Tracy Mutinhiri, a Zanu PF deputy Minister, seeks Police protection after Zanu PF thugs invade her farm. The thugs were sent by Minister Sekeramayi, a Mugabe supporter, because she is “friendly” with Prime Minister Tsvangirai.
The PM is reportedly cultivating a close relationship with other Zanu PF leaders including none other than Minister Kusukuveri, the very Minister who recruited the thousands of Zanu PF Youth thugs and has been spearheading the seizure of mines now that there are no white owned farms left in the country.
How did Mutinhiri get the farm? Has she suddenly become aware of what Zanu PF does to those considered a threat to its rule.
Reports of Tsvangirai's growing friendship with proven Zanu PF criminals is just another worrying thing about the MDC leader. He got the nation into this mess because he was stupid enough to trust Mugabe in signing the GPA and now the idiot thinks he can steal the Zanu PF thugs under Mugabe's very nose and turn them to be law abiding citizens. US Ambassador Chris Dell was right Tsvangirai is a “flawed and indecisive character” whose stupidity will extend the rule of this Zanu PF dictatorship yet again.
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Bisbanding ZESA is not enough: we need a political sea change!
Zimbabweans from all walks of life call for the disbanding of ZESA after years of power cuts and soaring electricity bills.
Yes ZESA has been hanging round the nation's neck like a mile stone and should have been disbanded a long time ago. In fact the nation was doing very well thank until the five or so power suppliers were melted to form ZESA.
But come to think of it; we would probably be in the same mess we are in today even if this creature "ZESA" had never existed. In other words we will still have power cuts and astronomical electricity bills even if ZESA was disbanded today.
ZESA has suffered from chronic mismanagement and corruption. Sydney Gata has been a complete disaster for ZESA; he should have never been appointed CE. As long as politicians like Mugabe can appoint cronies, his brother-in-law in this case, to run companies like ZESA (disbanded or otherwise) then the rot will continue.
We need a political sea change. Every position from the headman to State President must be filled by the person judged best able to that job on merit and not on the basis of one’s political connections or loyalty to the self serving and tyrannical political system we have in the country today.
Yes ZESA has been hanging round the nation's neck like a mile stone and should have been disbanded a long time ago. In fact the nation was doing very well thank until the five or so power suppliers were melted to form ZESA.
But come to think of it; we would probably be in the same mess we are in today even if this creature "ZESA" had never existed. In other words we will still have power cuts and astronomical electricity bills even if ZESA was disbanded today.
ZESA has suffered from chronic mismanagement and corruption. Sydney Gata has been a complete disaster for ZESA; he should have never been appointed CE. As long as politicians like Mugabe can appoint cronies, his brother-in-law in this case, to run companies like ZESA (disbanded or otherwise) then the rot will continue.
We need a political sea change. Every position from the headman to State President must be filled by the person judged best able to that job on merit and not on the basis of one’s political connections or loyalty to the self serving and tyrannical political system we have in the country today.
Friday, 8 July 2011
Blog to Oppressed opprosser!
Just because I am a Zimbabwean and from a country led and ruined by a ruthless dictator do not mean that I therefore have nothing to say about democracy and good governance.
It is bad enough that Zimbabwe has become a failed state with tragic consequences for the people of Zimbabwe and the whole region. This must not be allowed to happen to any other country. There are worrying signs that the same could well happen to SA and it is in all our interest, South Africans and none South African alike, to make sure SA remains a beacon of democracy, stability and hope. It is in all our interest that demagogues like Mugabe, Malema and their acolytes are not given the chance to ruin our future.
Oppressed you are clearly having a tough time accepting this concept of freedom of expression. You can barely contain your anger at all the blogs on this site critical of your blinked point of view. When the criticism is from a black person; it is more than you can bear! And if that black person happened to be from Zimbabwe, your demagogue knee jerk reaction was to censor.
“What are you doing in our web-sites,” you fumed. Your web site?!
No this web site and many like it in SA and the world over belongs to all those who believe in freedom of expression and the free exchange of ideas. What is a racist demagogue like you doing on our web site?
@ Oppressed
No I have never heard of a black member of the KKK. What a stupid question to ask. The KKK was a white racist organisation, so how can the organisation have black members, the very race they were out to lynch, and still remain a whites only organisation?
