Well today the news is full of the story of Shiri's mishap with a bullet with many differing versions having him shot in the hand or the elbow or the shoulder and the would be assassins ranging from the army to the CIO to the police...
Who knows for sure? But one thing IS for sure - whoever did the shooting needs a kick up the portal for missing! But at least they DID do the shooting! And now the ZANU-pf bigwigs are in a panic for their personal security. I guess things are, at last beginning to affect them. The soldiers have warned of more riots and I doubt it will be long before the police stop reacting to riots. Still, it is all very slow and very painful. The good thing is that Mugabe and his murdering minions now have to keep looking over their shoulders... and even those who protect them are a threat now! I know a few of these people.. and I wouldn't trust them further than I can spit! Mugabe shouldn't either!
One of my readers has written in a comment asking what everyone can do? And I have to say that I too am a bit lost on this. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that writing to ineffectual politicians in ineffectual governments does little more than waste time and, perhaps, paper! If I were in a position to start some real activism, I would suggest a campaign of writing thousands of letters addressed to police stations all over Zimbabwe telling the policemen some simple facts such as:
Their actions are largely illegal.
They are serving a party and not the (legally elected) government and, therefore, are in breach of their oaths of attestation, particularly in reference to the bits that say "I do solemnly swear and make an oath that I will uphold the laws of Zimbabwe..."
That those of them actively supporting Mugabe and his party will be investigated and face charges when Mugabe is gone.
That their officers will all disappear when the time comes to face the music and they will be left holding the baby!
That Mugabe will, before too long actually be gone (He is 84 and simply will not live forever).
That they need to think of their own welfare and futures and that of their families and decide whether to keep ensuring these murderers who are stealing from everyone or help get rid of them so everyone can prosper again.
That the time is approaching when they WILL be called to account for their part in abductions, murder, theft and that turning a blind eye to it makes them just as complicit.
That they are, principally there to serve the people of Zimbabwe, not the Party of Mugabe.
And, perhaps quite a few other things, although I would tend to keep the list short and to the point.
Perhaps a direct campaign of letter writing by thousands of Zimbabweans directly to the police men and women themselves may serve to foment change in itself? I am clearly open to suggestions. My personal plan for the removal of Mugabe must, in order for it to remain a viable option, remain secret. Although I very seriously doubt it, I am always hopeful that someone with a bit of real influence somewhere, might take me seriously and get in touch. I firmly believe that with the efficient and selective removal of Mugabe and, perhaps one or two others, final collapse and restoration will be far more quickly achieved at far less cost in lives.
Lets see, if they had taken me seriously just after the recent so called elections and equipped me in the manner I had requested, Mugabe and his top men would now be a thing of the past. Yes, five or six lives may have been lost.. but then, how many people have died since those elections? It would seem though, that the CIA, by not condoning the violent destruction of six people, prefer, instead, to condone the violent death of thousands of others, the rape, torture and abduction of yet more. Not to mention the cost of millions and millions of pounds, dollars and euros still pouring into the country in aid.
South Africa's new president has clearly been bought off by Mugabe. South Africa's shameful stance at the UN (and Russia, for some bizarre reason?) has blocked yet another resolution on the matter. How hard is it to stand up and say - this Mugabe is illegal and we deplore him killing thousands of people? It is hard to understand what such a tin pot dictator such as Mugabe could possibly offer.. but then, let us not forget that Mugabe is reputed to be about the fourth richest man in the world and Kgalema Motlanthe is only the caretaker South African president - he has no hope of staying in office after the next general election in South Africa, so it would not be a far leap for the imagination to conclude that Mugabe has offered him a lucrative retirement in return for more of the failed "softly, softly" approach!
Let us see what happens next!
Wednesday 17 December 2008
Tuesday 16 December 2008
Regime Change... but How?
The news is full of Zimbabwe again.
And the international community is, more and more calling for regime change - something they should have done in 2000... but that is all anyone is actually doing about Zimbabwe - talking. And Mugabe cares nothing about words - they are cheap and they mean nothing. Mugabe is rich and has the guns - no one can do anything to him - unless they are prepared to bring more and bigger guns - and they are not!
South Africa, much to my surprise, is still not using it's power to move Mugabe - Why would that be? Has the new president already been bought by Mugabe? Without South Africa and other neighbours support - Mugabe would fold and die in weeks!
I was interested to see on Britain's Channel 4 news an interview with Mr Miliband, the British foreign secretary. The interviewer made the point that they will probably still be doing similar interviews complaining and deploring the Mugabe regime late in 2009 and beyond.. and Mugabe will STILL be there! And yes, you had better believe they will.
