Latest News Editor's Choice


Opinion / Columnist

Which stupid Europeans will open lines of credit to 'clever black Zimbabwean politicians?'

31 Jul 2016 at 14:30hrs | Views
Nomazulu Thata
Their language use is tantamount to hate-speeches. How many times have the West been told to "go hang?" It's some African-Zimbabweans who allow themselves to dwell on insults, sometimes unprovoked, insulting the British, the Americans, and the Europeans, together with their financial institutions: the World Bank, The Paris Club! If you tell them to "go hang," why go again to beg them for some financial relief, ask them to give Zimbabwe some lines of credit? Look-East policy failed dismally and nobody talks about China as friend in need and the Chinese Renminbi to adopt as the currency to replace US dollar.

But out of their pure kindness, the West will still give food-aid to the most vulnerable families in our societies millions of dollars worth of Food-Aid. If they don't divert their tax payer's money to feed the famine-stricken Zimbabweans, the government would never give a dame.  The plight of El Nino-stricken-peasant farmers that brought no food on the table the past three years is only known to the west to open their purses and give. Just yesterday a Member of Parliament from the Movement for Democratic Change was cursing in parliament using his parliament mandate, telling the West to "go hang" he said. MDC-T a political party that benefited so much from the assistance of western countries should be the last to utter such hate-speeches towards western countries.

Someone must give me one example that evidences that our government of Zimbabwe cares about the wellbeing of its citizens. In retrospect they care less, look down upon us, the government is there to serve Mugabe and not the other way round. It is Mugabe first and foremost, seconded by his cronies that bootlick him and not about Zimbabwean populations. We witnessed not so long ago a policeman who accused a woman for taking part in the "close down Zimbabwe demonstrations." She had a baby on her back, a baby that was snatched from her so that she gets a barbaric beating from the police. It was not only the pain all over her body that she suffered, it was combined with the shame too as her body-parts that command decency in every human being were exposed to the onlookers. When they tell us that Africans are uncivilised we cry racism! They do not call Africa a dark continent for nothing. Some traits in our midst still reflect crudeness and backwardness of life.

This child in particular will grow up with that picture of his/her mother who was brutalized by the police, an institution that was supposed to protect her. She/he experienced this and will never be told how her mother was humiliated, how is she/he going to take it, is this child ever going to trust anybody?

For some reasons one cannot explain some residents would look on such barbaric acts of human atrocities without acting to defend the most vulnerable in our societies; the woman and her child! Absolute meting pain has become another level consumption in the public, a free violent-bioscope, just like beer drinking in the public! Such a situation can never happen anywhere in civilised countries, beating their own citizens in that barbaric fashion, a woman for that matter in the presence of all in the street surrounding to see! Because of fear, it sent none to stop the police from beating the poor woman. Or just crying loudly to prevent the police from beating her, at best they should have left the vicinity never to witness such brutality, No! They looked on instead showing signs of indifference.

The "shut-down" that took place in Zimbabwe was mainly because the civil servants were not paid accompanied by general dissatisfaction of the citizens that been tolerated for years. Our brave and eloquent young leader Pastor Evans Mawarire took the brave lead, bravery can indeed be emulated. Lives were lost including a child who died in his home when a tear gas was thrown through the window to punish a woman who never took part in the demonstrations in the first place. In that short space of time people used that chaos to square up their personal vendettas by false accusations: falsely pointed their fingers at personal enemies who were actually at home never were they near the demonstrations, were punished to death, the child died.

 The magnitude and the levels of hate and pain dwelling in Zimbabwe can never usher a healthy nation at all. This hate comes from the top: first from the President Mugabe himself. Mugabe knows only hate speeches ever since independence of this country in 1980.  Is it possible, with the political and economic globalisation, that a President publicly displays at the glare of international press, will tell the war veterans that he will punish them, will not kill them???? Robert Mugabe is known for telling the people that he is turning right while in actual fact he will be turning left. Those war veterans will be harmed, we all know this and the war veterans know this too. Ever since Robert Mugabe took over as Head of Zanu it has been killings, whoever questioned his authority openly.

