In 2000, Slate magazine’s David Plotz, while describing Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe, observed: “He does not wreak havoc out of evil, caprice or lunacy. He does it out of cynicism. Mugabe, who liberated his nation from colonial oppression 20 years ago, is the father of his country. He is what would have happened if George Washington had turned out to be Richard Nixon.”
Born in 1924, in the Matibiri village in what was then known as Southern Rhodesia, Mugabe was raised as a Roman Catholic. He would later become a Marxist guerrilla in the war against Ian Smith’s Rhodesian Front. In 1979, pursuant to the Lancaster House agreement, he assumed power in Zimbabwe.
“I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.” — Robert Mugabe
This role as liberator was to provide him with seemingly unlimited political capital as he endured, effortlessly at first, and endured and endured.
In 1987, the office of prime minister was abolished and Mugabe assumed the role of executive president of Zimbabwe. Judging by his conduct and preparedness to sacrifice everything of value in that country on the bonfire of his vanity, he has decided that this is an office for life.
Whereas at first it was his popularity that cemented his position, he was later required to manipulate elections in order to stay in power. In this regard he has in the past, inter alia:
handed farms to “war veterans”;
refused international observers at elections;
ensured that rural voters had free access to voting while voters in urban areas, where he was weak, struggled;
banned media coverage except those he believed would not interfere with him;
launched Operation Murambatsvina — retribution for the urban poor voting against him; and
employed intimidation, corruption and brutal violence against his opponents.
(The above being part of the tactics used by “the liberator” against the people of Zimbabwe and certainly not an exhaustive analysis of his conduct.)
It does not bode well for the upcoming election.
Of course this approach has seen the destruction of the agricultural sector, a drastic reduction in the life expectancy of Zimbabweans (now below 40) and the exile of upwards of four million of its people.
We must not, however, be too critical of uncle Bob. He has, after all, shattered inflation records with the 100 000% mark reached just a few short weeks ago.
Incredibly, Bob’s your tyrant is 84, lives like a king and does not seem to know the meaning of starvation — perhaps a short trip down the road to meet his people would change this.
His oft-quoted words “So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe” sum up the situation — Bob believes that it is his Zimbabwe to do with as he deems fit.
His feelings towards the people are best summed up with this remark he made a while back about foreign aid: “We are not hungry … Why foist this food upon us? We don’t want to be choked. We have enough.” Enough for Mugabe is enough for all, it seems.
Of course the fact that Mugabe introduced legislation that makes it legal to phone-tap and bug his opponents (and friends) speaks volumes about his current views on his own popularity and a goodly amount about his paranoia at the cracks appearing in his regime. He knows, as he has for some time now, that he could never win a free and fair election nor rule his people without terror.
His two major defences appear to be that anyone who wants something better for Zimbabweans is a racist and any concern expressed about the plight of the people is an attempt at colonial-type interference. Apparently it would seem that all citizens should be prepared to starve to death and see their homes destroyed and their country decimated in order to prop up this tyrant — or be considered traitors.
His latest endeavour is to make Zimbabweans the majority equity holders in Zimbabwean companies. If he is allowed to continue with this move, which is highly unpopular among investors, the business sector will soon be in the same disastrous state as the agricultural sector.
Of course Mugabe’s record on human rights is right up there with Idi Amin of Uganda and Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia — everything from brutalising opponents, starving his people and confiscating or destroying their homes to his favourite, a total onslaught on the gay community.
What a piece of work is Bob.
“Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer — its guarantor. The people’s votes and the people’s guns are always inseparable twins.” — Robert Mugabe
They had come to “despise the very people who put them in power” and “think it is their privilege to be there for eternity”. Some of these leaders wanted to keep power for life to avoid retribution for their crimes in office: “We have to be ruthless in denouncing such leaders.” — Nelson Mandela on leaders in Africa who have made enormous wealth and once commanded liberation armies, in 2000 during a speech in Johannesburg for Unicef
ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa confirmed to the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut that “quiet diplomacy” has simply not worked, and that Zimbabwe (Mugabe) has abused us.
Accordingly, South Africa — as the closest thing to a neutral observer that this election will have — has to ensure that Mugabe does not rig this election, manipulate the results or fail to accept the outcome if it ends Zanu-PF rule.
Zimbabwe has destabilised this region for long enough. It’s time to send this tyrant packing and prepare the exiles for the journey home.
Anything less is treachery against the wonderful people of that great country.