If you want regime change Mr Miliband, get in touch with me. As a Zimbabwean police officer, I have the right and the legal mandate to deal with criminals in that country - and, with a bit of equipment - I can have the job done within a few weeks - it will cost very little and will not involve a war!
I see that Zimbabwe feels it is under "terrorist" attack because someone with no money and no hope (since it was taken away by Mugabe and his thieves) took a shot at the criminal purportedly in charge of what used to be Zimbabwe's airforce. I think though, as one commentator said - if it was a trained person - Shiri would be dead! The loss of Shiri would hardly be a blow to the embattled people of Zimbabwe.
Mr Miliband, another thing - if you want regime change, get hold of the legally elected President, Morgan Tsvangirai and pledge support and recognition for him to set up a government in exile. Get the rest of the international community to follow suit, stop the UN from dealing with Mugabe and things will start to change.
And if you are worried about feeding the people - deliver the food by air. With parachutes. Directly to the people who need it. And protect your delivery aircraft with the RAF and other international air forces. That way, Mugabe loses his command of the food, one of his big power cards (and no matter what you or the international aid agencies say - Mugabe is still controlling the food.. and probably the medicine now). And I guarantee that the so called air force of Zimbabwe poses no credible threat, in fact knocking a few of his planes down in quick succession would send a very clear message to Mugabe. And other tin pot dictators like him.
Other than the above all that is set to happen is more talking. More deploring. More condemning. More nothing and More Zimbabweans dying.
And many are dying - I wonder how the CIA view things in Zimbabwe - when I last offered to eliminate Mugabe - they told me they do not condone violence... so why are they condoning it now??????
And on a personal note to Mugabe - be aware that if there was, indeed, a real "terrorist" or security threat to Zimbabwe - you would already be dead! I certainly hope to have the pleasure of personally arresting you, Mnangagwa, Shiri, Chiwenga, Chihuri, Bvudzijena and the hundreds of others who have pledged themselves to you. You are all common criminals. You have NO mandate to run Zimbabwe (or plunder it) and you need to go now.
And the international community is, more and more calling for regime change - something they should have done in 2000... but that is all anyone is actually doing about Zimbabwe - talking. And Mugabe cares nothing about words - they are cheap and they mean nothing. Mugabe is rich and has the guns - no one can do anything to him - unless they are prepared to bring more and bigger guns - and they are not!
South Africa, much to my surprise, is still not using it's power to move Mugabe - Why would that be? Has the new president already been bought by Mugabe? Without South Africa and other neighbours support - Mugabe would fold and die in weeks!
I was interested to see on Britain's Channel 4 news an interview with Mr Miliband, the British foreign secretary. The interviewer made the point that they will probably still be doing similar interviews complaining and deploring the Mugabe regime late in 2009 and beyond.. and Mugabe will STILL be there! And yes, you had better believe they will.
If you want regime change Mr Miliband, get in touch with me. As a Zimbabwean police officer, I have the right and the legal mandate to deal with criminals in that country - and, with a bit of equipment - I can have the job done within a few weeks - it will cost very little and will not involve a war!
I see that Zimbabwe feels it is under "terrorist" attack because someone with no money and no hope (since it was taken away by Mugabe and his thieves) took a shot at the criminal purportedly in charge of what used to be Zimbabwe's airforce. I think though, as one commentator said - if it was a trained person - Shiri would be dead! The loss of Shiri would hardly be a blow to the embattled people of Zimbabwe.
Mr Miliband, another thing - if you want regime change, get hold of the legally elected President, Morgan Tsvangirai and pledge support and recognition for him to set up a government in exile. Get the rest of the international community to follow suit, stop the UN from dealing with Mugabe and things will start to change.
And if you are worried about feeding the people - deliver the food by air. With parachutes. Directly to the people who need it. And protect your delivery aircraft with the RAF and other international air forces. That way, Mugabe loses his command of the food, one of his big power cards (and no matter what you or the international aid agencies say - Mugabe is still controlling the food.. and probably the medicine now). And I guarantee that the so called air force of Zimbabwe poses no credible threat, in fact knocking a few of his planes down in quick succession would send a very clear message to Mugabe. And other tin pot dictators like him.
Other than the above all that is set to happen is more talking. More deploring. More condemning. More nothing and More Zimbabweans dying.