Mugabe has been prosecuting whites in Zimbabwe seizing their property, beating them and even murdered some. Even on the rare occasion when the laws of the land have said what Mugabe was doing was against the law, the dictator his disregarded the court rulings. Mugabe has systematically denied many Zimbabwean and South African whites and whites from other countries their basic human rights to own property, to legal protection, to life, etc. Of course the dictator will never admit he is a racist and has offered a multitude of excuses for his barbarism. The bottom line is the whites have become the scapegoats for the regime’s failed economic policies, its corruption and greedy and continued political repression.
SA’s apartheid regimes never admitted to being racist, we all know that they were. So you accession “Blacks can’t be racist!” is just what the white racist said when they had the boot on the necks of blacks. It is rhetorical nonsense that proves nothing!
@Oppressed
You sure are a racist and a nuisance. Mugabe is a racist and a nuisance, just like you. Sadly for Zimbabwe, Mugabe is in Zimbabwe and worse still in power so had the opportunity to do a lot of mischief. You are in SA and let us hope racists like you will never be in power.
“Oppressed” what a name! Oppressed by whom? Apartheid died years ago and blacks are in power and they have the choice to use that political power for the good of all or use it to oppress whites, foreigners, etc. to cover up for their own shortcomings. Just change your name to “Oppressor” and be done with it; it goes better with you being a confirmed racist!
If I am a nuisance because I am worrying South Africans of the dangers of electing racists like you into office; then I wear the label with pride! I have no intention of ever giving up my democratic right to express my views freely on this site or any other free web-site to appease a racist like you. I know this drives racists like you nuts; well that is your problem. You either get off these sites or you will be called a racist, rightly so too!
9999
There are sure powerful forces trying hard to pull SA out of the light of enlightenment back into the darkness of hatred, racism and lawlessness. I pleased to note that these forces have failed the test of democratic scrutiny. Two cheers for free press and freedom of expression!
It is bad enough that Zimbabwe has become a failed state with tragic consequences for the people of Zimbabwe and the whole region. This must not be allowed to happen to any other country. There are worrying signs that the same could well happen to SA and it is in all our interest, South Africans and none South African alike, to make sure SA remains a beacon of democracy, stability and hope. It is in all our interest that demagogues like Mugabe, Malema and their acolytes are not given the chance to ruin our future.
Oppressed you are clearly having a tough time accepting this concept of freedom of expression. You can barely contain your anger at all the blogs on this site critical of your blinked point of view. When the criticism is from a black person; it is more than you can bear! And if that black person happened to be from Zimbabwe, your demagogue knee jerk reaction was to censor.
“What are you doing in our web-sites,” you fumed. Your web site?!
No this web site and many like it in SA and the world over belongs to all those who believe in freedom of expression and the free exchange of ideas. What is a racist demagogue like you doing on our web site?
@ Oppressed
No I have never heard of a black member of the KKK. What a stupid question to ask. The KKK was a white racist organisation, so how can the organisation have black members, the very race they were out to lynch, and still remain a whites only organisation?
Mugabe has been prosecuting whites in Zimbabwe seizing their property, beating them and even murdered some. Even on the rare occasion when the laws of the land have said what Mugabe was doing was against the law, the dictator his disregarded the court rulings. Mugabe has systematically denied many Zimbabwean and South African whites and whites from other countries their basic human rights to own property, to legal protection, to life, etc. Of course the dictator will never admit he is a racist and has offered a multitude of excuses for his barbarism. The bottom line is the whites have become the scapegoats for the regime’s failed economic policies, its corruption and greedy and continued political repression.
SA’s apartheid regimes never admitted to being racist, we all know that they were. So you accession “Blacks can’t be racist!” is just what the white racist said when they had the boot on the necks of blacks. It is rhetorical nonsense that proves nothing!
@Oppressed
You sure are a racist and a nuisance. Mugabe is a racist and a nuisance, just like you. Sadly for Zimbabwe, Mugabe is in Zimbabwe and worse still in power so had the opportunity to do a lot of mischief. You are in SA and let us hope racists like you will never be in power.
“Oppressed” what a name! Oppressed by whom? Apartheid died years ago and blacks are in power and they have the choice to use that political power for the good of all or use it to oppress whites, foreigners, etc. to cover up for their own shortcomings. Just change your name to “Oppressor” and be done with it; it goes better with you being a confirmed racist!
