The third force in Zimbabwe: the “Potato Party”

Eddie Cross’s latest letter from Zimbabwe explores the options facing those living in Zimbabwe in 2006 and he refers to a new political party on the horizon:

If you chose to stay and fight then what are your options? Not many. There is still the MDC – damaged by the recent infighting over options – the choice between compromise and cooperation to secure progress. But now there is also a new group gradually emerging – Zanu and MDC renegades currently coalescing around what is being called the “Potato Party” because it’s symbol looks like a potato. There are some significant people in this new grouping – Moyo, Mabaleka perhaps Munangagwa eventually – perhaps Dubengwa.

The infighting within both the MDC and Zanu PF is in fact forcing people on both sides to choose perhaps this “third force” as some of its supporters might call it – among them the owner of the remaining independent national weekly newspapers in Zimbabwe and the Mail and Guardian in SA. While this goes on the effective maneuvering of the two main political leaders – Mugabe and Tsvangirai, is frustrating the efforts being made to change the course of events inside both Zanu PF and the MDC.

Read the full letter here.

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