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Prof Moyo blasts Zuma and South African policy on Zimbabwe
03 Oct 2011 at 08:03hrs | Views
Professor Jonathan Moyo has blasted the manner in which South African president Jacob Zuma has handled the Zimbabwe SADC debacle.
In a lecture delivered at the Sapes Seminar Series in Harare on September 29, 2011, under the topic: 'The WikiLeaks Saga: National, Regional and International Implications', the Professor said "While former President Mbeki handled this American neo-colonial expectation with some skill, the same cannot be said about President Jacob Zuma who, from the WikiLeaks, appears to have been only too eager to please the US at the expense of regional interest.
In one telling cable US Ambassador Charles Ray reported to Washington after meeting with the then South African Ambassador in Harare that South Africa wanted to join the so-called Fishmongers Western donor group in Zimbabwe so that the two parties could rationalise their policies on Zimbabwe as if to suggest that South Africa has common interests in Zimbabwe with the US and its allies. The underlying thinking explains why South Africa voted with imperialists at the UN Security Council on resolution 1973 against Libya.
It appears, and there's a lot of evidence on this in the US diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks, South Africa wants to be Western and African at the same time. This is why South Africa has left South Africa with a serious identity crisis and thus unable to provide any leadership in the region."
In a lecture delivered at the Sapes Seminar Series in Harare on September 29, 2011, under the topic: 'The WikiLeaks Saga: National, Regional and International Implications', the Professor said "While former President Mbeki handled this American neo-colonial expectation with some skill, the same cannot be said about President Jacob Zuma who, from the WikiLeaks, appears to have been only too eager to please the US at the expense of regional interest.
In one telling cable US Ambassador Charles Ray reported to Washington after meeting with the then South African Ambassador in Harare that South Africa wanted to join the so-called Fishmongers Western donor group in Zimbabwe so that the two parties could rationalise their policies on Zimbabwe as if to suggest that South Africa has common interests in Zimbabwe with the US and its allies. The underlying thinking explains why South Africa voted with imperialists at the UN Security Council on resolution 1973 against Libya.
It appears, and there's a lot of evidence on this in the US diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks, South Africa wants to be Western and African at the same time. This is why South Africa has left South Africa with a serious identity crisis and thus unable to provide any leadership in the region."
Source - Byo24News