If I am a nuisance because I am worrying South Africans of the dangers of electing racists like you into office; then I wear the label with pride! I have no intention of ever giving up my democratic right to express my views freely on this site or any other free web-site to appease a racist like you. I know this drives racists like you nuts; well that is your problem. You either get off these sites or you will be called a racist, rightly so too!
9999
There are sure powerful forces trying hard to pull SA out of the light of enlightenment back into the darkness of hatred, racism and lawlessness. I pleased to note that these forces have failed the test of democratic scrutiny. Two cheers for free press and freedom of expression!
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Mugabe to press ahead with mine grab - pushing up the price to be paid in human suffering for economic recovery!
“Zimbabwe could take over mines that fall short of laws requiring them to sell majority stakes to locals by September, a government minister said on Wednesday” News 24 reported.
This is crazy; the Zimbabwe economy shrunk by a staggering 84% in the six years 2002 to 2008 following the country wide seizure of white owned farms. The end result was the economic melt, mass unemployment, etc. The same Zanu PF cronies who seized the farms are now back demanding more and the have their beady eyes on the mines. There will be a significant fall in productivity in mining industry just as happened in agriculture.
The nation is desperate to see some economic recovery instead Mugabe and his cronies will bring yet another wave of negative growth. Zimbabweans are yet to realise that it was infinitely easier to get minus 84% GDP growth rate than to get positive 84% GDP growth rate. Destroying is easy, it is like pushing a stone down hill; creating something is the real challenge, it is like carrying a bolder to the top of the mountain! If Mugabe and his cronies are allowed to destroy the few companies that survived the economic melt down; this will make the task of economic recovery that much harder. This will demand even greater sacrifices in terms of human suffering and human lives!
This is crazy; the Zimbabwe economy shrunk by a staggering 84% in the six years 2002 to 2008 following the country wide seizure of white owned farms. The end result was the economic melt, mass unemployment, etc. The same Zanu PF cronies who seized the farms are now back demanding more and the have their beady eyes on the mines. There will be a significant fall in productivity in mining industry just as happened in agriculture.
The nation is desperate to see some economic recovery instead Mugabe and his cronies will bring yet another wave of negative growth. Zimbabweans are yet to realise that it was infinitely easier to get minus 84% GDP growth rate than to get positive 84% GDP growth rate. Destroying is easy, it is like pushing a stone down hill; creating something is the real challenge, it is like carrying a bolder to the top of the mountain! If Mugabe and his cronies are allowed to destroy the few companies that survived the economic melt down; this will make the task of economic recovery that much harder. This will demand even greater sacrifices in terms of human suffering and human lives!
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Mugabe never won the economic argument of his BEE policies only the racism argument!
As a black Zimbabwean I can honestly say that leaders like Mugabe and Tsvangirai have never had the nation's whole hearted support because one had the nagging feeling than whilst each condemned the abuses and excesses of the regime before them they nonetheless had no intention of abolishing the system but install themselves as the new lord-of-the-manor!
In 1980 Zimbabweans voted for Mugabe because they knew if Mugabe lost the civil war would continue. They were desperate to end the war. After that all they could do was hope against reason that his promise of mass prosperity would come true. Reason said that was a pipe dream and time has proved that to be so.
In 2008 Zimbabweans voted for Tsvangirai because they were desperate to get rid of Mugabe. After that all the people could do was hope against reason that Tsvangirai would deliver the democratic change he promised. Reason said it would take a visionary and determined leader to end a deeply entrenched dictatorship and deliver lasting democratic change. Tsvangirai, a blundering idiot, would never achieve such a feat! Time has once again proved reason right, twelve years MDC blundering have achieved nothing.
We always seem to marry in a great hurry and regret at leisure. But to make matters worse, having pick our leaders we elevate them to such nauseating height little wonder they assume the mentor of infallibility.
5555
Black racists like Mugabe and Malema's economic prosperity ethos are founded on one simple argument i.e. “The whites are rich because of the years of white racist policies. Now that the blacks have political power; they should not shy away from using the same racist policies in reverse to enrich the impoverished blacks!”
The knee jerk response from the white was to deny that white racism and apartheid ever existed. This was a gift to Mugabe and his propagandists; they have gained a lot of mileage from this.
