With all the political drama taking place in South Africa, the spotlight had been taken off Zimbabwe. So with that said, let us take a look at what the latest scenario in Zimbabwe is. Well as we know, a deal between Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Mutambara was signed thanks to Thabo Mbeki but still there have not agreed on who is in charge of which ministry in the new government. The parties are still busy fighting about who will be incharge of which ministry as everyone wants to be incharge of the ‘power seats’, namely Finance, Agricultre and Home Affairs. Mugabe’s Zanu-PF obviously wants these posts but Tsvangirai knows that for the country to move forward, the MDC needs to be incharge of these seats and govern them well so that international aid can come into Zimbabwe.
Speaking of intenational aid, the US and Britain had said they would pump money into Zimbabwe if there is a change of leadership. I wonder now that if Tsvangirai gets the power he wants, will the US and Britain still be able to pump in the money they said they would now that both nations are experiencing seriously financial problems in their own countries. Will they have time and money to start worrying about Zimbabwe? We will have to wait and see.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said today he expected a unity government to be formed by the end of this week. Yet again, we will have to wait and see how true that is. I feel that, the decision on who runs which ministries should have been made when the parties were still agreeing on the deal. When the deal was signed, the deal should have included who is incharge of what ministry. That would have saved a lot of time and people could start to move on and try get the country back to its feet.
