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*"SADC Leaders Made A Pact Not To Wash Zimbabwe’s Linen In Public - Masunungure*
https://www.pindula.co.zw/2020/08/23/sadc-leaders-made-a-pact-not-to-wash-zimbabwes-linen-in-public-masunungure/?article

Eldred Masunungure, a Political Science lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe has said leaders in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are having a hard time over the Zimbabwean governance and human rights crisis. He cautioned however that the leaders may not directly confront the Zimbabwean leadership as the ruling ZANU PF enjoys a special status among in the region. He also expressed pessimism over the possibility of the African Union resolving the crisis before SADC declares that there is indeed a crisis. Masunungure made the remarks during an interview with Daily News on Sunday’s Consulting Editor, Constantine Chimakure. Below are the excerpts of the interview.

_Chimakure: The Sadc Summit has come and gone and the Zimbabwe crisis was not part of the agenda, why is Sadc ignoring this?_

_Masunungure: I am not sure if ignoring the crisis is the right description. My sense is that Sadc is simply at a quandary as to what to do on a chronic crisis that has been on the … agenda for the past two decades, was partially resolved through the GPA (Global Political Agreement of 2008 which led to the formation of a government of national unity), but soon after relapsed, apparently with a vengeance._

_In short, I think the regional body is at sixes and sevens on the Zimbabwe crisis. A more generous explanation is that the Sadc leaders made a pact not to wash Zimbabwe’s linen in public and instead preferred to discuss this behind closed doors after the summit._

_In this case, the problem would be who would bell the cat, that is, who would be assigned to confront the traditionally stubborn Zimbabwe leadership._

_Whoever was assigned the difficult task will need to tread carefully given the visceral response of the leadership so far to whoever tried to speak truth to the leadership._

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