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Will power sharing work in Zimbabwe?
- 10% are saying yes
- 90% are saying no
comments from readers
- Carl Jones
22 July 2008 - no
Power sharing is the last thing Zimbabwe needs. Mugabe has been allowed to ruin the country and if you listened to the West, you think they were really upset by the situation, but in reallity they see a big pay day coming.
The British government are preparing to move into a new diplomatic site, this is an expansion of British interests in Zimbabwe, no doubt in preperation to manipulate Mugabe`s successor.....no doubt everything in Zimbabwe will be privatised, just as it was in South Africa, enough said.LOL
- Ronnie
23 July 2008 - no
Mugabe, ZANU PF, the army and the Veterans don't share power, period.
- Frank Amies
23 July 2008 - no
Mugabe is a sick man, frightened of being made to account for the genocide he and his army practiced. He will die before he gives an inch.
- gnuneo
23 July 2008 - yes
it will work, but not for the Zimbawean People.
the alliance of corrupt, racist, marxist Mugabe, with Morgan Tsvangirai, backed by western corporate interests sensing a possibility to even further their control over the Zimbabwean economy, is unlikely to have long-term benefits for the Zimbabwean People themselves.
it would be absolutely LOVELY to be wrong about this however, and it is sure as shit better than a continued civil war.
- swatantra nandanwar
24 July 2008 - yes
Its the very last resort left. Democracy, or a multi-party government is alien to Black African Nations. Previously, a broadly based one party government was in place and that worked for a while. Perhaps this will too.
24 July 2008- no
No - of course not, Africa is not yet ready for democratic government, perhaps it never will be ! It is about time that the West made Africa stand on its "own two feet", and stopped handing them "development grants" etc which just feeds the corruption and lets their kleptocratic Leaders off the hook. Our Government in particular should stop taxing our poor poor to give to these undeserving countiries - "charity should begin at home".
Alan Briggs
- swatantra nandanwar
24 July 2008 - yes
correction: ..'Democracy, or a multi-party parliamentary system is alien ...'
- nawawimohamad
25 July 2008 - no
It will be much worse because both parties will be able to use the state's instruments to their own advantage. There will be a bloody civil war on unprecedented scale.
- Willp
25 July 2008 - yes
What happens in Zimbabwe is for the people of Zimbabwe to decide. Nobody else has a right to interfere, certainly not those like Brown who connived at the killing of 1.2 million people in Iraq.
- suell
25 July 2008 - no
I wish but theAfrican continent has thrown up few examples of robust political systems, democracy and good governance. Until Mugabe is wholly off the political stage, it is impossible for Zimbabwe.
Sue Lloyd
- richard.somerville@btinternet.com
26 July 2008 - no
Mugabe is not capable of honesty - he is an odious killer who is only interested in maintaining his own power - he has no regard for the people he is supposed to look after - aided by the President of South Africa
- skaaba
28 July 2008 - yes
Yes. Africa is entirely different in it's social, political and historic make-up to European or America. The mistake which is commonly made is to think that everything can be ignored and somehow 'pure' democracy should be the order of the day. What about tribalism? How does this important factor interplay in African politics? The fact is most of us don't know. Demonising African leaders, and collectively punishing their people can only make a bad situation worse. It's hard for western leaders to accept Africans as their equals, but if we want to help, that has to be the first sincere step. The Zimbabwean people, alone can resolve their problems. This we must learn to accept.
- Tom Mitchell
29 July 2008 - no
Power sharing only works with democrats. Mugabe has never been a democrat. He started out as a nationalist, became a Maoist, and is now just a front man for a clique of greedy kleptocratic generals.
- Broga
29 July 2008 - no
No, and I hope not. Mugabe should be tried for his crimes and not offered sops to relinquish some power. However, while Blair struts the International stage in his own fantasy world , and his deceits which led us into an illegal war seem to be forgotten, we are hardly in a position to lecture even a scoundrel and killer like Mugabe.
- Sumar
29 July 2008 - no
Support Mugabe!!!!
He is a great man!!!