And many are dying - I wonder how the CIA view things in Zimbabwe - when I last offered to eliminate Mugabe - they told me they do not condone violence... so why are they condoning it now??????
And on a personal note to Mugabe - be aware that if there was, indeed, a real "terrorist" or security threat to Zimbabwe - you would already be dead! I certainly hope to have the pleasure of personally arresting you, Mnangagwa, Shiri, Chiwenga, Chihuri, Bvudzijena and the hundreds of others who have pledged themselves to you. You are all common criminals. You have NO mandate to run Zimbabwe (or plunder it) and you need to go now.
Sunday 14 December 2008
No Progress
I have just listened to Morgan Tsvangirai's interview on SWradio Africa with some interest. Basically, Tsvangirai is not in Zimbabwe and his whereabouts are not being revealed.
And that is just how it should be. Unfortunately, many people at the grassroots perhaps do not understand this position and they are feeling a bit abandoned and vulnerable because they are facing the new onslaught from Mugabe's murdering minions. Sadly though, that is exactly how things need to be now.
The abductions are continuing unabated. Mugabe's own judiciary have ruled against him and instructed his militia (police) to find these people and they have ignored the court. The rest of the world is shouting out that this must stop and Mugabe has ignored them because he knows that they are saying "Stop!!! or else... we will have to say stop again!", but they will actually do nothing about it. If Tsvangirai re-appears in Zimbabwe who can honestly say that he will not be arrested and disappear. And on this occasion, Mugabe and his murderers will have an "excuse" to "arrest" him - as he is travelling without a passport.. which, of course, they are illegally with holding!
Mugabe knows that whatever he does, no one will intervene. So it is not without basis to imagine that he is very tired of the headaches caused by Tsvangirai and his party and, having tested the world's response thus far with all the current abductions.. of both high profile humanitarians, party members and even a baby (just to make sure he sees what everyone would say to extreme outrage), what he now knows is that whatever he does, there is no reaction or response that will cause him any problems - even if the same fate befalls Morgan Tsvangirai. So yes, Tsvangirai needs to stay well away from Zimbabwe at the moment. Especially since, whilst he is outside the country, he can really raise the international temperature.
It is still my contention though, that Tsvangirai needs to accept the Botswana governments' offer of a safe haven in which to set up a government in exile. But, before he does this, he will need to secure the support of the international community. They need to acknowledge that Tsvangirai IS the legally and properly elected leader of the people and nation of Zimbabwe. And they need to pledge to engage ALL their official business with this government in exile and absolutely ignore and stonewall Mugabe and his thieves.
The United Nations (yes, that clueless, hapless gathering of ineffectuality) must STOP inviting Mugabe and his people to anywhere. Mugabe's foreign officials need to be turfed out of their embassies and High Commissions and deported. This will begin the real process of telling Mugabe he is illegal and must go.
And this is not something outside the power of western nations who are finally calling for regime change (despite Mugabe's assertion that they have been for some time) to effect. Without the USA, the UK and the EU, the UN will stop functioning. Without the aid money these countries pump into Africa, the AU will fall apart and government will be unstable. The western world needs to stop feeding people the line that negotiating is the only way - they have done this for years and years in Africa in general.. and nothing has changed. Why? Because the great river of aid money continues to flow. So now, even in the midst of depression, they must still support this mass of corrupt governments in Africa that have no intention of changing their ways, or growing a backbone and standing up straight for what is right. Until that happens.. nothing will ever change or develop in Africa.
And, perhaps that is what everyone prefers - God forbid that an African Nation with its wealth of resources suddenly became viable! That would mean that the rest of the world might actually have to accord Africans their rightful place and that would mean they lose all control of Africa. We simply couldn't have that now could we?
Anyway, I digress!
Having secured the backing of the international community, if Tsvangirai set up government and pressure (real economic pressure) was applied to Zimbabwe's remaining recalcitrant neighbours to close the borders.. I guarantee a lot less people would die and Mugabe and company would, as Botswana and Kenya repeatedly point out, be gone in a few weeks. The suffering would end then and there and proper government could take over, proper aid could come in and function under the protection of the police and army, and that would be that. Tracking down Mugabe and his criminals could then be pursued with great detail and a LOT of money could be recovered to help rebuild the country!
Mugabe's remarks are becoming more and more crazy and his followers (which the world press still insist on referring to as "ministers") are becoming more and more rabid. It still amazes me though, that some news services, notably those in South Africa, continue to refer to ZANU-pf as "the ruling party".. they should be calling it what it is - Zimbabwe's illegal dictatorship.
