@ O’forth
It is hard being a Zimbabwean. Most people can only imagine what unemployment rate of 80% plus for over ten years and the economic hardship that comes with it real means. What makes it all even harder is all the political repression which has made it near impossible all these last 30 years to change. But this is all nothing; the hardest thing to bear is the betrayals by the people who yesterday one thought were on your side.
People fought the war of independence only for Mugabe and his thugs to betray the them and deny them, the freedom, liberty, human dignity, hope, everything so many had died for.
For the last thirty years many more Zimbabweans have suffered and thousands have died to end the Mugabe dictatorship. In 2008 the nation thought their goal had finally been achieved only for Tsvangirai to betray them and allow the tyrant back into State House. And only for an empty title of Prime Minister - Mugabe saw to it that the position had no real power or authority - that was the thirty pieces of silver Tsvangirai got!
Tsvangirai could still prevent the blood shed his blundering has made certain if only he will use his parliamentary majority to stop Mugabe. But he will not do it because for all the political posturing he is now one of the ruling elite and is enjoying all the benefits and privileges that go with it. Mugabe knew he only had to give him and his MDC friends a ministerial Mercedes Benz, endless foreign travel, etc. – “vhara muromo,” in Shona - and they will promptly forget their promise to bring democratic change, freedom, rule of law, etc. And that is exactly what has happened!
People have asked why Zimbabweans have not staged mass demonstrations against the Mugabe regime, similar to those in Tunisia, Egypt, etc? Many people would say it was fear of the regime’s brutal repression and point to the how the regime has always deployed the Riot police, Police and even the Army each time people stage any public gathering. The only public demonstrations allowed are those supportive of the regime the rest are considered a serious threat to maintaining public order and dealt with accordingly. But then the same was said about Tunisia and Egypt until the Arab Spring! There is more to why Zimbabweans have not taken their clue from Egypt and force the Mugabe regime out of office.
The people of Zimbabwe do not believe rising against Mugabe would bring them any nearer their cherished goal of freedom and liberty because the leaders who emerge at the end of the day will betray them just as readily as Mugabe and Tsvangirai has done. The people of Egypt and Tunisia had never risen against their dictators until now for the same reason.
The Egyptians and Tunisians had been desperate for change for decades, just like Zimbabweans. It was the desperation that drove the fruit seller in Tunisia to commit suicide. There was nothing new in that. In the past a few people would have come out in the street in sympathy only for the regime to fall on them like a tonne of bricks. What the Tunisian regime did not realise was that two things had changed: a) the people were better informed so instead of a few protesters on the streets there was a multitude. b) the people themselves were in control of the revolution and not some crooks who would betray them. It was these two fundamental changes that got the people into the streets in Egypt, Syria and Yemen day after day after day!
It was desperation that got Zimbabweans to vote for MDC in droves in March 2008 but when Mugabe turned his terror machine on them, the people quickly changed in June 2008 vote. MDC, true to form, betrayed the people the minute they enter office.
The people of Zimbabwe are even more desperate for change today as ever. Come the next elections many Zimbabweans will try once again to vote Mugabe out of office regardless of the threat of violence and the certain betrayal by the MDC or whoever else. That is why Mugabe has no choice but to step up the violence and MDC, for their part, are confidence of an election victory regardless of their dismal past performance.
There is no hope of ever achieving a free and democratic Zimbabwe until the electorate is enlightened enough to hold the leaders to account at every level. Being desperate should force the people to seek the enlightenment but, on its own, it is not enough!
Saturday, 8 October 2011
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Democracy is a good thing but it comes with a price tag - an informed electorate: a price Zimbabwe failed to pay!
Now that he has the terror machine responsible for the political violence set up, Mugabe wants elections as soon as possible. He needs the violence to “win” the elections. Tsvangirai does not want the elections until all the democratic reforms have been carried out and the violence stopped. In the last three years, he has failed to push through even one reform. He is too feeble to do it. Zimbabweans have their own wants.
