Zimbabwe: Of Tutu, Zanu PF And the MDC

Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Joram Nyathi THERE have been two critical developments in South Africa since the fall of Thabo Mbeki two weeks ago. Renowned cleric and Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu says he might not vote in next year's elections. The second is that the ANC is not only losing its parliamentary majority but that it has also sullied an image it earned over the past 92 years as a principled liberation movement. Tutu's announcement that he will not be voting is significant not because of his single vote; it is its symbolism which is critical: that one of the leading lights of the darkest phase of the anti-apartheid struggle is so disgusted by the manner ANC president Jacob Zuma and his gang have so abused the democracy for which the ANC fought for so long that people have lost faith in its ability to... [read full story]