MDC - it is time to set up government - not with Mugabe, but against Mugabe, as you have been elected to do. Negotiating is merely playing out the game Mugabe's way - you have nothing to negotiate - Mugabe and ZANU-pf lost the election, Tsvangirai and the MDC won the election - stop giving Mugabe any form of credibility by continuing this farcical and endless negotiating - step up and form a government. I, and many of my colleagues will sign to you as you are legally elected. You will find a fair number of colleagues trapped in the now ZANU-pf militias (police and army) will cross the border to help. And I am sure Botswana will assist - it serves to strengthen the MDC position and weaken Mugabe's grip on power!
And that is just how it should be. Unfortunately, many people at the grassroots perhaps do not understand this position and they are feeling a bit abandoned and vulnerable because they are facing the new onslaught from Mugabe's murdering minions. Sadly though, that is exactly how things need to be now.
The abductions are continuing unabated. Mugabe's own judiciary have ruled against him and instructed his militia (police) to find these people and they have ignored the court. The rest of the world is shouting out that this must stop and Mugabe has ignored them because he knows that they are saying "Stop!!! or else... we will have to say stop again!", but they will actually do nothing about it. If Tsvangirai re-appears in Zimbabwe who can honestly say that he will not be arrested and disappear. And on this occasion, Mugabe and his murderers will have an "excuse" to "arrest" him - as he is travelling without a passport.. which, of course, they are illegally with holding!
Mugabe knows that whatever he does, no one will intervene. So it is not without basis to imagine that he is very tired of the headaches caused by Tsvangirai and his party and, having tested the world's response thus far with all the current abductions.. of both high profile humanitarians, party members and even a baby (just to make sure he sees what everyone would say to extreme outrage), what he now knows is that whatever he does, there is no reaction or response that will cause him any problems - even if the same fate befalls Morgan Tsvangirai. So yes, Tsvangirai needs to stay well away from Zimbabwe at the moment. Especially since, whilst he is outside the country, he can really raise the international temperature.
It is still my contention though, that Tsvangirai needs to accept the Botswana governments' offer of a safe haven in which to set up a government in exile. But, before he does this, he will need to secure the support of the international community. They need to acknowledge that Tsvangirai IS the legally and properly elected leader of the people and nation of Zimbabwe. And they need to pledge to engage ALL their official business with this government in exile and absolutely ignore and stonewall Mugabe and his thieves.
The United Nations (yes, that clueless, hapless gathering of ineffectuality) must STOP inviting Mugabe and his people to anywhere. Mugabe's foreign officials need to be turfed out of their embassies and High Commissions and deported. This will begin the real process of telling Mugabe he is illegal and must go.
And this is not something outside the power of western nations who are finally calling for regime change (despite Mugabe's assertion that they have been for some time) to effect. Without the USA, the UK and the EU, the UN will stop functioning. Without the aid money these countries pump into Africa, the AU will fall apart and government will be unstable. The western world needs to stop feeding people the line that negotiating is the only way - they have done this for years and years in Africa in general.. and nothing has changed. Why? Because the great river of aid money continues to flow. So now, even in the midst of depression, they must still support this mass of corrupt governments in Africa that have no intention of changing their ways, or growing a backbone and standing up straight for what is right. Until that happens.. nothing will ever change or develop in Africa.
And, perhaps that is what everyone prefers - God forbid that an African Nation with its wealth of resources suddenly became viable! That would mean that the rest of the world might actually have to accord Africans their rightful place and that would mean they lose all control of Africa. We simply couldn't have that now could we?
Anyway, I digress!
Having secured the backing of the international community, if Tsvangirai set up government and pressure (real economic pressure) was applied to Zimbabwe's remaining recalcitrant neighbours to close the borders.. I guarantee a lot less people would die and Mugabe and company would, as Botswana and Kenya repeatedly point out, be gone in a few weeks. The suffering would end then and there and proper government could take over, proper aid could come in and function under the protection of the police and army, and that would be that. Tracking down Mugabe and his criminals could then be pursued with great detail and a LOT of money could be recovered to help rebuild the country!
Mugabe's remarks are becoming more and more crazy and his followers (which the world press still insist on referring to as "ministers") are becoming more and more rabid. It still amazes me though, that some news services, notably those in South Africa, continue to refer to ZANU-pf as "the ruling party".. they should be calling it what it is - Zimbabwe's illegal dictatorship.
