London(ZimEye)The head of the Matebeleland Liberation Organisation (MLO), Paul Siwela has thrown his weight into the 2013 elections subject triggered last week by Zimbabwe’s justice minister Patrick Chinamasa, by putting forward his proposition that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai cannot take over from Robert Mugabe without bloodshed.
Paul Siwela who was once incarcerated and falsely charged for treason for his views for a free Matebeleland, told ZimEye on Monday the only solution to bring out a free Zimbabwe is by creating a round table for the various political stakeholders.
“Morgan cannot take power without bloodshed; and blanket amnesty to Zanu PF would be a dangerous precedent not in Zimbabwe but (also) other third world countries; the solution (thus) lies in a round table between Zim and aggrieved parties that include Matebeles, white farmers, and so on,” he said.
Siwela went further to elaborate on the stakeholders he proposes should be involved:
“The players are Zanu PF on one side and the other are Matebeles, white farmers primarily, and then others are in Zanu PF and other political parties. Without a roundtable, apologies, reparations, forgiveness there would never be stability,” Siwela said.
Siwela suggestions come as a confirmation to recent open threats by Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa who said that Tsvangirai is asking for trouble by going for elections with hopes of winning the ballot.
“He [Tsvangirai] cannot win. He has been campaigning and mobilising against the interests of Zimbabweans on many issues, whether talking about land, seeking to reverse the gains of the liberation struggle.
“And this is where the military comes in…. Young people participated in the liberation struggle to gain control over our resources. Many friends died and are buried in unmarked graves.
“Now if anyone is going to say: ‘When I come into power I’m going to reverse that,’ they [the military] have every right to say: ‘Please – you are asking for trouble. You will be asking for trouble.’
“He [Tsvangirai] will be asking for trouble to seek to reverse the land reform programme. There is no-one who is going to accept any enslavement.”
Zanu PF has long accused Tsvangirai of being a front for the interests of Western countries as well as white former commercial farmers still nursing a sense of grievance over the takeover of their farms for re-distribution to landless blacks.
“And if those countries impose for him to win, that result will not be acceptable. We will not accept it. We will just not accept it. Isn’t that clear?,” said Chinamasa.
(ZIMBABWE, ZimEye)
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i dnt know we still have fulls in zim.hw cn we wrry about pple like swela.zanu yakarambwa nevanhu pache2008.nkala is a cnfused oppotunist.histry builds us but we cnt stick on it.we have to move on.i say no to pple who want war and bloodshed.zvakapera nguva yarodhes,let the pple freely chose who they want.handisi gwara mind u,but i support peace.
Land to the people u a****no going back
sorry i dont think its neccessary to talk about it bcoz siwela or sewage is ignorant how can you talk of political governance if you are so short sighted about o level or grade seven he should rewrite the failed exam
You really want me to comment Ngu X…………l would say honestly Siwela’s facial geography looks like a pile of dehydrated shytte laced with guava seeds. He needs plastic surgery if wants the.establishment of the matayakazi land to be a success or perhaps borrows Enos Chikwores face for a while.
just compare nd contrast these 2 faces… Mr Siwela vs Swankilai nd tell me whose face is the image of god.
Siwela is relevant because he has highlighted serious issues which have often been ignored along tribal and ethnic lines. People do not give credit where it is due but only look at the colour of ones skin, your origin, tribe and status in society to give one credence. Siwela is spot on, on some of the issues and the next gvt should devolve power to encourage particpatory democracy at all levels. A recent example is the synchronised flushing in the city of Bulawayo, three decades after independence we are still using rhodesian sewer systems. No dams, lakes or significant water reservoirs have been built, we do not even have a national water policy thanks to zanoids. I would rather have whites rule us again than to have have these baboons who keep chanting soveriegnity, independence and indeginisation whilst the country burns. Thumps up to Siwela…..I hope he keeps on beating up the batonka drum.
it is a dream that will never come true a ndebele president in a shona dominated land with they education prowess ;ndebele pple can only assist shonas on how to govern them pple like jonathan moyo can never be presidents but idealical opportunists who are used as scape goats to enrich the shona political prowesses it was good to have a ndebele leader leading the country if his father was born of a shona genius and the mother was a malawian ;lest not forget that lobengula sold out the country with soup like esau and jacob the shonas of course took the blessing and are now leader for ever sory mandevere very sory ge’na hamulume munolumila ndatenda b.d
It is really interesting, some call him Chematama, some Swangilai on this site etc or watever u might wanna call him…it doesnt need the services of a rocket scientist to figure out that this man we call Save is the people’s choice, the only hope for Zim.Siwela is a high sounding nothingand irrelevant to Zim .Am sure any right mionded individual will dismiss his Mthwakazi nonsense as a pipe dream in a civilised world
vamwe vaiti tichatonga kusvika madhongi amera nyanga, zvino akamera dzirikupi zvazviri kunzi VaTsvangson PM. vanofanana nevamwe vaya vaiti never,never, never, in a million years. asi iyezvino vave kunwa tea vese svondo rega rega, zvichapera vehama ngatirege kunyanya kuchema Mwari vanesu mazimba.
