BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Zimbabwe rivals in historic pact

Long term rivals Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangari have signed a power sharing agreement after weeks of negotiation to bring to an end Mugabes sole rule over the country.

The Opposition join the government at a time where inflation stands at 11m% and where large parts of Africas former breadbasket are now dependant on food aid.

Tsvangari and his supporters have regualry been brutalised by the people they now share power with.

One can only hope that Mugabe is commited to this and Zimbabwe at long last can emerge from its nightmare.
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How long do you think that this agreement will last? I reckon about 2 months but sincerely hope that it will be much longer.

It was also sad, although not surprising, to see Mugabe still blaming Colonial Britain for all the problems in Zimbabwe.
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Mugabe has done this to silence the opposition. No doubt he will blame them for the parlous state of affairs that he has brought down on his country. I don't normally wish for people to die, but now is the time for Mugabe to quietly expire. He has had a long and comfortable life compared to so many of his compatriots.
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I expect Morgan Tsangarie will have the witch doctor cast an evil spell on him to change him into a little toady.

Anyone want to chip in for a oneway ticket for Farage?

He'd probably turn up back in Brussels within a week to draw his allowances and expenses.
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Originally Posted by Aardvark:
Mugabe has done this to silence the opposition. No doubt he will blame them for the parlous state of affairs that he has brought down on his country. I don't normally wish for people to die, but now is the time for Mugabe to quietly expire. He has had a long and comfortable life compared to so many of his compatriots.

Anyone who watched this farce on TV who wanted justice would wish the same as you Aardvark! I can never understand why African politics is so corrupt!
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Originally Posted by rjt:

One can only hope that Mugabe is commited to this and Zimbabwe at long last can emerge from its nightmare.

Unfortunately, In your dreams rjt!
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It's a quick fix blessed by Mbeki of South Africa who is teetering on the brink of replacement. Angry sections of his own ANC party are after his guts for garters.
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Originally Posted by kernow:
Unfortunately, In your dreams rjt!

I fully understand why you would take that view, it comforts me at least to know that Mugabes grip on power has at last been loosened a little.
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Originally Posted by angelman:
How long do you think that this agreement will last? I reckon about 2 months but sincerely hope that it will be much longer.

It was also sad, although not surprising, to see Mugabe still blaming Colonial Britain for all the problems in Zimbabwe.

Sad but predictable, he has no answer to the problems he has created so it is his only line of attack.
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I actually have no sympathy at all for Zimbabwe. The blacks had an almost idyllic existance under Ian Smith's government. Anyone who had been there, as I had, a couple of times, knew that. Since then they have expelled the hands that fed them, confiscated the farms, and made almost 280,000 Whites who had settled there and who had built the cities, roads, railways, water supplies, industries, and everything else a modern country needs, homeless and countryless.

The blacks built their own funeral pyre and now they are cooking on it. Unless they completely restore people's private property, something that has been sacrosanct in civilised society for thousand of years, we should have nothing to do with them. One of the principle reasons this self-confessed Marxist and blood-stained murdering terrorist has stayed in power for so long is because the do-gooders in the West keep sending in food supplies. They have been shoring up his evil regime.
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