MDC - it is time to set up government - not with Mugabe, but against Mugabe, as you have been elected to do. Negotiating is merely playing out the game Mugabe's way - you have nothing to negotiate - Mugabe and ZANU-pf lost the election, Tsvangirai and the MDC won the election - stop giving Mugabe any form of credibility by continuing this farcical and endless negotiating - step up and form a government. I, and many of my colleagues will sign to you as you are legally elected. You will find a fair number of colleagues trapped in the now ZANU-pf militias (police and army) will cross the border to help. And I am sure Botswana will assist - it serves to strengthen the MDC position and weaken Mugabe's grip on power!
Monday 8 December 2008
Good News... and More Bad News
I have had time a busy at work and am preparing to go and assist with members of the Zimbabwean public displaced and dying from Mugabe induced cholera.. So, within the next few days, my postings will become even more sporadic as I am not sure what, if any, Internet access I will find on the borders of Zimbabwe!
I note that there are more "calls for Mugabe to step down".. I still cannot believe that western politicians believe that Mugabe would even pay the slightest heed to them - he is well fed, he is healthy, he has diamonds and other mineral wealth, he has large amounts of money that the western banking world cannot find, he has people whose loyalty he has both bought and obtained through threat - why would he give a continental what the "Mad Gordon Brown" wants? The only people speaking sense at the moment are the Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and the Botswanan administration. I am even dismayed to see that Jacob Zuma is taking the "mediation through Mbeki stance"!
I say again that the MDC should listen to Botswana and accept their offer - that will create a bigger problem for Mugabe and send the absolute signal that they are not going to play anymore whilst Mugabe and co prevaricate, abduct and murder still more Zimbabweans.
I see, however, that another ZANU-pf "cadre" has died.. in a road accident. He was on his way to "preside over" a zanu-pf election (I wonder why they still bother with the sham of an election - just appoint someone.. ZANU-pf has no care for elections or the will of the people!). Elliot Manyika has been widely acknowledged as one of the pioneers of the violence and abductions. It is my fervent hope that he laying dying and bleeding in the wreck of his vehicle and had ample time to feel a lot of pain and reflect on the fact that no ambulance or paramedic would be on their way to rescue him.. because his direct influence had helped destroy the infrastructure that supported such services. And I hope he realised that a huge contributory factor in his accident is the lack of law and order on the roads in Zimbabwe.. where the police have been converted to ZANU-pf militia and have no interested in enforcing the law!
Poetic Justice I would say - pity it doesn't happen to more of these criminals!
It is also widely reported that the abductions continue - and members of the so-called police are instrumental in this.
Police officers do not abduct people - they arrest them, charge them and bring them before an independent court which will decide whether the individual is guilty or not and if guilty, an appropriate punishment.
ZANU-pf militia masquerading as police officers abduct people regularly - they have to abduct them because in reality, they have no reason to interact with them otherwise. And these people are "disappeared"... this is not the work of police officers.
It is time that real police officers caught up in this mess walked out.. you are not being effective in mitigating the actions of the militia - so get out now, lest you be tarred with the same brush as them. It will be the fastest way for you to secure your future.
Later.
I note that there are more "calls for Mugabe to step down".. I still cannot believe that western politicians believe that Mugabe would even pay the slightest heed to them - he is well fed, he is healthy, he has diamonds and other mineral wealth, he has large amounts of money that the western banking world cannot find, he has people whose loyalty he has both bought and obtained through threat - why would he give a continental what the "Mad Gordon Brown" wants? The only people speaking sense at the moment are the Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and the Botswanan administration. I am even dismayed to see that Jacob Zuma is taking the "mediation through Mbeki stance"!
I say again that the MDC should listen to Botswana and accept their offer - that will create a bigger problem for Mugabe and send the absolute signal that they are not going to play anymore whilst Mugabe and co prevaricate, abduct and murder still more Zimbabweans.
I see, however, that another ZANU-pf "cadre" has died.. in a road accident. He was on his way to "preside over" a zanu-pf election (I wonder why they still bother with the sham of an election - just appoint someone.. ZANU-pf has no care for elections or the will of the people!). Elliot Manyika has been widely acknowledged as one of the pioneers of the violence and abductions. It is my fervent hope that he laying dying and bleeding in the wreck of his vehicle and had ample time to feel a lot of pain and reflect on the fact that no ambulance or paramedic would be on their way to rescue him.. because his direct influence had helped destroy the infrastructure that supported such services. And I hope he realised that a huge contributory factor in his accident is the lack of law and order on the roads in Zimbabwe.. where the police have been converted to ZANU-pf militia and have no interested in enforcing the law!
