Comments on: bmtv90 Zimbabwe: Progress or Collaboration? http://citizenreporter.org/2008/09/bmtv90-zimbabwe-progress-or-collaboration/ Under-reported news by a Portuguese-American, activist-journalist based in Amsterdam. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:21:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bicyclemark http://citizenreporter.org/2008/09/bmtv90-zimbabwe-progress-or-collaboration/comment-page-1/#comment-164078 bicyclemark Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:39:04 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/?p=1516#comment-164078 And poof... he's out! just as you wrote it.. Mbeki must say goodbye. HI BHD! One thing i wanted to ad, I didnt leave it in the video, but after Morgan, the deputy prime minister spoke.. GREAT speaker from a splinter group from MDC... no idea if he's good or bad honestly.. or in between.. all I noticed was that his speech was better than any of them. And poof… he’s out! just as you wrote it.. Mbeki must say goodbye. HI BHD! One thing i wanted to ad, I didnt leave it in the video, but after Morgan, the deputy prime minister spoke.. GREAT speaker from a splinter group from MDC… no idea if he’s good or bad honestly.. or in between.. all I noticed was that his speech was better than any of them.

]]> By: BHD http://citizenreporter.org/2008/09/bmtv90-zimbabwe-progress-or-collaboration/comment-page-1/#comment-164074 BHD Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:35:35 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/?p=1516#comment-164074 Thanks for focussing on Zimbabwe again. “Collaboration” is perhaps a strong word in this context, to me it conjures up images of Marshall Pétain and Vichy France.

Anyway, this power-sharing agreement is a start. Post-apartheid South Africa’s first government was also a Government of National Unity. The excerpt of Tsvangirai’s speech in the Guardian piece seems to sum it up quite well…but like you say only time will tell. To me it’s a great step forward.

As a side note Mbeki’s “quiet diplomacy” finally paid dividends. It’s just very unfortunate that he is being forced out of office so soon after this coup.

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