Pres M Tsvangirai Interview with SWRADIOAFRICA:( PART 2)

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Mugabe is a "gandanga" requiring other tactics!

>From nyatsimba_mutota@yahoo.com
My problem is with employing "tabloid tactics" to bring down Gandanga fanika
Mugabe. Now all we see are these so called "analytical" stories that carry
too many inconsistencies, misconceptions and even lies. Its a joke to write
about Zimbabwe to a Zimbabwean audience and put it wrong. It destroys the
whole credibility about the article. This is why we have a serious gap
between Africa and the west when it comes to Mugabe/Zimbabwe because such a
story lacking in factual truth can fly abroad but not in Africa and SA. I
mean tabloids tactics just embarass you, but I would like to see how a
gandanga is being embarassed by most of these stories. Maybe Madonna will
give up the baby, but even she goes on with her life.

It seems we seem to forget the basics of who we are and how we live when it
comes to our own country. Perhaps its because we live in foreign countries,
perhaps its because siding with western powers and media is the way to go,
but what really does it do to Mugabe save for the fact that such stories add
more coffers and time to organizations working in Zim?

When people talk of hunger at home, they do not talk of maize from white
farms. Our population is mainly rural with more than 70% living in rural
areas. The other 15-20% in town actually rely on subsistence farming for
food so what really affects these people is drought not land redistribution.
I mean we have had 2 serious droughts before with white farmers in place so
whats new?

"The suggestion that drought was and is the cause of crop failures has been
proved to be a false story put about by Mugabe in order to account for
famine in Zimbabwe. Craig Richardson (Associate Professor of Economics at
Salem College in the United States) in a comprehensive independent report
tabled at the United Nations, proves conclusively that the only 'drought' in
recent times was in 2001-2002."

The problem in Zimbabwe is leadership. We do not have concensus in what we
want and how we want it. How to move and who we are as a people. We want
land reform only in theory not practice. We want democracy in theory and
only if democracy means removing Mugabe.

A lot of you Zim guys in SA even think that white people is the answer
because you have not been exposed to the notion of doing it for yourself.
Most of you attacked Arthur until you beat him into a pulp only for Biti and
company to start having HOTEL rallies with Robertson and Robinson. Only for
Biti and company to start calling for companies like Barclays to pull out!
And we still Mugabe rigs the elections? Who in their right frame of minds
would tolerate such nonsense?

In as much as I think its good to solicit for funding, we need to do so with
firm understanding, belief and strong will of who we are and what we want as
people. Tiri kufarira n'anga neinokwira mai!

Answering Mr Mbanga's question "WHY MBEKI?"

Please kindly go to www.dearmrthabombeki.blogspot.com to see the article in
question

Ex http://www.zimdaily.com/news/117/ARTICLE/1238/2007-01-19.html

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Cell: 0791463039 RSA.

VICTORY FOR MR TREVOR NCUBE!!!

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Soyinka: "Mugabe is a let-down!"

Soyinka: Mugabe is a let-down

Percy Zvomuya   http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=296210&area=/insight/insight__africa/
19 January 2007 08:45
On the situation in the Niger Delta where there are ongoing clashes between the Nigerian army, local armed groups and the communities over the exploitation and management of oil resources: The longer this problem persists the tougher the resolution will be. In other words, I am talking about now, now -- immediately. [There should be a] resumption of dialogue and the implementation of agreements made between the federal government of Nigeria and the recognised and legitimate leadership of the oil-producing regions -- organisations such as MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta). The government should very seriously look at the recommendations made by the Nobel Laureate Commission (see box) which went there and spoke to the ordinary people and the leaders of the militants, both men and women. It was astonished at how organised and absolutely resolved they are … These are people who feel that decades of marginalisation, of contempt, of the appropriation of their resources with nothing in return but degraded environments, a polluted atmosphere, toxic waste -- should come to an end. These are people who are saying "Our forebears tried this route and it did not work" and this is the language they will understand. My view is that it is about time the government realises it is dealing with a totally new generation of objectionists to the status quo. The formula for resolution is not wanting. The recommendations were signed by about 65 Nobel laureates, including people of peace such as the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, so it's not just a bunch of eggheads, supposedly people detached from reality. The federal government would be very irresponsible if it failed to use this opportunity to resume contact and meaningful dialogue with the Delta region. On democracy in Nigeria: I don't know if we have made any gains along the lines of democracy. [After military rule] we had two rigged elections, an individual imposing on a nation, who even attempted to stay beyond what the Constitution allowed -- at great expense to the nation. We have what we call rule by godfatherism, almost like the rotten boroughs in British history -- anybody could pocket a borough. That's what is happening in Nigeria. Is this what democracy is all about? I don't know about any gains. On the Zimbabwe situation: I make no bones about it, Mugabe is a let-down within the democratic imperative. He has become power-intoxicated, he is a liberation fighter whom we all admired and we held up as a model. He has let us down. He is obsessed with power, intolerant and despotic. I consider him [to be] no better than Idi Amin, except that he is constrained from going the whole hog. The conduct of Mugabe is a betrayal of what we have fought for on the African continent. The business of playing the race card when there is internal opposition and internal demand for change, the cruelty involved, the annihilation and the bulldozing of all those centres of opposition ... How is it different from what apartheid South Africa used to do? So I am sorry that Mugabe is earning the contempt of former admirers. And that, for me, is very sad. Wole Soyinka was the guest of honour at the launch of Between Faith and History by Ivor Agyeman-Duah, a biography of John Kufour, the President of Ghana

