{"id":195618,"date":"2008-06-26T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/26\/zimbabwe-5\/"},"modified":"2008-06-26T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T22:34:00","slug":"zimbabwe-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/26\/zimbabwe-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are getting some decent news now, specifically that <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/africa\/06\/26\/zimbabwe.biti\/\">MDC Secretary Tendai Biti was released on bail pending his treason charge<\/a>, and Mugabe is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/06\/26\/news\/Zimbabwe.php\">suggesting negotiations following the runoff election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I don&#8217;t see Mugabe backing down until he is dead or in custody though, particularly since he is insisting that the election, which he has turned into a bloody farce, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/27\/world\/africa\/27zimbabwe.html?hp\">should be held on schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=adhV3T83VaLE&amp;refer=home\">Morgan Tsvangirai is walking away from his earlier call for armed peace keepers<\/a>, but he is juxtaposing this with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/zimbabwe\/2197325\/Zimbabwe-election-Morgan-Tsvangirai-gives-Robert-Mugabe-24-hour-deadline.html\">24-hour deadline to enter into good faith negotiations with him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that Tsvangirai may <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gfHfmc0dZb_lIlf4GyuR1uCUjGoQ\">be playing to Mugabe&#8217;s allies in the ZANU-PF<\/a>, with comments to the effect that Mugabe is &#8220;self-destructing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The implication here is that if he does, then the rest of the ruling structure is at risk too.<\/p>\n<p>It also appears that South Africa&#8217;s ANC has finally be forced into doing the right thing, as they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monstersandcritics.com\/news\/africa\/news\/article_1413416.php\/ANC_also_bemoans_failed_leadership_as_sham_Zimbabwe_vote_looms\">finally condemning what is going on there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that Nelson Mandela&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/06\/26\/europe\/EU-GEN-Britain-Nelson-Mandela.php\">calling the events in Zimbabwe a, &#8220;Tragic Failure of leadership&#8221;<\/a>, left them no other choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are getting some decent news now, specifically that MDC Secretary Tendai Biti was released on bail pending his treason charge, and Mugabe is suggesting negotiations following the runoff election. Honestly, I don&#8217;t see Mugabe backing down until he is dead or in custody though, particularly since he is insisting that the election, which he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,971,981,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-rights","category-civil-war","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}