Tsvangirai nagging the West to lift sanctions: another costly blunder by the blunderer!
July 25, 2012 in Uncategorized
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is now inNew Zealandafter visitingAustraliaon a mission to argue these countries and others to lift the targeted sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling elite. As a Zimbabwean I find PM Tsvangirai’s duplicity and down right stupidity infuriating!
The sanctions were imposed on Mugabe after his repeated failure to hold free and fair elections in 2002. Mugabe has shown than he is not ready to change; the most recent elections, in 2008, turned out to be the most violent elections ever! Even tougher sanctions were imposedRhodesiaandSouth Africato force the white regimes to end their racist oppression. And all blacks then wanted the sanctions retained and now the same individuals say the sanctions are not working!
PM Tsvangirai told the PM of New Zealand John Key Mugabe was “committed for his own legacy and for the legacy of the country to move forward in a stable way.” What nonsense!
Mugabe stopped believing in democracy, the rule of law, etc a long time ago; he crossed the point-of-no-return, he is now a lawless and ruthless tyrant. His corruption and looting have destroyed theZimbabweeconomy; millions now live in abject poverty. He and his cronies are committed to protecting their loot and to ensure all their murderous past remains hidden. That is Mugabe’s legacy.
For the last four years PM Tsvamgirai has tried flattering and appeasing Mugabe it has not work. It will never work.
The one reform PM Tsvangirai claims progress has been made on, the new constitution; is a waste of time. Mugabe saw to it that the new constitution will do nothing to stop the scourge of political violence or him from standing for re-elections, just to name two of the burning issues.
It the new constitution was the super drug to cure the nation’s ills then Mugabe removed all the active chemicals, it is now nothing more than a placebo.
Mugabe continues with his campaign of violence. Whilst PM Tsvangirai was inNew Zealandthere were reports of Zanu PF thugs with the help of the Police disrupting an MDC rally in Zvimba and declaring it an MDC “no-go” area. No doubt PM Key saw the reports and knows PM Tsvangirai is in denial of the truth.
The West must be sick and tired of all this mindless nagging to lift the sanctions and, to make matters worse, from people like PM Tsvangirai who should be arguing for the tightening of the sanction. Really, Western government have better things do to; if people like PM Tsvangirai want to shoot themselves in the foot, let them. The tragic reality is it is the ordinary people ofZimbabwewho have paid dearly for PM Tsvangirai’s blunders in the past and will pay dearly for this blunder too!
zimbabwelight said on July 28, 2012
@Chimutsa
People compare A with B all the time; to show the similarities or to emphasise the difference. Like I said, comparing Tsvangirai to Mandela is like comparing a peacock to a rain-drenched rural chicken – they are both birds but are poles apart in terms of beautiful plumage. Tsvangirai was foolish to have even compared himself to the great man and Mugabe was quick to remind him of it.
Instead of trying to deny he is nothing but a pathetic spacimen of national hero compared to Mandela; Tsvangirai should have made his own comparison.
How ironic that Mugabe brought up the names of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein. The two dictators ruled their respective countries with an iron fist just as he has done. But when it comes to the numbers of genocidal murders committed and the sheer barbarism shown, with over 20 000 to his name, Mugabe must be the “grandee’ of the murderous tyrants. If we take into consideration all the many lives lost, directly and indirectly, as a result of his 32 years of rampant corruption, shameless looting and brutal oppression; Zimbabwe’s life expectancy plummeted from 68 years to 34 years in the same period; the death toll will soar into millions. Not as many as Khmer Rouge’s Pol Pot 2 million death toll; still enough to make Mugabe “the poor man’s Pol Pot”!
It is impossible for Mugabe to shake off the “poor man’s Pol Pot” label! Whilst Pol Pot himself died before he could be charged for genocide, his cronies were charged. ICC and the people of Zimbabwe are waiting for Mugabe to leave State House and he and his cronies will be served their indictments papers for the blood on their hands.
Of course Tsvangirai would have never compare Mugabe to Gaddafi or anyone for the simple reason that he is totally incapable of coming up with anything! If Tsvangirai even appreciated the seriousness of Mugabe’s criminality for one minute then he would have never signed the GPA that allowed the murderous tyrant back into power much less be bubbling all this nonsense of Mugabe having changed as if Zimbabwe’s “poor man’s Pol Pot” had a Saul-on-the-road-to-Damascus life changing experience!
zimbabwelight said on July 28, 2012
@BetterZim
Thank you very much. This is one of the best entries on this site and I hope we will more insightful entries from you and, more significantly, that you will nudge at least a few individuals in the right direction.
I think one of the contributory factors to blacks’ failure to excel in many things and thus earn the reputation of under achievers, especially in Africa; is our failure to concentrate our minds on anything. And hence our understand of most issues is at best superficial, we can not distinguish what is critical and important and thus end up doing everything poorly or doing the wrong thing altogether, etc. Of course, unscrupulous leaders like Mugabe was exploited this weakness to full advantage.
In 1995 the Zimbabwe Book Fair had Freedom of Expression as it theme and the organisers had assembled good speakers on this subject including Nobel Laureates for Literature Wole Soyinka of Nigeria and Nadine Gordimer of South. With its record of denying Zimbabweans this basic freedom, that was the one topic the Mugabe regime did not want discussed. The Fair organisers had allowed homosexuals to have a stand on the Fair and the Zanu PF controlled public media seized on this and turned the whole debate into an anti-homosexual one. You could not get anyone to talk about anything else other than homosexuals.
The irony of course without freedom of expression the nation could not have an meaningful debate on this topic or any other topic much less expect an undemocratic Mugabe regime to take notice of public opinion.
Sag said on August 6, 2012
JamsThe Smith rule was odious but what rpclaeed it was far worse. It took Marx and racism to create havoc and starvation in a country that was always a food exporter.The human rights situation is worse than it was under aparthied unless you are a crony of Mugabe.The trendy leftistas never take any responsability for their failed creations.
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