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35 Responses to “Zimbabwe: A bonfire of Mugabe’s vanity”
Uncle Bob is so anti white that he has forgotten how to be pro black.
However he still lives in the walls of Rhodes, he changed the name but the borders are still there dividing peoples, putting families into differnet so called ‘countries’.
Here is a thought: Richard Nixon was caught with his hand in the cookie jar, when some nosy reporters noticed some suspicious goings-on at the Watergate Hotel. After initial denials, Nixon did eventually resign, and as a punishment the Republican vice president, Gerald Ford, lost the next election to the dreadful Jimmy Carter.
The above is surely how democracy is supposed to work with corrupt politicians. You get caught, you resign and your party loses the next election. Serves you right. It is called accountability.
Contrast this to Zimbabwe, however. Sure, there is vote-rigging, but the fact remains that a large number of Zimbabwean voters still continue to vote for Mugabe and the Zanu PF voluntarily. They do so even though they are hungry and sitting in dark shacks. Just like the ANC’s voters in Khutsong would not consider voting for another party, in spite of their personal situation. There is very little vote-rigging and intimidation in SA, except the voters carry on voting for the ANC like sheep, even when this is to their own direct disadvantage.
(And before the usual loony-tunes brigade start spouting their “DA-is-no-alternative” mantra, I don’t expect anybody to vote for any particular party instead of the ANC. If a black racist party is your thing, go and vote for the PAC by all means.)
What is the difference between American voters and the ANC or Zanu PF’s voters? Why is there no connection in an African voter’s mind between his right to vote and the behaviour of politicians? Why do African voters allow criminal scum to rule them but American voters turf out Nixon’s party at the very first opportunity?
Following on the above: if African voters refuse to expect accountability from their politicians and refuse to express their displeasure at the ballot box, should the West have any sympathy for these people when they starve as in Zimbabwe?
In 2005 the ANC declared the rigged Zimbabwean election “credible”. The official report on that election has never been presented to our parliamment, nor has the ANC answered the parliamentary question as to why.
In my opinion, democracy will never work for a majority uneducated/poor populous, for one simple reason, they vote with their hearts and not their heads, and they are very easily “brainwashed”, furthermore their situation is so bad, that it would not matter to them what party wins, as they are not used to anything better as yet. Democracy must be earned, and is not ever a given, until the people can make an informed intelligent answer, in my opinion. That explains mad bob. That explains Zuma, that explains Africa as a whole. Democracy will not work in Zim, or South Africa, not yet, anyways. But its a noble thought
Another angle:
Perhaps we need to examine what made this man into what he is. It is not all power and greed. there is something else, that hatred of whites and that has to be examined. Where did it come from?. Why is is still there?. Why did the indigenous people have to fight o be recognized as humans in their own land?. Why do so many milions agree with taking farms and owning more businesses?. Where is this feeling coming from?. Some people don’t like to face the atrocities they have committed and their lingering effects. The Berlin Accord, Ian SMiths Rhodesia, Skiekil, Apartheid(ended in name only), drinking excrement?. The sanctions against them play a MAJOR role in hurting people. Don’t believe he is alone. There are millions of Mugabes out there. It is not an isolated feeling. People don’t just up and hate others for no reason. Your wrongs feed this mans power. You give him a lift and a voice he otherwise would never have. This is your legacy.
@Afrikaner. You make some very valid points there..but is this thought process - a universal thing devine to certain cultures and races ..or something to do with loyalty /Exposure /Peer influence/ education / development etc,..or, something more complex than that!? I dont know…
The answer to most of your question(s) is simple, though getting there is complicated.
Voters cannot assert themselves in the absence of an alternative; they cannot act as agents of change. To do so, they must be presented with a choice of government: the incumbent government (whatever it is) and, in their eyes, a credible alternative to it.
Like many states, SA and Zimbabwe are not ‘democracies’: they are monocracies. The fact that they are monocracies because a very large majority vote for the liberation party is of course true, but does not alter the case. Only one party is a feasible choice. There is no credible alternative. All kinds of problems follow, especially lack of accountability in government.
The solution is the emergence over time of a credible alternative party. How that happens, when, what its policies and leadership will be, and many other considerations, all lie in the future, depending on developments and events in SA society.
@W: Mad Bob is called that for a reason. He has syphilis. It basically eats your brain, causing damage to areas involved in things like impulse control, and raging paranoia. In his mind, the West and the evil colonisers (his initial enemy, back in the day, before the virus started munching on his frontal lobes) ARE out to get him.
