Crisis! What crisis? This was the quote of the week by the United States embassy in Harare in one of its diplomatic cables about the crisis in Zimbabwe as the country’s political leaders tried to get a solution to the country’s political and economic problems, six months after the March 2008 general elections.
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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front’s campaign theme for the presidential elections run-off in 2008, from which Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out because of violence, was: “100 percent Empowerment: Total Independence.”
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The leader of the pro-senate faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Arthur Mutambara lamented that despite on-going negotiations, little progress had been made by the two factions.
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Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu threatened to revoke the licences of all non-governmental organisations in an attempt to ferret out groups “seeking to force regime change”.
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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said the leader of the other faction Arthur Mutambara was just a figurehead, the main obstacle to reunification of the two factions was pro-senate secretary-general Welshman Ncube.
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Movement for Democratic Change leaders Arthur Mutambara and Morgan Tsvangirai agreed that the merging of the two factions was the only way forward but they faced stiff resistance from hardliners within their factions.
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The United States embassy in Harare asked that Sikhanyiso Ndlovu’s wife Rose Jaele be added to both the Zimbabwe sanctions and the Zimbabwe financial sanctions lists in response to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s victory in the March 2005 elections and the government’s Operation Murambatsvina.
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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front deputy political commissar Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said members of the party were so disgruntled with President Robert Mugabe that he asked whether the United States government could fund the creation of a prestigious educational foundation and support Mugabe to head it so that he could step down.
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The leader of the main faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Morgan Tsvangirai wanted to find his former secretary-general Welshman Ncube “something” to do outside MDC politics such as a visiting professorship at a United States university because he had become the stumbling block to the re-unification of the two MDC factions.
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The secretary-general of the Movement for Democratic Change Welshman Ncube and vice-president Gibson Sibanda who led the split of the party after deciding to contest the senate elections against the orders of party leader Morgan Tsvangirai both said they would not contest leadership of the splinter party because it needed a Shona leader with national appeal.
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