Poetic Justice I would say - pity it doesn't happen to more of these criminals!
It is also widely reported that the abductions continue - and members of the so-called police are instrumental in this.
Police officers do not abduct people - they arrest them, charge them and bring them before an independent court which will decide whether the individual is guilty or not and if guilty, an appropriate punishment.
ZANU-pf militia masquerading as police officers abduct people regularly - they have to abduct them because in reality, they have no reason to interact with them otherwise. And these people are "disappeared"... this is not the work of police officers.
It is time that real police officers caught up in this mess walked out.. you are not being effective in mitigating the actions of the militia - so get out now, lest you be tarred with the same brush as them. It will be the fastest way for you to secure your future.
Later.
Saturday 6 December 2008
The Pathetic Response!
I have just watched, with complete amazement, Gordon Brown on the news... finally calling for regime change in Zimbabwe. But, of course, he is calling for Mugabe's friends to do it! And will England do??? Supply more money to aid agencies which cannot operate effectively and something like 31pence in every pound donated, is NOT used for direct assistance to those in need. And, to top all that, the money goes through where? The honourable reserve bank of Zanu-pf!
How pathetic!
Only Botswana thus far, has been forthright and straightforward. They have openly said Mugabe MUST go - they DO NOT recognise him as he did NOT win the election. Simple. And it is time for more than talk - the international community should be telling those neighbours of Zimbabwe that are still sitting on their hands and muttering about "quiet" (meaning silent) diplomacy that their intransigence will cost them aid, support and trade from the rest of the world if they do not end relations with Mugabe's illegal government now. If they did what Botswana suggests, and close the borders to any and all traffic entering Zimbabwe, particularly fuel - Mugabe would be done within a few days.
At least the storm is finally starting to grow, although painfully slowly. Will it produce a result? Unless definitive action is taken against Mugabe - NO. Mugabe couldn't care less. Nor could those at the top of his pile of thieves and murders.
When will Gordon Brown and the rest of the international community grasp the fundamentals here - Talk and targeted sanctions DO NOTHING. Mugabe uses the sanctions story as propaganda to justify his behaviour!
And really, as long as the idiots at the United Nations even bother to entertain Mugabe as a national leader - he will continue to believe he is!
Mugabe is not the president of Zimbabwe. Stop calling him that. There are no government ministers because there is no government.
The police force is merely the ZANU-pf militia and the army are the "enforcers" made up of common criminals. So who and what are we engaging? At best, a powerful warlord who has no shred of legitimacy.
I think that it is high time that Tsvangirai should move to Botswana and set up a government in exile. The international community should then engage all official business with him. Especially the United Nations who should invite him and not Mugabe to their conferences and functions.
The borders should be closed to Zimbabwe and humanitarian relief set up outside the borders to accept and assist Zimbabweans escaping Mugabe's hell - and I guarantee you that regime change will take place in a VERY short space of time. And I mean regime CHANGE - not power sharing which will clearly never happen.
Mugabe will frustrate every single process he is involved in and drag this on till many thousands die. And then, of course, the world will be outraged and many conferences, speeches and seminars will result and the world will say never again.. like Rwanda, like so many other places. Why not say it BEFORE thousands of people die? Is it just me? Am I missing something here?
And if you really want rid of Mugabe - get hold of me, provide me with what I need - and I will go and fix him. On my own! Instead, however, they will go on talking and condemning and demanding...
Reminds me of the old story about the unarmed policeman chasing a bad guy and he shouts "STOP".... "STOP or else"... "STOP or else.. I will have shout stop again!" very effective! I guarantee "STOP or I shoot" works much, much better!
You can shout whatever you like at Mugabe and his gang of criminals.. they DO NOT CARE.. get it? duh!
Later.
How pathetic!
Only Botswana thus far, has been forthright and straightforward. They have openly said Mugabe MUST go - they DO NOT recognise him as he did NOT win the election. Simple. And it is time for more than talk - the international community should be telling those neighbours of Zimbabwe that are still sitting on their hands and muttering about "quiet" (meaning silent) diplomacy that their intransigence will cost them aid, support and trade from the rest of the world if they do not end relations with Mugabe's illegal government now. If they did what Botswana suggests, and close the borders to any and all traffic entering Zimbabwe, particularly fuel - Mugabe would be done within a few days.
At least the storm is finally starting to grow, although painfully slowly. Will it produce a result? Unless definitive action is taken against Mugabe - NO. Mugabe couldn't care less. Nor could those at the top of his pile of thieves and murders.
