People who are saying the Cecil the
lion is getting more national and international attention than the long
suffering masses of Zimbabwe are missing the point completely. The whole nation
is in this political and economic mess because of 35 years of corrupt and
tyrannical rule by President Mugabe and his Zanu PF cabal and not because the
tyrant was paying any attention to Cecil the lion or any other big cat or wild
life!
Indeed Cecil the lion and all the other wild animals right across the country are as much victims of the years of Zanu PF misrule as the people themselves. How many elephants and rhinos have been uprooted and sold for a song by the regime for a quick buck? How many wildlife conservatories up and down the country have been seized by Zanu PF chefs for the sole purpose of wholesale slaughter of all the animals there?
Indeed Cecil the lion and all the other wild animals right across the country are as much victims of the years of Zanu PF misrule as the people themselves. How many elephants and rhinos have been uprooted and sold for a song by the regime for a quick buck? How many wildlife conservatories up and down the country have been seized by Zanu PF chefs for the sole purpose of wholesale slaughter of all the animals there?
How many elephants have been
poisoned by poachers, who are otherwise reasonable people were it not for the country's
economic collapse that is forcing them to do these horrible things.
If President Mugabe and his cabinet
have spent one hour discussing what should be done with the American who killed
Cecil then we should cheer and applaud because that would constitute the only
productive hour this cabinet has had in the last two years!
Zimbabwe’s economy is in total
meltdown and, whatever this cabinet has been doing, things have been getting
worse not better. Yes the people have good cause to be angry and to want the
economy fixed but this cabinet has had:
2(years)X 12 (months)X 20(days per month)X 8
(hours per day)X 54 (cabinet members) = 207 360 – 54 (1 hour discussing Cecil)
cabinet man hours
So to be envious of 54 cabinet man
hours for Cecil the lion out of 207 360 is pathetic!
All those people envious of the sympathy and
attention, posthumous at that, Cecil the lion is getting are nothing but the
pusillanimous chattering monkey venting its anger and frustration on the dragon
fly when the wasp that stung him is there!
2 comments:
@ Patrick
As a people we have completely failed to deal with problems like lawlessness, corruption, oppression, etc. because we condemn them with one half of our brain whilst the other half is al-ready thinking how can we use the same lawlessness, etc.to our benefit. So by the time we are in a position of power to deal with these problems decisively we have already made up our minds to keep the very thing we vowed to destroyed and have a ready excuse why we should keep it!
Mugabe led the war of independence supposedly to end white colonial repression, exploitation, for one-man-one-vote, to reclaim back the land, etc. and yet by the time the nation attained its independence Mugabe was already committed to his one-party state ethos in which the right to vote was a privilege, he took back the land but only to share it amongst the ruling elite, etc.
Tsvangirai was elected on a ticket to deliver democratic change and yet he was quick to change the party’s constitution to extend his own stay in power. Yesterday MDC was the one condemning Jabulani Sibanda and all the other Zanu PF thugs but now that Sibanda is offering his ser-vices to MDC, Tsvangirai considers Sibanda a fellow fighter for democratic change.
We need leaders who see the bigger picture that lawlessness, corruption, etc. are bad when they are the victims and will have the vision to see that whatever short term gains they might promise they will always bring misery in the long term and therefore they must be eliminated a.s.a.p.
@ Mukaranga
Saul's road to Damascus moment transformed him from a murderer of Christians to a Christian; Sibanda has not changed. He did Mugabe's dirty work of intimidating and beating Zanu PF opponents he is itching to carry on only this time he will be beating MDC's opponents. Sibanda is not a democrat but a thug and therefore has no respect for other people's freedoms and rights.
Thugs will never deliver democracy because they have never understood the importance of freedom and justice. This is deep, too deep for simpletons like you; I really do not expect you to understand any of this!
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