SA talks: Zim breakthrough or death knell

Zimbabweans, smarting from a decade of acute economic meltdown, plummeting standards of living, unemployment, and of late, the cholera epidemic, await with bated breaths the talks being held in south Africa tomorrow. A process which took the whole of last year with an ill-fated September 15 agreement, have now been christened jokes unarguably due to their sterility in solving the country's problems. what is disturbing tio most Zimbos is the announcement thaat ZANU PF will form it's government without Prime Minister designate and winner of the March 29 2008 election, Mr Tsvangirai and consequently, his MDC Party, which holds majority in Parliament. Many are of the view that this would only amount to a dead, rotting horse as these are the same culprits who presided over the downhill plunge of living conditions and business sector in Zimbabwe. This would only prolong suffering of the general populace and civil strife. This may escalate into armed conflict as a former American president said: "if you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution possible".