Zimbabweans can not wait to see the back of this GNU which has really done little to change things on the ground for them; so they too want elections a.s.a.p. They are also aware that holding elections in the present climate of growing political violence will mean many of them will be subjected to the same abuses as happen in 2008 or worse. They will be forced to vote for Mugabe and Zanu PF again and therefore not got the regime change they desperately need. So the Zimbabwean people are damn if elections are held and damned if they keep being moved to some indefinite date in the future but it is their faulty they are in this mess.
All the democratic reforms to ensure free elections should have been carried out by now. Mugabe had his reasons for doing nothing and Tsvangirai has his excuses; reasons and excuses the public should have anticipated but clearly did not. Unless we come up with a way out; we can wait another year or two and still face the same prospects of holding elections with no democratic reforms.
The Zimbabwe public did not have any answers to how to end Zanu PF’s culture of political violence three year ago and today they still have no answers. An electorate that does not understand the challenges the nation faces and what can and can not be done can not make an informed choice of leaders or hold them to account thereafter.
Universal suffrage grants every adult the right to a free vote and takes for granted that every adult in well informed. In Zimbabwe the political system conspire to keep the electorate ignorant and desperate. There answers to the nation’s multitude of problems are always staring us, the electorate, in the face if only we opened our eyes.
The answer to ending the political violence, for example, is for MDC have to use its parliamentary majority to force the Police to arrest the Zanu PF thugs, the Courts to convict them, etc. It Mugabe is indeed the one giving the Police, etc the specific instructions not to carry out their statutory duty of maintaining law and order, then parliament must impeach him; he does not have the power or authority to do that.
Of course, it is highly probable Tsvangirai and MDC will never impeach Mugabe, they are too subservient to the dictator to ever make such a bold move, and therefore the political violence will continue.
When Mugabe stepped up the violence after losing the March 2008 vote, Zimbabweans voted for him on mass in the June vote. The political violence has already started and Zimbabweans have two good reasons to vote for Mugabe on mass once again. If the nation is subjected to the same level of violence as in 2008, all the evidence on the ground says it will be the same or worse, then the people will have no choice but vote for Mugabe and Zanu PF. The second reason is if MDC is powerless to change anything even when they have parliamentary majority, as they have already shown, then why the nation should risk the life of one more Zimbabwean voting for MDC.
If any other political party was to emerge by the time of the next elections then the electorate have to consider if that party will not betray the people just as Tsvangirai and MDC have done.
If the people of Zimbabwe are going to get out of the economic and political hell-hole Mugabe landed the nation in then we must transform ourselves from an ignorant and subservient voters to an informed ones willing and able to hold the leaders to account on every turn! Democracy is a good thing but, like all good things, it comes with a price tag – it demands an informed electorate.
888
Zanu PF is a party of vultures; it is tough enough to keep the peace when there is plenty of corpses and helpless victims for them to feed on. Now the national economy picked clean, there is nothing of value for them to loot, and the vultures hungry and angry. The vulture have been gawking at each and it will not be long before feather start flying and tire each other to piece.
It would have been hard enough for Mugabe to cope if this had happen ten years ago; he was younger then. Old age and poor health has turned him into a seating duck amongst the cultures. Reports of him hoarding 13 farms for himself and his family, US$ 3 billion starched away, etc. are turning him into a juicy roasted duck – everyone wants a piece!
Some people would even say the very suspicious and gruesome death of retired general Solomon Tapfumaneyi Mujuru last month marks the start of the feeding frenzy.
WikiLeaks could well be but the opportunistic last straw – the apple was ripe, even the butterfly’s wing beat is enough to set it off - to trigger the feeding frenzy to tear Mugabe and Zanu PF to pieces. Zanu PF is a party of ruthless thugs whose lives revolved around two things violence and looting with nothing left to plunder it little wonder they are turning on the leader and each other. They live by the sword; “I have degrees in violence!” boasted Mugabe. Now they must die by the sword, a befitting violent end!
Whether Mugabe punishes those named in WikiLeaks or not, he and his Zanu PF party are doomed to have a bloody end!
Zimbabweans can not wait to see the back of this GNU which has really done little to change things on the ground for them; so they too want elections a.s.a.p. They are also aware that holding elections in the present climate of growing political violence will mean many of them will be subjected to the same abuses as happen in 2008 or worse. They will be forced to vote for Mugabe and Zanu PF again and therefore not got the regime change they desperately need. So the Zimbabwean people are damn if elections are held and damned if they keep being moved to some indefinite date in the future but it is their faulty they are in this mess.
