@John Berry
“My question to you my "erstwhile" friends is ---- Do you want us (Black Zimbabweans) to have control of our resources and land?” You ask.
It is a fair and simple question to ask and equally simple to answer. But before I answer your question can you please answer my question. Is it right that the destiny of Zimbabwe should be decided by a select few whilst the rest are denied a meaningful say?
This is the question the nation has to answer first and for which people like Mugabe and his cronies have refused to answer for the last thirty years. Answer that one and the answer to your question John will be obvious.
The obvious answer is that every Zimbabwean should have a meaningful say; after all was this not the very essence of freedom and liberty for which the nation lost over 300 000 lives for. Why Mugabe and his cronies have pointedly refused to give a straight answer is because they would have to give the answer to the follow up question. Why have they denied the majority of Zimbabweans the meaningful say?
Mugabe has made a big song and dance about his fight to wrestle Zimbabwe’s land and other national wealth from whites and his fight to resist Zimbabwe and Africa’s domination by the Western. But Mugabe has been fighting an even bigger and bitter war in which he has been ruthless and heartless – the war to remain the only dominant political force in Zimbabwe political landscape. We have a de facto one-party dictatorship in Zimbabwe and Mugabe has ridden rough shod over the people’s dream of freedom and liberty.
No government in the world can guarantee its people economic prosperity, peace, good health, etc. Government should strive to provide these things yes but none can guarantee they will deliver. There certain rights and freedoms like the right to a free vote, freedom of expression and the right to life these every Zimbabweans should have enjoyed the very day Zimbabwe gained its independence. They cost nothing in terms of resources and time. The Mugabe regime has denied us these rights for selfish reasons.
Mugabe has repeatedly failed to hold free and fair elections denying Zimbabweans a meaningful say in the governance of the country. He has used brute force to silence his political critics and opponents to the point of murdering tens of thousands. He has corrupted the country’s Police, Army and other State Organs into committing serious human rights violations for his selfish political gain.
When Mugabe murdered over 500 black Zimbabweans before the June 2008 sham election clearly he did not do it for “us (Black Zimbabweans)”. Except for his cronies and acolytes, like you John, there are no other black Zimbabweans who are naïve enough to think the Mugabe seized the white farms for “us (black Zimbabweans), particularly when he and his cronies own multiple farms and the overwhelming majority of us have nothing!
Mugabe has denied us the people a say in the governance of the country and distribution of its wealth and resources – he did not hesitate to commit even the most heinous of all the crimes, murder. One will have to be really naïve to believed that having usurped these right Mugabe will then go on to share out the resources fairly anywhere!
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@Dread Dread6
Dread you are even more naïve than I thought possible! "Suppose the label of corrupt sticks on the ZANU-PF government then would it not make sense to economically empower people so they are free of the corrupt?" What a stupid suggestion!
The one thing that goes hand in glove with corruption is waste. So you agree we have a corrupt and repressive regime. They have been looting one farm after another sell all the crops, animals and farming equipment and then move on to the next farm. The regime destroyed the country’s once productive agricultural sector with disastrous economic consequences.
The Zimbabwe economic is in ruins so how do you “economically empower people” when the economy is in ruins?
There is very little left in the country worth looting and that is why Mugabe has shifted his focus from farms to the few private owned businesses and the country’s minerals. Many of Mugabe’s cronies are in for a surprise when they find out they will be nothing for them!
Dread you really have not even the foggiest idea of the tragic situation in Zimbabwe. So you think all one has to do “identify investment opportunities” by which you must mean a white farm or business to take over. Seat back and watch the money rolling in. If you are a Zimbabwean where would you get the initial cash to invest? Name one business activities that would make money in Zimbabwe’s chaotic economic environment other than looting? For the last decade many well established businesses have closed because the economic climate was just too tough and you, green horn, think you will succeed where better men and women have failed?!
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