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...Africa, told Agence France-Presse that the government's proposal showed a "complete lack of sincerity and the need to really address the issues and problems Zimbabwe is facing." Zimbabwe already has two vice presidents, both high-ranking members of Mugabe's Zimbabwean African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) Party, and both are confined to largely ceremonial duties. "[The talks are] deadlocked, according to the MDC guys," said Chris Maroleng, Zimbabwe expert at the Institute of Strategic Studies in Pretoria. "The position they were offered is untenable for them...
...Koroma said Africa must "in no uncertain terms, condemn what has happened"; and former Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa was among those who backed the deployment of A.U. troops to stem the violence. Even South Africa's ruling party, long comrades-in-arms with Mugabe's ZANU-PF, said the regime's behavior betrayed the ideals that brought it to power. Mugabe was "riding roughshod over the hard-won democratic rights of the people of that country," said the African National Congress...
...write an X and then the country goes just like that?" This indivisibility of the interests of party and country has become a common regime refrain. On May 29, army Chief of Staff Martin Chedondo was quoted in the Herald telling his men their job was to defend ZANU-PF. "If you have other thoughts, then you should remove that uniform," he reportedly said...
...from a country where unemployment is at 80% and inflation is 165,000%. But the regime works the chaos to its advantage. The seizure of white-owned farms since 2000, endorsed by Mugabe as a long-overdue redistribution of land to Zimbabwe's black majority, has benefited the ZANU-PF élite. A senior army officer warns that the generals will use any means necessary to hold onto their riches. Should the June 27 vote go against them, he says, they will disregard it: "There will be a coup if Tsvangirai wins. Mugabe is going nowhere...
...believe there's an entrenched culture of corruption within Zanu-PF - so that's what they want to hang on to is these opportunities to enrich themselves? It's the lifestyle, it's the patronage system of Mugabe that has cushioned them from the economic difficulties that everyone else is exposed...