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SADC Troika deserves applause
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
April 02, 2011

The current volatile political environment in Zimbabwe is a cause for concern as evidenced by the increased arrests, cancellations of opposition rallies, as well as the harassment of rights activists and opposition leaders and supporters. SADC should undoubtedly be able to help bring about solutions where government or electoral disputes arise. Indeed there must be an immediate end to violence, intimidation, hate speech, harassment, and any other form of action that contradicts the letter and spirit of Global Political Agreement. For this and more, the Coalition applauds the SADC Troika attending to the Zimbabwe situation and for taking steps that push for an environment conducive to holding free and fair elections as part of solutions to the decade long crisis.

The power-sharing deal between ZANU-PF and the MDC formations, known as the Global Political Agreement (GPA) is on the brink of faltering. President Mugabe, ZANU-PF and security actions of thwarting the reform processes agreed upon in the GPA testify it all. It is thus a positive development for SADC to share the same sentiments with us by observing the violations and delay in the implementation of the Agreement. This is indeed a big step for the SADC Troika and the very strongly worded Communiqué at the end of the summit is very much commendable. The Coalition only hopes that the Southern and Northern African tyrants will soon observe that the Troika's backing of Allassane Ouattara of the Ivory Coast serves as a wakeup call to them and soon realize that a stitch in time saves nine and democracy shall indeed prevail.

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