Jayprog

Dear Mr President,

We Zimbabweans who are living outside Zimbabwe because of the atrocities being committed by the man you so much want to protect (Robert Mugabe) really feel you are letting the whole of Africa down. 

 

It is time you put your friendship aside with the Old Man and start to tell the whole world the truth. Zimbabweans are tired of your efforts to make us suffer more and remain under the grip of this dictator. On several occasions you mislead the world.

Right now there is a crisis in Zimbabwe and you chose to take the issue casually by telling the whole world that the situation is manageable. It really does not make sense for the rest of the world, except you that ZEC cannot release the presidential results more than 2 weeks after the voting process.

 

The truth of the matter is that Robert Mugabe is denying the majority of Zimbabweans their right to choice and information which South Africans are enjoying in your country. We urge you to rise above friendship and your so called quiet diplomacy and realise that Mugabe is now the SADC's major risk.

 

There is no need for you to be afraid of Mugabe, he is an old man and the world will not condemn you for saying the truth that the old man should respect democracy and allow it to operate in Zimbabwe. Tony Blair, John Howard, Gordon Brown, President Bush and many other world leaders have said their concerns about Mugabe.

President Mbeki we beg you to keep quiet if you are afraid of offending the old man (It is quiet Diplomacy in the right way). Right now your comments have given Mugabe a new zeal and vigour to massacre more in-order to remain in power.

Because of your actions the world is starting to have a different view of the SADC region, you are generally promoting dictatorship by condoning a regime that butchers its own people. The Zimbabwe situation has already started affecting the Region's economies and  We as Zimbabweans  now feel that you find great pleasure in our continued suffering aswe are displaced from our families looking for jobs and food.

What goes around comes around and very soon it is going to bite South Africa as you have startd to feel the cracks of your system through Load shedding.

President Mbeki, have you ever spent a week without food and see inocent children die of hunger and HIV/AIDS? I guess you have never experienced it closely, this is the normal life of a Zimbabwean whose home land you say has no crisis. What level do you call a crisis when people are dying like flies on a daily basis.

Our hearts bleed for our bloved country as we toil and are exploited to develop other people's lands. God help us find peace. 

God will surely judge you for all that you are doing to deny us the innocent souls of Zimbabwe.

 

Yours

 

Vana Vevhu (Children of the Soil)