Al Capone had it too.
The very irony of his yammering on about democratic freedoms on one hand, and doing his level best to stop people interfering with his definition of democratic processes on the other has escaped him.
Maybe you should be asking yourself why this is (and how he can marry the dichotomy between the two in his head), and not where his rampant paranoia and psychotic despotism has come from.
Mugabe has rigged few if any elections. the problem is with democracy. All mugabe does is donate USA sponsored food aid to the rural folks and says he it is him (technically correct because he allowed it to be donated by the americans)who is donating the maize.Villagers love this kind of man.
Villagers are also scared of war. they lived through Zanu PF thuggery during the war and would never want to go through it again.
Zimbabweans are gutless. They would rather flee and beg at Park station rather than fight the tyrant. Remember for the myriads of zimbabweans in the diaspora Mugabe has given them a incredible windfall.A standard of living they could have never imagined yet doing menial jobs. They have foreign currency (rand dollar pound) and when they send it back to mum and dad in zimbabwe mum and dad suddenly beomes very rich in relative terms.Mum and dad are too busy massaging their full stomachs to engage mugabe in any protracted toi toi lest they miss the next meal time.FYI one australian dollar sells for 40million zimbabwe dollars . most menial jobs here pay 15$ an hour so 4 hours work and send to parents gives said parents a headmasters salary.
The parents never had it so good.
Not all would like Mugabe to lose.If the opposition wins the elections- it means all the asylum seekers in the UK and elsewhere will need to be forced back to Zimbabwe back to the squalor.
The situation in zimbabwe therefore benefits more than Mugabe and cronies and most of their texts to their homes will not be singing praises to the opposition.
If you read up on your history you will find for example, that Britian was colonised at least three times in the course of its history. In fact, the first English language will was written by Henry V - in a defiant departure from the predominance of French as the spoken language at that time. The traces of those periods of colonisation are very evident in the english language today and one cannot but wonder how that tiny island, smaller that KZN, went on to become one of the greatest colonisers in the history of humankind. Most certainly being in the right time at the right place played a role, but it also speaks to the character of a diverse people, who assimilated other cultures and influences in order to survive and who went on to become a global power. Traditionally the French detest the British and vice versa, fuelled no doubt by such “trifles” as the 100 year war and other major conflicts. And yet today, they are allies. It is fascinating to speculate what could be achieved by this continent if we were to assimilate and not divide, if we were to take from all of our different cultures those influences that would generate growth and development and not reject them purely on the basis of their origin or history.
There is absolutely no hope of a free and fair election in Zimbabwe. No one, given that there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of association, that the police and the military have openly fallen in behind one candidate, and the physical abuses of the opposition candidates and its’ supporters, can really believe otherwise.
I find myself blogging in the probably vain hope that someone somewhere will stop and think, and can maybe do something.
We all know this. Those that choose to turn a blind eye do so for their own political/ ideological capital, and that goes for our government and, alas, about every other African government.
When i read comments from the likes of ‘W’ i despair. I, like many others, try and see the logic in this whole African situation, but you end up just having to accept that logic isn’t a very African concept, and while i could argue forever about how wrong these ideas are, i have to accept that most Africans hold them, which leaves me with little hope for the next few years (decades?).
The mess that is Africa is the making of black African leaders. The whites have plenty of reasons to reflect on their behaviour, but the appalling governance, the abuse of the people and of power, the falling standards in health care and education, the increase in poverty, the decrease in life expectancy, these issues are not due to the whites. It may make you feel better to kid yourself that this is the case, but that simply isn’t the facts.
W - I am just going to pick up one one of your points - sanctions. Tell me, how does freezing Mugabe’s personal money stashed in foreign bank accounts, which he has stolen from his people, and refusing to allow him to visit Europe, the states or Australia, affect the ordinary people? Instead, please go and read up and see how much the UK, the USA and Australia donate in food and financial aid TO Zimbabwe! It is those countries that are trying to stop the people starving, whilst the government continuously lies about bumper harvests that never materialise, blame the lack of food supply on drought (when in fact if you have been there recently, and i have, you will know that the war vets have stolen the farm houses, laid off the workers, closed the farm schools and clinics, and planted bugger all - hence the lack of food) whilst the very people Mugabe is slagging off feed his people.
SA and all the other African states secretly want to tread where Mugabe has. They see him as a hero. If not, why are they silent and not speaking against this mass murderer?
