Zimbabwe: Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place

I have supported the need for change in the Zimbabwean executive for a long while now. Honestly, not as long as most but at least since "Operation Murambatsvina" when Uncle Gabriel and cohorts jumped on the poor inner city folk without offering an alternative.

I would have preffred that Uncle Gabriel leaving sooner that except for the fact that it has always seemed that the most popular alternative to his leadership was Morgan Tsvangirai of the MDC. Over the years Morgan Tsvangirai has impressed me with his tenacity to fight what has more and more recently looked like an impossible fight - attempting to legitimately replace a government that is very willing to misuse any control they have over all their agencies including the supposed to be independent Electoral Commission. (By the way, only in Africa do you get an incumbent government complaining that the votes could have been rigged!!!!)

So what don't I like about Morgan Tsvangirai ... not much really, he just reminds me of Fredrick Titus Jacob Chiluba, Zambia's second national President. There is something about him that reeks of I'll speak of the people for as long as it gets me to Plot 1.

Anyway ... I think he now genuinely has a chance to prove my conceptions of him wrong but it doesn't help that I've found an article that compares him to Helen Zille, leader of South Africa's main (read ONLY) opposition (read WHINING) party.

Take some to to read "Morgan Tsvangirai - A Successful Failure" - http://www.africanliberty.org/node/155 .