By Staff reporter
More and more trickeries hatched by the US Embassy to effect regime change in Zimbabwe continue to be exposed with the latest being their attempt to mobilise Civic Society Organisations (CSOs) and opposition forces to confront Government as a united front beginning January 2020, the Harare Post can reveal.
The State media, The Sunday Mail, this week bared the US Embassy’s plot to fund a workshop that will train CSOs and the opposition political parties to, among others, conduct effective demonstrations and effectively demand political reforms.
Fresh revelations are that, same has set aside generous amount of money meant to organize anti-Government elements so that they can confront Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration as a united cluster.
A source privy to the development also revealed that the US Embassy is organising local opposition and CSOs to wield more force on Government so as to reverse the enactment of Maintenance of Peace and Order Act (MOPA) which they perceive as a bad piece of legislation.
“The US Embassy envisages a regime change in Zimbabwe being achieved through demonstrations in the Bolivian style. Therefore, MOPA has been perceived as the stumbling block in conducting sustainable demonstrations. Remember they are training their foot soldiers in conducting sustainable demonstrations.
“The Embassy is trying to influence the MDC to have the act taken back to Parliament for further debate. It is then that the Embassy would mount a strong campaign against the act. This will entail enlisting support from some Zanu PF legislators,” said the source.
President Mnangagwa has recently assented to MOPA (Chapter 11:23) which is aimed at guiding the Government’s political reform agenda.
The MOPA provides “for the maintenance of peace, order and security to ensure the enjoyment of rights and freedoms by any persons and in particular to make provision for peaceful conduct of gatherings in a manner that protects the right of freedom of assembly, association, demonstration and petitioning without prejudicing the rights and freedoms of others.”
Further revelations by the same source had it that the British Ambassador to Zimbabwe; Melanie Robinson hosted a meeting at her residence in Greendale where the enactment of MOPA and the general political situation in Zimbabwe were on the agenda.
“This issue (enactment of MOPA) has flustered the Western forces who had thought the demonstrations would be the game changer in Zimbabwe in the Bolivian style. Robinson summoned ambassadors from the US, Canadian, French, Japanese, and Zambian embassies as well as some CSOs, to discuss the political situation in the country, mostly the enactment of MOPA and the skirmishes between the MDC supporters and the riot police on 20 November,” said the source.
He said Robinson beseeched the ambassadors to help Zimbabweans “have the Zimbabwe they want” through financially supporting their struggle.
Meanwhile, the MDC Intelligence and Security Department and the Democratic Resistance Committees (DRCs) are reportedly plotting to carry out acts of terror against the security forces and known Zanu PF members in retaliation to 20 November incident where riot police dispersed riotous MDC members.
According to a source, Costas Machingauta is coordinating the planned attacks. The DRCs and that party’s youth, the source said, would also launch sporadic demonstrations in the Central Business District of Harare. He said the attacks were meant to attract the attention of the international community.
