@Alex Nhando
I agree, people like Fungayi, George Charamba, Professor Jonathan Moyo and many others have made a nice living as propagandists of Mugabe's dictatorial regime. Their have belittled the suffering of the masses and have stubbornly refused to even acknowledge the serious human rights violations by the regime thugs. They have twisted the truth of how the ruling elite have looted the nation’s resources to the point where schools and hospitals have had to close insisting this is indigenisation and that the masses will benefit.
They have had unlimited access to The Herald, The Chronicle and all Zimbabwe’s radio and TV stations to spread their lies. I will be damned if I will let them take over the M&G and the few independent media. But if the truth be told, Fungayi, John Berry, Dread Dread6, etc. can rightly claim that they have taken over the M&G. At the very least, they have succeeded in disrupting all meaningful debate.
There must be at least 4 million Zimbabweans in the Diaspora, at least 10% have access to the internet and you hope that at least 1% them, - we are down to 4 000 – would be interested in what is happening back in Zimbabwe. And that they would be outraged to read the nonsense people like Fungayi have been saying. You would be luck if there are 40 Zimbabweans – 0.001% - out there who have shown as little as a passing interest. On this site it has been mainly none Zimbabweans who have taken Fungayi to task.
The internet was a God-sent tool for Zimbabweans to contract Mugabe’s struggle hold on Zimbabwe’s media. But with a take-off of 0.001%, Mugabe has nothing to worry about.
Talk of entertainment; didindi, the WC, etc. and many Zimbabweans will be wide awake with plenty to say. They have endured power cuts for tens years without a memoir but were up in arms when that happened during the WC.
Mugabe’s dictatorship will not last a week if we, Zimbabweans, showed some passion in the way the nation is government and contemptuous way we are treated by those in power. Yes of course, every Zimbabwean out there will say they want to see democratic change in the country but only 0.001% are passionate about bring about that change!
The danger with having such a dorsal majority is that; even if there was change, many of Mugabe’s cronies, thugs and propagandists will not only keep their loot and get away with their the murderous past but will go on to occupy key positions in the new administration. That is exactly what has happened with the GNU.
So Alex, you and me should not be concerned about being shouted down by the likes of Fungayi. We should be concerned that they are so few of us who bother.
“Tsvangirai is our Mandela, and like Mandela he is not perfect, but he offers Zimbabweans hope because we know he at least acts with his country (and not his bank account) in mind.” If you have been following the blunder after blunder Tsvangirai has made, you not say that. The nation is desperate for change still we must have the courage to question and never to follow blindly. It was the same blind loyalty to Mugabe that has landed us in this mess; that is lesson one of the last thirty years. There is evidence that there are a few Zimbabweans who have learnt that lesson and learnt it well other a slow to learn but soon will; so the future is bright!
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@Fungayi
Fungayi you have learnt well from your master, Mugabe; he has become a master at breaking the law and then picks on a minor point to justify his initial act. Mugabe has refused to swear Roy Bennett, for example, contrary to the spirit and word of the GPA and frivolous grounds that Bennett had a pending criminal charge against him. He conveniently forgets that he himself has sworn in others with pending court cases. The charges against Bennett are all tramped up by none other than his own henchmen and were thrown out by the court judge and still Mugabe refuses to swear in Bennett.
Fungayi, copycatting his master, he wants to claim the moral high ground and teach me the etiquette of debate. But first, true to form, you breaking the basic rule about having a meaningful debating – do not deny or distort established facts, particularly when the reality on the ground suits one party because the debate will only be a sinister way to post pone important decisions or actions.
It is a criminal offence in Germany to deny the holocaust. Many, many lives would have been saved if the law had been passed during Nazi rule; still it is stopped the revisionists dead in their tracks. Fungayi you would want the nation to debate whether there are human rights violations in Marange until the cows come home. Meanwhile you are quite happy to see individuals like Maguwu who dare produce the evidence arrested. Oh yes, with him in jail, we can also debate whether he had any evidence or not.
Let us ignore the fact that Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister has not receive a penny in revenue from the Marange diamonds and debate on the difference the revenue would make to ordinary people’s lives.
