“Zimbabwe
Liberators Platform (ZLP) Secretary-general Wilson Nharingo recently
said that President Mugabe had eroded the liberation war values and
the country was virtually under siege from ZANU PF forces of
destruction,” wrote Stewart Murewa, Bulawayo 24 Opinion.
“The
war veteran leader and his clique of supporters seem to be out of
touch with reality. They are few malcontents who are selfish and lack
the national vision. This group should not just shout for the sake of
it as we know that they are seeking relevance who have been expelled
from the mainstream war veteran association due to their megalomania.
“It is now a known fact that ZLP members are a bunch of power hungry war veterans who are after looting and self aggrandizement. Proper and patriotic war veterans should hail the President for providing funds for demobilization, Zim $50 000 gratuities and the monthly pensions allowances. In addition to these their children's fees are catered for by the government. Moreover others who were injured during the armed struggle were paid disability allowances.”
The
trouble with stupid apologists like Stewart is that they do not know
when the game is up!
Zimbabwe's
war of independence was fought for freedom, justice, human rights and
so all Zimbabweans can have they fair share in the nation's economic
wealth. After 36 years there can be no doubt that President Mugabe
and his Zanu PF ruling clique are the ones who have betrayed the
nation by abandoning these values for selfish political gain.
The
Zimbabwe economy has collapsed millions of our people are out of work
and are now living in abject poverty without the most basic
necessities of life like clean running water, decent health services,
etc. They dream of a fair share of the nation's wealth evaporated
soon after independence as it became increasing clear that President
Mugabe and his cronies were going to claim the lion's share of the
nation's wealth.
The
white colonialists too took the lion's share of the nation's wealth
and resources but at least they used it to create more wealth
building one of the most robust economy in Africa. We all had plenty
to eat. After independence Mugabe and his cronies took the lion's
share of the wealth only to waste it away. Mugabe and his cronies
seized the white farms only to leave them to lay fallow whilst the
nation starved.
Even
at his meeting with the war vets on Thursday, this late in the show,
President Mugabe still blamed the sanctions for the country's
economic collapse. Yet only last month he admitted that $15 billion
in diamonds revenue was looted from Marange in the last seven years
alone. Many people believe he admitted to a tiny fraction which,
nonetheless, constitutes the country's GDP! How anyone would expect
the nation to prosper with such grand theft going on!
Yes
President Mugabe has provided war vets “funds for demobilization,
Zim $50 000 gratuities, etc.” but these payouts were nothing more
that the ruling elite throwing a few bread crumbs at the war vets
who, like the rest of the population were rightly concerned about the
growing poverty and alarmed by the criminal waste of resources.
Mugabe's
devious cynicism in his dealings with the war vet is sickening. On
Thursday President Mugabe said he would allocate farms to war vets
and has asked them to open up their own mining operations. When he
and his cronies got the white farms they inherited the animals, plant
and equipment, everything and for the next decade they got billions
of dollars in fuel allowances and other State assistance. They still
failed to make productive use of the farms and many have since
abandoned the farms. Now Mugabe wants to give the farms stripped of
all movable assets to war vets, they will get no State assistance of
any kind and expect them to turn back the clock and make the farms
productive again!
Of
course President Mugabe does not expect a war vet to open up a
platinum or gold mine to compete with mining giants like ZimPlat or
Rio Tinto. He is just being cynical.
President
Mugabe has given the war vets the bread crumbs and then used them to
silence the povo who have been crying for a fair share of the
nation's wealth, freedom, justice and human rights. In his most
satanic move yet, President Mugabe has brainwashed the war vets into
believing that they are defending the nation's “hard won
independence and sovereignty” by denying the ordinary people their
basic freedoms and human rights including the right to free and fair
elections and even the right to life.
“They
(ZLP) are few malcontents who are selfish and lack the national
vision,” Murewa tells us.
A
few Zimbabweans including the ZLP have seen Mugabe for the
cynical, manipulative, corrupt and murderous tyrant he is. It is
Mugabe who is selfish and lacks vision; the historic facts of the
last 36 years speak for themselves. If there is to be peace and
justice in Zimbabwe then people like President Mugabe and his
acolytes like Stewart Murewa must account for their part in dragging
this nation into this hell!
Mugabe is a murderous tyrant who is scarred of giving up power because he cannot trust anyone else to keep his dirty past concealed. He is having a tough time concealing it himself what more some one else!
ReplyDeleteMsipa said Mugabe's 56 years in politics were long enough for a "normal human being to hang the boots". Msipa said Mugabe had played his part which why he now needed to pass on the button.
When you have as many skeletons in the basement, attic, mine-shift, etc., etc. as Mugabe has you never hang up your boots because you know one those boots will be hanging but with you still in those!