The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is dispatching more teams to look into and formulate help strategies in Zimbabwe’s crisis, despite the country’s pronounced suspicions on a Western-backed invasion. Two secret meetings are underway.
The regional body has called for an emergency security meeting of the SADC Troika to be held in Maputo Thursday. Zimbabwe’s new security concerns, as well as an alleged invasion plot, are believed to top the meeting’s agenda.
The source further said another security meeting, at a technical and strategic level, was to be held in Botswana, though saying it was a rather sensitive issue to be discussed and not wanting to give more details. Zimbabwe was to be one of the issues.
Zimbabwe has pronounced its discomfort with the number of foreign missions, casting its suspicions on what it called a planned invasion by the Western powers.
The clarion call by Zimbabwe follows numerous calls by Western leaders as well as some regional member states pushing an open agenda aimed at deposing the 84 years old dictator, President Robert Mugabe.
The Harare administration spokesperson said that President Mugabe’s government would not be surprised that the UK and US, together with the UN would lead such a military mission, but not saying how and if the country was preparing to respond.
He also said both UK and US were going to push the Zimbabwean agenda before the UN Security Council under the pretext of the cholera epidemic, saying such did not warrant an invasion on Zimbabwe’s sovereignty.
Open charges by Western leaders and diplomats have also seen of late, increased UN pressure on Zimbabwe, while the regional neighbours have also been under increased pressure to lead initiatives in the Zimbabwe crisis or face the scorn of the Western powers.
To date, only Botswana and Kenya have come out clearly criticizing President Mugabe, wanting him to step down. Meanwhile, the majority of the Africa Union (AU) still holds the view that the power-sharing deal is the only way out of the Zimbabwean crisis.
The country’s leadership signed the power-sharing deal in September, but the processes leading to the formation of a unity government have stalled over allocation of cabinet positions, even necessitating a constitutional amendment.
While fast-tracking its presence and humanitarian impact in Zimbabwe, SADC has said in a press statement it was also expecting an emergency report back to its Troika meeting of health and water affairs ministers, Thursday, in Johannesburg, South Africa, as the outbreak was now spreading and threatening Zimbabwe’s neighbours.
Regional member states such as Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Malawi and Zambia are said to be already experiencing outbreaks stemming from Zimbabwe, though not yet at an alarming scale, while bordering neighbours, especially South Africa and Zambia are also concerned with the influx of Zimbabwean refugees running away from lack of services in their country.
SADC has stated that apart from helping out in the cholera crisis in Zimbabwe, the regional body was also looking at strategies to fast-track alleviation of the humanitarian situation in the country.
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kick the old man out
Well they are not secret any more are they!! 🙂
I think Mugabe should do Zimbambwe some justice and resign on moral grounds.
For once i agree with Mugabe. Too many missions being sent there. Some could be western spies. Awe, chchilamo. Its either you remove him or you dont. Which is which bakalamba
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what,you mean zimbabwe has been wrong all this time?
Why is there no comment yet!
Cheapest and simplest solution – First the EU needs to allows the Mrs out on a Shopping trip and then they send in the viagra babes from India like they did in Nigeria.
#2 I was going to say exactly the same thing
Sorry ba shi mine, i didn’t see the other comments i beg oooooo!
no # one where a u sonny
:d/ 😕 :-t [-x ~X( there’s time for retirement even for old dictators
Hang him by the hairs of his scrotum.
o nachedwa 😮
Sony Ericsson – great minds. And you are my favourite phone
let him just step down,it’s a common sense pipo’s lives are being lost by chorela because of his clinging to power like a monarchy.now he is accusing zed and botswana of trying to ingage in military invasion,zim under mugabe will not recover.anyway,we’ve our own issues to sourt out,eg,kwacha’s “free fall”now @ > 5pin/USD,kaunga @ >60pin/bag,hospitals with no generators,kaya pa subsahara!
Why haven’t our zambian leaders also critised bob? The problem with us zambians; we’re to passive – speak up, we’re being invaded by refugees but we can’t look after premature babies in UTH, children are dying from eating poisonous roots and you can’t even afford to eat a ka sima pa market! **==
They did it in Iraq, why can’t they did it in Zimbabwe?
