When Obedience Becomes the Problem

Posted to the web 8 July 2008 Reason Wafawarova Sydney TO some people, MDC-T appears to have suddenly evolved or reformed into an African outfit, especially after the March 29 harmonised elections. MDC-T's March expostulation over the election result was not motivated by a realisation that Africa held the solution to African problems, in this case the Zimbabwean problem. Rather, MDC-T was doing the bidding of the real MDC-T in London -- a bidding that seeks a remonstrant African regional body that sees Zimbabwe as an island of anarchy, barbarism and political ferociousness. The appeal to Sadc by MDC through President Levy Mwanawasa of Zambia was neither an appeal of Africanhood nor that of neighbourhood. It was rather a well-calculated appeal for obedience to the voice that is pretending to rule this world, the Anglo-American... [read full story]