 

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"Hysterical reaction to Tekere belies fear!"

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M S Hove.

Tsvangirai launches fierce attack on SADC!

Tsvangirai launches fierce attack on SADC

By Our Correspondent

www.thezimbabwetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=353

HARARE, January 23, 2007 -Morgan Tsvangirai, the president of the Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC), has launched a scathing attack on African
nationalists and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for
inaction on the Zimbabwe crisis and for sacrificing ideals of liberation
struggles for the sake of camaraderie

In a hard-hitting speech, Tsvangirai said African nationalists believed they
could not be challenged while SADC as a regional grouping had let down the
people of Zimbabwe.

He was presenting a paper titled Challenges of the Century: A call for
collective leadership on the Zimbabwean question

Tsvangirai said: "Our heritage, our history has tended to be abused by a
certain nationalistic clique that spearheaded and directed our liberation
struggles. To them, the status quo must be protected despite glaring
inadequacies in our societies and a changing world."

"This clique considers itself unchallenged in directing our societies at the
expense of political, social and economic advancement. Our nationalists in a
number of African countries have sacrificed ideals of the liberation
struggle, delayed national integration programmes and distorted the
sovereign expression of millions of Africa."

He, however, said the SADC region had a regional framework recognising
historical unity. "But critical advances have been hampered by misplaced
solidarity among those in our political leadership at the expense of the
generality of the people."

Tsvangirai said millions of Zimbabweans were languishing in exile, putting
pressure on social and economic systems among Zimbabwe neighbours.

"Despite this anomaly, a united SADC voice on the current political and
economic meltdown in Zimbabwe has been, at best fragmented and muffled, and
at worst, lacking in force and substance," he said.

"The solution to the crisis of governance remains elusive. We allow
political morticians to perfume a corpse in an advanced state of
decomposition with the hope that a miracle shall happen. It is fair to say,
SADC has let the people of Zimbabwe down, given the sacrifices the same
people made to the liberation of the sub-continent.

"We ignore the plight of a desperate nation under siege from a rapacious
clique in the name of non-interference in the internal affairs of a
neighbour and under the guise of protecting a liberation icon, a founding
father of the nation, a national symbol or just a friend."

Tsvangirai said a few years ago Mozambicans were displaced and could be
found in almost all the SADC countries. It took outsiders to bring the
warring parties together while the region watched from a distance.

He said Zimbabwe suffered from a system failure, caused by a ruling clique
that had decided to ignore national and international advice, and failed to
accept adaptive change after years of poor governance practices and an open
dictatorship.

Tsvangirai said efforts to effect corrective measures had attracted brutal
responses, leading to the flight of capital, investment and a national
feeling of despondency.

Elsewhere, he said, regional groupings had put in place monitoring
mechanisms to ensure and extend basic freedoms for their peoples as well as
introducing power to sanction and censure their members in the event of any
infringements.

Such regional block guarded against corruption, political behaviour that
fuelled inflation and economic decay and oppression.

"A regional standard in politics, economics and acceptable behaviour is
necessary to enable our neighbours to sound an early warning system should
the first signs of instability begin to emerge," Tsvangirai said.

"A regional standard offers a single voice, a single position whenever each
one of us faces a serious threat, a natural disaster or a political
miscalculation and misdemeanour."

Tsvangirai said icons of the liberation struggle, the founding fathers of
nations and the national symbols of tradition and heritage, had a coveted
place in the history of the region. They made an invaluable contribution
that no generation could afford to ignore or to forget, he said.

"But, they must let go," he said. "They must give allowances for our
societies to elect governments of their choice; they must give the people
opportunities to take part in their own political and economic activities
and to associate freely among themselves."