Mugabe has always managed his politics of hate, divide–and-rule principle and his killing machinery. He is never short of people who will do the killing for him. The first elections of 1980 in Zimbabwe were so violent and threats were used,  nobody could have possibly voted for another party either than Zanu PF in all parts of Mashonalands, just to serve their skins, certainly not by any political ideology and conviction that Zanu was the best party to vote for. Even Comrade Rugare Gumbo will concur that Zanu lost its political compass and political ideology when they collectively chose Robert Mugabe as their leader in 1974.

Since then Zanu Pf began to serve only one person called Robert Mugabe before independence and after. When they tried to make a corrective, reverse the leadership of Robert Mugabe to somebody a better qualified leader, lives were lost, those who were lucky like Comrade Dzino and Rugare Gumbo, they were sent to Mozambiquean notorious prisons and they languished there for three years until independence. Ironically just three days ago, 27th of July 2016, Mugabe tells the war vets about what he actually did to Dzino and his comrades in Mozambique, gloatingly without scruple, when they tried to ditch him for another leader. Remember too that there were women in those notorious prisons. Those women-victims who survived from these notorious Mozambiquean prisons have been forever silenced as if they never contributed to the noble cause of liberating Zimbabwe; politics is indeed a dirty trade. We know too that after the Lancaster conference, Cde Tongogara wanted a united a Patriotic Front to go for elections; we know Mugabe and his inner circle said nope! Zanu PF will go it alone, Comrade Tongogara died mysteriously too just like all of them who died because of mysterious deaths.

Just like Adolf Hitler who never went to concentration camps where Jews were brutally butchered, Mugabe never did the actual killings himself but he sent killer-squads to do the dirty work for him. Both Adolf Hitler and Robert Mugabe feared those death places, fear that humanness will in a split second visit them and tell their conscience what they are doing is wrong. To remain rulers they should maintain this inhumanness at all cost until they die. He will need to account personally for the disappearance of our Itai Dzamara.
The worst mistake that Ami Teurai Ropa Mujuru could do in her life was not to send a loud shrill when her husband died. If a man of General Solomon Mujuru's military credentials dies mysteriously of a house fire, and his wife Joyce, with all the careless utterances, come out loudly, silencing voices that were rightfully pointing to the killers of her husband, then I do not understand Zanu politics and will never understand it for once. I wonder if it's ever constructive to dwell into those dark days of the Zanu PF and before independence and after.

The concrete steps that we shall have to take in a new Zimbabwe dispensation, together as a nation is to make them accountable for the Gugurahundi atrocities, the hundreds of deaths resulting from farm invasions, the displacement and deaths resulting from Murambatsvina of 2005 the brutal and barbaric killings of 2008 general elections and indeed the suppression of peaceful uprising of 2016 July #ThisFlag" demonstrations. There is evidence enough to bring the perpetrators to the International Court of Justice: the Haig. Genocide ipso facto and crimes against humanity ipso facto were committed in Zimbabwe. Perpetrators of these crimes will be pursued, using judiciary system, they will be tried dead or alive, even Enos Nkala will be tried in his grave in the heroes' acre.  

 Coming back to my today's topic, it does not matter how urgently Zimbabwe needs financial injection to halt economic meltdown, Mr. Chinamasa, Minister of Finance without fiancés will not get the money from the money lenders for many reasons: Since the Millennium, the Western countries have taken in a lot of insults coming from the Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF government. It would be honest to remind them of these silly and sad utterances that impede any friendly developments between countries leading to the lender countries to open the gates to Zimbabwe and access the lines of credit to revive the economy or even debt relief to enable a destitute Zimbabwe's economy a fresh start:

Which stupid Europeans are going to open the lines of credit if they, sometimes unprovoked, are constantly feed with such hate speeches from the President supposed be of a democratic country? Professor Chan said Mugabe's remarks and hate speeches are so preposterous and laughable to say the least. Here are some of his hate-speeches:  

 "I ask Tony Blair to remove his pink nose away from Zimbabwe" said Mugabe.


Comments: Such utterances are wholly racist and have no place in a civilized world. Which stupid British institutions will dish lines of credit to Zimbabwe to revive their economy when they hear such preposterous comments coming from a head of state? It's a child-like behaviour of a person of his age to still rant racism and still think the British will continuously and gladly sent an olive-brunch and beg for mercy for their sins of having they colonized Zimbabwe once upon a time.

