05 February 2009

Zimbabwe Passes Power Sharing Law

Well the Zimbabwean parliament finally passed the constitutional amendments to enable a power-sharing government, though cabinet positions are still not set, and a number of MDC and human rights activists remain detained.

Governments in the west have softened their rhetoric, for a while, at least, but are maintaining the sanctions against Mugabe and senior ZANU-PF officials.

As to whether things are going to get better, the fact that Robert Mugabe's wife just seized a farm, from a judge on Zimbzbwe's high court....Damn....It takes stones to steal from a judge in broad daylight, so I'm not expecting things to turn better at any time soon.

In the meantime, Cholera is continuing it's Zimbabwe concert tour, with the WHO saying that cases have broken 65,000.

I'm not sure if I am a realist, or a pessimist, but I don't think that things are going to turn out well for the people of Zimbabwe.

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