Hope Zambia doent get that far politically aswell as economically. Dollar has shot up! I believe it 5100 as at today.
Bushe abena Zimbabwe baba shani? Can’t they kick this old man out themselves? We helped with Ian smith. Must we go back there and help them again?
A solution in Zim is inevitable, but it is difficult to see how soon. There is lack of unity of purpose, a failure by people from different walks of life to come together for the good of Zim + a president who wants to rule for life.
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This cholera thing is rapantly spreading in Livingstone. Already one clinic has so far been set as a cholera centre and I mean just CHOLERA!!! and you say the situation is not so alarming??? BE SERIOUS.
#20 Baby C, Hmmmm, wachikamba chizungu boyi. am impressed dear. Ati unity of shani..?
Lets grant political asylum to the big man, maybe we can hoodwink him to give up power :d
Mugabe ya suckaboombaclaat mon.mia kian mosh up dis wicked boombaclat
I dont understand old docile senile and evil leaders. Mugabe should step down. What is his problem.
As for me, I don’t want to see Zambia go to war over Zimbabwe. We helped liberate Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa and in the end we got insults. We are sorry, we are busy. Just go riot in the streets of Harare and Bulawayo. Zimbabweans are quite sleepy. A leader like Mugabe cannot last in Nigeria. He would have a bullet in his head.
Besides, Zambia has gained a lot. Infrastructure development in livingstone has increased by 54%. We are expecting Zambia’s first 1 million tourists by the end of next year. We are using Zimbabwe’s white farmers to plant our maize and employ our people.
Interestingly, Zim ladies have since lost market despite the reasonale prices, but Monks say NO! for fear of getting cholera and not AIDS. People, Cholera wears you down in days and if not lucky, its goodbye. GRZ Needs to work on it now before it becomes a pandemic.
Let’s just say we have failed. Even under Ian Smith people were not suffering like this. Muzungu must come and lead us again.
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Ba Moze
…..of purpose…. You are so funny
26 Free-Market-Capitalist, I agree with you. Let the Zimbos sort out their own mess. Rather than running away and spreading cholera and prostitution across their borders they should dig in, find inner strength and resolve, and force Old Bob out…by whatever means.
Zambia should not send any troops in. It would be a waste of money and besides our army is not battle-tested and by all indications is poorly equipped; it could actually be subjected to an embarrassing defeat by the starcving Zimbos.
Rashid Jones…wouldn’t you say that, at this point in time, the Zimbos are the sleepiest people in Southern Africa?
Why is RB not commenting on Mugabe, why cant he just come out and denounce Mugabe like Mwanawasa stated that Zimbabwe was sinking Tinanic, come on zambian government, Bostwana and Kenya has come out in truth to denounce satana mugabe to step down. Mpombo and your group why are you scared of mugabe.
#29 Baby C, Its just that i liked the way you constructed the sentence. Teti bakwanishe abena racheal.
Yaba
Mwebantu ngotu utubantu ba LT batubikilako, what do they mean plz help me with this
#34 Ba **== mwalishipula, are you really so much behind that you dont get it, or you are just pulling your legs? =))
As for me nanaka nalyo ilyashi lya Zimbabwe mweee. I am more comfortable to discuss what zanbia needs to do to make Thandiwe the first lady look good and be more powerful over RB than discussing Zim and Mugabe who in my opinion has expired. By the way can someone enlighten me as to what has become of Vera’s HOPE FOUNDATION and Maureen’s MMCI. Why do such NGOs have short lifespan, shorter that that of my dogs at home when the owners are still alive. Soon we shall hear of TSDWI (THANDIWE STREET KIDS DRESS WELL INITIATIVE). Watch the space fellow bloggers.
Mugabe should just be overthrone. If i had powers, i would have just directed the army to move in and invade the chap. that country has really gone to the dogs.
