Following last week’s public protests that both shocked and shook the
Zanu PF regime to the core; the regime had its usual knee-jerk reaction and
accuse the West, specifically the Americans and French of sponsoring the
protests.
“I make no excuse (for backing the protests), and I discard with disdain
the ridiculous accusations against me reported earlier this week,” the French
Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Laurent Delahousse answered by defiantly.
“ … they (allegations) belong to an outdated and irrelevant ideology that
is not helping your country to adapt to the reality of the world today.
The Ambassador is right, President Mugabe and his corrupt and tyrannical
regime are using the out dated and irrelevant ideology one would associate with
Ian Smith’s racist and colonial era.
Ever since the country attain her independence in 1980 this Mugabe regime
has systematically denied the ordinary Zimbabweans their freedoms and basic
human rights including the right to meaningful free and fair elections and even
the right to life. Whilst the white racist regime denied outright that blacks
were capable of such human feeling like suffering physical and economic hardships
such as strenuous labour, hunger, homelessness, etc. This Zanu PF regime has
softened its position by accepting the people are capable of these human
sufferings but it, nonetheless did not expect the people complain in anyway
about their suffering because they can endure suffering.
“Our people have resilience!” President Mugabe has often said to explain away
why the people of Zimbabwe have never protested against the country’s worsening
economic situation.
Hence, if the Zimbabweans should ever say or do anything to protest it
must be because someone, some “regime change agent”, has put the people up to
say or do these things. Of course it is total nonsense that the ordinary people
of Zimbabwe are incapable of seeing for themselves that the economic meltdown
is caused by mismanagement and corruption and thus demand that the regime
address these problems.
“We want our $15 billion back!” read one of the placards carried by the
protesters last week. That was referring to the $15 billion President Mugabe
admitted in March has looted but has done nothing to arrest those responsible.
This showed that the ordinary people are rejecting the usual excuse that the
economic meltdown is caused by sanctions; they know no nation on earth can ever
prosper in the face of such wholesale looting. They do not need the Americans,
the French or anyone else to tell them corruption is killing this nation.
“Zimbabweans should be allowed to assemble and demonstrate within the
framework of the law and to use social media in a peaceful manner,” pleaded the
Ambassador.
He was speaking to mark French National Day (Bastille Day) celebrations;
the historic day in 14 July 1799 that brought the promise of “Liberty!
Equality! Fraternity!” to all the people of France and not just to the few. It
is both ironic and heart-breaking that the men and women who claim to be Zimbabwe’s
liberators, the founding fathers and mothers of our struggle for freedom,
justice and liberty, should be the ones denying the masses their very humanity!
Of course it is heart-breaking that yesteryear we were fighting the white
colonialists for our freedom, liberty and right to be treated like human beings
and today, 36 years after independence, we are still fighting for our freedom,
liberty and human dignity – fighting our own fellow blacks no less! We have to
find a way to end this stupid cycle of yesterday’s liberators becoming today’s
oppressors!
Viva la liberte! Viva le France!
Excusez-moi, Monsieur l'Ambassadeur, pouvons-nous emprunter la
guillotine. Nous avons notre propre Marie Antoinette de décapiter! (Excuse
me Mr Ambassador, can we borrow the guillotine. We have our own Marie
Antoinette to behead!)
Guillotine saved France from the oppressive ruling elite, it may do the
same for Zimbabwe!
Beheading anyone is barbaric but there is no doubt that by beheading cured
France’s ruling elite of the temptations of becoming oppressive and tyrannical brought
on by power and greed. After 36 years of vote rigging, over 30 000 murdered for
selfish political gain, etc. there is no doubt our ruling elite too have the
bug and the guillotine may well be the only cure of the barbarism of one-party
cum one-man dictatorship! Try it; what is there to lose!
President Mugabe admitted that $15 billion was looted from Marange diamonds in six year. It turns out this was looted by former VP Joice Mujuru and her late husband alone according to Minister Kasukuwere and Minister Jonathan Moyo. In others words the looted money is a lot more than $15 billion because these two are not the only ones who have been looting in Marange and Chiadzwa.
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe is loaded with cash, the problem is all the cash is going into the pockets of the few!
Chihuri said violence will never be tolerated in Zimbabwe and that police will be out in full force to deal with unruly elements who are bent on engaging in acts of violence meant to fuel public insur-gency.
ReplyDeleteThat is rich coming from the man who has allowed violence against innocent people to go unpun-ished for years. We all know that the Police has turned a blind eye to Zanu PF inspired violence. Indeed the Police has itself taken part in some of the violence and Police Commissioner Chihuri has even encourage it as he has admitted in his thesis.
Commissioner Chihuri, you are not just threatening violence against the innocent people of Zimba-bwe but we all know you WILL use violence against the people just to stop them demanding change even if they have remained peaceful. You do not want to see regime change because you are one of the ruling elite who has profited from the misery of the millions.
Change is coming sir, and no amount of Police brutality is going to stop the people demanding change because the economic situation than forces unemployment to soar to 90%, poverty to soar to 76%, etc. is socially and politically unsustainable!
When change finally takes place, you and your fellow fat cats will have some very serious and awkward questions to answer!