THE MEDIA REMAINS SCEPTICAL

The ongoing briefing and updating on the progress made in resolving the "outstanding issues" to the facilitation team from South Africa has reduced the media to play a speculative mandate and this truly undermines the core business of the media which includes informing the public.The black out in terms of information on the progress made, uundermines democratic peoples' rights such as right to information.The setting up of a management committe that comprises of the chief negotiators from the three political parties also contradicts the formation of The Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee(JOMIC)  whose function is to monitor the function and implementation of the Global Political Agreemenrt(GPA).Dont the negotiators themselves think that the GPA has been undermined and compromised?There was need to empower bodie like JOMICso that they really deliver.The SADC deadline set up was not met and yet the negotiators have remained defiant by continuing to deliberate leaving the people completely in darkness in terms of what is the situation on the ground.One  of the mistakes that the MDC made was that they never  consulted the people whether they should join the Unity government.If they did they really did it as a formality because they had already decided.What many should ask is are the people being represented fully?Idont think they are because what we have been seeeing is that peoples' views have been shelved and discarded and yet at the end of the day all the political parties claim to represent and serve the people.