"The current effort in SADC shall remain a technical move unless we hit the
nail on the head: politics drives most activity. SADC's vision of attaining
a supra-national union where the respective governments completely
subordinate their sovereignty over policies to a supra-national authority,
and which may ultimately lead to the alignment of the countries involved
into a single community depends on the speed with which we move to protect
our people from incipient backwardness and political retardation.

"You can't live in peace as long as your neighbourhood, rightly or
debatably, is seen to harbour some rough elements. Let us clear our
neighbourhood, more so as we prepare to host the World Cup. International
attention shall be on southern Africa in the next four years. Unless we put
our heads together and sort out the Zimbabwean confusion; we shall be asking
our guests to ignore the dangers of a rough neighbourhood at their own
risk."

Message from Zimgreats!

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After a short break, the Zimgreats Team says, " We are back with a Bang!"

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Comment posted to website!

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Message from the "Concerned
Zimbabweans Abroad!"
<http://zimfinalpush.blogspot.com/2007/01/message-from-concerned-zimbabweans
.html> :

I personally think that there too many organisations all with the same
cause. For example you get the Concerns Citizens Abroad. What really are you
guys doing about the situation at home besides using the crisis back home to
enrich yourselves. Even organisations that meant to be assisting people who
need assistance in SOuth Africa are using their orgaisations to get as many
women as possible. I think merely discussing these issues will not yield any
results. People we have to find a way forward and come up with resolutions
that will free all.

Posted by Anonymous to ZIMFINALPUSH!
<http://zimfinalpush.blogspot.com/index.html> at 2:39 PM, January 22, 2007
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Radical Soldier's Comment:
The problem is bigger than that!
The people are without a shepherd!
Too many voices and the people are doing "mazvake-mazvake" (each doing his
own thing)
With no over-all progress!
Rev M S Hove....The Radical Mindset.
Cell: 0791463039 RSA....mufarostig@yahoo.co.uk
CRY THE BELOVED NATION!
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Our father which art at "State House" illegitimately!

Stinking is thine name........!

Thy kingdom is very evil and must never be repeated in any country!

Thy will hath destroyed the beloved country of Zim!

Give us this day thy resignation letter!

Forgive us for hating thee!

As we will never forgive thee for destroying thine opponents!

For thine is the Dictatorship, the Tyranny and the Assassinations!

For ever and ever....until the People rise up!

Amen!

Enos Nkala and his much-talked-about forthcoming book
Ex www.thezimbabwetimes.com and posted

on www.dearmrrobertmugabe.blogspot.com

M S Hove.

" Examining Tekere's comments: Mr Mutumwa Mawere!"

Ex
http://www.zimdaily.com/news/125/ARTICLE/1245/2007-01-22.html

Please kindly visit <http://www.zimdebate.blogspot.com>
www.zimdebate.blogspot.com for the said article.

M S Hove....The Radical Mindset!

Silence Chihuri on MDC Unity!

Please kindly visit www.zimgossiper.blogspot.com for the said article

Ex http://www.zimdaily.com/news/117/ARTICLE/1188/2007-01-04.html!

M S Hove.

Who said "Foreigners" should dictate anything?

Please kindly go to www.dearmrtonyblair.blogspot.com

for the article ex
http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=84&twindow=&mad=&sde
tail=2857&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption
=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1705&hn=talkzimb
abwe&he=.com

I think its very stupid that someone thinks we Zimbos don't know what we
want without "Foreigners" interferring!

M S Hove.

Blaming Mugabe alone myopic!

Please kindly visit www.dearmrrobertmugabe.blogspot.com for the said article
by
Mr Mutumwa Mawere
ex http://www.thezimbabwestandard.com/viewinfo.cfm?linkid=21&id=5692

M S Hove....The Radical Mindset!

Cell: 0791463039 RSA.

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GUKURAHUNDI: Moving towards objective analysis
By Masiiwa Shwere. Email: vashwere@yahoo.co.uk
Posted to www.gukurahundi.blogspot.com

Consolidation of web-sites!

Please kindly note that I'm receiving so much to post on my blog-sites.
I have now the "base web-site" where I will give the "INDEX" of what
appears on the various blogs.
Its now at www.revmshove.wikispaces.com .
That's the "One-Stop-Shop" where you will get the updates.
Yours in the struggle for a New Zimbabwe. Rev M S Hove....The Radical
Mindset.
Cell: 0791463039 RSA.

Omni TV's Mugabe Interview!

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Message from the "Concerned Zimbabweans Abroad!"

