The AU Summit
has come and gone and the star of the show, AU chairman Robert Mugabe, did not
fail to impress.
"Africa
needs more of the Mugabes in order to change our people's mindset, otherwise
the issue of looking for jobs from white people yet losing our raw mineral
resources is a serious issue of concern," said Rodger Juda of
Cameroon.
What we need
to change is the mind numbing hubris mindset of Africans like Rodger that is
still at war with the West and regard our African leaders as demigods who
cannot lie and can do no wrong! Without doubt Africa has some of the most naïve
and gullible people on earth who are given to bouts supercilious enthusiasm
over matters they do not understand. Rodger Juda is clearly one such
overzealous but stupid African!
Rodger is
praising Mugabe out of mindless stupidity; he has completely failed to
interpretation of the facts before his own eyes. He is sold on Mugabe’s idea
that Africa should not be “looking for jobs from white people” but failed to
realize that Mugabe has been busy destroying “jobs from white people” but
without creating any alternative jobs.
Zimbabwe has
unemployment rate of 80% plus for over a decade now, at least five million Zimbabweans
have left the country to look for work, any work. In his 2013 election
manifesto Mugabe promised to create 2.2 million jobs and yet the country has
continues to haemorrhage jobs as more and more companies have closed down.
Which part of 80% unemployed rate does Rodger not understand?
Mugabe keeps
wittering on and on about the need for Africa to end its dependence of the
West; why talk about, do it! The tyrant has been in power now for three and
half decades and yet the country is more dependent on the West now than it was
in 1980. Donors are paying for 98% Zimbabwe medicine requirements and this week
the VP Mnangagwa has been out to all Western governments and donors begging for
aid to buy food or the people will starve. Mugabe is given to making grand
anti-western statements, especially to an impressionable, naïve and gullible
audience like Rodger.
But even
Mugabe cannot escape the contradictions he has created. He is well known for
his moaning none-stop about how the sanctions imposed by the West on him and a
select few in his inner circle have destroyed Zimbabwe’s economy. So in one
breath he is saying Africa does not need the West and in the next he is
claiming Zimbabwe, at least, is lost without the West!
It is the
decades of gross mismanagement and corruption under his tyrannical government
that have destroyed the country’s economy and not the sanctions. Mugabe will
never admit that because it is not in the nature of a tyrant like him to ever
admit doing anything wrong.
Mugabe says one
thing and does the exact opposite. He keeps talking of how Africa should not be
selling raw materials but should be processing them and adding value. And yet
the Chinese, Russians and other nationals have been plundering Zimbabwe’s
alluvial diamonds 24/7 since 2007 and shipping the germs out of the country
uncut and unprocessed without even paying local tax!
Mugabe has
been in power now for 35 years and stories of his corruption, vote rigging and
murderous oppression of the people of Zimbabwe have been in the public domain
all these years. There people like Rodger Juda choose to ignore the facts and
hang on to their fairy tale knight-in-shining armour, liberation war hero of
Mugabe of bygone years.
Africa is
awash with stories of liberators who, the day they are in power, are
transformed into murderous tyrants. And yet people like Rodger will still
refuse to accept Mugabe is not a fallible mortal and hang on to the idea he is
an infallible demigod like a child
holding on to a favourite toy.
Tyrants like
Mugabe thrive on the adulation of such simpletons as Rodger!
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