Mugabe begged and cried for AU chairmanship, now will make life worse for all!

"I don't know what the West will say or do, that is not my business. My business is to ensure that the decisions that we have arrived at here are implemented and they are all decisions which have to do with the development of Africa; that is my concern, concentrating on bettering the lives of the people, giving them something that will raise their standard of living," said Mugabe at the first press conference after he is crowned AU chairman.

Mugabe "concentrating on bettering the lives of the people"; what a sick joke! Sure and we in Zimbabwe can testify to how much he has BETTERED our lives in his 35 years of corrupt and tyrannical rule of the country.

The Zimbabwe economy is in total meltdown after decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. The country's once booming economy is now in ruins, 90% plus are out of work, 16% of the population now live in abject poverty, life expectancy has plummeted from 68 years when he got into office in 1980 to 34 years in 2004, etc.

In his 35 years in power, Mugabe has murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and retain his de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship.

It is all very well for Mugabe to be foul-mouthing the West from every platform he can get; he does not care. He does not need the West but the ordinary Zimbabweans do. Since 2008, 98% of Zimbabwe's medicine is imported and paid for by Western donors, for example. He and his family can afford to fly to Singapore each time his eye has a twitch (he went to Singapore 8 times in 2012 alone for that) or the wife needs an appendectomy surgery.  The trips cost $ 3 million each and in 2012 alone Mugabe made a staggering 8 trips all paid for by the taxpayer; yes the same taxpayer the regime says it has no money to import malaria tablets for!

Africa has shown again and again that it does not have what it takes to deal with any serious problems and needs help. Take the Ebola crisis; it is outsiders, especially the West, who have help contain the outbreak otherwise the virus would have spread from West Africa to Cape Town in the South and to Cairo in the North by now!

Yes it was in the West and the rest of the world's interest to contain Ebola as quickly as possible because the virus threatened the whole world. But there are other problems like cholera, starvation, civil war, etc. that cause untold suffering and deaths in Africa if the West does not step in to help.

"Mugoti anopiwa anyerere!" so goes the Shona adage. (It is the quiet one who will be rewarded!) It is in fact one of those adage every mother will repeat to try to influence behaviour; they know only too well that they always reward the howling child. We can be sure of one thing the AU leaders did give Mugabe the chairmanship because he was the quiet one but because he threatened to bring the house down with his howling.

For the last five years each time a Zimbabwean diplomats opened his/her mouth with a fellow African diplomat it was to ask if their country would support Mugabe's bid to be AU Chairman. There was a whole department in the ministry of Foreign Affairs tasked to coordinate the campaign and nothing else.

Mugabe campaigned long and hard to be AU chairman. African leaders had no choice by to let Mugabe become chairman just to stop the nagging and pestering from Harare!

There is no doubt that Mugabe did not beg but cried to be appointed AU chairman. We know because if he was back in Zimbabwe he would have rigged the vote, raped and murdered - anything to secure election victory! At the AU his options were limited to begging or crying and he did both! "Mugabe akakumbira akachemera ushe!"

All the African leaders who saw Mugabe's press interview with the Zimbabwe tyrant once again blasting the West for the same egotistic reasons must have cursed themselves why they allowed themselves into rewarding this foul-mouth tyrant. Now the whole continent will regret it because Mugabe will not make anyone's life better but worse, guaranteed!