Mugabe is planning another clean -up. This is very unfortunate but I believe
will send a strong messege to the United Nations for its failure to make a
follow up of Anna Tibaijuka's damning report.
Why is nobody doing nothing to stop the madaness that has gripped our
country? On Monday, the chairman of SADC was in Britain and was confronted
by the courageous Free Zim Youths on the plans he had on countries like
Zimbabwe. The reply was wishie washie.He just chewed his words and by the
end of his replying statement, he had actually said nothing.
Who then shall save our nation? Demonstrations are met with live bullets,
beatings and torture. I believe it is time we admit that we have failed to
remove Mugabe democratically. So what now?
We need to stop another tsunami sweeping over our country. In the previous
so called clean-up, children were killed, people got hurt, families broke
up, many were forced into exile and some had to move into the rural areas to
do nothing except retire at tenage stages. As untrained youths, what would
one expect then to do in tyhe rural areas.
We in the diaspora have to act now and thwart any moves by Mugabe to destroy
peple's homes again. I want to believe President Thabo Mbeki could act as
the pivot to thwart the moves by the tyrant to get more people out of the
country.
As CONCERNED ZIMBABWEANS ABROAD, we have already delivered a letter to the
president of S.Africa citing our concerns over the move by the Zimbabwean
governement to destroy more homes and the livelihoods of the poor.
It is very unfortunate that no neighbouring country is prepared to help us
equip ourselves militarily. Not even any other country in Africa. We believe
this is the only option left, if we do not have to wait till he is on the
hearse to the Heroes Acre.
Where many are going wrong is that they think that Mugabe holds all power.
It is a wrong assumption to make. The people hold the power and it is they
who have allowed Mugabe to do what he has done. Many of the people have
actively assisted in destroying the country. For a start, many actively
assisted Mugabe destroy Zimbabwe's food security and supoporting
infrastructure. In this way, they handed their power to Mugabe. Now the
people have to beg Mugabe to provide food to feed their children. It is
inconceiveable to imagine that a nation would not only allow, but its
citizens would actively partake in destroying a country's entire future. We
have brought this upon ourselves. If only we could take the time to look at
ourselves in the mirror and acknowledged this one fact, then maybe we will
finally take full responsibility upon our shoulders and, as individuals, do
something about it. Unfortunately, we are nowhere near the point of
recognising our collective irresponsibility.
There are many things that can be done to speed up change towards a
prosperous and happy Zimbabwe. Of that, we have no doubt. Our future is in
our hands. The problem right now is that we have become totemless and behave
like servants, not citizens.
Jay Jay Sibanda
CONCERNED ZIMBABWEANS ABROAD ( 072 363 0700 )

Zimpolitics opposed to Opposition Unification!

Opposition Unification

The most Zanu like idea and non democratic idea there is!
How do you call yourselves democratic yet embarking on a non democratic
promotional campaign? Anyone who is calling themselves academic or
politician seem to not understand what democracy stands for. What is this
idea about removing choice?
I know and understand what the current administration under Mugabe has not
performed as well as expected and corruption and all that is destructive to
the nation has taken place. We still should not be obsessed by Robert
Mugabe. The focus on the president has taken energy and the ability to be
innovative and creative (which was lacking already). It is not necessarily
the inability for a president to run the country that takes a nation to what
Zimbabwe is and going. It is the millions of Zimbabweans in the diaspora.
Running from their responsibilities. As thinkers and innovators, businessman
and civic organizations should have been creating an environment that is not
conducive to corruption and perpetuation of incompetence.

A coalition is the road to a one party state. Mutambara and Tsvangirai
should remain separate one or two more parties should join the field and
citizens should be educated to vote their conscience and not what someone
else think is the way to go. Mugabe can rule till he dies if Zimbabwean vote
for him. And they should be allowed to vote for him if that is what they
prefer. It is the members of paliament that matter. As long as the president
does not have a majority and the constitution is followed and is for the
people, one should not obsess on Mugabe. If there are crimes committed with
a majority that is not Zanu then Justice should and will take its course.

It however appears to me that until the nation reeds itself of these Zanu
like propensities we are destined to be like Kenya and the rest of the
African States. Change from one dictator to another. As it is we all know
that Tsvangirai and his predecessor from the other group are dictators in
the making.

Businesses need to create jobs, legislators and civic organizations need to
teach job skills and help start small businesses.

Civic organizations in Zimbabwe are little businesses that founders use to
finance their businesses and feed their families rather than do what they
have put themselves to be representing.

