The Insider

War veterans who stormed the five-star Meikles Hotel during the two-day stay-away organised by the Movement for Democratic Change yelled at an American citizen and his six colleagues: “White animals, don’t you look at us; get out of Zimbabwe; we don’t want you here.”

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Police were more prepared when the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions tried to organise protest marches which promoted United States ambassador Christopher Dell to comment that the government did not take the National Constitutional Assembly seriously.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his supporters had followed Julius Caesar’s advice- if you break the law do it once to seize power- but they had failed to seize power, the Herald commented after the first day of the proposed week-long anti-government demonstration to force President Robert Mugabe to step down.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell, who National Constitutional Assembly leader Lovemore Madhuku briefed regularly about his demonstrations, said the NCA leader generally overstated the size of his events.

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South Africans last year saved on average R2.80 for every R100 of their disposable, or after tax, income, the latest Housing Review from ABSA says.

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Former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan said Zimbabweans were notoriously patient. He was commenting on whether they would join the proposed stay-away that had been called for by the Movement for Democratic Change.

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A British councillor was this week asked to resign after she said one of her colleagues was behaving like Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe.

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Former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell said although the National Constitutional Assembly and the Movement for Democratic Change had announced plans to stage more public protests it remained to be seen whether they could get large numbers of people into the streets as they had done from 2000 to 2002.

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That was the title of one of the cables just released by Wikileaks dispatched by the United States embassy in Harare on 29 May 2003, but Emmerson Mnangagwa who was Speaker of Parliament at the time hardly said anything about succession at all.

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An apology by Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai for overruling the party’s national council over its decision to participate in the Senate elections of 2005 could have saved the party from splitting.

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