Mugabe threatens war if he loses the 27 June presidential run-off. The truth is even if he does “win” the 27 June run-off he will have to step up his campaign of violence and murder to retain political power. He will still have to wage war on the people for him to hold on to power.
Stopping the election of Tsvangirai will not change anything. The pressure for regime change is not coming from the British nor their “puppet” Tsvangirai, as Mugabe would have the world believe. Pressure for change is coming from the ordinary people who themselves have been pushed beyond human endurance by Zimbabwe’s economic melt down.
The nauseating devaluation of the Z$ is symptomatic of the country’s economic melt down; in 1980 the Z$ was almost on par with British pound, today it is worth Z$ 16 billion! The economic collapse has caused untold hardships and despair. And it is the hardship and despair that is driving the people to risk limp and life in search for regime change. Mugabe has stopped all the pretence of economic management and everything he has done in the last five years has turned a bad situation to worse.
It was Mugabe’s vote-buying attempts before the 29 March- buying village chiefs grinding mills, bus, 700 % salary hike for teachers, etc – that have fuelled the country’s hyper inflation. And since he has deployed hundreds of thousands of party thugs and state security operative in this campaign of terror and murder driving the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s money printing machines into overdrive. Is it any wonder the rate of inflation is 165 000% and rising!
Zimbabwe’s economic melt down is simply unstoppable and so too is the people’s drive for regime change!
So why is Mugabe prepared to kill even more innocent Zimbabweans for – 60 have been killed since 29 March 2008 already? It should be no surprise really that it is the same economic melt down driving the people to seek political change that is driving Mugabe and cronies to kill and even declare war than give up political power.
There three reasons why Mugabe and his cronies are not giving up political power. First, everyone is groaning under the economic melt down and they are doing very well economically, thank you. The country has no foreign currency to buy even the most basic national needs such as fuel, medicines, children’s vaccines, etc. and yet surprise, surprise Mugabe, his ministers, party loyalists, etc. get all the foreign currency they need for their regular shopping trips outside Zimbabwe for food and other luxuries. Of course they are painful aware of the economic hardship the rest of us are facing. It is the prospect of having to queue for stile bread, for a few litres of fuel and to come home and find there is no electric power and water that frighten the living daylight out of them.
Second reason; Mugabe and his cronies own and control a lot of resources and wealth; farms, businesses, houses, etc. Many of them know they will not be able to hang on to any of it in a Zimbabwe without the Mugabe/Zanu PF patronage. It is simple absurd that one individual should be allowed to hang on to a farm to produce a few tonnes of food when it could be producing a hundred fold, for example.
Third reason: Mugabe and his cronies do not want the truth about Zimbabwe known and Mugabe above all else. Only a few weeks ago Mugabe was telling the whole world he is the champion of ordinary Zimbabweans, he redistributed the 4 000 white owned farms to over 300 000 landless black Zimbabweans. Most of the farms are in fact now occupied by Mugabe and his cronies; a simple land audit will show! Then of course, there is the innocent blood his regime has shed.
So in short, Mugabe and his cronies have murdered 60 innocent Zimbabweans in the last two months alone, more will die before the 27 June run-off and there will be even more bloodshed if Mugabe should fail to rig the vote! All this because Mugabe and his cronies want to continue to loot, to secure their loot and to stop anyone knowing of their looting and regime of terror!
Of course it is the looting by Mugabe and his cronies which has driven the national economy into free fall and which in turn is driving the people into despair. Something has to give and, after nearly three decades, that something is going to be Mugabe’s hold on power! Go he will and soon. And then truth nature of Mugabe and his whole regime will be open for the whole world to see. “Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!”, as the Shona would say. The truth can not be hidden for long!
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