I mentioned in my last post about the issues around the two MDC factions working together. By way of an example, here is MDC/Tsvangirai’s Eddie Cross taking some delight at how poorly the Mutambara faction fared in the polls, while here MDC/Mutambara’s David Coltart blames the Tsvangirai faction for creating a situation where some seats were lost to Zanu-PF because of a split vote between the two factions’ candidates (sorry, who’s the breakaway faction again..?).

I side with Hope over at This is Zimbabwe, who delivers a plea for both sides to work out their differences:

When the time comes to talk, SORT IT OUT (yes, I am shouting) and work together. If the two sides can’t fix their internal issues, then it will be very hard for me as an ordinary person to ever imagine how the opposition can fix hyper-inflation, poverty, our massive health-crisis, unemployment, starvation, homelessness, etc, etc.

The truth is that, given the enormity of the challenges we have ahead of us, it really is genuinely inconceivable to me that there would be any likelihood that they couldn’t work together (you can put my rant here down to long supressed frustration).

They need each other, and we need them; they must know that. While I am still riding the wave of happiness that we just delivered Zanu-PF a non-violent slap back in their face, I have faith in the opposition’s ability to find a way through their differences.

Hear, hear. No Senate results yet, but State media is reporting they’ll be out before the end of the day. Allegedly.