@SD
“Mugabe's values and ethos rubbed off me and within 30yrs, I managed to sail through O-Levels, A-Levels, 3 University degrees, am a professional Chartered Accountant and as we speak I am finishing off my PhD.” Yes I can see Mugabe’s values and ethos have definitely rubbed of on you. For a start it is said Mugabe has seven University Degrees, and has received countless honorary ones. You two will have plenty to boost about! I am talking about the dehumanising suffering of ordinary Zimbabweans here and see nothing for Mugabe to boost about.
SD did you know that the education system in Zimbabwe has all but collapsed following years of poor funding? Mugabe had no money for the country’s education, health, prisons and all the other essential public services but had money to buy luxuries for the country’s ruling elite. There was a story in the Zimbabwe Times in 2008 announcing the closure of the Medical School at Parerenyatwa Hospital; the next story was of Mercedes Benz, new Villa furnished new Plasma TV, etc the regime had bought/built for Zimbabwe’s Judges.
The same year students in government institutions across the country had spent a total of 23 days in school! No doubt, you, SD, would have “sailed” through O-Levels, etc. regardless; but you should also consider those who are not as clever as you. Taking out a whole academic year has caused serious harm to the education of a whole generation. If it was not for outside donors – mainly from the former colonial countries you hate with such a consuming passion - our school and hospitals will still be closed.
Life expectancy, the universally accepted acid test of how well a nation is doing, in 1980 was 65 years compared to 34 years in 2005. Again, if it was not for the foreign donors looking after AIDS victims, prisoners, etc. things would be even worse in Zimbabwe today.
I am a black Zimbabwean and I felt the white discrimination and oppression just as keenly as every other black person. I was very proud to see Zimbabwe gain its independence and proudly acknowledge the heroic contributions of leaders like Mugabe. What people like you SD, Sullivan, all the other Mugabe cronies and, above all, Mugabe himself want the world to see the struggle against colonialism and NOTHING ELSE. Important as the heroic struggle to end colonial rule was, it was not ALL the people wanted.
The people dreamt of freedom, life with dignity and economic prosperity. Today, millions of our people are living in abject poverty because of the economic melt down following years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. Our people have been denied the same freedoms and rights that the whites denied blacks before independence. These are the issues Africa should be talking about and will!
Mugabe and his cronies are riding rough shod over the people’s dreams, hopes and their very lives; we can not pretend this is not happening. It is not me who is in denial but all those who trying to blame colonialism for Africa’s woes. This is a fight pitting darkness against light, rhetoric against reason; be rest assured the tide has turned light and reason are definitely beginning to prevail!
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@Neville Sullivan
I do not know which village “outside of the Colonial HQ in the capital had nothing, no running water, no electricity, nothing” you are talking about. But I do know that in 1980 almost all the suburbs in all the cities and towns in Zimbabwe had electricity and running water. That is not so today. You must have heard of Zimbabwe’s erratic electricity and water supply. In the last ten years it has become the norm for consumers, domestic as well as industrial, right in the heart of Harare and Bulawayo to have power supply for two hours or less a day!
Two years ago over 4 000 Zimbabweans died of Cholera because there was no clean running water for people. If outside donors had not stepped in the death toll would have been a lot higher.
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@Dread Dread6
You have never heard me or anyone else complain about Zimbabwe’s March 2008 except for one thing – why did it take five weeks to declare the result? No one, not even Mugabe’s well versed apologists have ever explained that one. We all know Mugabe was “cooking” the results as Archbishop Tutu said out loud what everyone else was thinking.
The most shocking, outrageous and outstanding thing about Zimbabwe’s 2008 elections is what Mugabe did between April and June 2008 to overturn the defeat in first vote. Even the AU Election Monitors, known for their See Nothing, Hear Nothing approach to election monitoring, condemned the run-off for its brutality and total disregard of the suffering and rights of the Zimbabwe electorate. Even you Dread Dread6, the individual know for defending the indefensible on this site, has never defended what Mugabe and his henchmen did in April to June 2008.
I have just been watching the movie “Invictus” and I can understand why you hate President Nelson Mandela so much you denounce him and embrace a dictator like Mugabe. President Mandela’s vision of building a new South Africa free of fear and no one will be ill treated and oppressed goes against everything you stand for – revenge, hate and on the economic front this illusion of blacks living in unimagined luxurious on the blood and sweat of whites. You admire Mugabe for trying this grand illusion although it was only a tiny minority of blacks who have lived in luxury whilst the overwhelming majority are living in abject poverty.
President Mandela’s vision of a free and democratic SA is his greatest legacy to SA and Africa. The legacy has survived the mediocre presidency of Tambo Mbeki and is even thriving under another onslaught of Jacob Zuma. Dread Dread6, SA will never suffer the nightmare of dictatorial as seen in Zimbabwe. I would have suggested that you move to Zimbabwe but then dictatorship there is definitely on its last leg. It seems you will have to accept that if you want to prosper you will have to work for it! We both know you will never prosper and will die a poor and frustrated man which is of course right - why should you reap where you never sowed!
@ Themba Khumalo
Mariko Jones merely pointed out some individuals who, for all their university qualifications, have proved to be a great disappointment to say the least. He never said he was “only person with a functional brain in the whole, wide world.” You comment must therefore be dismissed with the contempt it rightly deserves.
@ Dread Dread6
You have dismissed Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti and MDC on countless occasions now that Biti is saying something you agree with he is now the authority on conflict diamonds, KP, etc.
I have too have dismissed MDC as blundering fools, the situation on the ground says it all. If Biti said the ban on the sale of Marange diamonds should be lifted then he is once again hopeless wrong!
The West have lacked the political will to act against dictators like Mugabe because fellow African countries have said they would act; it is not the West’s responsibility that they have done nothing. Besides Africa’s failures is causing untold human suffering and death to African nationals; to the West it is a minor inconvenience at worst. I see you have your own far-fetched explanation why the West has done nothing. You do have a sick mind.
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@Dread Dread6
So even you would not come out in support of what Mugabe did to win the 2008 presidential run-off. You want to pretend that none of the events of those frightful three months ever happened. Well these murderous events did happen.
The conviction of Selebi confirms what I have been telling that Mandela’s legacy of a free and democratic SA will survive. Its democratic institutions are strong and independent. President Mandela has inspired many Zimbabweans, including myself, into believing that Zimbabwe too can be a free nation in which everyone is treated with dignity and those prepared to work can prosper. In the interest of lasting change; we can not afford to let Mugabe and his cronies keep their loot. And, as I have said again in the past, those with blood on their hands, they will face their victims in a Court of Law.
Kicking the greedy Mugabe cronies off the seized farms will show the world that greed and laziness does not pay! Even Malema will finally get the message even if you Dread Dread6 do not.
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