Once known as the “bread basket of Africa”, Zimbabwe’s corrupt and barbaric leadership, for the first time, is facing a legitimate challenge by the opposition party. Mugabe has refused to relinquish power despite the will of the people.
While the world stand aside with their arms folded and watch, the mentally deranged and Hitler like Mugabe continues to treat his people as if they were in a Nazi prison camp. How many innocent lives will this monster take before he and his thugs are brought to justice? Unless, the world intervene, Zimbabwe is a timed bomb that is ready to explore any time. Until the international community act as soon as possible, this explosion will leave a strain on the whole South African region including the loss of thousands of lives.
As recent as June 6, Robert Mugabe’s militia burn an opposition leader’s wife alive. The militia were looking for Mr. Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district. Only his wife Dadirai Chipiro was home. They grabbed her and chopped off one of her hands and both her feet. Then they threw her into her house, locked the door and threw a petrol bomb through the window. The 45-year-old former pre-school teacher, was the second wife of an MDC party member to be burnt alive. Earlier during the week, Pamela Pasvani, the 21-year-old pregnant wife of a local councilor in Harare, was killed in similar situation; her six-year-old son also perished in the flames.
Mugabe’s Zimbabwe is plaque with rampant corruption, bribery, rape, killings, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft, embezzlement, power grab, land grab, abuse of the constitution. The official rate of annual inflation in Zimbabwe have surpassed any that the world has seen.
Ian Smith, a racist and Zimbabwe’s last white prime minister advocated white rule in Rhodesia. Zimbabwe was called Rhodesia when it was ruled by the racist white regime. A snarling Smith had told the world in the 1960s there would be no black rule in his country, “never in a thousand years”. Despite Smith’s racist reign and uncompromising decade of rule of Rhodesia, he is starting to appear more and more as a saint compare to Mugabe. It sad to admit that that as terrible and racist as Ian Smith was, his reigned brought less hardship to black Zimbabweans as compare to their follow black leader, Mugabe.
Until the time of his death, Smith continued to attack Mugabe, describing him as “mentally deranged.” For 15 turbulent years Smith’s government fought an increasingly bitter war against African nationalist guerrillas, which lost up to 40,000 lives, mainly black. It was a struggle he eventually lost, paving the way for Zimbabwe’s independence.
Prior to taking over, Mugabe’s response for change was a campaign to reclaim “land for blacks”, a policy that saw white farmers being thrown off their farms. The land was then handed over to so-called war veterans, in reality a rag-tag army of youths belonging to Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party and other government supporters.
In villages and towns across Zimbabwe, commercial farming ground to a halt, the new landowners hopelessly out of their depth and unable to produce food. Zimbabwe’s unharvested tobacco crops were soon worthless and food exports, the source of much needed foreign currency, virtually ceased.
The irony was that, unlike Smith, many whites had already supported some form of land reform, with 75 per cent of Zimbabwe’s fertile land owned by the one per cent minority.
But Mugabe’s thugs and gangsters began seizing personal properties, including farms bought legitimately by whites from Mugabe’s own government soon after independence. To compound the tragedy, the black workers who worked the land with the white families and received education and medicine, found themselves homeless and unemployed.
This, according to Smith, was the work of the “gangster Mugabe” who had failed to appreciate all that white Rhodesia had “done for the blacks”.
Deluded to the end, Smith could not bring himself to acknowledge that his rule was every bit as catastrophic as Mugabe’s has been since. “I loved my country, I helped build my country. Now the terrorist is destroying it,” he said during an interview.
If the 84-year-old Mugabe had an ounce of sense, he would quietly exit the stage and live out the rest of his life in luxury in his $16 million sumptuous 25-bedroom retirement home he built with taxpayers money during his 28-year rule. The three-story mansion have four acres of floor space, with Italian marble and ceilings decorated by Arab craftsmen. It sits in 44 acres of woodland in the exclusive Harare suburb of Borrowdale.
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