A second sector of whites attributed their economic wealth purely to “hard work”. Of course people like Mugabe would attribute their success to the political system that allowed them because of the colour of their skin to have a leg-up from the day they are born at the expense of the blacks.
The truth of the matter is the whites’ economic prosperity can be attributed to both hard work and help from the racist system, a third sector acknowledge that much. Mugabe and Malema would argue that all they are advocating for is that the blacks should be given the leg-up too!
Sadly the time, energy and expense expended in the above has left most people exhausted to consider the really important point in this argument and thus allow demagogues like Mugabe to claim having made the home-run. The clinching argument here is that racist policies at best will benefit a few at the expense of the majority and at worst the overwhelming majority will be thrown into a life of abject poverty and despair whilst a marginal few squander the nation’s wealth away on trivia.
Where as white racist policies encourage hard work amongst the white beneficiaries of the system and thus the nation prospered economically. The greatest weaken of white racism was that the national wealth was not shared fairly. Mugabe’s black empowerment is thinly disguised corruption and looting and all those taking part know nothing about generating wealth only how to spend it! The Zimbabwe economy has declined under Mugabe, going into total melt down following the country wide seizure of white owned farms.
Mugabe was able to carryout his ruinous black racist policies not because he won the all important economic argument against them but because he won the side issue of race which is of no real consequence.
999
@Oppressed The question you should be asking is whether the nation as a whole thrived or suffered under any form of discrimination? The answer has to be no and so why is SA matching down that route again of black racism?
In 1980 Zimbabweans voted for Mugabe because they knew if Mugabe lost the civil war would continue. They were desperate to end the war. After that all they could do was hope against reason that his promise of mass prosperity would come true. Reason said that was a pipe dream and time has proved that to be so.
In 2008 Zimbabweans voted for Tsvangirai because they were desperate to get rid of Mugabe. After that all the people could do was hope against reason that Tsvangirai would deliver the democratic change he promised. Reason said it would take a visionary and determined leader to end a deeply entrenched dictatorship and deliver lasting democratic change. Tsvangirai, a blundering idiot, would never achieve such a feat! Time has once again proved reason right, twelve years MDC blundering have achieved nothing.
We always seem to marry in a great hurry and regret at leisure. But to make matters worse, having pick our leaders we elevate them to such nauseating height little wonder they assume the mentor of infallibility.
5555
Black racists like Mugabe and Malema's economic prosperity ethos are founded on one simple argument i.e. “The whites are rich because of the years of white racist policies. Now that the blacks have political power; they should not shy away from using the same racist policies in reverse to enrich the impoverished blacks!”
The knee jerk response from the white was to deny that white racism and apartheid ever existed. This was a gift to Mugabe and his propagandists; they have gained a lot of mileage from this.
A second sector of whites attributed their economic wealth purely to “hard work”. Of course people like Mugabe would attribute their success to the political system that allowed them because of the colour of their skin to have a leg-up from the day they are born at the expense of the blacks.
The truth of the matter is the whites’ economic prosperity can be attributed to both hard work and help from the racist system, a third sector acknowledge that much. Mugabe and Malema would argue that all they are advocating for is that the blacks should be given the leg-up too!
Sadly the time, energy and expense expended in the above has left most people exhausted to consider the really important point in this argument and thus allow demagogues like Mugabe to claim having made the home-run. The clinching argument here is that racist policies at best will benefit a few at the expense of the majority and at worst the overwhelming majority will be thrown into a life of abject poverty and despair whilst a marginal few squander the nation’s wealth away on trivia.
Where as white racist policies encourage hard work amongst the white beneficiaries of the system and thus the nation prospered economically. The greatest weaken of white racism was that the national wealth was not shared fairly. Mugabe’s black empowerment is thinly disguised corruption and looting and all those taking part know nothing about generating wealth only how to spend it! The Zimbabwe economy has declined under Mugabe, going into total melt down following the country wide seizure of white owned farms.
Mugabe was able to carryout his ruinous black racist policies not because he won the all important economic argument against them but because he won the side issue of race which is of no real consequence.
999
@Oppressed The question you should be asking is whether the nation as a whole thrived or suffered under any form of discrimination? The answer has to be no and so why is SA matching down that route again of black racism?
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
"Regime change" is an essential by product of free election - not some dirty phase!
Professor Jonathan Moyo may be a “serial political turncoat” as Thelma Chikwanha said; still he is raising a very important question here. Is President Zuma aiding the West’s “regime change agenda” in Zimbabwe?