Mugabe is out of touch with reality. This is typical of dictators! The ka man thinks he is the only one with inexhaustible brains to rule Zimbabwe. There is always time for everything! Where is Mobutu, Kamuzu Banda or even Saddam! Can’t he emulate great leaders like Mandela and Nyerere. Even our own KK at least he relinguished power peacefully without bloodshed. His end will really be very sad that ka man! It’s high time he threw in the towel for the sake of his people. Hiding behind neo-colonialism won’t do. Pa Zed we’re now feeling the effects. His grand daughters are all over selling chocolates and cheap sex on the street for survival.Imagine the ka chap says cholera is now over!
#35 nangu nshipule but nshatwishiba, i want you to tell me what they mean.
#39 Mubis, tukamyeba mailo ayi?
Godd evening all. God Bless :-h
Ba Monze na ba Baby C: Mwatemwana? Cikwata cama blogger! :d
Now each one for him/herself and GOD for us all. GOD bless you all. im out
The Zimbabwe crisis all started with the grabbing of some farms from some whites who had so much land. You touch one muzungu means you have touched all of them and all the bazungus will not be amused. They will teach you a lesson. Sanctions and all. Mugabe has not been very bad all things considered. That, coupled with his continual stay in power has made him a monster. You have to assess things from that point of view. These guys even showed (TV)a dog which had been stoned by the blacks. The same was flown to South Africa for treatment. They even care for dogs better that bantus. Ife bantu situ Mvelana plazi. Awe sure all hell’s sure to break loose if nothing’s done to help them Zims.
If you think this present situation is bad, wait until Eddy Cross privatises hospitals and the school system. Then only people with money will even have hospital access.
If you think there are few or poor government services now – expect those to disappear if at any time the neoliberal MDC takes power.
I quote:
Eddy Cross of the MDC:
” We are going to fast track privatisation. All fifty government parastatals will be privatised within a two-year time frame, but we are going far beyond that. We are going to privatise many of the functions of government. We are going to privatise the Central Statistical Office. We are going to privatise virtually the entire school delivery system. And you know, we have looked at the numbers and we think we can get government employment down from about 300,000 at the present time to about 75,000 in five years. ”
I wonder how Zambians like privatisation.
#tru dat man! a pure madness a gwaan, zing …
MUBIS**== “tukadoli” *Smileys also known as emoticons* are symbols used to convey emotional content or rather symbols usally emulating expressions that complements text msg. *#:-) should stand for Father Xmas!!!
Mugabe should sectioned. I have just watched him on Sky news saying Cholera is over..it has been arrested
#48 mugabe is a Joke trust me. but i think we need to concertare on Zed , pa Zed iliko bad we need serious change.
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sony ericcson..fon yama fon
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I dont like what Mugabe has done to Zim and its pipo.Pipo I need your help,dont you think these western contries are being unfair to the pipo of ZIM? I know they want to get rid of BOB but they should also help the pipo of ZIM.USA,UK and other western countries should just come in and help the pipo of Zim,then deal with Mugabe later on.I dont know today’s death toll,but why should these western and African countries wait for the death toll to be higher for them to act.Please GOD deliver ZIMBABWE amen.Zim shall be saved
i wish he could be hanged by his balls,but he has no balls
The African Union needs to set a good precedent on this issue and save its credibility othwerwise it will continue being perceived as a dictators’ club.What became of the provisions on Humanitarian Intervention in the AU Act?The law is there but there is only a lack of political will,not shocking in African politics!
Mugabe has reached a point at which he is fearing his own shadows. He can not be protected any more by anyone. I think he will finally end up at the Hague because he now has no friends to support him or protect him. Mbeki is now a nonentity lost in the crowd. ANC is changing with different people who have no commonality with Mugabe. He looks like he has no country interested in him anymore. Currently only Angola has a president with some sympathy with him. He might think of going to Malaysia, but he won’t easily fit in because political atmosphere is also changing in that part of the world.