Fungayi the real debate is on what can individuals, KP, the international community do given the established facts that we have a repressive regime in Zimbabwe that is using slave labour to mine diamonds in Marange for the benefit of the ruling elite and pay its thugs. There is also the debate on what should happen to apologists like you when the dictatorship finally collapses; I am particularly interested in that one. I say; you must forfeit your loot and, if you have innocent blood on your hands, you must hang! What do you think?
@Daaivark
As a Zimbabwean myself, my heart bleeds for all the Zimbabweans and none Zimbabweans in SA today. No one should have to live in fear.
I am angry with Zimbabwe's GNU for having done little in the last 16 months to improve Zimbabwe's economic and political stability. If this had happened, then there would not be as much pressure to head south. Indeed many Zimbabweans already in SA would have returned home.
I would like to call on my fellow Zimbabweans, wherever they happen to be, to redouble our efforts to get meaningful change back in Zimbabwe. We should not look to someone else or outsiders to bring about the change. We can start by taking a real active interest in what is happening in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's leaders have managed to b**s** us for years because we had a superficial understanding of issues, at best. Knowledge is power.
I would like to extend my heart felt gratitude to you, Daaivark and all these fighting to stop another wave of xenophobia. I must say, I am impressed with SA; it is this willingness to stand up and be counted that will save SA from making the same mistakes many independent African countries have made!
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@Daaivark
Having read your articles and your principled stance against xenophobia; I salute you.
I would like to call your attention to the passion shown by your fellow SA and compare it to the deafened silence one gets from Zimbabweans on anything -except entertainment.
Zimbabwe will never get out of the hell-hole it has landed until us, the people, start taking our duty of finding a way out seriously. At present we have behaved like helpless subjects, always waiting for salvation from outside. We need to behave like enabled citizens and masters of their own destiny. If anyone feels insulted by being called to think and act like a citizen and not a subject; then all I can say is that they are welcome.
@Fungayi
You have one clear advantage those of us opposing your position do not have: your master has the power to arrest and throw in jail innocent people like Maguwu. Your master has already dished out the mining concession to his cronies and they have slave labour working for them. The ruling elite are selling millions of dollars of diamonds every week without the KP certificate and pocketing the money. I and everyone can say what we like, talk until we are blue in the face those facts will not change a thing.
Fungayi, this is so not because you and your sycophantic friends are smarter and your arguments are convincing. This is so because Zimbabwe is a totalitarian state ruled by a ruthless dictator. Ordinary Zimbabweans have no voice and their vote, as we all know counts for nothing.
Someday that will change my friend. After the sham presidential run-off election Mugabe was on the hook. He was lucky that Tsvangirai – foolishly - let him off the hook. Mugabe must be dragging next year’s elections; he has no choice but to resort to the same tactics of cheating, intimidation, violence and murder to “win” - the same dirty tricks that got him on the hook in 2008. I know Tsvangirai is one of the most incompetent leaders in Africa, still I can not see him making the same mistake twice – not after all the grilling he has received.
Mugabe’s iron grip on power is now as feeble as the dictator himself. He has looted everything of value, there is nothing left with which to bride his greed and wasteful cronies. Without the glue of power and wealth to hold them together Zanu PF will crumble like a sand-castle in the midday African sun. I will ask you again, Fungayi; what will happen to you then?
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@Fungayi
I only gave the example of Mugabe’s refusal to swear in Roy Bennett to show how petty and vindictive the dictator is.
Why MDC made such a farce about Mugabe’s failure to swear in Bennett is beyond me. We have always complained about Mugabe’s bloated government; this GNU takes the biscuit! We all know Zimbabwe is broke and then we come up with an administration three to four times what the country need. In any case MDC had a lot more pressing things to do than farce about a supernumerary deputy minister particularly when those in they post had no meaningful power to make any difference.
For the record, I am not an MDC member; there is no meaningful debate in that party and hence the party has so many absolutely useless individuals in power. Still MDC leaders can sleep ease, no one has ever been hanged for being incompetent; can not say the same for Zanu PF though, I know plenty who were hanged for murder!
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