Opinion / Columnist
President Mugabe condemns SA xenophobia attacks but condoned Zanu PF violence!
18 Apr 2015 at 18:47hrs | Views
"The act of treating other Africans in that horrible way can never be condoned by anyone," said President Mugabe in his first statement on the shocking xenophobia attacks on foreigners in SA.
"Our own African people on the African continent must be treated with respect."
"If there is any issue arising from influx [of foreigners]... surely that can be discussed and measures can be taken to deal with and address the situation."
It is the patronizing insincerity and hypocrisy of President Mugabe that left me with a lump in my throat.
I have just seen a photograph of someone who had been doused with fuel and then set alight in The Telescope; the President absolutely right treating other in that "horrible way can never be condoned by anyone"! But that is just I; he has condoned this sort of barbarism for the last 35 years.
Young Christpower Maisiri was burnt to death when President Mugabe's former right-hand man, Comrade Didymus Mutasa's henchmen set d towards the hut the boy was sleeping in on fire for political reasons. An MDC supporter in Masvingo Province had both his hands cut-off at the wrist, reportedly to punish him for MDC's open palm symbol, and then killed. Although some people had information on who had carried out these heinous crimes and many other similar crimes no one was ever arrested. If this is not condoning brutal murder, then what is!
Even the odd occasion when the criminals have arrested and been brought to justice; President Mugabe has always stepped in to pardon the criminals before they had spent a day in jail as happened with the shooting and attempted murder of late Patrick Kombayi in the 1990 elections! President Mugabe pardoned the two Zanu PF operatives and condoning politically motived violence by Zanu PF supporters.
There are as many as three million Zimbabweans in SA who left the country to escape the country's worsening economic situation and/or political oppression, beatings and worse. Zimbabweans know President Mugabe and Zanu PF rigged the 2013 national elections as they have done with all other elections in the past.
The only way Zimbabwe can deal with the situation that has forced Zimbabweans to leave the country is by ending the economic and political crisis gripping the nation that has dragged on for decades now because we have repeatedly failed to hold free, fair and credible elections. So what other "measures can be taken to deal with and address the situation" when he is the one who has stubbornly rigged elections and deny the nation the chance to move on?
It is times like that one despairs and really understands why people like Oliver Cromwell ended up beheading King Charles 1.
"It is not the survival of the King that is at issue here, but the survival of England!" argued Cromwell.
As long as President Mugabe remains in power there is not going to be any end to Zimbabwe's economic and political problems because he is determined to stay in power regardless who much the nation suffers and how many lives and lost unnecessarily. He will never allow free and fair elections because he knows he will lose; we are therefore truly stuck!
The grim choice before us is either we force President Mugabe and Zanu PF to step down or millions will be forced into poverty and hundreds of thousands die unnecessarily. The risk of social collapse or worse is real because this situation cannot go on for much longer.
"If there is any issue arising from influx [of foreigners]... surely that can be discussed and measures can be taken to deal with and address the situation."
It is the patronizing insincerity and hypocrisy of President Mugabe that left me with a lump in my throat.
I have just seen a photograph of someone who had been doused with fuel and then set alight in The Telescope; the President absolutely right treating other in that "horrible way can never be condoned by anyone"! But that is just I; he has condoned this sort of barbarism for the last 35 years.
Young Christpower Maisiri was burnt to death when President Mugabe's former right-hand man, Comrade Didymus Mutasa's henchmen set d towards the hut the boy was sleeping in on fire for political reasons. An MDC supporter in Masvingo Province had both his hands cut-off at the wrist, reportedly to punish him for MDC's open palm symbol, and then killed. Although some people had information on who had carried out these heinous crimes and many other similar crimes no one was ever arrested. If this is not condoning brutal murder, then what is!
Even the odd occasion when the criminals have arrested and been brought to justice; President Mugabe has always stepped in to pardon the criminals before they had spent a day in jail as happened with the shooting and attempted murder of late Patrick Kombayi in the 1990 elections! President Mugabe pardoned the two Zanu PF operatives and condoning politically motived violence by Zanu PF supporters.
There are as many as three million Zimbabweans in SA who left the country to escape the country's worsening economic situation and/or political oppression, beatings and worse. Zimbabweans know President Mugabe and Zanu PF rigged the 2013 national elections as they have done with all other elections in the past.
The only way Zimbabwe can deal with the situation that has forced Zimbabweans to leave the country is by ending the economic and political crisis gripping the nation that has dragged on for decades now because we have repeatedly failed to hold free, fair and credible elections. So what other "measures can be taken to deal with and address the situation" when he is the one who has stubbornly rigged elections and deny the nation the chance to move on?
It is times like that one despairs and really understands why people like Oliver Cromwell ended up beheading King Charles 1.
"It is not the survival of the King that is at issue here, but the survival of England!" argued Cromwell.
As long as President Mugabe remains in power there is not going to be any end to Zimbabwe's economic and political problems because he is determined to stay in power regardless who much the nation suffers and how many lives and lost unnecessarily. He will never allow free and fair elections because he knows he will lose; we are therefore truly stuck!
The grim choice before us is either we force President Mugabe and Zanu PF to step down or millions will be forced into poverty and hundreds of thousands die unnecessarily. The risk of social collapse or worse is real because this situation cannot go on for much longer.
Source - Patrick
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