Africa
Waiting for Godot in Zimbabwe
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27 January 2012
An honest assessment of the Zimbabwean political situation - the numerous calls for elections by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party and its shameless diehard supporters - reminds people of the great French play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters wait all but in vain for someone named Godot to arrive. The funniest part of the play comes when it appears that both Vladimir and Estragon claim Godot is an acquaintance, but in fact they hardly know him and they would not even recognize him were they to see him. Despite all the differences in pronunciations or accents, the fact that Godot did not arrive remains true.
Just like the two characters in the play who wait for someone they cannot recognize, President Mugabe of the former liberation party and Zimbabwean Prime Minister and leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) Morgan Tsvangirai have unconsciously taken similar roles of Vladimir and Estragon when it comes to determine the time when Zimbabwe will hold the next elections.
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