Zim opposition wins key speaker post

Oh Oh!! The British appear to be making serious inroads in Zim. Bob & ZANU-PF watch out, this Tsvangirai fellow may have something up his sleeve after all. He may not be using his own head but whatever head he is using appears to be doing a good job, so far. Tip; if you underestimate the "universal" power of the mighty POUND you will find yourself sprawling on the floor in no time.

Hah hah, but it is the presidency that holds the power and Mugabe, except for a time when he was prime minster, has been doing what he likes as the president of Zinbabwe, for well over a decade. Like the ANC in South Africa, Mugabe and his ZANUPF, regards Zimbabwe as their own private property and how dare anyone believe otherwise.

I believe that allowing the position of speaker to go to the main MDC opposition, is a very clever move by ZANUPF because a bye election is now necessary in which ZANUPF will definitely win. Especially after its recent violent campaign against its own people. It is the obvious intention of ZANUPF, to gradually reduce the MDC majority in parliment by seemingly fair and definitely foul means. The next few days in Zimbabwe will be most interesting indeed.

Siti, Britain was only too glad to get rid of their most useless and internationally embarasssing colony in 1980. They certainly don't want it back now. The future reconstruction of the zimbabwean economy is being presented in terms of its "dollarisation". For dollars, don't even read POUNDs,read Rands.

No,no, no, I beg to differ with you Frank and Siti. Firstly no by - election is needed in Moyo and Khumalo's constituencies because to be speaker and deputy respectively they have to be sitting MPs. If Nyathi had won then Mugabe would have accommodated him as per constitutional requirement.

Siti, Zanu PF did not allow an MDC-T contestant to win the speakership job. They were beaten fair and square, at their own game, simple. In fact the strategy was that if Zanu PF backs an MDC-M candidate then the 10 MDC-M MPs who hold the swing to parliamentary majority would have voted for their own candidate. But what Zanu PF failed to master was that Nyathi and the 10 were not singing form the same hymn book. A Nyathi victory would have enabled Mugabe and Mutambara to walk into an unholy martrimony which what the 10 MPs don't agree with. It is wrong and dangerous to assume that the British have anything to do with this. Why can't people just see and believe that the time for Zanu PF is up? Its the winds of change blowing, my brother. Mugabe and his lot are history, trust me.