All the democratic reforms to ensure free elections should have been carried out by now. Mugabe had his reasons for doing nothing and Tsvangirai has his excuses; reasons and excuses the public should have anticipated but clearly did not. Unless we come up with a way out; we can wait another year or two and still face the same prospects of holding elections with no democratic reforms.
The Zimbabwe public did not have any answers to how to end Zanu PF’s culture of political violence three year ago and today they still have no answers. An electorate that does not understand the challenges the nation faces and what can and can not be done can not make an informed choice of leaders or hold them to account thereafter.
Universal suffrage grants every adult the right to a free vote and takes for granted that every adult in well informed. In Zimbabwe the political system conspire to keep the electorate ignorant and desperate. There answers to the nation’s multitude of problems are always staring us, the electorate, in the face if only we opened our eyes.
The answer to ending the political violence, for example, is for MDC have to use its parliamentary majority to force the Police to arrest the Zanu PF thugs, the Courts to convict them, etc. It Mugabe is indeed the one giving the Police, etc the specific instructions not to carry out their statutory duty of maintaining law and order, then parliament must impeach him; he does not have the power or authority to do that.
Of course, it is highly probable Tsvangirai and MDC will never impeach Mugabe, they are too subservient to the dictator to ever make such a bold move, and therefore the political violence will continue.
When Mugabe stepped up the violence after losing the March 2008 vote, Zimbabweans voted for him on mass in the June vote. The political violence has already started and Zimbabweans have two good reasons to vote for Mugabe on mass once again. If the nation is subjected to the same level of violence as in 2008, all the evidence on the ground says it will be the same or worse, then the people will have no choice but vote for Mugabe and Zanu PF. The second reason is if MDC is powerless to change anything even when they have parliamentary majority, as they have already shown, then why the nation should risk the life of one more Zimbabwean voting for MDC.
If any other political party was to emerge by the time of the next elections then the electorate have to consider if that party will not betray the people just as Tsvangirai and MDC have done.
If the people of Zimbabwe are going to get out of the economic and political hell-hole Mugabe landed the nation in then we must transform ourselves from an ignorant and subservient voters to an informed ones willing and able to hold the leaders to account on every turn! Democracy is a good thing but, like all good things, it comes with a price tag – it demands an informed electorate.
888
Zanu PF is a party of vultures; it is tough enough to keep the peace when there is plenty of corpses and helpless victims for them to feed on. Now the national economy picked clean, there is nothing of value for them to loot, and the vultures hungry and angry. The vulture have been gawking at each and it will not be long before feather start flying and tire each other to piece.
It would have been hard enough for Mugabe to cope if this had happen ten years ago; he was younger then. Old age and poor health has turned him into a seating duck amongst the cultures. Reports of him hoarding 13 farms for himself and his family, US$ 3 billion starched away, etc. are turning him into a juicy roasted duck – everyone wants a piece!
Some people would even say the very suspicious and gruesome death of retired general Solomon Tapfumaneyi Mujuru last month marks the start of the feeding frenzy.
WikiLeaks could well be but the opportunistic last straw – the apple was ripe, even the butterfly’s wing beat is enough to set it off - to trigger the feeding frenzy to tear Mugabe and Zanu PF to pieces. Zanu PF is a party of ruthless thugs whose lives revolved around two things violence and looting with nothing left to plunder it little wonder they are turning on the leader and each other. They live by the sword; “I have degrees in violence!” boasted Mugabe. Now they must die by the sword, a befitting violent end!
Whether Mugabe punishes those named in WikiLeaks or not, he and his Zanu PF party are doomed to have a bloody end!
Mugabe is worth US$ 3 billion making him the 8 th richest African!
Mugabe worth US$3 billion and 8th richest African! Is it an wonder he has killed and will continue to do so just to remain president.
For years Gaddafi portrayed the image of a simple man living in a tent. He even held his court with visiting dignitaries in a tent. What gave always gave the game away is his reaction to any suggestion that he should retire to his simple Bedouin life: if looks would kill, his looks would vaporise you on the spot.