When will Gordon Brown and the rest of the international community grasp the fundamentals here - Talk and targeted sanctions DO NOTHING. Mugabe uses the sanctions story as propaganda to justify his behaviour!
And really, as long as the idiots at the United Nations even bother to entertain Mugabe as a national leader - he will continue to believe he is!
Mugabe is not the president of Zimbabwe. Stop calling him that. There are no government ministers because there is no government.
The police force is merely the ZANU-pf militia and the army are the "enforcers" made up of common criminals. So who and what are we engaging? At best, a powerful warlord who has no shred of legitimacy.
I think that it is high time that Tsvangirai should move to Botswana and set up a government in exile. The international community should then engage all official business with him. Especially the United Nations who should invite him and not Mugabe to their conferences and functions.
The borders should be closed to Zimbabwe and humanitarian relief set up outside the borders to accept and assist Zimbabweans escaping Mugabe's hell - and I guarantee you that regime change will take place in a VERY short space of time. And I mean regime CHANGE - not power sharing which will clearly never happen.
Mugabe will frustrate every single process he is involved in and drag this on till many thousands die. And then, of course, the world will be outraged and many conferences, speeches and seminars will result and the world will say never again.. like Rwanda, like so many other places. Why not say it BEFORE thousands of people die? Is it just me? Am I missing something here?
And if you really want rid of Mugabe - get hold of me, provide me with what I need - and I will go and fix him. On my own! Instead, however, they will go on talking and condemning and demanding...
Reminds me of the old story about the unarmed policeman chasing a bad guy and he shouts "STOP".... "STOP or else"... "STOP or else.. I will have shout stop again!" very effective! I guarantee "STOP or I shoot" works much, much better!
You can shout whatever you like at Mugabe and his gang of criminals.. they DO NOT CARE.. get it? duh!
Later.
Monday 1 December 2008
The Restlessness Is Growing
First on Friday.. then on Monday.. Mugabe's soldiers are starting to feel the realities of the country that they have helped to destroy. And then they have the temerity to actually riot about not getting cash from the banks??? This is the first really amusing thing I have seen in the midst of all the gloom and death.
It is amusing from a number of perspectives actually - these are the men and women who ensured that Mugabe's ruinous policies have been implemented. And they did this with impunity, shielded by the ZANU-pf system of patronage from the effects that they have forced upon the rest of the populace. And they felt nothing and cared less about it.. but now it is coming back to bite them and is it not wonderful??? And be sure, these are not isolated incidents, the discontent is finally starting to show amongst the ranks.. I bet the generals are feeling more and more uncomfortable by the day.
The second and more important part of these incidents is that the discontented soldiers have clashed with their erstwhile comrades.. the MP's on Friday and the Police (ZANU-pf militia) on Monday. On Friday it was an estimated 60 uniformed soldiers on the rampage, on Monday an estimated 200. So uniformed police fighting uniformed soldiers on the streets of Harare? I wonder what happens when the police cannot withdraw their salaries? Perhaps I am jumping the gun here... but this has all the makings of a final meltdown beginning.. what happens when the mobs of desperate people and soldiers want to confront ZANU-pf and their militia (the police) suddenly decide to step aside and NOT confront them? Does this mean we have another Romania and Nicolai Caeucescu situation?
There are many parallels between the economy and happenings of Zimbabwe and Mugabe and Romania and Nicolai Caeucescu - huge corruption and terrible governance resulting in an unfettered inflation rate, the government continually removing zeros in an attempt to keep the currency usable.. growing discontent among soldiers, regimes propped up by deadly state security police with no regard for law and order, confrontations on the streets and finally.. the people, soldiers and police will storm the party headquarters or parliament and suddenly the oppressors will find themselves in a world of hurt.
I think the can also be no doubt that Mbeki is not only biased, but as ignorant as Mugabe. South Africans must applaud the day that he was thrown out of the seat of power. He has repeatedly demonstrated that he lack the capacity to grasp even the most basic things. His now famous gaffe over AIDS was the first sign of stupidity to emerge clearly. Now he, as the so called "impartial" mediator writes the following to the Morgan Tsvangirai, the legally elected president of Zimbabwe:
"As you secure applause because of the insult against us that we are 'cowards', you will have to consider the reality that our people have accepted into their countries very large numbers of Zimbabwean brothers and sisters in a spirit of human solidarity, prepared to sustain the resultant obligations," said Mbeki in his letter written to Tsvangirai and published in full text by Sunday News. "None of our countries displayed characteristics of cowardice when they did this," he stressed in his letter."