Basically, Mugabe would like to go. But things have changed so much so that his ministers
Basically, Mugabe would like to go. But things have changed so much so that his ministers and generals are failing to sleep. They don’t know where they will go should the wind of change blow across Zim. They know the new Govt will let the law visit them. No one is willing to take them for asylum because they can easily be handed back to Zim courts. The wife also can’t go anywhere once Mugabe dies. She is also fearing being charged for various corruption offences and misappropriation of Govt properties (money)
People will not treat them with respect once out of power. ZANU-PF will breath it last air in power once Mugabe goes. The so called war veterans will loose their status too.
There are lots of people who know their days will be hard after Baba mukuru is gone.
I can see slowly change is coming. No one can arrest the wheels of change. When everybody start talking about him going, then you know that what used to be a taboo is now a common mans language. Time has come and you can’t buy time once yours is over. If he had eyes he would have seen it coming a long time. If he had ears he would have heard the wind of change blowing. But because he is blind and deaf, he will fall in a ditch.
Zimbabweans are to blame for whatever crisis the country is passing through. They are the ones who gave Mugabe too much power and pomposity, that is why the man thinks he is god of that country. In 1991, Zambians stood up jointly against the UNIP Regime when it had become apparent that things weren’ t going in the right direction. Why couldn’ t Zimbabweans do the same when signs started showing that the Mugabe Administration was leading the country into a woody economy ? They continued to give Mugabe credit even where it was not due. I for one, I feel we have heard too much of this old selfish leader. It is time he should step down and just wait to go to the grave to rot.
Baba Mukuru, you have said it all. only question is , how to make the change to a democratic society. I think it is time to send in an army.
Morgan is the Real Loser here. He contributed to the Cholrea outbreak by openly calling for sanctions that only hurts the same people he is trying to champion their cause.
The man is a big shame!!!
This Bob dube is getting kicks out of all the publicity he is getting. He is dominating almost everything that can be published. Why don’t we for goodness sake close all boarders, black him and his staving lot out and let them sort out their crap. Am sure they will do it faster than their dollar looses value.. >:d<
I dont blame Mugabe but Zimbambwe citizens themselves. How can they allow one man to hold thier country at ransom.
The solution is with you zimbambweans you surely can not look to SADC,USA,UN or AF for help.WORK UP AND SAVE YOUR BEUTIFUL COUNTRY
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Can someone wake me up when they have a resolution… |-)
i feel zimbabwe need to be discussed openinly becaused it touches humanity and international community can not afford to ignore. mugabe be serious because life is too dearly to be lost through cholera.
Why hold secret metting on Zimbabwe? What is it that is so secret that the whole world and its wife do not know already?
SADC should be more serious and have an open and transparent discourse on Zimbabwe.
I agree totally with#66, and #2.
Do you know that SADC is just a banch of elites with nothing to offer, apart from looking for survival by giving each other jobs without proper ToF. Thats SADC, full of paranoia over the west
SADC US, EU,UN… should approach MUNGABE with a CARROT and a STIRK POLICY.If MUGABE refuses a carrot a stirk should be shown to him.SADC is just a bunch of gossipers they cannot convince mugabe to step down and Mugabe knows how many NDEBELES he killed in the 80s.Who is going to act like a pond in the game chase?zimbabweans have proved to be cowards.SHAME ON THE AFRICAN LEADERS.
Zim is capable of solving her own problems. But why is the West pocking its nose in the affairs of a sovereign state. Leave Zimbabwe alone.
We have seroius problems in Afganistan, Iraq, Palestine, Somali, Congo DR, Sudan, etc where there is need for urgent and serious intervention. Let the West go to these countries and help out, instead of spying on Zim which is peaceful.The West has its own problems and have not called us (Africa) to assist now what is their interest in Zim. They imporsed sanctions on Zim and cause suffering of Zim people and make it look as if its Robert its the West. Mind you the world is watching.
I donot support Mugabe, but the problems in Zim were started by the whits themselves. They agreed to share land and UK to compasate the whites. When the time came, they changed their minds. Now after land was taken by force they freeze aid to Zim. Who are they punishing? The ordinary Zimbabian off course. Mugabe is still there.
Morgan is a purpet of the whites, Zim must look for a president.
SV2a4I comment5 ,
If you have to do it, you might as well do it right.