 Mthwakazi Peoples Convention (MPC), an organisation that calls for the seccession of Mthwakazi from Zimbabwe, has said they receive the power-sharing agreement made between Zanu (PF) and MDC with regret.
In a statement seen by The Mthwakazian, the organisation condemned the agreement brokered with the help of the South African President, Thabo Mbeki, stating that is about power-sharing and neither good governance nor the political future of present-day Zimbabwe. "Once again we see the people of present-day Zimbabwe betrayed on the altar of political convenience, opportunism and self-serving political interests. We ask; what have all those who died in the just-ended election period, and before, die for?" read the statement. "This agreement is also a political fraud designed to pull a rug over the world’s face and conceal the real motives behind the agreement. The agreement fools no one. It is not difficult for the world to know that this agreement is about enabling Zanu-PF and Mr Mugabe to access international financial support and dig themselves out of the present economic mire, while at the same time enabling Mr Tsvangirai to access power, with which he is so intoxicated, and to secure a State Residence."
The agreement which was reached on the 11th September 2008, and is to be officially signed on Monday, 15th September, has been signed amidst further threats of economic sanctions from the EU, a runaway six figure inflation rate and the looming economic collapse of Zimbabwe.
The MPC which is to have an official launch later in September said they consider the agreement as a cynical move to privatise a political process that should be owned by the people and that it is a result of both Zanu-PF and the MDC-T faction being involved in inter and intra-party violence that has killed and maimed innocent people. "The death of one person for political reasons is one death too many. We thought the lessons of Gukurahundi had been learnt. Clearly they have not. Clearly, both Mr Mugabe and Mr Tsvangirai are not fit and proper persons for high office, whether it be as President or Prime Minister. They are dangerous people." Under the deal, it is reported that Mugabe will remain president and chairman of Cabinet while Tsvangirai will become prime minister and will chair a new council of ministers that will be tasked with carrying out the day-to-day business of government.
Since the parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding which facilitated the talks, many analysts have condemned the negotiations on the premise that they have not been all-inclusive. MPC meanwhile have in the past called for the Convention on a Democratic Alternative for present-day Zimbabwe (Codaz) which "is a new political and constitutional order which must be captured in a New Constitution. " On Codaz, MPC say a new political and constitutional order must give birth to a new constitution.
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