As much as mugabe is to blame for the state of the nation, it is time to get
over him already and quit the obsession. We have a judicial system. It may
not be were we want it to be but we have one. Gukura hundi for instance --
We can start prosecuting and filing civil suits and ask the international
courts to start indicting the lowest ranking soldiers that we all know for a
fact that they carried out the atrocities and follow the chain of command
from there. A lot of these will not want to go down on their own so they
will rat on the others and we follow the trail to Mugabe or at least someone
higher up the chain. We can do this with everything - the media, city
council, labor etc.

Lets do something that works and quit the finger pointing and obsessing on
Mugabe. He may die in power and no one will know what to obsess on when he
is gone. Leading to another state of paralysis.
4:16 AM, January 17, 2007
Zimpolitics can be found on www.zimpolitics.blogspot.com .

"Zimbos" take the struggle an octave higher!

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Compiled by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe, March 1997
	REPORT ON THE 80S ATROCITIES IN MATABELELAND AND THE MIDLANDS
THE DAMNING EVIDENCE THEY DIDN'T WANT YOU TO SEE   Please kindly note the whole Report is now available on www.gukurahundi.blogspot.com   All the material has been got from www.newzimbabwe.com and is fully ackowledged.   Rev M S Hove....The Radical Soldier.Cell: 0791463039 RSA.

 

 

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Mugabe nowhere near Saddam!

I received a long submission from info@aimcitygroup.co.uk
which I have posted on www.zimdebate.blogspot.com on a comparison between
Saddam and Mugabe.

Please kindly visit that site.

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Either Trevor and Benjani are foreigners, or both Zimbabwean!

By Daniel Fortune Molokele

http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/fortune84.15789.html

Last updated: 01/08/2007 18:07:51

THE news that the Robert Mugabe led regime in Zimbabwe has decided to
rescind Trevor Ncube's passport has been received by many concerned
Zimbabweans both at home and abroad with a profound sense chagrin and
exasperation.

Honestly, just when many thought the regime had reached its worst limits, it
buries itself deeper in buffoonery.

Is it not rather sad and tragic that while many Zimbabweans are busy
struggling to get over the disappointment of yet another bleak festive
season, their so-called elected government is in the meantime busy
conspiring against one of the nation's self made successes?

January is one of the worst months for most of the families in the country
who also have to contend with annual side-effects of the much dreaded
January disease.
This is a reference to the socio-economic challenges that arise out of the
requisite payment of school fees and uniforms and other paraphernalia that
are concomitant with the process of educating one's children.

What is evident is that whilst the majority of the people are actively
engaged in a desperate battle for socio-economic survival, the ruling party
is also busy fighting for its own political survival. It is now common cause
to all discerning Zimbabweans that the much vaunted annual conference for
the party that was held in Goromonzi last month was never about coming up
with viable and sustainable solutions aimed at resolving the perennial
crisis in Zimbabwe.

As it turned out, the conference ended up being a simple platform to expose
Zanu-PF as a house smouldering under the internecine fires of factionalism.
The party is now so hopelessly divided over the succession debate, so much
that the only common ground that is uniting it is the fear of life after
they lose their grip on power. Evidently, what is now uniting the party is a
common desire to postpone their imminent doom as a dominant political force
in Zimbabwe.

No one in their right sense of mind can doubt that the party no longer has
the political will and vision to salvage anything that is left of the
African jewel that the country once was. The party has long lost its mass
appeal and has now been forced to rely almost entirely on a strategy of mass
intimidation of the long suffering people of Zimbabwe. Honestly it is now a
well established scientific fact that fear has become synonymous with the
dominant political psyche among the Zimbabwean majorities. Empirical
research from such studies as the Afro-Barometer Report has already
confirmed that political reality.

It therefore appears that the party has now resolved to continue its process
of muzzling public debate on its political failings by shutting down what is
perhaps the only remaining bastion of media freedom in the country. The
Independent Newspapers Group, of which Ncube is the head, is recognised as
the sole alternative media platform in a country that is much dominated by
the government controlled media stables such as the Zimbabwe Broadcasting
Holdings and Zimpapers.

Since the government closure of the popular Daily News in September 2003,
the only reliable source of critical media in the country has primarily been
the group's two weekly publications. That is, the Independent (Fridays) and
the Standard on Sundays. It is also common cause that the group has also
attempted to start its own daily newspaper. However, as one would
anticipate, the government controlled Media and information Commission has
up to now deliberately frustrated the group's efforts.
Be that as it may, it is one thing for the government to deny Ncube that
business opportunity of establishing a daily publication or let alone to
shut down his two weeklies for whatever reason. But to go as far as claiming
that he is a foreigner is totally absurd to say the least. A Zambian for
that matter! Zanu-PF should stop embarrassing us and come up with a much
more subtle way to get rid of Trevor Ncube! Surely a party with a lot of
leaders who claim to have earned their PhDs can do much better than this
hopeless sham of an excuse!

