South Africa continues to protect despot Mugabe
Mugabe is a disgrace and South Africa's protection of him is also a disgrace. The continued ruin of Zimbabwe should be an embarrassment to South Africa which has the power to remove this cancer.A team of South African officials arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday to assess the humanitarian catastrophe and see what aid should be sent to halt the cholera outbreak threatening to engulf southern Africa. They will not need to look far. All around they will see the evidence of the mismanagement, corruption and repression that have brought Zimbabwe to the edge of ruin: children with kwashiorkor, farms reverting to scrub, hospitals and schools closed, sewage running down the streets and the most horrific indicator of social and economic breakdown - the bodies of cholera victims being collected for burial.
The South Africans will report back to President Motlanthe so that the Cabinet can consider an aid package tomorrow. They already know, however, that the need is bottomless. It is not just for water treatment plants to stem a disease that has killed eight victims within South Africa and could spread fast as infected refugees cross the border; it is for the rehabilitation of a ruined economy and infrastructure.
Above all, the need is the immediate removal of the perpetrator of this evil, President Mugabe....
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There is something shameful in the contrast between Kenya's calls for Mr Mugabe's overthrow and South Africa's reluctance still to turn its back on the old dictator. South Africa needs to end the chaos across its border not only to justify its claims to be a leading African power and contender for a UN Security Council seat, but to protect its own stability and security - from a fresh wave of refugees and now from a cholera epidemic. It has the means, logistics and military back-up to lead any international intervention force. It should now be co-ordinating the proposed moves by the African Union and responding to the calls, from refugees and many South Africans, to rid the continent of this tyrant.
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Throughout the African people’s history of fighting for liberation and human dignity, each gain and breakthrough we have made was mainly due to our ability to overcome our enemy’s overt brutality, deceit and manipulation.Because the colonialists and imperialists have actively engaged in both our physical and mental oppression, the web of deception created by their Media and networks is a crucial and deadly weapon .
ReplyDeleteThe manner in which the European and British media have reported how cholera is spreading in Zimbabwe not only reveals they enjoy watching a people whom they cannot intimidate and control suffer, but even, more importantly, it is clearly a masquerade by supposedly compassionate human beings who have nothing to do with the problem.
The Zimbabwean Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr David Parirenyatwa, and his staff deserve ultimate praise, not only for their tireless efforts to maintain Zimbabwe’s broken health infrastructure, but for having the courage and integrity to inform the world that the sanctions — and not negligence or bad governance — are the root cause for problems with the country’s health delivery system.
While the cholera problem is tragic and deserves our immediate attention, the British government and its supporters (raila Odinga and Co), obsessed with illegal regime change in Zimbabwe, should be the last ones allowed to pass moral judgment on how President Mugabe and Zanu-PF deal with this matter.