“For instance, they told you, I
was safe, but how can I be in this environment? My wife is crying daily. They
are persecuting her; that is obviously directed at me. What am I without my
wife and family. We are not safe. We have constitutional benefits, for example,
but these are being denied.” Zimbabwe’s former tyrant, Robert Gabriel Mugabe
reportedly mourned to the visiting African Union Commission, Chairman Moussa
Faki Mahamat in Harare.
The corrupt and murderous
tyrant’s arrogance and callous indifference to suffering and deaths of millions
of ordinary and innocent Zimbabweans, the victims of his 37 years reign of terror,
is insufferable!
When Mugabe took over power in
1980, he inherited a country with a strong and vibrant economy, able to feed
its own people and the bread basket of the region. A country, with sound
management, could have easily become the South Korea of Africa in terms of
economic prosperity. Sadly, that was not to be!
By the time Mugabe was forced
to resign by thugs in his own party, Zanu PF, the Zimbabwe economy was in total
ruinous. 37 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have taken a
heavy toll on the economy. Commerce and industry collapsed, overburdened by tax
and wastefulness of the muddling autocratic regime. The country was starved of
new investment, investors shied away from a nation ruled by lawless thugs.
Mugabe seized the white owned
farms in an orgy of gratuitous violence born of greed and political intrigue.
The farms were given to Zanu PF loyalists whose greed for wealth was insatiable
because whatever they got they wasted it and are soon back demanding for more. The
seized farms suffered the same fate; they were left to lay idle resulting in
the total collapse of the country’s agricultural sector.
The country, once proud to be
the breadbasket of the region could not feed its own people. In the day and age
when human ingenuity has turned deserts into blooming orchards; we are starving
in a land which for all intend and purpose in the Garden of Eden. A damning
testimonial to Mugabe’s blundering incompetence!
The total collapse of the country’s
agriculture sector in the period 2000 to 2005 plus the voodoo monitory policy of
printing Z$ resulting in a 500 billion inflation rate by 2008 were a hammer
blow to the country’s economy from which it has never recovered. By mid 2000s,
unemployment had soared to 80% and it is 90% today.
The country’s basic services
such as education and health have all but collapse. All Mugabe’s children, as
with the rest of the filthy rich few, have had to leave the country for the
education; same with health. Mugabe and his family are entitled to travel to
the Far East for all their health needs as part of his retirement package. The
povo have to make do with the collapse services!
“It’s not like I am crying for
those benefits I joined the struggle to fight to free my people. not to
personally benefit anything, but why deny me benefits that I am
constitutionally entitled to?” continued Mugabe.
No, Mugabe, you joined the
struggle to end colonial white oppression for one reason and one reason only –
so you can come the new lord and master. From the first day you took power you
have toiled to undermine the rule of law, the state institutions, your own
party Zanu PF and the individual freedoms and rights to create a de facto
one-party cum one-man dictatorship to secure for your selfish gratification absolute
political power and the spoils of influence and wealth that flow from it.
The violence that accompanied
the farm invasions, for example, was just a smoke screen to hide the wanton
violence you, Mugabe, unleashed on the nation in your single-minded resolve to
return political power at all cost.
“What was won by the bullet
cannot be undone by the ballot!” you instructed the war veterans, party thugs,
the Police, Army and CIO personal in the wanton violence of the 2008 elections.
Not even SADC and AU would
accept the 2008 elections as free and fair. In all your 37 years in power, you have failed
to hold free, fair and credible elections. SADC forced you, Mugabe, to sign the
2008 Global Political Agreement (GPA) instructing the GNU to implement a raft
of democratic reforms design to take away Zanu PF’s autocratic and undemocratic
powers and restore the state institutions democratic powers and independence
and the individual freedoms and rights.
You, Mr Mugabe, bribed Morgan
Tsvangirai and his MDC friends with the trappings of high office plus a former
white-owned farm for Welshman Ncube and a $4 million mansion for Tsvangirai. In
return, MDC leaders saw to it that not even one reform saw the light of day.
The November 2017 coup help
remove the dictator, Mugabe, but only for him to be replace by another
dictator, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship itself
was left untouched.
Since taking over after the
coup, President Mnangagwa has promised the nation economic recovery and a new
political dispensation, complete with free, fair and credible elections. He has
not implemented even one democratic reform and has even dismissed all those
calling for reforms as barking dogs.
“You need to assist us to bring
this country to normalcy and democracy There is need for
people’s rights to be restored and normal life to continue. Now there is no
freedom of expression. If you disagree with them, then you must die,” pleaded
Mugabe.
Yes, Zimbabwe needs the AU,
SADC and the international community’s help to end the strangle hold this corrupt
and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs fostered on
the nation. The coming elections are NOT going to be free and fair, that is
clear; the AU and SADC must stand firm and declare the process null and void
and force Zimbabwe to revisit and finally implement the 2008 GPA reforms.
“It’s not like I am crying for
those benefits I joined the struggle to fight to free my people,” said Mugabe.
AU Commissioner Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat’s eye brows must have gone up involuntarily;
only a heartless murderous tyrant and megalomania would be crying for his lost
glory oblivious of all the death and destruction he brought!
If there is ever going to be
justice in Zimbabwe, then the wealth that Mugabe, his wife and cronies looted
from the impoverished povo must be recovered and used to rebuild this nation
from the ruins decades of Zanu PF misrule brought. If Grace Mugabe is forced to
live on US$1.00 or less a day, a fate 72.3% of our people have been condemned
to feed her insatiable greed, then she will have a better cause to cry everyday
about than missing her extravagant shopping spree!
4 comments:
However much some people would want to see the November coup and ouster of Robert Mugabe and his family from power as a step in the right direction with more change now certain to come, the reality on the ground tells a different story. The corruption and the tyranny has continued or be it with new key players. The corruption may not be as rampant as during Mugabe's days but that is only so because there is very little left to loot.
As for the political repression the ruling elite are not going to give an inch of their dictatorial powers. The only power people like Mnangagwa and Chiwenga know and understand is absolute power, they have allowed Mugabe to exercise absolute power and now they believe it is their turn to do the same. They will never ever allow any meaningful democratic reforms to be implemented in Zimbabwe; there will never be free, fair and credible elections, the sooner the people of Zimbabwe realise this the sooner they can take up the challenge to fight for change.
In a country where 72% live in abject poverty it is a sick joke that someone should be crying daily because she can no longer feed her shopping spree addiction! I agree the best cure for Grace Mugabe' shopping spree addiction is to take away all her looted wealth and let her live on $1.00 a day like the majority of our people.
"Mugaro unofurira!" (Good living can turn some into morons!) In a country where so many people are unemployment and living in abject poverty it will come as a shock that Grace Mugabe cries daily. She is one of the few filthy rich Zimbabweans who have lived a life of unparalleled leisure and luxury for decades and still do to this day. "What is she crying for?" they will ask.
"Mugaro waGrace wamuwandira, avakushura!" (Grace's excessive good living, is now her curse!)
@ Mahoka
3/4 of the people in Zimbabwe are so poor they live on US$1.00 or less a day all because the nation's wealth was siphoned to finance the lavish lifestyles of people like Grace Mugabe. She is crying everyday because she misses the lavish lifestyle! It goes to show how totally divorced from the real world these Zanu PF thugs have become!
If I was Mugabe, I would rather be shot than say such an outrageous statement to the world!
@Therocket
The AU visited Mugabe out of concern for his welfare and yet the continental body has turned a blind eye to the tyrant's decades of corrupt and tyrannical rule. The AU has been a club of the ruling elite and they care about one of their own and they do not care about the ordinary people!
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