It is a simple enough question and one President Zuma’s Chief Adviser Lindiwe Zulu should answer. For her to dismiss Moyo as distraction just because he is not in Zanu PF’s negotiating team is a feeble attempt to avoid answering the question.
Mugabe recalled Moyo “from the (political) abyss to the Party” as Morrison Makuvastine rightly pointed out because he is a shrewd strategist. Who would have thought Mugabe would do such a thing after all Moyo had said and done; describing Mugabe as “unelectable he could lose to a donkey”, the Tsholotsho “coup” of 2004, etc. Mugabe had to put his huge ego aside and recall Moyo because if it was not for the Professor Mugabe would have certainly lost the 2000 and 2002 elections. The forthcoming elections are going to be the toughest ever and Mugabe will need all the shrewd strategists he can get.
“Mugabe made a mistake (in appointing Moyo)”, Makuvastine said. Well you could not be more wrong!
Mss Zulu is wrong in dismissing Moyo because, although he is not in Zanu PF’s negotiating team, what he says counts. Chimenasa and the rest of his team might just as well be taking direct instructions from Moyo particularly after the Zanu PF team was roundly criticised for giving in to security sector and other key reforms during the last GPA talks.
In Zanu PF we have a political party that now firmly believes that they have the right to use all means necessary including intimidation, rape and murder to ensure elections do not result in regime change. Sadly SADC, the South African facilitating team and much less MDC have all shied away from addressing this point head on.
Elections are not some meaningless ritual nations have to perform every so many years. Elections are the very heart of what distinguishes us humans from all the other creatures; our rights and freedoms. Every human being has a right to a meaningful say in the governance of his or her country is just as important as the right to life!
Indeed when hundreds of thousands of our people have been murdered for no other reason other than that they dared demand free and fair elections and a meaningful vote it goes to show that the denial of one right or freedom has always resulted in the denial of all the other rights and freedoms.
Elections are always a gladiatorial affairs between those in power and those challenging to take their place in which the electorate are the arbiters whose vote will decide the winner. Like every other contest, there must be rules governing the contact elections stating what all the participants can and can not do. The use of violence against the opposition and the electorate, for example, is unacceptable. Elections should be gladiatorial clash of ideas not Police batons hitting innocent and defenceless people as has become the norm in Zimbabwe. Of course it is right that there should be Police reforms to end this outrage.
Freedom of expression and free press gives the citizens to opportunity to question and criticise those exercising political power on their behalf. Elections gives the citizens the chance to replace, if they so wish, to replace those to hold public office. Yes one can call it “regime change” because that is what it is and there is nothing wrong with it.
Mugabe became Prime Minister and the Executive President of Zimbabwe in April 1980 and has remained in office to this day, over thirty years! In that time USA has had six presidents and Britain other democratic nations have had a similar change of leaders.
It is the democratic nations’ ability to hold meaningful competition and to change leaders that is behind their dynamism and prosperity. Zimbabwe like all nations is which tyrants have stifled debate and change has suffered from stagnation and rot.
Regime change is not a dirty phase as Mugabe, Moyo and the rest in Zanu PF would have us believe. It is the only way out of a political stagnation, years of corruption and economic melt down and the only way to restore the dignity and hope of the people of Zimbabwe. Using violence and other repressive means to frustrate the electorate’s democratic wishes is treason and serious crime against humanity. People like Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti and now Lindiwe Zulu have repeatedly shied away from taking a bold and unequivocal stand against Mugabe’s lies and bullying tactics and thus failed the people of Zimbabwe!
It is a simple enough question and one President Zuma’s Chief Adviser Lindiwe Zulu should answer. For her to dismiss Moyo as distraction just because he is not in Zanu PF’s negotiating team is a feeble attempt to avoid answering the question.
Mugabe recalled Moyo “from the (political) abyss to the Party” as Morrison Makuvastine rightly pointed out because he is a shrewd strategist. Who would have thought Mugabe would do such a thing after all Moyo had said and done; describing Mugabe as “unelectable he could lose to a donkey”, the Tsholotsho “coup” of 2004, etc. Mugabe had to put his huge ego aside and recall Moyo because if it was not for the Professor Mugabe would have certainly lost the 2000 and 2002 elections. The forthcoming elections are going to be the toughest ever and Mugabe will need all the shrewd strategists he can get.