Siwela should try stakeholding his indaba with Zuma or Malema else try the bloodshed route his heritage.
Like the green flies attracted to democracy, Grehora,Mutengesi chii, tsoko, chigwadziso and Shexboy’s kak and its supper smell at Mukuvisi river enrote lake chivero before going back for reconsumption by the same, all savages have come out. What do you expect from those who only drink fresh water in neibouring countries?
Siwela is right all the ingriedients of a war torn country are present except gunfire. It is like in 1980 without assembly points. This is not like labour and consevertive or republican and democrates politics, it is about imperialism and those revolutionaries who slept on the job after over feeding themselves. They killed all their revolutionery oponents thinking they were killing oposition. Now they have real opposition seeking to destroy everything that……sometimes I think about the MDC-T and get worried about all the suffering that some people went through for the liberation of our land ZPF has sold out it has brought us to this precarious position because of politics of greed and indiscipline that has always been their trade mark, thanks to the unsophisticated Sh0na vote.
why do these zanu pf hardliners always want to scare us about the war, zimbabwe will not be the first country to have war, if the environment requires war ,zanu pf thinks they are the only pple who knows where the trigger of a gun is located and they fool themselves by thinking that their army is the best in africa we are there in zimbabwe ready to fly those war jets and programme the pilotless drones to protect the will of majority zimbabweans.
Siwela is made ,we only want free n fair elections. The winner therefore should execute his duties. If not that ,then why go 4 elections in da first place.
Hey editor,dont you have another file picture which is less scary,those eyes are too big for a human being,looks like they were plugged off a Kezi donkey and transplanted on this dissident.
Who needs to hear about Siweti’s views,Zimeye hamuna dhiri!
Come Siwela you dont know what you are talking about. This is the very Siwela, the leader of Zapu 2000 who failed to campaign in Matebeleland but was seen gunning for votes in the streets of Harare. He just want to use the Ndebelez to get rich… This Mthwakazi thing is just a dream…. Ndebelez are cowards they can all go hang…. Until they become bold enough thats only when they will be recognised in Zimbo, the land of Mashonaz…..
Zimeye you heading is misleading, it is like Morgan is planning a quo. Morgan like most zimbabweans are going for a free and fair election. What we term feya feya in own zim language
Cde Siwela, nanso isihlama sakho u Comradog Nakednja sikulandula! You are contradicting yourself, first u say Morgan cannot only take over the country via bloodshed (I presume that applies to everyone else), then you say the solution is a round table solution (without bloodshed, I presume)… so which is which?
Hear who is barking,hopeless crook masquarading as a politician,nxa,sihlama senja.
So the Ndebeles considers themselves Zimbabweans?
Haiwawo mhani siweti wekupenga
Shona lo 2vi wena democracy,Siwela ngikuthembe kangaka. You want to make Greydog n Mukadog happy. Ishona lishona ngithi phambili nge Mthwakaziland. I
don’t care whether Mugabe or Swangilai wins mina ngifuna inkululeko yami not ukubuswa ngamaShona o2vi
Swela start to appear towards elections like the dawn mavambo thing. I am sure you are entitled to your views, but please do not play the tribalist card and remind us of chinamasa or the minority zanu pf. You clearly do not have any solution to the problems we are facing. Our resolve is to out vote Zanu for you to will live in peace. This assumption that zanu is a terrorist party is just scare mongering. If you had said there will be an uprising Yes this time zimbabweans are prepared to die, people are just fed up.
With or without bloodshed he will NOT take power. He is just a dreamer, together with his supporters and financiers. Its a 13 year old dream now and come April 2013 he will wake up from his loooooooooong dream and smell the coffee.
If it is really about the land, why not give it back tot he Koi San, they were in Southern Africa 1ST!!!!!!!!
Everyone one else followed!
Msatha Nyoko wena democracy.
i think paul siwela the tribalist is out of touch with zim direction how can he talk about stability in zim whilstly zim is not at war if tries to incite violent rebellion in matebeleland it will not work becoz he will still face treason charges for undermining security protocol of the state for example the reason why they was a gukurahundi in 1986 was becoz of wat nkomo was trying to do that’s causing instability in zim by claiming a double portion of power without seeing the consequences of such ambition which of cause are violence, tribal war ,if siwela thinks the ndebeles are being marginalised he should go back to kzn that’s durban and reclaim his origin not in zim ,zim will entertain such ambitions of a divided zimbabwe it’s at the discretion of the shonas that the ndebeles are living in zim otherwise the whole land belongs to the mashona tribe which inludes the samanyikas,mazezuru and stuff