How on earth anyone within the party leadership failed to realise that the
current Captain of the Zimbabwe national soccer team has parents of Malawian
origin still beats me! Surely Trevor has a stronger case than Benjani who
was once courted by the Malawians to play for their national soccer team.
Honestly, Zanu-PF cannot have its cake and eat it. Either Trevor or Benjani
are foreigners or they are both Zimbabweans. Period.

My take on that is that the average Zimbabwe does not have the time and
energy to bother about this debate altogether. These two are entitled to
their Zimbabwean nationality by the mere fact of nature. Their nationality
is not a mere legal debate but a biological reality that no one in their
right sense of mind can ever dare to challenge.

Surely one does not need to pass five 'O' Level subjects to see that this
whole idea of Trevor Ncube being blended as a foreigner is utter hogwash and
hot air. It is obviously a case of a jackal telling its cute cub that it
looks like a goat before pouncing on it as a desperate act of maternal
cannibalism.

The fact is that Trevor Ncube is a Zimbabwean. Period. Ever since he was
born in Bulawayo and right through his childhood up to his University of
Zimbabwe days where he was elected the SRC Vice President at one stage;
Ncube has always been considered a Zimbabwean. He does not need a High Court
order to confirm his national identity. Neither does he need a Politburo
meeting to resolve that simple fact.

It is obviously an overwhelming sign of a serious problem of paralysis of
analysis that has surely crippled the party. Surely, Zanu-PF should have
come up with a better ruse to 'deal' with the perceived threats of Trevor
Ncube to their political survival.

Indeed, if this latest act of legal chicanery is anything to go by, then the
party is much more intellectually bankrupt than we have all assumed up to
now. It is now evident that the Reserve Bank with all its desperately
confused monetary policies and worthless bearer cheques is actually less
hopeless than Zanu-PF.
No wonder why the country is now on its knees today. The problem could
actually be more about the intellectual stagnation and sterility on the part
of the party's now senile leaders.

Daniel Molokele is a Zimbabwean Human Rights Lawyer who is based in
Johannesburg.

He can be contacted at www.zimvirtualnation@yahoo.com

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The Radical Mindset.

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From the Radical's In-box:

From: CHANDA MATEMAI [mailto:nyamuhumbe@yahoo.com]

Hi,
Its nice that some people out there see things without blindfolds.
Only a man with stature can unsit undoubtedly a true Hero of Zim, Africa and
the world over, Comrade, Commandant (Cubans say), RG Mugabe.Its only that
too many enemies are ganging around him.Tsvangirai stands no chance at all,
all the dead in Zim will turn in their graves.
Mugabe has set the Standard and quality of a leader that ZIM should have and
deserves.Kwete vanaTsvangison, ngavaende vanofudza mombe, or to join
maDiasporan on menial jobs to survive, its better that way, than to be paid
for destroying what some men are building.

nyamuhumbe@yahoo.com

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My question is: Tomirira yotanga yafa harahwa then tomhanya-myanya here?

(If you don't understand chiShona, ask someone next to you to translate it for you.)

Sizomelela ixegu life then sizohamba-hamba sifuna omunye uPresident yini?

Should we wait for the aged goon to die then we will run around looking for another person to take his place?

That's my question!


Yours sincerely,

Radical Mindset!

Who can replace Robert Mugabe just today?


Does Zimbabwe have a single individual who can counter Mugabe’s stature and replace him just today?

Those that are in the fore-front seriously lack many vital qualities and those that would qualify are scared stiff to even cough or sneeze to announce their presence.

Anyone who expects to replace the stature of Robert Mugabe must not lack in charisma, intelligence and firmness (which must definitely border on ruthlessness.)

That firmness must uphold the required consistency but that also can be counter-productive if it is not matched by an intelligent ability to change direction depending on the shifting and changing circumstances. Inflexibility sometimes depicts dullness and not intelligence.

I unreservedly acknowledge and admit that Robert Mugabe made all efforts to suppress (and even assassinate) his colleagues and contemporaries so that only he (and he alone) would remain and indeed did remain as an “icon” while everyone else stood out as confused, lacking in various leadership qualities and at worst, and appeared as criminals or “sub-standard” human beings who had to perpetually depend on Mugabe for patronage, guidance and “forgiveness and mercy” (where need be.)