“My people love me!” the dictator would say. Yeah they love you so much that for forty years you have denied them their basic and fundamental right to elect you in a free vote!
When Gaddafi was finally toppled this year the liar of his simple life was exposed. A simple Bedouin with a private jet complete with a bed and Jacuzzi and with a cool US$56 billion bank balance. And in one mass grave in Tripoli people found the remains of over a 100 people; killed and buried by Gaddafi.
It looks Gaddafi’s brother Mugabe in Zimbabwe was not doing badly for himself, thank you. Mugabe and his family have 13 farms – farms supposedly redistributed to landless peasants – has mansion worth £3 million, US$3 billion in the bank and God knows what else besides. Mugabe has the blood of over 20 000 innocent Zimbabweans from the Gukurahundi massacres alone; shed to establish his de facto one-party dictatorship. In 2008 he “declared war”, as Tsvangirai rightly said, on the people to force them to vote for him; hundreds of thousands were beaten and raped and over 500 murdered.
Tyrants like Gaddafi and Mugabe think the truth of their greed and repression will never come out. In the end, it all comes out; as we say in Shona “Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!”
The truth of what beady-eyed Zimbabwean dictator has done is coming out. Millions of Zimbabweans live in abject poverty and without the bear necessities and Mugabe, the sewer rat, has spirited away US$3 billion!
For years Gaddafi portrayed the image of a simple man living in a tent. He even held his court with visiting dignitaries in a tent. What gave always gave the game away is his reaction to any suggestion that he should retire to his simple Bedouin life: if looks would kill, his looks would vaporise you on the spot.
“My people love me!” the dictator would say. Yeah they love you so much that for forty years you have denied them their basic and fundamental right to elect you in a free vote!
When Gaddafi was finally toppled this year the liar of his simple life was exposed. A simple Bedouin with a private jet complete with a bed and Jacuzzi and with a cool US$56 billion bank balance. And in one mass grave in Tripoli people found the remains of over a 100 people; killed and buried by Gaddafi.
It looks Gaddafi’s brother Mugabe in Zimbabwe was not doing badly for himself, thank you. Mugabe and his family have 13 farms – farms supposedly redistributed to landless peasants – has mansion worth £3 million, US$3 billion in the bank and God knows what else besides. Mugabe has the blood of over 20 000 innocent Zimbabweans from the Gukurahundi massacres alone; shed to establish his de facto one-party dictatorship. In 2008 he “declared war”, as Tsvangirai rightly said, on the people to force them to vote for him; hundreds of thousands were beaten and raped and over 500 murdered.
Tyrants like Gaddafi and Mugabe think the truth of their greed and repression will never come out. In the end, it all comes out; as we say in Shona “Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!”
The truth of what beady-eyed Zimbabwean dictator has done is coming out. Millions of Zimbabweans live in abject poverty and without the bear necessities and Mugabe, the sewer rat, has spirited away US$3 billion!
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
SA bow to Chinese pressure and refuse Dalai Lama visa - and SA wanted UN permanent seat!
The Dalai Lama cancels his visit to SA after failing to get a visa. Many people believe SA did not issue him the visa to please China- SA biggest trading country.
The Dalai Lama was only visiting SA. Other countries like India have allowed people like the Dalai Lama to settle and come and go as he pleases. It was not even the SA government that was going to host the Dalai Lama and still it said no. It is to those that much has been given that much is expected. SA received a lot of support from people like the Dalai Lama during the dark days of apartheid; SA can give the people of Tibet its moral support at least -that is not too much to ask!
This is not the first blunder by this ANC government. President Zuma still has egg all over himself for his continued support of Gaddafi in the Libya uprising. The Zimbabwe nightmare is one monumental f*up that has simply refused to go away.
I think it is good that Africa, South America and South Asia should have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Brazil and India would make good candidates for the two latter regions. SA would have been the obvious choice for Africa but the performance of the ANC government ever since Madiba left office has been shocking. It is tragic enough that this ANC government should be making one disastrous policy decision after another for SA; it would be folly to let such a regime exercise veto powers on behalf of Africa!