You seem to be blinded by prejudice and stereotypes.
Mr Mugabe is a fascist who is using a race card to spread violence and steal from ethnic minorities in order to bribe thugs, and buy loyalty whilst brutalising his peasants.
He is being kept up by the donation of food aid, which he steals, by the west, because they have no choice if they don’t want the population to die.
The Black politicians are protecting him, because he is black, they are black, and they are that racist. As they make themselves look idiots on the world stage by supporting someone who compares himself to Hitler and murders black people by hunger. (CF: Holodomor.) As a “Hero”.
Whilst slagging off the west (as he buys italian marble for his palace and sends Zanu pf children to Oxford and Harvard), and selling the mineral rights to the Chinese (in return for guns and water cannon) as the peasants starve (because the land went to Zanu pf or those who couldn’t farm) he is protected and praised by the ANC for “free and fair” eletions. (As he breaks all his promises and the army and police issue statements that they wont recognise the result if they dont like it.)
Because the ANC are willing to lie, or be that stupid, in protecting those that persecute Black Peasants, so long as it is a Black person holding the cattle prod, when torturing (Black) political activists.
The reason this goes on, is because Western Europeans, Canada and the USA have learned from the past and have anti race hate and incitement laws (and regularly enact them.)
Whilst ten years after 800,000 black people were slaughtered by other black people as cockroaches, most Afrian countries haven’t managed to get their snouts out of the embezzlement trough long enough to even table legislation to make it an offence to suggest black people should be denied their rights in an election, on the basis of their race.
Let alone insult Father Trevor Huddleston’s ethnic origins.
Any time you would care to notice that black People’s racial rights only turn up in relation to White people, whilst black politicians are allowed to send the police in to beat up refugees in a church, or to kill them with machetes and burning, and Black Afrians will go to the ends of the world refusing to use the word “racism” because they are black, and that much in denial about what is one of the major causes of the modern African Problem:
Black Racism against other Black people’s and protection for Corrupt Racist Black Thugs stealing from the Red Cross, because they are Black, the politicians are Black and they are that racist.
I really do not feel sorry for Zimbabwean people any more. They are are cowards who do not deserve any sympathy. Look at what happenned in Kenya, if the Zimbabwean masses are reall fed up, they will do something about their situation. I do not beleive that the military and the police in Zimbabwe will leave their homes every morning to go and protect the same monster (Mugabe) who is mistreating their families. Does that sound SANE to any of you? Would you continue protecting a person who is harming yourself and your family economically, politically, socially and most importantly financially for 20yrs? If Zimbabweans are fed up, they will act, right now, they are still good and should not get any sympathy.
I don’t know if there can be such a thing as an “impartial observer” as so much goes on behind the scenes. Two weeks ago a friend gave a soldier outside of Harare a lift. As usual, conversation turned to the upcoming election and she lightheartedly asked him who he would be voting for. His response “oh, we have all already put our X next to Mr Mugabe in front of our generals”. In addition, with new 100 year-old voters signing up to vote is there any chance at all of anyone but Mugabe winning?
The man was leader for 20 years with a pretty decent track record as far as African standards are concerned and all of a sudden he starts to up heave every thing that actually kept the country stabilised. I mean how long do you keep a grudge and then start acting on it?
Surely when you have achieved your goal of ridding the country of the white oppressor and colonialists and taken their place that is mission accomplished in part right?
How long can your feelings of hate linger unless your own people are starting to make noise about your leadership capabilities or you are becoming cynical about how long you’re still going to be in power.
As for millions agreeing to owing more farms and businesses how many of those so called teenage war veterans are still actually on those farms, farming productively?
When you start to hand out productive farms at least have a plan in place to help and train those people who takes it. There was no plan because it never was about equality but about making the people think that Bob is the man.
Same with the new legislation for Zimbabweans to owe half of all business. Same with all the massive increases that Bob gave to teachers that support him (not those who don’t mind you) and Government employees.
Think about it. The man’s arrogance is equal to his madness.
I hope that one day Uncle Bob will be sent to the International Criminal Court. Ditto with Thabo Mbeki for his ‘quiet diplomacy’.
History will judge Mbeki and his SADC counterparts harshly as will the future liberated democratic Zimbabweans !
•Increased bi-lateral racism
•Poor service delivery (a better life for the few!)
•Eskom
•Denial
•Increased crime and corruption
•Loss of financial and intellectual capital [skills] by emigration
•HIV/AIDS genocide-by-denial
Racist in ANCspeak = 1 who disagrees on March 26th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Open Your Eyes!