To the simplest ZANU-PF supporter, Mugabe must even now be allowed to “rule” Zimbabwe for another 100 years even if that meant him being 183 years old at the end of that period.

Robert Mugabe himself created that sorry scenario and we will pay very heavily and very soon for singing that simplistic song, “Long live President Mugabe….”

A look at a few revolutionary heroes brings out the following:

The late Rev Ndabaningi Sithole had a great stature, charisma etc but Robert Mugabe made sure he was “brought down to size.”

The late Sithole’s idea of parcelling out a few farms at a time and settle families on them was a brilliant idea and deserved the support of all patriots.

That noble idea was “crushed” as evil and the only possible reason why it was evil was because it had not originated with the country’s “Pope” ie His Life Presidency and Excellency, Cde R G Mugabe.

It had to be “crushed” without delay and , for sure, “crushed” it was!

The late Dr Joshua Nkomo in 1980-81 organized the former ZIPRA Combatants and encouraged them to pool their resources together and buy farms with their meager “de-mob” pay-outs and it was an excellent idea!

They did buy various farms and called them “NITRAM FARMS.” They were very much affordable because many white former farm-owners were fleeing “black rule” and were selling these said farms for nearly “peanuts” as they took the “chicken run” down to the then- Apartheid South Africa.

Any honest analyst will agree with me that as far as the land question is concerned, Dr Joshua Nkomo and his ZAPU were very clear and very consistent.

It was Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF who were rather confused and inconsistent.

They failed to match ZAPU’s NITRAM programmes and their desperate HUNZVI and his ZEXCOM failed dismally because the war-veterans had been disappointed many times before and could not trust anyone to administer their then- Z$50 000 payouts.

Hunzvi’s ZEXCOM devoured their monies and many of them are now destitutes after the confirmation of their worst fears.

Dr Patrick Kombayi seems to have a point when he said many ex-fighters suspected that the late Guy Clutton-Brook and others had “planted” Robert Mugabe within the Revolutionary Movements to dilute their thrust towards the land question.

Politics being the “dirty” game that it is known to be, Nkomo “kaNyongolo” had to be “crushed” and 20000 lives later, in 1987, there was no ZAPU and Nkomo (as said by the then- Minister of Information Joice Mujuru a.k.a. Teurai Ropa Mujuru) was just a “senile” person who needed to be accommodated in the high echelons of Government solely to “consolidate” the “Unity” born on the 22nd of Dec, 1987.



In Dec 2007, this so-called “Unity Accord” will celebrate its 20 years but the Ex-ZIPRA Combatants have not yet got back their NITRAM farms. The majority of these ex-fighters have since died and their families are wallowing in poverty.



Joseph Msika (Co-Vice-President) and John Nkomo (Speaker of the House of Assembly)sip their whiskeys and inhale their snuff and have nothing to say on that very sad issue.





Within ZANU itself, Mugabe has mocked everyone who attempted to lift his head to challenge his leadership of the Political Organization.



Qualified rivals like Eddison Zvobgo had their own glaring faults eg pride, arrogance, drunkenness, etc and they were easy to brush aside.



Edgar Tekere developed into a character that appeared perpetually drugged and drunk and dismally failed to really make the mark.



When about 30% of the Electorate voted for him in that Presidential Election of 1990….were we serious? Did we really expect that guy to be “His Excellency”?



Did we just want to make a point? Is History repeating itself?



Emmerson Munangagwa’s name was (or is ) associated with the dreaded “Mid-Night” Functions of the CIO (assassinations, disappearances of Opposition members) etc.



He was the Chief (or one of the Chief) planners of the Gukurahundi Massacres in the Midlands and Mandebeleland.



His name has also been associated with corruption, illegal dealings in diamonds both within Zimbabwe and in the DRC (during that stupid war.)



He caused a handsome, young man called Godfrey Majonga to be a cripple now “half-asleep” at Danhiko Centre (who suffered for being in a love triangle with this man who describes himself as “soft-as-wool.”)



The few other “icons” eg Dr Nathan Shamuyarira always sing the song that the succession issue cannot be discussed because there is “no vacancy” at the highest office of the land.



What “bullshit”!



Will we discuss the succession issue when Robert Mugabe’s corpse is lying “In-State” at some Hall at Mbare (awaiting burial at the National Heroes’ Acre….if the bloke will be buried there or at all because of the chaos that will ensue at his death!)



I think that corpse will be cremated in public in Mbare or Highfields and I, Mufaro Stig Hove, will be there to provide the coal for the fire!




