South Africa has been elected to the UN Security Council to serve for two years starting January 2011. That is bad news for Zimbabwe all other African country under dictatorship; SA is known for appeasing tyrants.
Adam Habib argues that South Africa should “give Mugabe assurances that giving away power will not necessarily mean a ticket to a war crimes trial in The Hague. As a trade, you and your generals don’t have to go to the ICC, but in exchange, you have to guarantee peace.” With all due respect that is NOT true. That was what South Africa had hoped to achieve originally with President Mbeki’s “quite diplomacy”, yes; but that is certainly NOT what South Africa has delivered in practice.
The only iron clad to assurance acceptable to Mugabe and his generals that they will never ever be sent to The Hague to face ICC is that they remain in power they remain in power or else there will be no peace in Zimbabwe. As if to underline that they meant business Mugabe and his military Junta, Joint Operations Command (JOC), deployed party thugs backed this time by armed Police, CIO and Soldiers to beat, rape and murder defenseless and innocent civilians. South Africa and the rest of SADC got the message alright and their pushed Tsvangirai to sign the 2008 GPA which was designed to do give Mugabe and his JOC all they asked for – a firm grip on the wheel of power complete with all Mugabe’s dictatorial powers.
Ever since President Thembo Mbeki’s days in office SA has pursued the policy of appeasement, especially with Mugabe. SA was afforded the chance to pursue this policy on the biggest international stage, the UN, when the country held the rotating UN Security Council seat. Again and again SA blocked the international community’s attempts to rein in Mugabe for Harare’s serious human rights violations. Mugabe and JOC will no doubt be toasting SA’s two-year stint on the Security Council; they can continue with their programs of serious human rights violations confident that SA will block all UN attempts to stop them.
South Africa’s appointment to the UN Security Council for the next two years is bad news for Africa given SA’s history of appeasing dictators. Appeasing dictators has never worked anywhere in the world. It is disappointing that Adam Habib presents SA’s policy on Zimbabwe to be anything other than what it is – appeasement.
@ Dread Dread6
You are so obtuse! "After deliberations these two agreed to merge into one powerful outfit ZANU-PF," you say. That was some deliberation alright, over 20 000 killed!
By the way, the unity accords between Zanu PF and PF Zapu did not in any way change the country's constitution, Zimbabwe still remained a multi-party state. Mugabe continued to unleash his thugs to beat rape and murder his political opponents. But of course you do not see it that way; to you its all part of the political "deliberation"! It is any wonder that Africa is struggling to emerge out of the dark ages, how can she with morons like you defending the indefensible!
Mugabe has completely destroyed the Zimbabwe economy throwing millions of our people into abject poverty and despair after years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and down right looting. He has justified the looting of especially white owned farms and business on the grounds that he is redressing past colonial injustice and black empower. The only blacks who have benefited are the ruling elite, who are now multi millionaires. It is the ordinary Zimbabweans who have paid dearly for it all as their jobs, schools, hospitals, basic services like water and electricity, etc. have all taken away from them.
The ordinary Zimbabweans have been fighting for the right to be heard that Mugabe’s policies are hurting them. The dictator has been ruthless in silencing them and denying them a free vote on the shaky grounds all those opposed to his rule must be in sympathy with the whites and the West. The white colonialist and the slave traders before them dehumanised blacks as less than human devoid of such human feeling of pain and love and therefore denying them all the basic human rights does not hurt them in any way. Being whipped is nothing; it is all water off the duck’s back. Things have not really changed; Mugabe has been denying millions of our people all the basic human rights including the right to life all on the grounds that any black opposed to his rule is less than human and therefore does not deserve any human rights! And of course, morons like you Dread Dread6 have been cheering him along!
@ Mariko Jones
Considering it was none other than Edson Zvobgo himself who changed Zimbabwe’s constitution to create the office of the executive presidency, I can not say I have any sympathy for him. Instead of being president Zvobgo ended his political life as one of those long serving Minister-of-nothing in the President’s office that Mugabe conjures up at the time. So poor Zvobgo found himself occupying some broom cupboard size office being asked to write reports on all manner of subjects; reports demanded from him but only to be thrown straight in the bin!
Zvobgo made it ease for the madman to run off into the mountain with the chieftain button. His real regret is that he never got the chance to run away with the button himself! Mugabe has bullied and treated everyone in Zanu PF with contempt. “Mose murivakadzi vaMugabe!” - You are all Mugabe’s whores! - Margret Dongo once told the Zanu PF big wigs to their faces. She was stating the obvious.
Despite all Mugabe’s failures and shortcomings his positions as leader of Zanu PF has never been questioned because he has treated everyone including his own fellow Zanu PF politburo members are in their errant kindergarten kids. It is of course unthinkable for kindergarten kids to even think they can ever be the Headmaster as long as they are kids. Mugabe saw to it that none of them ever grow up and none of them ever did anything!