The AU has also had enough. The soldiers sent to sort out a minor conflict which could have been negotiated, are a message to Bob that they can and will use their troops if they have to.
The people of Beaufort West have not gone senile and elected a dubious character. They have rejected both the ANC and the DA and elected locals. The election of “independent candidates” in other bye elections is really election of LOCALS and a protest against centralisation and corruption.
The ANC is not closing parliament early to “serve their constituencts” but to try to get back their loyalty.
Little Khutsongs are developing all over! So get involved and help - go toy-toying with them!
I’m not much of political savvy, 22 years of age, resident in Zimbabwe and very much in distraught about the inefficient and despotic governance that has come upon Zimbabwe. I get to see and feel first hand what “they” have really made out of Zimbabwe. Notwithstanding my limited political and global/regional current affairs insight, I wish to convey a few thoughts.
I would wish right now that it was possible for the people of a country to “sue” their government through regional and international amalgamates like the AU, SADC or even the International Court of Justice in the UN for crimes that undermine their rights. For example, we have the high ranking official in Zimbabwe (the likes of Augastine Chihuri who is head commissioner of the state police) postulating that they will not support whoever comes into power should Mugabe loose at the polls this weekend. I believe this should be treated as a crime, as to my understanding it sounds very unconstitutional. As such, the paramount duty of the authoritative bodies in any democracy (I believe) is to enforce and uphold constitutional statutes. I don’t believe there’s any clause in our (Zimbabwean) constitution that states that should Mugabe or his party loose the vote the army/police or any civil service body has the right to stir-up such insubordinate initiatives. When these guys are sworn into office (even the president himself) they are obligated to take an oath of service to the country - the people! As such, I believe they should be charged of these crime; all in efforts to prevent despotically driven violence should Mugabe loose. If they feel so, then they should resign. As of the instance, they are undermining the nation’s democratic right to choose their leader through legitimate election by planting seeds of terror in the people’s minds. That is utterly unconstitutional and therefore criminal. Should we now then have to bear with criminal minds in high offices?
Of course, the “fat cats” who are with Mugabe right now would not want to see change - like Nelson Mandela says. They are fairing quite well as the situation goes - while more than 80% of Zimbabweans are living under the poverty datum line. They wouldn’t put that to mind at all! They wouldn’t consider it their obligation as a governing body to look-out for the people! I see their kids and wives (countless as they are for every man) fly in and out of South Africa on shopping sprees. The nation has virtually not enough foreign reserves to support its productive and developmental initiatives, but they have in their pockets! Just how do they get it? Can they be transparent about any of that?
The competition against Mugabe is vehemently accused of being European/Western “puppets” by Mugabe and his fat cats, but I wonder who the real puppets are now! If they are not serving the people, then who are they serving? Where is the fruit of their service? One dramatic fact is that Mugabe could not find even a single worthy successor from the whole ZANU PF lot! Not even one possibility did he utter! The ZANU PF at one point was seriously disconcerted on the matter of succession. But none of them had the (forgive my course wording here) “balls” to speak up on that at all. It seems Mugabe effortlessly shut them up and got them to “endorse” him again. With that in view, I believe Uncle Bob sees himself as everything, and they - well, they just play along to his tune. They jump when he says so. They sing the chant to his order. I present to you, ladies and gentlemen, the real puppets - all those that are in ZANU PF! No one there dares to speak for the people or any troubles currently ensuing our economy from all possible ends. If you attend any of their rallies, all they speak about is Mugabe and what he “used to be”. Just the same thing.
As sad a depressing as it is to be a Zimbabwean youth right now, I am at least grateful that there are some men and women of credible opinion that still speak-out about these anomalies to the world. Right now, I am of the inclination that Mugabe and his fat cats might have made Zimbabwean history, but it certainly doesn’t seem that they are making any future out of it. They might have been yesterday’s men, but they’re not appearing to be today’s or tomorrow’s leaders. Of course, I acknowledge their role in the armed struggle against an oppressive regime under Smith…but I’m wondering if this means it’s now our turn (as the new generation in Zimbabwe) to fight against the oppressive regime led by Mugabe. I’ve just learnt that power seriously does corrupt. Heroes do fall.
Let me first state I am an outsider that’s just interested in the situation.