The Dalai Lama was only visiting SA. Other countries like India have allowed people like the Dalai Lama to settle and come and go as he pleases. It was not even the SA government that was going to host the Dalai Lama and still it said no. It is to those that much has been given that much is expected. SA received a lot of support from people like the Dalai Lama during the dark days of apartheid; SA can give the people of Tibet its moral support at least -that is not too much to ask!
This is not the first blunder by this ANC government. President Zuma still has egg all over himself for his continued support of Gaddafi in the Libya uprising. The Zimbabwe nightmare is one monumental f*up that has simply refused to go away.
I think it is good that Africa, South America and South Asia should have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Brazil and India would make good candidates for the two latter regions. SA would have been the obvious choice for Africa but the performance of the ANC government ever since Madiba left office has been shocking. It is tragic enough that this ANC government should be making one disastrous policy decision after another for SA; it would be folly to let such a regime exercise veto powers on behalf of Africa!
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Zimbabwe's political violence steps up a gear - Mugabe Je crache sur vous!
A Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisations reports of increasing political violence in Zimbabwe. This is one nightmare that will never go away!
What we have done to deserve a tyrant like Mugabe for president!?
I am not one given to cursing and swearing but after thirty years of brutal oppression of a whole nation; Mugabe, that sewer rat, deserve to be curse for all time! Je crache sur vous le rat d'égout observé percé en vrille!
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If the only thing that mattered was to punish the whites for the historic wrongs regardless of whom else is punished in the process then what Mugabe did was "right"! Some people will would be sickened by all that gratuitous brutality and violence against the white farmers and their black workers but when one is a tyrant with “degrees in violence,” as Mugabe himself never tire of reminding us, it is all water off a duck’s back!
Well I do care that the land redistribution was one of the root causes of Zimbabwe’s economic melt down that has caused heart breaking economic hardships. I am also disappointed that the landless peasants who should have been the main beneficiary of any land reforms were left out. It is Mugabe and his cronies who now own most of the land.
If Mugabe was so sure his land policy was popular with the people of Zimbabwe why then did he go to such murderous lengths to deny them a free vote in 2008 and every other election before that! The agricultural sector was the backbone of Zimbabwe’s economy and thus is the key to its recovery. We have to get Mugabe and his cronies off the land and resettle those who will put it to productive use. We can not do that as long as the tyrant remains in power and, as you can see, he has already started his murderous campaign of terror to deny the people of Zimbabwe their democratic right to a meaningful vote!
999
Mugabe denies he had gone to Singapore for medical reasons. He was visiting his daughter, Bona, he said.
Sure thing; this is the seventh time Mugabe has visited his daughter in nearly as many months! What kind of degree is she doing anywhere that does not allow her even a few days to visit her family? She has been away for donkeys years now. She, like the father, must have at least seven University degrees. As for the degree in violence, she will find no better teacher in the world than her own father.
Bona Mugabe is doing all these degrees because she, like so many other children of Zimbabwe's ruling elite, is ashamed to live in Zimbabwe. Indeed if the other ruling elite could afford it, they too, like Mugabe, would be getting all their medical needs, shopping, etc. outside Zimbabwe.
I will not wish Mugabe speedy recovery because, unlike him, lying does not come naturally to me!
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@ Snow flake
The political violence in Zimbabwe is heartbreaking. This was the one thing Tsvangirai should have addressed but failed. All MDC have done in the last three years is give Mugabe a good public image whilst the tyrant continued in his evil and murderous ways.
MDC can use its parliamentary majority to rein in Mugabe. If parliament is useless then why in the name of God did we risk over 500 lives to give MDC parliamentary majority. Parliament can stop the political violence it just that MDC is itself too incompetent and cowardly to do it!
What we have done to deserve a tyrant like Mugabe for president!?
I am not one given to cursing and swearing but after thirty years of brutal oppression of a whole nation; Mugabe, that sewer rat, deserve to be curse for all time! Je crache sur vous le rat d'égout observé percé en vrille!
)))))
If the only thing that mattered was to punish the whites for the historic wrongs regardless of whom else is punished in the process then what Mugabe did was "right"! Some people will would be sickened by all that gratuitous brutality and violence against the white farmers and their black workers but when one is a tyrant with “degrees in violence,” as Mugabe himself never tire of reminding us, it is all water off a duck’s back!
