Mugabe says SA needs "liberating" - it is Zim that needs liberating from the tyrant!

As if it is not bad enough that Mugabe has no regard for the rule of law or the suffering of others, including his own people; now he is piling on the pressure for others to follow his example.

In his sick way, Mugabe has now come up with a “new” cause of the wave xenophobia attacks of black foreigners by South African blacks – the late SA President and world honour statesman, Nelson Mandela got political freedom but failed to economically empower the black South Africans.

 “This is what Nelson Mandela forgot to do,” said Mugabe. “He (Mandela) thought freedom was number one, which was correct but when they negotiated they got freedom but with European rights preserved.”

After helping end white racist rule in 1980, Mugabe has overseen the transfer of prime farmland from a few thousands whites to black Zimbabweans and is now targeting foreign-owned mines and industries.

“It’s a xenophobia of whites, not of blacks. You cannot live in palaces while others are living in shanties. Anyway, the ANC should take care of that,” he said.

During the SADC Heads of State meeting in Victoria Falls last year, after which meeting Mugabe assumed the chairmanship of the regional body, the Zanu PF regime tried its best to sell to the other leaders is land policy as a template of black empowerment other should follow. There were no takers then but clearly Mugabe has not given up.  

“So we must help them. They need another liberation,” said Mugabe.

Poor President Zuma he has the nosy devilish neighbour everybody dread!

 

Yes Mugabe transferred prime farmland from a few thousands whites to black Zimbabweans but not just to any black Zimbabwean; a select few black Zimbabweans got the farms, with some getting as many as five farms each, who all failed to make productive use of the farms.

 

The collapse of Zimbabwe’s agricultural turned the country from a net exporter of food and other agricultural products to a net import of food. Worse still, because the country’s economy has driven by the agricultural sector, the collapse of the later triggered the collapse of the national economy too. The national economy took a nose dive following the start of the invasion of white owned farms in 2 000 and it has never recovered.

 

Mugabe’s white farm invasion benefited the luck few in the ruling elite but it was been a total disaster for the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans, the victims of the food shortage and the economic collapse.

 

Mugabe has never held free, fair and credible elections in all his 35 years in power and hence the ordinary people have never had any democratic say on the Zanu PF regime’s land policy or any other policies. But after successfully rigging the elections the regime has always used the manufactured landslide victory as proof of the popular support of its policies. 

 

It is all very well for a leader like Mugabe who is not democratically accountable to the people to pedal his failed policy that benefited a few at the expense of the majority as great success story. Mugabe knows there are many very naïve and gullible people in SA will see themselves as the new farm owner should President Zuma institute a similar system. As far as they are concerned SA’s farm redistribution will result in the empowerment of the blacks with none of the negatives Zimbabwe had.

 

President Zuma is shrewd enough to know a chaotic land redistribution, similar to that in Zimbabwe, will result in the fall in agricultural production, if not total collapse, and that the country’s economy will also be adversely effected. Mugabe got away with it but President Zuma will not be so lucky because SA, unlike Zimbabwe, is a democratic country with a tradition of holding free, fair and credible elections!

 

President Zuma and his ANC regime will not get away with a chaotic farm invasion that will benefit a few at the expense of the overwhelming majority; that much is clear.

 

Former President Nelson Mandela’s greatest legacy to the people of SA is that he gave them a healthy and functioning democracy in which the freedoms and rights of all its people including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and the right to life itself is guaranteed. A healthy and functioning democracy is something Mugabe has completely failed to understand; he has continued to ride roughshod over the people’s freedoms and rights.

 

Mugabe the bully he is, is not only used to denying his own people a meaningful say in the governance of Zimbabwe he now wants to bully President Zuma to follow in his footsteps. Mugabe wants SA to implement his failed policies in the name of black empowerment regardless of all the evidence of how miserably his policies have failed.

 

“So we must help them. They need another liberation,” said Mugabe. How arrogant. How typically, how arrogant. It is Zimbabwe that needs to be liberated from a corrupt and murderous tyrant!