POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: Dear Mr Mugabe : I DO not know how to put this, Sir. I have wrestled with my conscience and come to a rationally logical conclusion that after what transpir...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: TALE OF A DICTATOR : IMPATIENT with the political blundering of the Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai, a brave Catholic archbishop Pius ...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: IS MUGABE REALLY IN CHARGE? : The tight circles of "securocrats", who sit on the Joint Operations Command (JOC) committee, are now believed to be in day...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: WHO IS TSVANGIRAI TO FORGIVE MUGABE REALLY? :   Mnangagwa and other genocidaires in Zanu PF continue to somnambulate and sleepwalk themselves into their impending doom, they continue t...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: THE ROLE OF THE ARMY IN ZIMBABWEAN POLITICS : THE role of the military has risen to the top of the political agenda as Zimbabwe’s fractious coalition debates the prospect of fresh e...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: FEARS OF ZIMBABWE MOVING FROM KLEPTOCRACY TO MILIT... : Robert Mugabe’s simmering succession crisis, which is full of twists and turns, just won’t go away. It looks like the burning question wil...

THE role of the military has risen to the top of the political agenda as Zimbabwe’s fractious coalition debates the prospect of fresh elections in 2013 or, if President Robert Mugabe has his way, before then. The question haunting members of the MDC, the opposition party that joined Mugabe’s Zanu PF in a coalition government after violently disputed elections in 2008, is how the security establishment will react if the MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, the prime minister, wins and becomes commander-in-chief. Serving and former commanders have been making menacing comments. Brigadier General Douglas Nyikayaramba, a commander in the national army, once accused Tsvangirai of being a “national security threat” and stooge of Western powers. He added in comments to the Herald, the state newspaper, that: “We will die for him (Mugabe) to make sure he remains in power.” Although many observers suggest such bellicose statements are posturing and that even Zanu PF has distanced it