow ourselves to be bullied by a coterie of men and women that have never put Zimbabwe first.”
Hon. Tendai Biti
(MDC (T) Secretary General and Minister of Finance in the Inclusive Government)
Is it not equally surprising that Morgan Tsvangirai’s arrests have earned him a confetti of awards and yet my Google search shows not a single award to Joshua Nkomo, it is therefore clear that whilst white capital now has issues with Mugabe, primarily over access to resources they now seek to facilitate a transition that fits within the same framework where power can only be handed to a Shona leader.”
Priscilla Misihairambwi – Mushonga
(Deputy Secretary General of the MDC M)
“The GPA epitomizes a classic case of democracy being taken to the negotiation table. This pact is the very antithesis of everything that democracy represents and how easily the will of the people can be sacrificed in the name of political expediency”
Farai Nhende - A utopian based in Harare
“The process must not be abandoned although knowing quiet well that it is flawed and exclusive… we cannot avoid a constitution, we need a constitution.”
Hon. Lovemore Moyo
(Speaker of Parliament, sharing his views concerning the Constitution Making Process)
“The timing of the constitution outreach meetings was wrong. People are still hurting from the violence of 2008. It would have been better if there had been national healing and reconciliation first.”
Ms. Ntombizakhe Moyo
(Projects Officer - Zimbabwe Christian Alliance
“… A negotiated settlement would be better than the flawed output from the outreach despite the fact that so much time energy and resources have been channeled into the programmme…”
Bekithemba Nyathi - Bulawayo Provincial Youth Chairman MDC (T))
(Commenting on the constitution making process)
“Towards election time construction workers will be busy at the site. Maybe it is a way of buying votes from us because they know that we need a university in Matabeleland. We also needs graduates in this region, our children should learn at proper universities not makeshifts”
Sibonakaliso Mpala - Lupane Resident
(Commenting about construction of Lupane State University)
“All projects in the country are nationalized, our universities and now our water project but the same is not happening in Mashonaland. Bindura, Chinhoyi and Masvingo Universities are named after the respective regions… why nationalize Matabeleland Projects?”
Patricia Tshabalal (Political Activist)
(Commenting about construction of Lupane State University)
“The statue was nameless; a statue should have a name so that generations to come can know whose statue it is. But contrary to that, Nkomo’s statue had no name.”
Pathisa Nyathi (Historian)
(Commenting about the statue of Dr. Joshua M. Nkomo, the Late Vice President of Zimbabwe)
“Why were North Koreans used to create the statue while Zimbabweans are known to be good sculptors the world over?” Zimbabweans should be used to sculptor their fellow Zimbabweans' statues not foreigners.”
Professor Norma Kriger (University of Cape Town)
(Commenting about the statue of Dr. Joshua M. Nkomo, the Late Vice President of Zimbabwe)
“The MDC (T) has shown lack of capacity in the GNU. If they have not been swallowed by ZANU PF out rightly, then at least they have been circumscribed. The MDC (T) has lost the leverage that it had with the people and may soon be writing their obituary.”
Ibbo Mandaza
(A renowned Academic and Publisher)
“People don't know how the GNU is going to end, but free and fair elections will be the litmus test for whether Zimbabwe can go beyond stabilization and get through to proper reconstruction.”
Knox Chitiyo
(Head of the Africa Programme at Russi, UK, commenting about progress in the GNU in Zimbabwe)
“From the point of view of women who have been raped, whose property has been taken away, whose houses have been burnt, they would say the GNU is a failure. They have not in any way had the crimes against them acknowledged. They have seen the perpetrators going free.”
Elinor Sisulu
(Human Rights Activist, South Africa. Commenting about progress in GNU in Zimbabwe)
“Having a number of people contesting for a position in the party is not destructive, but it is a way of strengthening the party as we go for the congress. It is not a crime for me as an eligible member to also say I will stand for the presidency of the party. There is nothing wrong about that…”
Paul Themba Nyathi
(Commenting about the reports of sharp differences between MDC -M leader Author Mutambara and Secretary, General Welshman Ncube)
“The whole trial was full of contradictions and inconsistencies which the magistrate could have picked to make a just decision. I am still at pains to find out whose interest she was trying to serve in view of the gaps and loopholes which were not plugged off in the trial…”
Shuah Mudiwa
(Mutare West MP, after his release from prison recently)
The GPA has no legitimacy, it has no constitutional being, you know these guys have no power to subpoena, they have no judiciary powers, they can’t even enforce anything, these are just three individuals who are going around with a so called mandate to instigate and instill a sense of national healing.”
Rejoice Ngwenya, commenting on Zimbabwe’s National Healing Programme
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