Zambia’s
VP tells the world President Zuma told SAD heads “Leave Zimbabwe to me!”
'You just leave Zimbabwe
to me.' President Jacob Zuma told other SADC leaders according to Zambia’s Vice
President Guy Scott.
President
Zuma's credibility has been questioned again and again over his handling of the
Zimbabwe crisis, now his name is mud.
Zanu PF
headquarters is buzzing right now, this is the kind of news the regime loves.
President Zuma should cancel his planned visit to Zimbabwe to push for
democratic reforms because this articles shows that not only that SADC is not
united behind President Zuma but that some leaders who despise his arrogance. The
SA President can go ahead with the visit but he can be assured of one thing humiliation
at the hands of Mugabe and Zanu PF!
The Zambian leader has a
soft spot for Mugabe. "I'm sure any good African nationalist admires Mugabe,"
the vice-president added. "Racism in Zimbabwe is a serious issue. I was
sent to school down there and it was like being in the Hitler Youth: the
theories about black inferiority and this kind of stuff.
"It was a whites-only school; they tried to introduce an
Indian and he was hounded out at the instigation of the parents of the boys. I
think Mugabe is a product of having to contend with that."
To anyone with but a superficial understanding of what has been
happening in Zimbabwe, they would be forgiven to think that it is only the
whites who have suffered under Mugabe’s brutal dictatorship. Millions of
Zimbabweans now live in abject poverty as a result of the three decades of
mismanagement, corruption and looting. Vice President Scott is only counting
the white farmers and white businessmen who had their livelihoods taken away
from them by Mugabe; all others, because they are black, do not count.
No doubt VP Scott is aware of the whites who have been denied their
right to own property, the white farmers were beaten and the 20 or so killed during
the violent seizures of white owned farms. Is it possible that he is not aware
that Mugabe has systematically denied Zimbabweans their basic rights and freedoms
and millions have, over the years, of blacks have been beaten, raped and over 30
000 murdered to establish and sustain the Zanu PF dictatorship? Or is it that,
to him, blacks do not count!
VP Scott’s attempt to excuse Mugabe’s tyrannical rule is
laughable. White racism in the then Rhodesia was bad but it was worse in Apartheid
South Africa and yet leaders like former President Nelson Mandela emerged out
of the latter a great man and not a tyrant like Mugabe.
"He's a funny chap,”
the Zambian VP said of Mugabe. “He seems to doze off and then he suddenly
laughs at a joke while in the middle of dozing.”
It would not be
surprising to find Mugabe lost his marbles years ago; that is not.
VP Scott said SA was
backward in historical development and President Zuma was “very like De Klerk”
– the last leader of the racist apartheid regime. Well the Zambia leader’s ignorance
of history and grovelling to a tyrant like Mugabe was shameless!
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SA says it will ask Zambia to explain Vice President Scott’s critical remarks.
"Accordingly, we shall be summoning the high commissioner of Zambia to South Africa to the de-partment of international relations and co-operation to seek an explanation behind the remarks and what it means in the context of our bilateral relations."
President Zuma and all Zimbabwe will not be pleased to hear how Zambia’s President Sata is ganging up with Zimbabwe’s tyrant. VP Scott recalled the Zambian president, Michael Sata telling Mugabe 'You have to get this thing sorted out among yourself, you don't want to go to Sadc – it's a new kind of colonialism'.
It is hard to see how SADC can still push Mugabe to implement reforms given that SADC is itself divided.
MDC Secretary, Nelson Chamisa heckled when he denied MDC Ministers had grown rich since they got into the GNU.
“There has been a misconception here. I had the opportunity to get a farm; had an op-portunity to get a factory or a company; had an opportunity to get trappings of power but we did not get those things,” Nelson Chamisa said during a debate on election timing.
This beggars the question under what circumstances did these opportunities arise to get a farm, a factory and the trappings of power arise?
Just as Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies will be expected to account for their amassed wealth and the blood on their hands. Tsvangirai and his MDC friends will have to account for their new found wealth too!
Well you are not South African because some of the stuff he (VP Scott) said about SA was simply not true; SA has earned the right to be in the BRICS for example.
His attempt to excuse Mugabe's rasist rhetoric and complete ignore the suffering black Zimbabweans has suffered under the tyrant have not won him any friends in Zimbabwe either.
The last thing the region wants is another politican leader who talks with his foot in his mouth!
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