"So Blair keep you're England, I will keep my Zimbabwe" said Mugabe.


Comments: Again Robert Mugabe thinks Zimbabwe belongs to him. He does not know that Zimbabwe belongs to Zimbabwean people. He appropriated the country's wealth because he thinks all the country's wealth is his and his children and wife.

"Zimbabwe will never be a colony again" said Mugabe.


Comments: Which British would want to re-colonize Zimbabwe for whatever reason? Mugabe will spit that vitriol to make himself relevant again, the relevance from Zimbabweans he lost long back.

"Zimbabwe is for Zimbabwe and so are our resources" said Mugabe.

Comments: Did those friendly countries from the East not assist in plundering the very precious resources they boast about? We do not know where the 15 Billion US dollars is to this date. Not even the Zanu PF government knows how they got cheated in the processes relating to their extraction and processing of the good diamonds. Would it not have been better if Dee Beers and Zanu PF government struck a deal of 30:70 direct foreign investment than the clandestine deals that left the country poorer despite all the richness in diamonds finds?

We must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy," said Mugabe.


Comments: Indeed the Zanu PF government struck fear in the hearts of the white people and especially white farmers. They politely left Zimbabwe and relocated to be farmers in neighbouring countries. The very maize they produce is the very maize that Zimbabwe buys to alleviate famine in rural parts of Zimbabwe. How stupid can Zanu PF policies be? The land reforms were the height of folly. He never for once appreciated the social capital the white population had that defined the bread-basket of Africa.

"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe, we are not Europeans," said Mugabe.


Comments: This statement is very dishonest because everybody knows how Mugabe loves Britain and the British culture, those afternoon teas, biscuits and hot scones. To ban Robert Mugabe from going to England was the worst sanctions Robert Mugabe and his wife Gucci could endure. Having not attended the Royal wedding of Prince William, surely it hit him hard on the British-Monarch-loving Mugabe, as if the British knew how to punish him, to punish him where it hurts most, never near United Kingdom, never near the Queen Elizabeth the Second and never near Prince Charles! That hurt Mugabe, hence his hate-speeches that turned racist.

"We are not hungry, why foist this food upon us. We don't want to be choked, we have enough," said Mugabe.

Comments: Zimbabwe is experiencing worst famine we have ever had before in our life time. We have been declared as a red flag famine needy country. Mugabe is so much out of touch of the ordinary people, he thinks the people of Zimbabwe do not have maize yes but they can still have flour to make cakes and eat cakes instead of sadza.

"It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones," said Mugabe.


Comments: He is a man who is so ruthless as to crush the white farmers who made Zimbabwe a bread-basket. He wants to crush the war veterans. If he was sane, Mugabe would be ashamed of himself; it is the war veterans who elevated him to power way back before independence. But this man called Mugabe has gone senile; he is beyond any normal thinking processes.

"The white man is not indigenous of Africa," said Mugabe.


Comments: All peoples born in Zimbabwe are Zimbabweans regardless of race, tribe, creed, religion. This is enshrined in the national constitution of Zimbabwe. A civilized President of a country should know this. Mugabe says it may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones! Where do methods of not being constitutional start and where do they stop? Farm invasions are madness like no other, there is no rule of law. Now they are invading each other's farms: blacks against blacks! The law is in the hands of Zanu PF cronies, are now publicly undoing each other shamelessly.

"Zimbabwe will never be a colony again," said Mugabe.


Comments: Some rhetoric from a self-loving Mugabe, self-pleasing despot to polishes his ego

"Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans and so are our resources," said Mugabe.


Comments: Some rhetoric from a self-loving Mugabe to self pleasing and polishes his ego Will it be possible if the UK said the same to refugees from Zimbabwe seeking protection from their black government of Robert Mugabe? There are three quarters million Zimbabweans in the UK & Ireland seeking genuine protection and assistance from their colonial master Britain. They will be harmed some of them if they returned to Zimbabwe.

"The only white man we trust is a dead one," said Mugabe.


