Jayprog

Some SADC leaders operate like a gangster and will not give solutions to the Zimbabwe situation. The fact is that some African leaders are so afraid of democracy that they cannot afford it a chance to exist.

Some people think Zimbabweans are so docile and will never rise against an African regime that is terrorizing them and displacing people in masses. I think Zimbabweans have grown up to realize that war is not the only solution to this catastrophe. The next question then is how come the people of Zimbabwe managed to free themselves from white colonial rule and are now in a situation worse than they were 29 years ago and cannot free themselves again?

The answer to the above question is found in what I call collective effort from not only the people of Zimbabwe but the neighbors also. The war against colonial rule was won because countries like Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Botswana  etc made great efforts to squeeze the colonialists and isolate Rhodesia regionally, this led to the Ian Smith regime failing.

The effort of neighboring countries is very important in correcting a humanitarian crisis. Even in our social lives we need good neighbors to live peacefully with our families.

In my entire life I’d never heard of a country that closed a hospital but thanks to Zanu PF I’ve witnessed it. Things that are happening in Zimbabwe are horrible and very soon it is going to be worse than what is happening in a war zone.

The situation in Zimbabwe could have been resolved after the March 2008 election in which Zanu Pf lost to the MDC- T in all elections. Zimbabweans will remember Mr. Thabo Mbeki as a man who spoiled their future by telling the world that there was no crisis in Zimbabwe. Mr. Mbeki has always been a careless and biased man when it comes to the Zimbabwe situation. I correctly predicted that this man would leave office before the end of his term and surely he did. It puzzles me then why SADC puts trusts in such a man who was rejected by his own party and country to lead South Africa. Mr. Mbeki has failed and there is need for him to be relieved of his duties as a mediator.

 

When the Rule of Nature Takes Control

Embracing Communist ideas in a modern world is one challenge that needs total madness to survive. When a tyrant government is faced with numerous failures on the tables and its bag of short term solutions is empty, the masses can expect to hear anything.

The above situation depicts the Zimbabwean situation in which Zanu Pf has run out of ideas and solutions. Blaming to Western countries for the cholera epidemic that is currently ravaging the poor people of Zimbabwe is one shocker that the geriatric gerrymanders in Harare have pulled.

To those who left Zimbabwe long ago they will remember that this type of propaganda is not so new in Zimbabwe. During elections some people in rural areas were misinformed by Zanu Pf that Morgan Tsvangirai is a white man with a Shona name trying to take back the country. Another propaganda claim that Zanu Pf also made was during the 2002 drought. America and Britain were blamed for the drought as the two nations were said to have directed rainfall away from Zimbabwe.

When a dictatorship is about to fall, it is first overwhelmed by catastrophes which rapidly deplete its limited and stretched resources, failure to cope with this leads to blaming external factors. It is followed by dissatisfaction within the echelons of the repressive system. This in essence is an unstoppable cocktail of an uprising that sweeps the dictatorship from power.

In studying dictatorship and tyranny I have realized some common trends exhibited by all dictators who have ever lived and fallen down, Hitler, Kamuzu Banda, Milosevic, Idi Amin, etc, in their ruling years, dictators, all think they will rein forever. They never see the wave of change until it is on their door step.

Dictators never seem to get the truth on the ground, they believe in what they want to happen and so people tend to exaggerate facts and tell the dictator what he wants to hear. In most cases no sane person would want to raise the fury of a tyrant by telling him bad news. Dictators live in an isolated world from the people the rule. In most cases they rule a vast poor people who rely on the dictator to provide food, while on the other hand the dictator lives a plush life and cares little about the people. Little I say because he only needs the people to justify his power and monopoly over the resources of the entire nation.

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)