Angelica _ann wrote:Ngalaka wrote:FRM2011 wrote:It's beginning to look like the army boss acted in haste. The motivation was self preservation. BTW almost everything coming out of Zimbabwe is fake news.
Latest : AU has authorized SADC to handle the negotiations. Bottom line being any govt coming through the coup would not be recognized by both as per AU rules. SADC wants the army to agree they acted illegally. That is why they are vehemently denying there was a coup using the semantic gymnastics @masukuma alluded to.
Now the army has-been forced to the negotiating table from a point of disadvantage. With a tacit threat of military intervention by SADC. It's instructive to note Zuma sent his defence and security ministers and not the foreign minister.
Foreign military intervention in a Country with a standing military of its own, is not an easy decision nor one to be taken in haste.
The implications are multiplex and with no clear end in sight.
That Zimbabwe Army is worse than our own, at least we have experience of 'vita' ..... How did Gambia remove that corrupt fellow using their own military?
The situation in the Gambia was very different.
The incumbent president had lost an election, but blatantly refused to leave office.
Now the point of departure; the country's military though taking the view that the election outcome ought to be respected, they chose not to intervene per se. ECOWAS threatened to send in their membership troops to get the buffoon out of power a proposal that the local military was in favour of. in fact the military chief offered to escort the ECOWAS troops.
Isuni yilu yi maa me muyo - ni Mbisuu