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MPs protest SA role in Zim
17/06/2008 18:04 - (SA)
Michael Hamlyn
Cape Town - A series of attacks on the government's policy on Zimbabwe were made in Parliament on Tuesday as MPs voted on the various budgets allocated to the different ministerial departments.
African Christian Democratic Party leader, Kenneth Meshoe, opposed the budget of the presidency blaming a failure of the president's policy of quiet diplomacy for the fact that Zimbabweans were being "tortured and burned alive".
He called President Robert Mugabe "an old man initiating war in his own country".
Joe Seremane, for the Democratic Alliance, opposed the budget of Foreign Affairs for failing to live up to its human rights commitment in Zimbabwe.
He also blamed its policy of "dilly dallying and denial syndrome" for the outburst of xenophobic violence earlier this year.
Pieter Mulder, the leader of the Freedom Front Plus, said that the department has boosted Mugabe by insisting that there is no crisis in that country.
However Motsoko Pheko from the Pan Africanist Congress leapt to the defence of the president stating that Zimbabwe was right not to allow any colonialist power to lecture it on democracy - especially when considering the record of America and Britain in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.
- I-Net Bridge (News24)
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