Mugabe, Tsvangirai must walk the talk

President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Christmas and New Year messages acknowledge that political violence remains a big challenge for Zimbabwe.

For the past two years, this country has been in election mode as Mugabe and Zanu PF continued to press for fresh elections despite evidence that nothing has been done by the inclusive government to prevent a repeat of the 2008 bloodshed.

Talk of elections nowadays evokes memories of the violence blamed on State security institutions that have up to this day not attempted to prove that they were not responsible.

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