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Zimbabwe Inclusive Government Watch: The most breached clauses of
the Global Political Agreement
Sokwanele
December 16, 2012
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Zimbabwe's controversial
power-sharing Agreement, termed the "Global
Political Agreement" (GPA), was signed by President Mugabe's
ZANU PF party and the two Movement for Democratic Change formations
- led by Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC-T) and Arthur Mutambara (MDC-M)
respectively - on September 15, 2008 in Harare.
The objective
of the South African-mediated Agreement was to "create a genuine,
viable, permanent, sustainable and nationally acceptable solution
to the Zimbabwe situation." Integral to this was the restoration
of democracy and the garnering of international support to revive
the country's collapsed economy.
Commenting on
the negotiations, Tsvangirai stressed at the inception: "This
is not about power sharing. It is about a return to democracy."
He made it clear that the MDC-T was not prepared to agree to anything
which did not restore democracy and the rule of law.
On the other
side of the coin, "Mugabe could not agree to anything which
did", wrote Derek Matyszak of the Research
and Advocacy Unit (RAU) in his report:
"Losing Focus: Zimbabwe's 'Power-Sharing' Agreement",
released by IDASA in October 2008.
The result of
the frequently deadlocked and increasingly acrimonious negotiations
was a 22-page Agreement comprising 25 Articles. It is against these
Articles that Sokwanele's "Zimbabwe Inclusive Government (ZIG)
Watch" has monitored violations of the GPA by the three partners
since its inception.
The ZIG Watch
issues demonstrate conclusively that, throughout the four years
during which the Global Political Agreement has been operational,
President Mugabe and the ZANU PF hierarchy have continued to employ
repressive strategies in order to retain supremacy in the transitional
government and neutralise its partners. These include media repression,
human rights violations, political violence, abductions, arrests,
torture and the murder of opposition politicians and activists.
Furthermore, with another election on the cards for next year, ZANU
PF is intensifying the onslaught to ensure not only its political
survival but an election victory.
The way that
ZIG Watch was set up was this: On a daily basis, we tracked media
articles and reports which provided examples of violations of the
GPA by Zimbabwe's three main political parties, the partners in
the GPA. These were logged on our website and below each we listed
the GPA Articles that had been violated. To view this resource,
log onto: http://www.sokwanele.com/zigwatch
For each media
story logged, we listed the GPA Article/Articles that had been breached.
For the entire monitoring period, ZANU PF's highest percentage of
breaches was 98% and the lowest was 86.4%. The MDC-T was 7.1% and
1.4%, while the MDC-Mutambara/Ncube was 6.5% and 0.26%.
Our report analyses
the Top 10 GPA Articles breached by the coalition parties throughout
the monitoring period. The list starts with the highest number of
breaches we recorded and gives the total number of breaches in brackets.
The report concentrates on the top five Articles for which the majority
of violations were recorded and gives a cross-section of violations
of the remaining five.
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