“Mugabe made a mistake (in appointing Moyo)”, Makuvastine said. Well you could not be more wrong!
Mss Zulu is wrong in dismissing Moyo because, although he is not in Zanu PF’s negotiating team, what he says counts. Chimenasa and the rest of his team might just as well be taking direct instructions from Moyo particularly after the Zanu PF team was roundly criticised for giving in to security sector and other key reforms during the last GPA talks.
In Zanu PF we have a political party that now firmly believes that they have the right to use all means necessary including intimidation, rape and murder to ensure elections do not result in regime change. Sadly SADC, the South African facilitating team and much less MDC have all shied away from addressing this point head on.
Elections are not some meaningless ritual nations have to perform every so many years. Elections are the very heart of what distinguishes us humans from all the other creatures; our rights and freedoms. Every human being has a right to a meaningful say in the governance of his or her country is just as important as the right to life!
Indeed when hundreds of thousands of our people have been murdered for no other reason other than that they dared demand free and fair elections and a meaningful vote it goes to show that the denial of one right or freedom has always resulted in the denial of all the other rights and freedoms.
Elections are always a gladiatorial affairs between those in power and those challenging to take their place in which the electorate are the arbiters whose vote will decide the winner. Like every other contest, there must be rules governing the contact elections stating what all the participants can and can not do. The use of violence against the opposition and the electorate, for example, is unacceptable. Elections should be gladiatorial clash of ideas not Police batons hitting innocent and defenceless people as has become the norm in Zimbabwe. Of course it is right that there should be Police reforms to end this outrage.
Freedom of expression and free press gives the citizens to opportunity to question and criticise those exercising political power on their behalf. Elections gives the citizens the chance to replace, if they so wish, to replace those to hold public office. Yes one can call it “regime change” because that is what it is and there is nothing wrong with it.
Mugabe became Prime Minister and the Executive President of Zimbabwe in April 1980 and has remained in office to this day, over thirty years! In that time USA has had six presidents and Britain other democratic nations have had a similar change of leaders.
It is the democratic nations’ ability to hold meaningful competition and to change leaders that is behind their dynamism and prosperity. Zimbabwe like all nations is which tyrants have stifled debate and change has suffered from stagnation and rot.
Regime change is not a dirty phase as Mugabe, Moyo and the rest in Zanu PF would have us believe. It is the only way out of a political stagnation, years of corruption and economic melt down and the only way to restore the dignity and hope of the people of Zimbabwe. Using violence and other repressive means to frustrate the electorate’s democratic wishes is treason and serious crime against humanity. People like Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti and now Lindiwe Zulu have repeatedly shied away from taking a bold and unequivocal stand against Mugabe’s lies and bullying tactics and thus failed the people of Zimbabwe!
Monday, 4 July 2011
A bastard is a bastard regardless of the missionary and University education he received.
@Hilbert
I do not agree with your statement "democracy only works if the majority is educated".
There are more educated people in Zimbabwe or South Africa today than there were in 1774 America or in Greece during its Golden Age. Democracy thrived in the latter two countries and in SA the flame of democracy is being buffeted by gale force winds. In Zimbabwe, the flame was snuffed out the very day Mugabe and Zanu PF assumed office. Mugabe has seven University degrees not counting the numerous honorary degrees bestowed on him and yet he has turned out to be an ignoramus, devoid of any common sense, and heartless tyrant.
If we take Mugabe as our case study then it proves the exact opposite. He was a bastard before all the quality missionary education and the numerous University Degrees he obtained from some of the highly regarded institutions of learning. At the end of it all he was still a bastard. So capped or not a bastard is a bastard is a bastard!
33333
CCJP supported those fighting to end white racism and Mugabe, then, was leading that charge and so yes, CCJP supported Mugabe. Since independence Mugabe has changed to become a ruthless tyrant. CCJP have never changed, their compass needle has continued to point true North, and they have been critical of Mugabe's abuse of power. CCJP was one of the organisations to condemn and document Mugabe's murders in the mid 1980s, for example. Yes some Catholic Priests have had a shamefully cosy relationship with the dictator; still it would be hasty to say one should not trust the Roman Catholic because of that.
