Opinion / Columnist
Israel Dube calls for AU to 'expel Zimbabwe' - this is the dangerous highroad Libya is on
18 Jul 2016 at 13:27hrs | Views
"MLO Supreme Council calls for the continental and world bodies like African Union and United Na-tions to expel Zimbabwe over occupation of Matabeleland, human rights abuses and Matabeleland genocide," wrote Israel Dube (Bulawayo24.com opinion). The AU, UN and anybody who is anybody will ignore the call.
One of the first resolution of the AU (OAU as it was then) founding fathers was that post-colonial Africa must not indulge in any time wasting talks much less wars to redraw country boarders; that was a wise decision back then and it is a wise decision now.
When this Zanu-PF dictatorship finally collapses and it is collapsing; this nation will need to get crack-ing straight away with the very difficult task of rebuilding the nation after all these years of ruinous misrule, death and destruction. The last thing the nation wants is to be dragged into a tribal / regional tussle or worse to gratify those itching for a fight.
Gukurahundi was about President Mugabe crushing-PF Zapu to create a de facto one-party - Zanu-PF - dictatorship and not about Shona tribal hegemony; even the late Dr Joshua Nkomo admitted this much on BBC at the height of the conflict.
Since the end of the Gukurahundi Mugabe has gone on to harass, beat, rape and even murder more innocent Zimbabweans right across the country wherever he found anyone who dared threaten his strangle hold on power.
The last 36 years have been hell for the people of Zimbabwe because of the corrupt, vote rigging and tyrannical rule of President Mugabe and his subservient cronies, "vakadzi vaMugabe" as Margaret Dongo called them. Vakadzi vaMugabe have been drawn from every corner of Zimbabwe although those with their own hidden agenda pretend they are all Shonas!
For the last 20 years this nation has been united in the fight to end the Mugabe tyranny and replace it with a healthy and functional democracy. The regime is collapsing but we have yet to deliver a healthy and functional democratic Zimbabwe; it is important that we keep our eyes on the ball and not be side tracked
"MLO is ready to take over Matabeleland and govern," said Dube.
Of course this is all this Mthwakazi is about – political power and you desire to govern.
You are no different from Robert Mugabe for it was his insatiable lust for absolute power that driven him to commit all the corruption and murderers dragging the nation into this hell-on-earth. He did not give a damn about the suffering he caused or how many innocent lives were lost as long as he enjoyed absolute power and remain president for life!
Zimbabwe is at a cross roads; as the final curtain falls on the Mugabe dictatorship, we can choose to pursue the democratic route which we have been advocating all along as other nations Tunisia has done when they too deposed their dictator. Or we can take the highroad that Libya and Iraq took that has thrown these nations into an endless and mindless cycle of conflict.
To look at what has happened since Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi's death it is easy to see why many Libyans now wish the tyrant was still in power! We want to end the Mugabe dicta-torship and not have similar regrets!
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Patrick Guramatunhu <patguramatunhu@gmail.com
One of the first resolution of the AU (OAU as it was then) founding fathers was that post-colonial Africa must not indulge in any time wasting talks much less wars to redraw country boarders; that was a wise decision back then and it is a wise decision now.
When this Zanu-PF dictatorship finally collapses and it is collapsing; this nation will need to get crack-ing straight away with the very difficult task of rebuilding the nation after all these years of ruinous misrule, death and destruction. The last thing the nation wants is to be dragged into a tribal / regional tussle or worse to gratify those itching for a fight.
Gukurahundi was about President Mugabe crushing-PF Zapu to create a de facto one-party - Zanu-PF - dictatorship and not about Shona tribal hegemony; even the late Dr Joshua Nkomo admitted this much on BBC at the height of the conflict.
Since the end of the Gukurahundi Mugabe has gone on to harass, beat, rape and even murder more innocent Zimbabweans right across the country wherever he found anyone who dared threaten his strangle hold on power.
The last 36 years have been hell for the people of Zimbabwe because of the corrupt, vote rigging and tyrannical rule of President Mugabe and his subservient cronies, "vakadzi vaMugabe" as Margaret Dongo called them. Vakadzi vaMugabe have been drawn from every corner of Zimbabwe although those with their own hidden agenda pretend they are all Shonas!
For the last 20 years this nation has been united in the fight to end the Mugabe tyranny and replace it with a healthy and functional democracy. The regime is collapsing but we have yet to deliver a healthy and functional democratic Zimbabwe; it is important that we keep our eyes on the ball and not be side tracked
"MLO is ready to take over Matabeleland and govern," said Dube.
Of course this is all this Mthwakazi is about – political power and you desire to govern.
You are no different from Robert Mugabe for it was his insatiable lust for absolute power that driven him to commit all the corruption and murderers dragging the nation into this hell-on-earth. He did not give a damn about the suffering he caused or how many innocent lives were lost as long as he enjoyed absolute power and remain president for life!
Zimbabwe is at a cross roads; as the final curtain falls on the Mugabe dictatorship, we can choose to pursue the democratic route which we have been advocating all along as other nations Tunisia has done when they too deposed their dictator. Or we can take the highroad that Libya and Iraq took that has thrown these nations into an endless and mindless cycle of conflict.
To look at what has happened since Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi's death it is easy to see why many Libyans now wish the tyrant was still in power! We want to end the Mugabe dicta-torship and not have similar regrets!
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Patrick Guramatunhu <patguramatunhu@gmail.com
Source - zsdemocrats.blogspot.co.uk
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