Well I do care that the land redistribution was one of the root causes of Zimbabwe’s economic melt down that has caused heart breaking economic hardships. I am also disappointed that the landless peasants who should have been the main beneficiary of any land reforms were left out. It is Mugabe and his cronies who now own most of the land.
If Mugabe was so sure his land policy was popular with the people of Zimbabwe why then did he go to such murderous lengths to deny them a free vote in 2008 and every other election before that! The agricultural sector was the backbone of Zimbabwe’s economy and thus is the key to its recovery. We have to get Mugabe and his cronies off the land and resettle those who will put it to productive use. We can not do that as long as the tyrant remains in power and, as you can see, he has already started his murderous campaign of terror to deny the people of Zimbabwe their democratic right to a meaningful vote!
999
Mugabe denies he had gone to Singapore for medical reasons. He was visiting his daughter, Bona, he said.
Sure thing; this is the seventh time Mugabe has visited his daughter in nearly as many months! What kind of degree is she doing anywhere that does not allow her even a few days to visit her family? She has been away for donkeys years now. She, like the father, must have at least seven University degrees. As for the degree in violence, she will find no better teacher in the world than her own father.
Bona Mugabe is doing all these degrees because she, like so many other children of Zimbabwe's ruling elite, is ashamed to live in Zimbabwe. Indeed if the other ruling elite could afford it, they too, like Mugabe, would be getting all their medical needs, shopping, etc. outside Zimbabwe.
I will not wish Mugabe speedy recovery because, unlike him, lying does not come naturally to me!
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@ Snow flake
The political violence in Zimbabwe is heartbreaking. This was the one thing Tsvangirai should have addressed but failed. All MDC have done in the last three years is give Mugabe a good public image whilst the tyrant continued in his evil and murderous ways.
MDC can use its parliamentary majority to rein in Mugabe. If parliament is useless then why in the name of God did we risk over 500 lives to give MDC parliamentary majority. Parliament can stop the political violence it just that MDC is itself too incompetent and cowardly to do it!
Monday, 3 October 2011
Zuma says Zimbabwe style farm seizures will not happen in SA - hardly a ringing assurance!
Julius Malema is crystal clear what he really wants done with the white owned farms; kick out the white owners and give the farms to the few black ruling elite just as Mugabe has done in Zimbabwe. President Zuma and the rest of the ANC government have argued that they will not do “anything to harm the national economy”. That is wish-washy, to say the least, because they never said how such a policy would harm the economy.
“We cannot have a Zimbabwean situation in SA. We're saying we should do things within the law," explained President Zuma. Well that should sure make the position as clear as mud!
Malema and company will have no problem with that: “Go straight ahead Mr President,” they would say, “enact the law!” Mugabe did enact some laws but in the heat of the looting and to make a one-finger statement to the West, all the laws were disregarded.
Zimbabwe’s lawless and often violent land seizures did hurt the country’s economy badly but that was largely because agricultural production plummeted soon after Mugabe and his cronies seized the farms. They did not get the expected the bumper crops and fat cattle because, besides the land, one must also have the farming skills, the dedication and be prepared to work hard. “Munda hauzvirimi!” as one would say in Shona.
Malema has already said in SA the blacks who will get the seized farms should have formal training first. In the case of Zimbabwe, the lack farming skills was not even the half of it. Having to work hard was and still is the biggest stumbling block. Mugabe and his cronies have never done a honest day’s work for three decades, all their wealth was fleecing the public direct or indirectly as a public worker or from some corrupt activity. The white farms were just another national asset for them to loot and that they did. Even when it was evident that falling agricultural production was causing economic melt down; the looting continued unabated. Mugabe and his cronies did not care.
If property rights are disregarded in dealing with the land issue; then nothing is safe, investors know that. President Zuma’s failure to defend property rights robustly in his dealings with Mugabe and Malema has left people in no doubt he does not care about property rights nor the damage land seizures will inflict on the SA economy.
