REJOICE NGWENYA COMMENTARY: Zimbabwe: No! To Government Of National Unity

Argues the Zimbabwean libertarian freelance writer and head of Coalition for Market & Liberal Solutions:

"Robert Mugabe is now in Cairo, having defied all criticism, almost to the point of spiteful arrogance, daring to present himself to the world as the 'new' president of a country that is desperate just to crawl even on its knees. Each and every sensible human order has condemned his one-man comedy. His own colleagues in SADC have disowned him. I predict there will be a few muffled protests from his continental colleagues, then a deafening silence. Back in the streets of Harare, citizens are engulfed with a strange feeling of disgust, shock, anxiety and a glimmer of hope. Hope that the super structures of world bureaucracy will finally unleash their own blend of venom on a monster which refuses to die, literary [sic], to save a nation cowed into submission and despair by a man whose confidence comes from AK 47s, fighter planes and a submissive police force. Zimbabweans are exposed, completely vulnerable now.

If the SADC, AU and the UN does not tighten the screws on Mugabe, it is impossible for the citizens of this Southern African nation to ever have confidence in world bureaucracy. But to even fathom a scenario where Mugabe presides over a transitional authority is hard to swallow, what with the phantoms of one hundred dead bodies handing over his party's, if they have any, conscience. Saints do not share the high table with criminals, at least in the world of justice. The people have suffered for too long and political compromises are not the best way of pacifying them. No! Neither is retribution, the art of survival that Mugabe has mastered.

Zimbabweans want a new start, a clean slate where men and women with pure hearts, citizens of unquestionable integrity, negotiate in good faith. Mugabe and his cronies are hiding blood-stained serviettes under neath the high table. They have disgraced themselves in the courtyard of public opinion. Their constituency is coercion, force, abduction, arson, greed, plunder, murder and rape. Our constituency is dignity, respect, honour, courage and resilience. There cannot be national unity with agents of disunity.

"The commentary continues: "What Zimbabweans need, urgently, are the extremes of world diplomacy, key operating words like exclusion, blockade, intervention, de-legitimisation, quarantine and transition. If SADC, AU and UN cannot offer that, we the people must trigger a domino phenomenon that once, in our history, can render the entire system of governance dysfunctional. The tortoise phenomenon. Retraction. Active silence."