“We have problems in Zimbabwe that have developed over decades and how could someone in his right mind think that removing one individual, no matter how powerful, smart and handsome he is could solve the country’s problems,” said USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Charles Ray.I say AMEN to that.
It is when you realise this that one also realises just how stupid Tsvangirai and MDC were in signing the power sharing agreement because the GPA did not even seek to have Mugabe replaced nor even reduce any of his dictatorial powers. And yet Tsvangirai convinced Mugabe had changed and the GNU would deliver democratic change and economic recovery. How naïve can one be! Of course none of these changes ever materialised and the West rightly refused to bankroll the pipe dream.
As if having had a corrupt and repressive dictatorship for three decades was not bad enough the country has just wasted three years following MDC’s madness of ending the dictatorship by “incremental changes” as Minister Tendai Biti would say when we need to bit the bullet and change the whole system.
“The problems here are too complex and what is needed is to change the whole system,” said Ambassador Ray.
Sadly no one in MDC is listening. It was hard enough to make Tsvangirai and his MDC friends listen when they were the opposition which was why Ambassador Ray’s predecessor said Tsvangirai was a “flawed and indecisive character”. Ever since Tsvangirai and his friends were sworn in as Prime Minister and Minister – empty positions with no real power and authority as it turned out – talking to MDC has been like talking to a brick wall. What Zimbabwe needs right now is leaders with a bit of common sense and would listen to good advice.
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After all the talk of President Zuma finally putting his foot down and force an election roadmap on Mugabe during the 11 June SADC meeting we can now say it was all hot air. All that has come out of the meeting is that the Zimbabwe parties to the GPA will continue to talk about talks!
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"We are giving you an alternative, expropriation of the land without compensation." Said the firebrand ANCYL President, Julius Malema, at the close of the congress that elected him for a second term.
I am a black Zimbabwean and like so many of my fellow country men and women applauded Mugabe's promise of mass prosperity through various black empowerment schemes including nationalisation of many key industries and taking away the white owned farms. Julius Malema has clearly learned a lot from Mugabe because he is now expounding the same rhetoric. Mugabe did not allow for any real national debate on any of his hare brain schemes and it is interesting to note that Malema is stampeding ANC into nationalising mines, etc.
Yes Mugabe and his cronies have become multi millionaires but at the expense of destroying the national economy, Zimbabwe’s economy shrunk by a staggering 84% in the six year period 2002 to 2008, and turned million of our people into abject poverty. The same will happen to SA if the country goes down the same path!
No nation has ever prospered by looting, that is a fact!
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