The problem also with characters like Nathan Shamuyarira is that he is not the highest in the real line of ZANU.



Robert Mugabe has a plan of confusing his real challengers by “promoting” or “causing the promotion” of undeserving characters.



This I will discuss in detail when I tackle my favorite subject: “THE DYNAMICS OF RGM/ZANU-PF POLITICS.”



In passing, look at how Masvingo was led by a former “PADARE” presenter, Cde Josaya Hungwe. To those who are “born-frees” etc….”PADARE” was a Propaganda Programme which glorified “white rule” and they were “wondering” if the black man knew what he was doing when he said he wanted “BLACK MAJORITY RULE.”



Those rather simplistic in your midst will say,…”Ah…was that not putting the Policy of Reconciliation to work?”



But it was more complicated than that!



Wily Bob’s primary objective was to “demoralize” and frustrate Dr Eddison Zvobgo. And to “neutralize” him.



More on that when I tackle that subject in full!



Look also at this present Minister of Home Affairs! That Beit Bridge guy!



He was being investigated for murder…that Kembo Mohadi guy!



When the dockets were very ready and were about to be actioned by the Attorney-General…..Lo and Behold….Bob called a Press Conference and announced that Kembo Mohadi was the brand-new Minister of Home Affairs!



So what would the Police and the Attorney-General do now about the said murder docket?



By God….naMwari….Bob akapenga!
We have looked at how Robert Mugabe has managed by various foul means at keep at the helm of both ZANU-PF and the Government of Zimbabwe.



I invite you to agree with me that all the men and women that inter-acted with this small man (RGM) became scared stiff of even mention of the name ROBERT MUGABE.



They attended many funerals of men that were assassinated by that evil, “British-suited” dictator.



But the raw truth that stares all in our perplexed faces (whether in ZANU-PF or in the Opposition Parties) is that this Robert Mugabe is 83 years old (or even older.) That’s 20 years after the Retirement Age of many Organizations. Which Company has on its Payroll an Accountant or Personnel Officer who is 83 years of age?



The man’s heart can just stop at any time and that would be perfectly okay because 83 is really a very “ripe old age.”



But ZANU-PF has given the man the lee-way to continue up to 2010 (and he will be 86 then!)



On the Opposition side we have men and women who will not sit down and present a single individual to replace that Octogenarian!



We have (on the one side) an inflexible individual who claims that the whole Opposition Movement is “in his pocket” ( to use his own words.)



He scolds his subordinates and swears by their mothers’ private parts if they “dare” differ with him on certain policy issues eg whether to participate in the (of course, useless) Senate Elections or not.



The desperate Nation “clings” to him because apparently he is the “bravest one” in a Nation “immobilized” by fear.

Last Part:



Prof Arthur Mutambara was “imported” as a Shona to try and salvage a desperate situation.



Unfortunately, he is viewed by some emotional, misguided MDC supporters as a “muchekadzafa”, ie one that has come to harvest where he did not sow.



“Milk-on-the-nose” Nelson Chamisa arrogantly asks “Mutambara ndiani?” as if the 12 October, 2005 split was a non-event. That is the type of “rigidness” which I was referring to at the beginning when I said, “ Some inflexibility may not reflect intelligence, but dullness.”



Also, is Tsvangirai of that height and depth that he is prepared to step aside if it were in the best interests of the Nation of Zimbabwe? Can he understand the need for that, if it were suggested to him?



Would he not shout that it was a “CIO” plot to “chop off the ‘head’ of the MDC”?



That’s the problem we are facing in Zim Politics today.



Mugabe has duplicated himself in nearly ALL OF US (perhaps including me too) and we will, perhaps, need to “import” a President from another country, say, Namibia to come and run our country for us when the tyrant “kicks the bucket.”



ZANU and ZAPU were intelligent enough in the 70s to ask the Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa to be their “new and fresh face” in their struggle against the evil, racist Ian Smith regime.



The expiry of Robert Mugabe will bring real chaos to Zimbabwe and the South African Government may have to send in troops to restore order.



Is it not long before I am proved either right or wrong!



Hey, fellow Zimbos, we need a man of great stature NOW to challenge Robert Mugabe’s madness and unite all the forces (incl. Enlightened ZANU-PF members and the Military and Intelligence wings of our troubled Nation of Zimbabwe.)



If it means raising money to “buy out” Morgan, let every avenue be explored!



I rest my case and declare the debate open to all of us as CONCERNED ZIMBABWEANS.



I LOVE YOU ALL!



Rev Mufaro Stig Hove….The Radical Mindset.



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