White SA farmers are set to lose their farms regardless of the certain damage this will do to SA’s economy. The only questions to be settled are when and whether the process will orderly or just as chaotic as happened in Zimbabwe!
“We cannot have a Zimbabwean situation in SA. We're saying we should do things within the law," explained President Zuma. Well that should sure make the position as clear as mud!
Malema and company will have no problem with that: “Go straight ahead Mr President,” they would say, “enact the law!” Mugabe did enact some laws but in the heat of the looting and to make a one-finger statement to the West, all the laws were disregarded.
Zimbabwe’s lawless and often violent land seizures did hurt the country’s economy badly but that was largely because agricultural production plummeted soon after Mugabe and his cronies seized the farms. They did not get the expected the bumper crops and fat cattle because, besides the land, one must also have the farming skills, the dedication and be prepared to work hard. “Munda hauzvirimi!” as one would say in Shona.
Malema has already said in SA the blacks who will get the seized farms should have formal training first. In the case of Zimbabwe, the lack farming skills was not even the half of it. Having to work hard was and still is the biggest stumbling block. Mugabe and his cronies have never done a honest day’s work for three decades, all their wealth was fleecing the public direct or indirectly as a public worker or from some corrupt activity. The white farms were just another national asset for them to loot and that they did. Even when it was evident that falling agricultural production was causing economic melt down; the looting continued unabated. Mugabe and his cronies did not care.
If property rights are disregarded in dealing with the land issue; then nothing is safe, investors know that. President Zuma’s failure to defend property rights robustly in his dealings with Mugabe and Malema has left people in no doubt he does not care about property rights nor the damage land seizures will inflict on the SA economy.
White SA farmers are set to lose their farms regardless of the certain damage this will do to SA’s economy. The only questions to be settled are when and whether the process will orderly or just as chaotic as happened in Zimbabwe!
Sunday, 2 October 2011
ZANU PF WOMAN AND MOTHER OF ZANU PF GANGSTER TELL RADIO LISTENERS OF HER FEARS!
THE CALL BACK (S W RADIO AFRICA) DISCUSSION WITH THE ZANU PF SUPPORTER LAST WEEK WAS VERY INFORMATIVE. THE LADY TOLD THE LISTENERS THREE BASIC REASONS WHY SHE IS A ZANU PF SUPPORTER AND WHY HER SON, A CHIPANGANO GANGSTER, IS DOING THE RIGHT THING:
1) MDC ARE PUPPETS OF THE WHITES AND THEREFORE DO NOT DESERVE TO BE TREATED WITH RESPECT. UNTIL MDC TAKE THE PROBLEM OF POOR LEADERS SERIOUSLY THE PARTY WILL NEVER SHAKE OFF THIS PUPPET IMAGE. WIKILEAKS REVEALED BITI, CHAMISA, GUTU AND BANNET HAVE TOO DISMISSED TSVANGIRAI IS INCOMPETENT AND YET HAVE DONE NOTHING TO REPLACE HIM.
2) HER SON’S GANG ACTIVITY IS DRIVING AWAY THE COMPETITION GIVING HER AND FELLOW ZANU PF SUPPORTERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO EARNING A LIVING SELLING VEGETABLES, ETC. HER SON TOO IS BRING IN MONEY. WHILST THE LADY READILY ADMITTED THE ZIMBABWE ECONOMY HAD COLLAPSED. SHE BLAMED THE SANCTIONS FOR THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE ALTHOUGH SHE KNEW THERE WERE OTHERS REASONS SHE DARED NOT SAY. IN THESE HARD TIMES SHE SUPPORTED HER SON’S GANGSTER ACTIVITIES AND WOULD HERSELF JOIN IN AND BEAT MDC SUPPORTERS TO ENSURE THERE WAS BREAD ON HER TABLE.
3) SHE DID NOT DARE QUESTION THE REIGN OF TEEROR ZANU PF SUPPORTERS HAD VISITED ON THE NATION FOR FEAR OF HERSELF BEING LABELLED AN OPPOSITION SUPPORTER AND PUNISHED. SHE CLEARLY DID NOT APPROVE WHAT HER SON WAS DOING BUT HAVE NEVER DARED RAISE THAT WITH HIM!
