@ Fungayi and Mariko
Fungayi you clearly do not know much about the Caribbean for you to even think Rasta man would have time for the likes of Mugabe. There is freedom of expression, and I mean real freedom of expression in the Caribbean and there is nothing Rasta man loves more than cutting corrupt public officials to size!
If any leader does something he or she would not wish known let alone commit a serious crime in the Caribbean then the act will be splashed in every newspaper. Rasta man will immortalise the act by having a hit about it for the next Calypso Carnival Competition. If the hit has all the “Reggie Reggie sauce” the public love, he will be crown Carnival King and his hit will be played very loud everywhere and hundred times a day on all the radio stations!
The host of a popular Radio Station Live Chat Show called the house of a political leader whose name was mud and the Maid answered the phone:
Host “Can I talk to the Governor?”
Maid “He is asleep.”
Host “Girl, its 11.00 o’clock and you tell me he is still asleep.”
Maid “Yeh, he sleeps like a baby.”
Host “Girl, with all the shit of corruption and sex scandals; how come he sleeps like a baby?”
Maid “Yeh, he is up 8 or 10 times in the middle of the night crying and then goes back to sleep!”
No such luck in Zimbabwe. A leader not only has sex with his subordinate’s wife but goes on to sire two children with her behind his own wife’s back. When the wife dies the adulterer marriage the mistress and even the church, which hypocritically will not allow divorce, joins in the act and officiate at the wedding with the bride wearing a chastity veil!
If there was freedom of expression and a truly free press we will all know the full details of what Grace Mugabe paid for Gushungo Dairy Farm and all the other farms she owns. All the details of the looting that has turned Zimbabwe from a bread basket of the region into a food aid dependent country that the regime has hidden would all be out in the open.
The true story of Mugabe’s reign of terror with all the murderous details is yet to be written. Mariko, Mugabe’s Borrowdale mansion will be opened for guided tours. Visitors will be told how the dictator’s Reserve Bank Governor, Gideon Gono, siphoned US$ 1 million of donor’s money to buy the bed alone; money ear marked to buy children’s vaccines. The visitors will be told how many children died and how were crippled for life because they did not the necessary vaccination.
Fungayi, it is tempting for a cynic like you to justify the denial of freedom of expression and free media of the grounds that there is still corruption in those country where freedoms are enjoyed. There are some people who are always some people looking out for the easier way off the straight and narrow path and they do not care the misery and suffering their selfish act will cause. A freedom of expression and free media names and shames them and, where there is rule of law, punished if need be. Where there is no freedom of expression, free media, no law and order, etc. as is the case in Zimbabwe under Mugabe the dictator and his cronies have been allowed to run riot for three decades and look what they have done – destroyed the very soul of that nation!
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The country’s traditional Chiefs are set to twin cab Mazda trucks and other allowances in a move many see as vote-buying by Mugabe. The Chiefs and Headmen have worked very closely with Zanu PF militia, Warvets and the Police in intimidating and terrorising the rural people into voting for Zanu PF.
The white colonialist used the Chiefs to pacify the rural people. Except for a few notable exceptions like Chief Rekayi Tangwena Zimbabwe's Chiefs and Headmen have always been in the pay pocket of the government of the day regardless of how corrupt and repressive the regime happened to be. Give them a trinket and they are yours; they would willingly betray the people they are supposed to representing. .
How I wish Chief Rekayi Tangwena was still alive; there was a leader whose loyalty to his people was is the stuff of legends. He would have crossed swords with Mugabe years ago, long before the regime’s looting was allowed to force millions of our people into abject poverty and schools and hospitals to close for lack of funds! No trinket, not even in the form of a twin cab Mazda truck would have blinded him to the brutality behind the gift.
Frankly unelected individuals like Chiefs and Village Headmen have no business in a democracy, particularly when the office bearers have allowed themselves to become an extension of a dictatorship!
Tsvangirai writes to the countries hosting the Zimbabwe Ambassadors appointed recently by Mugabe without consulting him to reject them. None of these countries are going to act on Tsvangirai's request. There are fights worth fighting and Tsvangirai is on shaky ground here and one will have to be really foolish to join him.
After the sham 2008 elections the international community declared their position; they would not recognise Mugabe as the legitimate head of state. Tsvangirai only had to join them instead he is the one who fought hard to get Mugabe off the hook. Now he expects the international community to join him fight Mugabe on dodgy ground! There can only be one answer to that rank madness Mr PM - two fingers to you, sir!
@ Alex Nhando
I hope you are not one of those just pleased that Tsvangirai is doing something anything at last instead of his usual of doing absolutely nothing or worse singing Mugabe praise. Given Zimbabwe's sorry state, surely what the nation wants is decisive action and not endless posturing!
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