adminpolitical party to move and claim that act is politically-motivated and is reflective of what is going on in the country.
For Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the entire MDC-T leadership to go overdrive blaming the incident on Zanu-PF before police have finished investigations is mischievous.
It could have been wise for the political party, which is part to the Global Political Agreement, to wait before issuing a statement.
Why does the party rush to make statements before the completion of investigations?
Isn’t it that MDC-T has something to hide?
Such statements are retrogressive and should be avoided at all costs.
The tone in the inclusive Government was encouraging and had started giving hope to Zimbabweans who do not want a repeat of 2008.
Let the police do their work and untangle the Christpowers puzzle. I am sure those who will be caught with blood on their fingers will be arrested and appropriate action taken.
The MDC-T leadership’s statements are meant to score cheap political points at the expense of the Maisiri family.
Sure the party will get support from the West, but that is never going to put an end to political violence .
President Mugabe’s call for peaceful elections has been unequivocal.
It is high time everyone, especially the leadership of the parties, do the same to ensure their supporters move at pace with the developments in the country.
The country cannot continue to have the same problems we hoped we had ironed out.
Why blame President Mugabe and Zanu-PF over an isolated act that has not fully been investigated by the police?
This notion of pointing fingers at others whenever there is a mishap is childish.
MDC-T must now start behaving like a party in Government and move away from this blame game.
The MDCs should not take advantage of the situation to call “Killer in the house” when it is pretty sure that the cause of the inferno is still unknown.
They must stop behaving like a some non-governmental organisations that are always seeing malice on the party of Zanu-PF even on well intended decisions.
Parties in the Global Political Agreement should at least condemn the act of arson as it is and influence their supporters to desist from violence.
As Zimbabwe wades towards harmonised elections, I am sure the world is watching to see whether the four years of GPA have taught Zimbabweans to move away from political violence.
Zimbabweans should know that inasmuch as they anticipate a smooth flow of elections and transition into the new Constitution era, there are detractors who wish that Zimbabwe degenerates into chaos.
It is wise for PM Tsvangirai, MDC-T secretary-general Tendai Biti and the party’s secretary for policy and research to hold their dogs and not fan an already volatile situation.
The peace slogan “Peace begins with me, Peace begins with you and Peace begins with all of us” rightly requires that we talk peace every time.
Talking peace entails that we stop the blame game and use the incident to instil the principles of peace in the people.
If we are not careful, calls by principals in the GPA, the Judiciary, politicians and the police to refrain from violence will come to nought.
Political parties and the courts should be encouraged to come up with the harshest possible sanctions against thugs who take the law into their own hands, and want to abuse names of political parties to engage in barbaric acts.
Instead of crying victim, the MDCs formations should ensure the call for peace is repeated in their walls to ensure no one provokes the situation and have only themselves to blame engaging in the acts.
The burden to end political violence rests with parties and should include even intra party clashes.
The MDC formations are not clean and must avoid reckless claims that may cause panic in the country.
It is high time that political parties move to away from crying victim to denouncing political violence.
At the moment it is only Zanu-PF which is on record as calling its members to refrain from violence but other parties should also join the fray.
What political parties should know is that playing victim will not solve the problem, but give fodder to the country’s enemies to promote violence and disorder in the harmonised elections.
The onus is on the country’s political parties to shame detractors with peaceful conduct in the run-up to the elections.
Online Reporter