77777
Chaminuka
As a Zimbabwean myself I am getting sick and tired of hearing Zimbabweans castigating SADC and President Zuma for doing nothing to end the madness in Zimbabwe in one breath. And then in the next breath praise Tsvangirai and MDC to the rafters for doing nothing!
If the idiot, Tsvangirai, had not signed the GPA, against the deafening chorus of advice not to, we would not be in this mess. As if that not bad enough; for the first two years of the GNU Tsvangirai never tired of telling us all that the arrangement was “working”. Whenever things have become unbearable the idiot has turned to SADC to sort things out. Why? Because he and his MDC friends do not have the foggiest idea what to do; they had no plan “B” when they signed the GPA and they still have no plan “B” now that it is self evident the GPA has failed.
Even if President Zuma acted and somehow had Mugabe removed, that will not stop the madness because another dictator will emerge to take his place. Tsvangirai, like many other Zimbabweans, believes Zimbabwe will revert to rule of law, economic prosperity, etc. if remove Mugabe, Chihuri and three or four others were removed. He is naïve, of course. There is a lot more to the Zanu PF dictatorship than top leaders, besides the juggernaut has gathered so much momentum to be stopped at the drop of a hat by anyone.
The very best SADC can do for Zimbabwe is force Mugabe to give up power; they may even hand the presidency to Tsvangirai in a silver platter but, sadly, they is nothing they can do to stop some one else in Zanu PF seizing power from Tsvangirai. The latter is just too feeble and naïve; a fact Zimbabweans have been to proud to acknowledge and address!
I do not agree with your statement "democracy only works if the majority is educated".
There are more educated people in Zimbabwe or South Africa today than there were in 1774 America or in Greece during its Golden Age. Democracy thrived in the latter two countries and in SA the flame of democracy is being buffeted by gale force winds. In Zimbabwe, the flame was snuffed out the very day Mugabe and Zanu PF assumed office. Mugabe has seven University degrees not counting the numerous honorary degrees bestowed on him and yet he has turned out to be an ignoramus, devoid of any common sense, and heartless tyrant.
If we take Mugabe as our case study then it proves the exact opposite. He was a bastard before all the quality missionary education and the numerous University Degrees he obtained from some of the highly regarded institutions of learning. At the end of it all he was still a bastard. So capped or not a bastard is a bastard is a bastard!
33333
CCJP supported those fighting to end white racism and Mugabe, then, was leading that charge and so yes, CCJP supported Mugabe. Since independence Mugabe has changed to become a ruthless tyrant. CCJP have never changed, their compass needle has continued to point true North, and they have been critical of Mugabe's abuse of power. CCJP was one of the organisations to condemn and document Mugabe's murders in the mid 1980s, for example. Yes some Catholic Priests have had a shamefully cosy relationship with the dictator; still it would be hasty to say one should not trust the Roman Catholic because of that.
77777
Chaminuka
As a Zimbabwean myself I am getting sick and tired of hearing Zimbabweans castigating SADC and President Zuma for doing nothing to end the madness in Zimbabwe in one breath. And then in the next breath praise Tsvangirai and MDC to the rafters for doing nothing!
If the idiot, Tsvangirai, had not signed the GPA, against the deafening chorus of advice not to, we would not be in this mess. As if that not bad enough; for the first two years of the GNU Tsvangirai never tired of telling us all that the arrangement was “working”. Whenever things have become unbearable the idiot has turned to SADC to sort things out. Why? Because he and his MDC friends do not have the foggiest idea what to do; they had no plan “B” when they signed the GPA and they still have no plan “B” now that it is self evident the GPA has failed.
Even if President Zuma acted and somehow had Mugabe removed, that will not stop the madness because another dictator will emerge to take his place. Tsvangirai, like many other Zimbabweans, believes Zimbabwe will revert to rule of law, economic prosperity, etc. if remove Mugabe, Chihuri and three or four others were removed. He is naïve, of course. There is a lot more to the Zanu PF dictatorship than top leaders, besides the juggernaut has gathered so much momentum to be stopped at the drop of a hat by anyone.
The very best SADC can do for Zimbabwe is force Mugabe to give up power; they may even hand the presidency to Tsvangirai in a silver platter but, sadly, they is nothing they can do to stop some one else in Zanu PF seizing power from Tsvangirai. The latter is just too feeble and naïve; a fact Zimbabweans have been to proud to acknowledge and address!
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