GPA was a mistake - Zimbabwean VP

  1. Posted on Sunday 14 November 2010 - 06:26
    Misheck Rusere
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    Misheck Rusere, AfricaNews reporter in Harare, Zimbabwe
    Zimbabwean Vice President John Landa Nkomo has described the Global Political Agreement signed in September 2008 establishing the current coalition government in the country as a 'grave political mistake' citing wide differences between the party ideologies.
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    Speaking at the Zanu-PF Matabeleland South Provincial Conference Nkomo said there was no unity among the three political parties and that he did not expect any such with a party they so disagree with.

    “The GPA was a mistake. We never thought we would sit down in Cabinet with the MDC and map the way forward as there are wide differences in the way we view development. Let me put it on record that there is no unity between Zanu-PF and the two MDC formations,” he said.

    Nkomo, a former high ranking ZAPU official had time to praise the integration of his former party into ZANU (the former ruling party) castigating those working at reviving it, saying it was a mockery to the late vice President Joshua Nkomo.

    “The only unity was achieved with the historic signing of the Unity Accord between the two revolutionary parties in the country, Zanu and Zapu to form Zanu-PF in 1987. It was not an individual decision but we agreed that it was the best way forward after putting national interests first,’’ said Nkomo.

    ZIPRA intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa who was also a ZANU-PF politburo member is now the revived ZAPU’s President.

    President Robert Mugabe has in his recent speeches been calling for the holding of elections in 2011, a move that has been agreed to by the MDC-T party while it has been disagreed to by the smaller faction of the MDC led by Professor Arthur Mutambara.

    Civic society groups have however raised concern of politically motivated violence in the face of elections and have been calling for the crafting of a new constitution first before any polls can be held.

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