GARETH VAN ONSELEN: How Mugabe has revealed the EFF’s true nature
Amid all the vitriolic anti-DA fire and brimstone the EFF spat out over the past few days there were a number of red flags regarding its core moral code. Take, for example, this sentence casually tucked away in the party’s initial statement on the situation in Zimbabwe: "The Zimbabwe Defence Force is within its rights to protect Zimbabwe from factions that are opportunistically using Zimbabwe for self-enrichment to the total disregard of the rule of law." Which rights are these? You can make your way through the Zimbabwean constitution and there is no mention of the right of the army to usurp power. What that constitution does say very clearly and explicitly is that, "Neither the security services nor any of their members may, in the exercise of their functions (1) act in a partisan manner; (2) further the interests of any political party or cause; (3) prejudice the lawful interests of any political party or cause; or (4) violate the fundamental rights or freedoms of any person." S...
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