Why is it so difficult for you to believe that Mugabe just might be using violence to get what he wants here? He has used violence before and even boasts about it!
You have lived in SA and experience of the brutal repression of the apartheid regime. Is it really a bridge too far for you to believe a black regime can be just as repressive?
There is one possible explanation why Mugabe is hero per excellence to you, it is of course the same reason he is held in high esteem by his cronies in Zimbabwe; he has allowed a chosen few to enjoy absolute power, to loot and have a life style beyond their wildest dream. You clearly see yourself as part of SA’s ruling elite and are getting impatient with leaders like President Zuma for not following Mugabe’s example. Let me give you a free lesson in history and a warning.
So after independent Mugabe had many, many loyalists who unwitting helped him build a de facto one-party state in Zimbabwe. They all thought they too will have a share of the loot and then they did. Then the top leadership was not so greedy and there was plenty to go round. This did not last long; the nation’s capacity to generate wealth started to falter under the growing weight of mismanagement and rampant corruption. Meanwhile the leaders were settling down and their appetite for power and wealth soared. Something had to give; the national wealth was taken away from everyone and shared between and ever shrinking the ruling elite.
Last time you talked of 4 000 white farm being redistributed to 350 000 new black farmers. That is nonsense, I told you; Mugabe and his inner circle have six farmers each!
Mugabe and his cronies are unbelievably rich but there are single Coconut tree Island in a sea of abject poverty. Whilst Mugabe’s daughter is reportedly living in a US$ 5 million apartment in Hong Kong, at tax payers’ expense of course; the state is even spending the same amount of the accommodation of the all university students in Zimbabwe!
Dread Dread6 there are many Zimbabweans a lot smarter than you – you can not even add and multiple for Christ’s sake! They helped Mugabe build this monolithic juggernaut that has crashed the nation’s dreams of peace, freedom and economic prosperity. They did not care about the crashed dream because they thought they will always be one of the select few. Of course that did not happen.
Mugabe even used some of blind loyal supporters to do his dirty work; many of them have blood on their hands, and then dumped them. Some of Mugabe’s most zealous supporters are living in abject poverty; they continue to support Mugabe, of course, but for a different reason. They do not want the world to see the blood on their hands; they secrete is safe as long as Mugabe remains in power.
Dread6, you find the promises dictators like Mugabe offer of unimaginable wealth and absolute power irresistible and would destroy all great leaders like President Nelson Mandela have done for this pie in the sky. It is my sincere hope that there are not many South Africans with your myopic vision and that SA is spared the curse of being ruled by a ruthless tyrant like Mugabe.
Why is it so difficult for you to accept that Mugabe is using violence to achieve his own selfish ends in Marange? Mugabe himself boasts of having degrees in violence. That was only a rhetorical question, I know why.
Mugabe’s dictatorial rule has certainly delivered absolute power and unimagined riches to Zimbabwe’s ruling elite. You can not wait to see this happen in SA; confident you will be among the ruling elite! Let me give you a free lesson in history and a warning.
So after independence many Zimbabweans helped Mugabe build a de facto one-party dictatorship because they believed Mugabe would share the loot and power with them. Then the country was rich and there was plenty to go round. It did not take long before the national cake began to shrink under the double pressure of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. The situation was made worse by the ruling elite whose appetite for power and wealth had been growing at an exponential rate. What we have in Zimbabwe is an ever shrink island of the super rich and all power in a growing sea of the oppressed masses living in abject poverty.
People like you believed Mugabe’s propaganda that the 4 000 former white farms were redistributed among 350 000 new black farmers. It is common knowledge that Mugabe, his wife and a handful of his cronies alone own as many as six farms each, their children, relatives and mistresses have a farm each, etc. The numbers simply do not add up!
Dread6, many of Mugabe’s most zealous supporters are, like most other Zimbabweans, are as poor as a church mouse. They still support Mugabe only because they have blood on their hands; Mugabe used them to do his dirty work and dumped them. Still, many of them are a lot smarter than you Dread6 – you can not even add for f* sake!
@ Fungayi
“"The report, released in London." This tells you all you need to know doesn't it.” Really!
Farai Maguwu released a similar report in Zimbabwe and where is he now!? In your desperate effort to defend Mugabe, you have once again made a complete idiot of yourself. The CIO must have money to burn if they pay you for this.
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@Dread Dread6
You have your eyes set on getting rich quick by taking over one of the white owned farms. And nothing is going to detract you from that.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is the proud owner a chicken farm near Harare and Grace Mugabe owns the Gushungo Dairy Farm; there are two farms Ben Cousin should have visited. He would have produced any even better report - Gono's chicken farm is reportedly "the best in Africa" according to Gono.
During the years of Zimbabwe's supper hyper inflation Gono and the regime's ruling elite had unlimited access to hard currency they simply did not know what to do with all that money. Gono splashed millions of super computers and other state of the art equipment. Gono exports eggs from his farm only a few Zimbabweans can afford to buy them if they were properly costed!
So we destroyed one of Africa's most productive agricultural sectors to produce a handful of heavily subsidies farms. You think that is great?
While Gono was splashing millions on his chicken farm the country's school and hospitals were closing down for lack of funds. That is acceptable too?
@Fungayi, John and Aluta
I am Zimbabwean and proud of it. What I am not proud of is how the nation's dream of freedom, liberty and economic prosperity has been turned into a nightmare by the selfish greed of a few. You talk of "hordes of black farmers with tobacco" of cousin "increasing his (farm) produce year after year" and yet the fact remains that up to 80% of our people have had to depended on food aid.
The LRP, which you are so proud of, did bring about the nation's economic meltdown and 80% of our people are still out of work, hospitals and school are barely functioning. Life expectancy has drop from 65 years in 1980 to 34 years in 2004; it is probably even worse today.
In 2008 your "thanks to RG" had at least half of our people threatened, beat or raped and over 200 murdered in Operation Where Did You Put Your Vote. What an outrage!
I am concerned about the ordinary Zimbabweans who have been abused and denied their basic human dignity by a ruthless dictatorship. If that makes me an Uncle Tom, then so be it. Being called Uncle Tom by thugs with the blood of innocent people is not an insult; it is a badge of honour!
"LRP is irreversible!" Is that why you have already step up you campaign of violence so that Zimbabweans are again denied a meaningful say in the governance of the country? You have had everything your way for thirty long years, your reign of terror is drawing to an end. "Chisinga peri chinoshura" as we say in Shona.
You are very pleased that MDC have been a total failure and even more pleased to see MDC leaders joining Zanu PF in the feeding frenzy. Do not count on the up coming leaders to be so naive and so easily corruptible!
The party is over, the years of terror and chaos are drawing to an end and the light of day will shine across the land.
signed: Uncle Tom
@Fungai / Dread
I have never heard you two talk about or sympathise in anyway with ordinary black Zimbabweans. You talk a lot about white Zimbabweans, whom you love to see humiliated and punished or about Mugabe and his ruling elite, whom you defend no matter what. The rest of the Zimbabwean population may as well be dead for all you care.
I am pleased the spotlight is on Farai Maguwu; he has done nothing wrong and yet now finds himself in jail and with the murderous regime in Harare anything can happen to him!
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