I agree with some sentiment here that the time for being sorry for the Zimbabweans has past. If they are unable to take down this dictator themselves, they get what they deserve. Screw democracy, just go get a gun and put a bullet between his eyes.
@ W
Using a personal grudge to destroy a country!!?.
Mugabe cannot be a Great Leader if he himself is being lead by revenge.
Most constitutions are arranged in such a way as to prevent a single person from carrying out their own agenda.
We must remind ourselves that without Rhodesia, Zimbabwe with its’ present boundaries could not have exsited and indeed Mugabe himself would not be around. To suggest that this land belongs to black people is both racsist and absurd , every human being is a coloniser, the Matebele only arrived in the area of Zimbabwe sixty years ahead of the British.
The colonisers defined boundary lines and introduced the Rule of Law. In reality this western law is foreign to ZANU culture and as Mugabe wishes to dissassociate himself from the west then Zimbabwe will have to reap the consequences.
Mugabes’ destructive revolutionary policies might be justified if he was still fighting a bush war. He has abused this political capital (of past injustices) highjacked the liberation ideals and used them for his and his cronies self serving agenda.
Surely having been in power for 28 Years, he has had all the time in the world to bring about peaceful social justice without collapsing the country.He is a very intelligent man and always knew that he could use “land reform” to get political mileage when his popularity started to wane, thats why he didn’t do it when he came to power.Next move- “Nationalise The businesses”, should give him enough political mileage to see him out!?.The country will surely be in ruins tho.
If only he was able to use his intelligence to build instead of destroy (with his iconic fist), then perhaps his revolution would be justified?
Johann
Good comment. In fact if the settlers had arrived a decade or so later there would have been NO Shona in Zimbabwe, and NO Mugabe. The Matabele were defeating them and pushing them into Mozambique. The Matabele were Zulus who had been trained in Shaka’s system of warfare. The settlers stopped the tribal war.
All dictators and tyrant leaders in Africa are a creation of the west. Think of Mobutu Sese Seko and Idi Amin. Remember that most of these leaders came into during the cold war. Mugabe’s CIO is modeled along the lines of the CIA of USA. Personally I lay all the blame to the west. They must clean the dirty they have left in Africa. Mugabe’s tyranny is brainchild of these western countries. I think Mbeki as a quite diplomat as he is has got all the answers.
I beg to differ with the people that seem to settle with the idea that yet another armed struggle should end the situation in Zimbabwe. I am a Zimbabwean, resident in Zimbabwe all my 22 years of living. I have been to other African countries, and I tell you, war is just what increases such political imbalances in Africa. Have you sensed how the Westerners and most Europeans scorn African nations when they show case especially the civil based struggles on their giant news networks like CNN, BBC & FOX News? I believe that African leaders and aspirants should focus on not just talking reformation of resuscitation promises or ideals, but let’s see actual mechanisms on how these may be delivered at work first…at least even in their prime stages. Why should we be war dogs when the rest of civilization now calls for descent diplomacy? A civil war is what the war mongering ZANU PF and Mugabe are waiting for…that’s the only language they understand. If Zimbabwe goes to war, the US, UK, South Africa, EU, UN and AU - I will consider them as serious failures and hypocrites of their postulations just like France, the UN and (probably) the EU during the Rwanda genocide of the early 90s. Gosh…it now seems like the whole world is eager to see some form of “Mufecane” (Shaka Zulu type of war) to occur in Zimbabwe then they get their satisfaction! What happened in Kenya is not plausible in the least! As far as such acts are regarded as acceptable (apparently only on African ground), then I do not believe in the UN, AU, EU or any of U!!!! Forgive me, I do not mean to undermine the “fine” world leaders topping these organizations…but all I see is mere hypocrisy! If the US and Europe think they are just observers in this then they probably should reconsider their share of the pie. Look back into history - the curse will follow you, somehow! Tables turn…what goes around shall come around. Their so called sanctions that were supposed to target Mugabe and his Fat Cats have overwhelmingly made a party out of people (especially) youths like me than they did on the culprits! Reconsider that. Probably those sanctions were actually meant to starve us to such a point that we will go back and the bush and start guerrillaring against Mugabe? Coz he still gets his stretcher Benzies from Europe! Their kids are all over the US and Europe!…
Or maybe I need to be educated a bit more on this before I run my mouth anymore?
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Uncle Bob is so anti white that he has forgotten how to be pro black.
However he still lives in the walls of Rhodes, he changed the name but the borders are still there dividing peoples, putting families into differnet so called ‘countries’.
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