Comments: Who is going to respect a President who can utter such stupidity in the public and he is proud about his vitriol? This statement is just racist and has no place in civilized nations. Did we fight Ian Douglas Smith's racism to replace it with racism?

"I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler had only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition for independence his people and their rights over their resources, if that is Hitler, then let me be Hitler ten times, tenfold, that is what we stand for," said Mugabe.


Comments: This shows how ignorant Robert Mugabe. If he read history of the World Wars in Europe he was going to know the reasons behind the German Reich imperialism back then. He was going to be sensitive about the horrors of war and never used to hurt the other. All these reasons given by Robert Mugabe about Hitler are slurs. He gives such slurs as reasons to why Hitler took Germany to war. But because Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF dwell on falsehood and provocative slurs, he has to be seen to be saying something greater than thunder to please the ignorant constituency that will give it a laugh and he will be full of it. He is trying to find big words that will hurt the Europeans, hurt them by any references to WW2, it is no doubt very hurtful too. Where ignorance is just bliss, its folly to still be wise meaning! This is how a red line is crossed by a despot called President Mugabe.

As a conclusion, dear Western countries keep your money and Robert will keep his Zimbabwe, period! You cannot be dishing money to finance Hotel bills (Mphoko's bills at Sheraton Hotel) of two and half years as if Zimbabwe does not have decent homes to live in. Zanu PF knows that it will be game-over soon with Zanu administration, so they will try and loot as much as they can before they leave to faraway places where they will be out of reach of our thunder of anger towards them. When Finance Minister Chinamasa asks for money can you please remind him of those Mphoko's hotel costs of 1000 US dollars a day.  Tell him point blank they should stop this extravaganza of life styles for themselves, but still nursing a comatose economy.

Nothing is being done to improve the lives of common people. Those chickens that the VP Mphoko is distributing around cannot resuscitate the economy, and make Bulawayo an industrial city again, in retrospect, it is some gesture to feel good about himself. There is some rumour that the son of Chinamasa smuggled 7 million US dollars to South Africa. How substantiated that rumour is, we still do not know, no smoke without fire. Ask Minister Chinamasa where do Ministers in Zanu PF government, the Kasukuweres, get the money to build 52 bedroom mansions? If this young man Kasukuwere has minimum of four children what does he need 50 bedrooms for? The money Minister Chinamasa is begging from the West is to be looted and spent on most stupid and ridiculous luxuries around Harare all in the name of indigenisation, failed indigenisation policies.

The finance minister Chinamasa thinks he can bully Britain to submission; by telling them "you cannot wish us away," he said. He rudely reminds them of their colonial responsibility the British have towards Zimbabwe, but Zimbabwe is 36 years independent a sovereign state. If you are begging, your wording should be polite and not bully and not insults and hate-speeches by the President of Zimbabwe. The times, they are changing. The young politicians in the British establishment including Tony Blair do not even consult how that "Lancaster Agreement was worded, they were all in colleges of learning, and hence they do "not know" the document. They choose not to make reference of it when they make their fiscal decisions, to say nope to give Zimbabwe lines of credit. This colonial guilt Chinamasa wants to provoke and to use it to get lines of credit does not arguer well with Prime Ministers David Cameron or Teresa May. It may have worked with Margaret Thatcher or John Major, certainly not the younger crop of British politicians. They cannot be held at ransom by self serving politicians of Southern Rhodesia. They will cry again if Boris Johnson called them pikininis, but it's their temper tantrum that is like little children!    
            
 Even if you gave them lines of credit, they will abuse them as they do not have the culture of paying back what they owe to lender institutions. Zanu PF knows how to "take" and never give back. It is not that you want Zimbabwe to crush and burn, not at all, you are giving enough food-aid to the most vulnerable in our societies anywhere. In other words you have extended your benefit-departments to Zimbabwe, a country that cannot manage its economy with 13 million people, it is on its knees, economically but still at it with hate- speeches none stop, biting the hand that feeds them.

#Myflag! Hatichachka, Asisesabi, tajamuka!


Source - Nomazulu Thata
All articles and letters published on Bulawayo24 have been independently written by members of Bulawayo24's community. The views of users published on Bulawayo24 are therefore their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Bulawayo24. Bulawayo24 editors also reserve the right to edit or delete any and all comments received.