It must be really frustrating for anyone that after 30 years in power they can not point one single achievement they made after all those years. They stood by the dictator’s side thorough out the 30 years of sheer madness and did nothing to stop him! History will judge Zvobgo and his generation harshly for their greed and blind loyalty to a murderous dictator and so it should.
88888
Zimbabwean reports of Zanu PF replacing Zimbabwean diplomats all over the world with Zanu PF loyalists and their family and friends in a well orchestrated move to defeat the sanctions imposed on some Zanu PF officials.
There has never been the political will on the part of the West to make the sanctions really bite, this is just one example of the many loop holes Mugabe and his cronies have been using to burst the sanctions.
@ Alton Hadzisa
“Overwhelmed by intelligent arguments from Mugabe and Mutambara”! You must be talking of a different Mugabe and Mutambara not the dictator Robert Mugabe and Arthur Mutambara most of us know. The dictator has stifled debate within the country and within his own party so there is no forum for any meaningful argument intelligent or otherwise. Each time Mutambara has opened his mouth, more often than not, he had his foot in his mouth. So how you got an intelligent argument from him is beyond me!
@Ndodana Sithole
“Morgan is the only man in zim who managed to tame Bob and his looters and bring the looting into international attention,” you say. Well, well is this not the blind hero worshiping that has landed us in this mess?
Before independence and for years after the nation held Mugabe with such reverence regard, he was infallible! Of course we were foolish to do so, what has his liberation war heroic performance to do with his performance after independence. As it turned out he was hopeless incompetent, corrupt and, worse still, a tyrant. Naturally Mugabe took full advantage of our foolishness and to this day has never tired of reminding us of his heroic sacrifices for which he has demanded unfettered access to public funds and absolute power. Are we so foolish as to accord Tsvangirai the same blind reverence?
Ever since Tsvangirai has emerged on the Zimbabwe political platform he has stumbled from one blundered to the next the biggest blunder being dragging the nation into this stupid GNU! We want to judge Tsvangirai on his present performance without being weighed down heroic past of being “the only man in Zimbabwe who managed to tame Bob and his looters” whatever that means. For someone who tamed Mugabe, Tsvangirai is behaving more like the dictator’s poodle!
@Fungayi
“Wilbert Mukori when you speak of Mugabe's dictatorship, can you tell us why MDC split in 2005? Can you tell us which party leader clandestinely amended his party's constitution so he would remain at the helm?”
Well now, I being an honest man, I will answer all your questions honestly.
Let me say from the outset that I am not an MDC supporter or member and therefore everything I say is purely as an interested observer and critic.
Why did MDC split up in 2005?
On paper it was because one faction wanted to contest the Senate elections whilst the other faction did not. It was a stupid issue to split over throwing the door open speculations that there were other underlying issues.
Which party leader clandestinely amended his party’s constitution so he would remain in power?
I do not know about amending the constitution but I do know Tsvangirai has been clumsily trying to extend his stay as MDC leader contrary to the MDC’s constitution.
Now, perhaps you will honor me by answering one question. What has the splitting of MDC or Tsvangirai’s fight to remain president of MDC to do with Mugabe being a ruthless and murderous dictator?
This is the rely sick thing about dictators and, you, Fungayi , their acolytes; you are always coming up with all manner of excuses and scapegoats to justify your looting and political repression. Sometimes the excuses are so far fetched it only shows just how desperate you really are. A few weeks ago Mugabe was insisting he will not implement any more democratic reforms until the sanctions are lifted. Why, Oh why should I and millions of fellow Zimbabweans out there continue to be denied our basic right to freedom of expression, for example, as if our rights are nothing more than some goods to be traded in and sold to the highest bidder!? No doubt the dictator half expected us all to pressure the West to lift the sanctions (some idiots like Tsvangirai did – but as I said, idiots!)
9999
After reading the first three paragraph it was enough to guess who wrote this nonsense - Dr John Makumbe, who else. Talking of the dictator showing his true colours in one breathe and then patting Tsvangirai in the back for staying in the GNU in the next. Having supported MDC's initial decision to the one-sided GPA the good Professor does not have the guts to admit he made a blunder and so has to pretend all this posturing by Tsvangirai is all part of the plan!
Professor would you agree that Tsvangirai was ill advised to sign the GPA because it got Mugabe off the hook following the sham 2008 run-off? I really find it hard to follow your double Ditch that Tsvangirai was forced to sign the GPA and now you want us to believe that he is forced to stay in the GNU and thus not labeled the spoiler. So the need to avoid being labeled “spoiler” by SADC has become so important that the destiny of the whole nation must be sacrificed for it.
It is really sad that there are Zimbabweans out there advocating this type of nonsense but worse still that there are leaders like Tsvangirai who takes it all on board and use it to chart the path the nation then follows. How tragic!
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