The interview illustrated one thing, Zimbabwe is a nation ruled by fear. And when the fear is institutionalised as has happened in Zimbabwe it grips one so tight paralysing some and driving others to do commit fearful crimes!
What the Zanu PF mother, her son and all the other Zanu PF supporters must know is that they are committing serious crimes against their fellow country men. Yes the regime has pushed into committing these crimes; still it is they and not Mugabe who strike the blow. And for that it is they and not Mugabe who will be held accountable one of these fine days. We are not dogs that will bite because they were trained to do so. We are human beings with a sense of honour and duty to ourselves and others.
What Mugabe is doing is despicable; he is deliberately withdrawing the Police and gauge and torment the people until a son is forced to betray his own mother and father and brother fights brother for his selfish political gain. Je crache sur vous, porcine sans coeur!
We have to break this cycle of fear born out of ignorance with reason. Sadly we are not yet ready to do so; we are not ready to listen to reason. Getting a competent alternative to the Zanu PF dictatorship is the critical first step. By electing and retain a flawed and indecisive leader like Morgan Tsvangirai all this years regardless of all his blunders the people of Zimbabwe have shown they are not ready for real change, they are not ready to see reason.
1) MDC ARE PUPPETS OF THE WHITES AND THEREFORE DO NOT DESERVE TO BE TREATED WITH RESPECT. UNTIL MDC TAKE THE PROBLEM OF POOR LEADERS SERIOUSLY THE PARTY WILL NEVER SHAKE OFF THIS PUPPET IMAGE. WIKILEAKS REVEALED BITI, CHAMISA, GUTU AND BANNET HAVE TOO DISMISSED TSVANGIRAI IS INCOMPETENT AND YET HAVE DONE NOTHING TO REPLACE HIM.
2) HER SON’S GANG ACTIVITY IS DRIVING AWAY THE COMPETITION GIVING HER AND FELLOW ZANU PF SUPPORTERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO EARNING A LIVING SELLING VEGETABLES, ETC. HER SON TOO IS BRING IN MONEY. WHILST THE LADY READILY ADMITTED THE ZIMBABWE ECONOMY HAD COLLAPSED. SHE BLAMED THE SANCTIONS FOR THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE ALTHOUGH SHE KNEW THERE WERE OTHERS REASONS SHE DARED NOT SAY. IN THESE HARD TIMES SHE SUPPORTED HER SON’S GANGSTER ACTIVITIES AND WOULD HERSELF JOIN IN AND BEAT MDC SUPPORTERS TO ENSURE THERE WAS BREAD ON HER TABLE.
3) SHE DID NOT DARE QUESTION THE REIGN OF TEEROR ZANU PF SUPPORTERS HAD VISITED ON THE NATION FOR FEAR OF HERSELF BEING LABELLED AN OPPOSITION SUPPORTER AND PUNISHED. SHE CLEARLY DID NOT APPROVE WHAT HER SON WAS DOING BUT HAVE NEVER DARED RAISE THAT WITH HIM!
The interview illustrated one thing, Zimbabwe is a nation ruled by fear. And when the fear is institutionalised as has happened in Zimbabwe it grips one so tight paralysing some and driving others to do commit fearful crimes!
What the Zanu PF mother, her son and all the other Zanu PF supporters must know is that they are committing serious crimes against their fellow country men. Yes the regime has pushed into committing these crimes; still it is they and not Mugabe who strike the blow. And for that it is they and not Mugabe who will be held accountable one of these fine days. We are not dogs that will bite because they were trained to do so. We are human beings with a sense of honour and duty to ourselves and others.
What Mugabe is doing is despicable; he is deliberately withdrawing the Police and gauge and torment the people until a son is forced to betray his own mother and father and brother fights brother for his selfish political gain. Je crache sur vous, porcine sans coeur!
We have to break this cycle of fear born out of ignorance with reason. Sadly we are not yet ready to do so; we are not ready to listen to reason. Getting a competent alternative to the Zanu PF dictatorship is the critical first step. By electing and retain a flawed and indecisive leader like Morgan Tsvangirai all this years regardless of all his blunders the people of Zimbabwe have shown they are not ready for real change, they are not ready to see reason.
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