As a black Zimbabwean I can honestly say that leaders like Mugabe and Tsvangirai have never had the nation's whole hearted support because one had the nagging feeling than whilst each condemned the abuses and excesses of the regime before them they nonetheless had no intention of abolishing the system but install themselves as the new lord-of-the-manor!
In 1980 Zimbabweans voted for Mugabe because they knew if Mugabe lost the civil war would continue. They were desperate to end the war. After that all they could do was hope against reason that his promise of mass prosperity would come true. Reason said that was a pipe dream and time has proved that to be so.
In 2008 Zimbabweans voted for Tsvangirai because they were desperate to get rid of Mugabe. After that all the people could do was hope against reason that Tsvangirai would deliver the democratic change he promised. Reason said it would take a visionary and determined leader to end a deeply entrenched dictatorship and deliver lasting democratic change. Tsvangirai, a blundering idiot, would never achieve such a feat! Time has once again proved reason right, twelve years MDC blundering have achieved nothing.
We always seem to marry in a great hurry and regret at leisure. But to make matters worse, having pick our leaders we elevate them to such nauseating height little wonder they assume the mentor of infallibility.
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Black racists like Mugabe and Malema's economic prosperity ethos are founded on one simple argument i.e. “The whites are rich because of the years of white racist policies. Now that the blacks have political power; they should not shy away from using the same racist policies in reverse to enrich the impoverished blacks!”
The knee jerk response from the white was to deny that white racism and apartheid ever existed. This was a gift to Mugabe and his propagandists; they have gained a lot of mileage from this.
A second sector of whites attributed their economic wealth purely to “hard work”. Of course people like Mugabe would attribute their success to the political system that allowed them because of the colour of their skin to have a leg-up from the day they are born at the expense of the blacks.
The truth of the matter is the whites’ economic prosperity can be attributed to both hard work and help from the racist system, a third sector acknowledge that much. Mugabe and Malema would argue that all they are advocating for is that the blacks should be given the leg-up too!
Sadly the time, energy and expense expended in the above has left most people exhausted to consider the really important point in this argument and thus allow demagogues like Mugabe to claim having made the home-run. The clinching argument here is that racist policies at best will benefit a few at the expense of the majority and at worst the overwhelming majority will be thrown into a life of abject poverty and despair whilst a marginal few squander the nation’s wealth away on trivia.
Where as white racist policies encourage hard work amongst the white beneficiaries of the system and thus the nation prospered economically. The greatest weaken of white racism was that the national wealth was not shared fairly. Mugabe’s black empowerment is thinly disguised corruption and looting and all those taking part know nothing about generating wealth only how to spend it! The Zimbabwe economy has declined under Mugabe, going into total melt down following the country wide seizure of white owned farms.
Mugabe was able to carryout his ruinous black racist policies not because he won the all important economic argument against them but because he won the side issue of race which is of no real consequence.
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@Oppressed The question you should be asking is whether the nation as a whole thrived or suffered under any form of discrimination? The answer has to be no and so why is SA matching down that route again of black racism?
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