MUGABE LAMBAST THE WEST: ZIMBABWEANS HOWL - THEY ARE NOT YET SERIOUS ABOUT ENDING THE DICTATORSHIP!

Mugabe lambasts Britain and USA at his party congress and right on cue Mugabe loyalists applaud and his critics dismiss it all with the usual boos.

I take great comfort from all the anger and outrage from the many Zimbabweans out there. Here we are with the nation in serious economic trouble, man-made trouble I must add, and all Mugabe talks about is this imaginary threat from Britain and the USA. Of course Zimbabweans are right to be angry and outraged. Still, is this really all we CAN do?!

I grew up in the rural areas and our home was at the foot of a range of mountains with baboons, leopards and other wild animals. You could always tell when the leopard had struck and killed a baboon; the baboons would make a racket!

For the last ten years, at least, the overwhelming majority of Zimbabweans did not want Mugabe as Zimbabwe’s president. Yet he has carried on setting the national agenda regardless. Everyone was dying to know the outcome of the party talks on the outstanding issues but these had to be interrupted because Mugabe was holding his party congress. He gives his usual anti-west rhetoric and right on cue his supporters cheer and the rest of us boo. When the noise has dead down and in his own sweet time and his own sweet way, Mugabe will come back to the interparty talks. He will call the shoots and again one camp will cheer and the other boo but the bottom line is we will all go along with whatever he decides.

Are we really that helpless, we are the baboons who can not see the leopard in the dark and therefore are seating ducks? Is Mugabe really that powerful, he is the leopard with excellent night vision and pick and choose who his next victim is to be? The truth is we are helpless because we chose to be helpless. Mugabe is not as clever and canning as we make him to be.

Of course when we see the ease with which Mugabe has run rings round Morgan Tsvangirai he certainly appears to be as canning as a fox. As long as we allow Tsvangirai to determine our future for us then we can expect more of the same. When Tsvangirai announced the end of his “disengagement” with Mugabe he did not have the foggiest idea what he would do next if Mugabe refused to implement the outstanding issues.

Tsvangirai has committed himself to the inclusive government no matter what. To him “it is the only game in town”. Mugabe does not have to compromise on any important issues and has already shown that is exactly what he will do. Tsvangirai should have never made so many compromises at the very beginning, the fact of the matter is he did, and now finds himself in this impossible situation.

We can howl and bark, and remind Mugabe for the umpteenth time that it was he who lost the 2008 elections and therefore he should not have all these dictatorial powers. That would not change a thing – he HAS the dictatorial power, thanks to Tsvangirai’s blundering, and that is all that counts.
I think we should call for fresh elections. If we focus all our energy and not let ourselves be side tracked; Mugabe will have no choice but take us seriously. Mugabe and the whole world have never taken the ordinary Zimbabweans seriously because we have never been serious about finding our way out of this mess!