Erm.. have you missed the point entirely Mr Mbeki? Why is it that those countries have had to accept these poor unfortunate people who actually used to form part of one of the best and growing workforces in Africa? The very people that used to feed Africa need help (and, mind you, they do not get too much help out the SADC countries in general).
And Mr Mbeki, if those very countries that you refer to had displayed real courage and faced up to one thieving man and his following of murderers and rapists, then they wouldn't have to be rescuing and supporting thousands of others. The have not, contrary to Mbeki's assertions, accepted them "in a spirit of human solidarity" they have admitted them out of guilt or just the fact that they are scared to lose what little support they get from the evil western world. And they are not prepared to "sustain the resultant obligations".. they are just too frightened to stand up like Botswana and tell Mugabe to go.
As Botswana quite rightly pointed out, if all Zimbabwe's neighbours closed the borders... this crisis would be resolved in a week. And a lot less innocent Zimbabweans will die. That is courage Mbeki - not kow-towing to a common criminal!
Later.
It is amusing from a number of perspectives actually - these are the men and women who ensured that Mugabe's ruinous policies have been implemented. And they did this with impunity, shielded by the ZANU-pf system of patronage from the effects that they have forced upon the rest of the populace. And they felt nothing and cared less about it.. but now it is coming back to bite them and is it not wonderful??? And be sure, these are not isolated incidents, the discontent is finally starting to show amongst the ranks.. I bet the generals are feeling more and more uncomfortable by the day.
The second and more important part of these incidents is that the discontented soldiers have clashed with their erstwhile comrades.. the MP's on Friday and the Police (ZANU-pf militia) on Monday. On Friday it was an estimated 60 uniformed soldiers on the rampage, on Monday an estimated 200. So uniformed police fighting uniformed soldiers on the streets of Harare? I wonder what happens when the police cannot withdraw their salaries? Perhaps I am jumping the gun here... but this has all the makings of a final meltdown beginning.. what happens when the mobs of desperate people and soldiers want to confront ZANU-pf and their militia (the police) suddenly decide to step aside and NOT confront them? Does this mean we have another Romania and Nicolai Caeucescu situation?
There are many parallels between the economy and happenings of Zimbabwe and Mugabe and Romania and Nicolai Caeucescu - huge corruption and terrible governance resulting in an unfettered inflation rate, the government continually removing zeros in an attempt to keep the currency usable.. growing discontent among soldiers, regimes propped up by deadly state security police with no regard for law and order, confrontations on the streets and finally.. the people, soldiers and police will storm the party headquarters or parliament and suddenly the oppressors will find themselves in a world of hurt.
I think the can also be no doubt that Mbeki is not only biased, but as ignorant as Mugabe. South Africans must applaud the day that he was thrown out of the seat of power. He has repeatedly demonstrated that he lack the capacity to grasp even the most basic things. His now famous gaffe over AIDS was the first sign of stupidity to emerge clearly. Now he, as the so called "impartial" mediator writes the following to the Morgan Tsvangirai, the legally elected president of Zimbabwe:
"As you secure applause because of the insult against us that we are 'cowards', you will have to consider the reality that our people have accepted into their countries very large numbers of Zimbabwean brothers and sisters in a spirit of human solidarity, prepared to sustain the resultant obligations," said Mbeki in his letter written to Tsvangirai and published in full text by Sunday News. "None of our countries displayed characteristics of cowardice when they did this," he stressed in his letter."
Erm.. have you missed the point entirely Mr Mbeki? Why is it that those countries have had to accept these poor unfortunate people who actually used to form part of one of the best and growing workforces in Africa? The very people that used to feed Africa need help (and, mind you, they do not get too much help out the SADC countries in general).
And Mr Mbeki, if those very countries that you refer to had displayed real courage and faced up to one thieving man and his following of murderers and rapists, then they wouldn't have to be rescuing and supporting thousands of others. The have not, contrary to Mbeki's assertions, accepted them "in a spirit of human solidarity" they have admitted them out of guilt or just the fact that they are scared to lose what little support they get from the evil western world. And they are not prepared to "sustain the resultant obligations".. they are just too frightened to stand up like Botswana and tell Mugabe to go.
As Botswana quite rightly pointed out, if all Zimbabwe's neighbours closed the borders... this crisis would be resolved in a week. And a lot less innocent Zimbabweans will die. That is courage Mbeki - not kow-towing to a common criminal!
Later.
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