Mugabe must be given 48 hours or less to leave office

This letter is a special tribute to B & B (George W Bush and Tony Blair), the two bravest leaders in the world.
Congratulations, Sirs, on your sweet success in Iraq. Now the people of Iraq are finally going to experience true democracy and freedom.
It is my humblest pleasure to address this note to you.
I would like you to show the world that you are not in Iraq for their oil but to restore good governance and democracy, by carrying out similar operations in Africa in general and Zimbabwe in particular.
The people of Zimbabwe are in a similar, if not worse situation, than the people of Iraq were before the fall of Saddam Hussein.
People are being maimed, murdered, raped and tortured every day for their political affiliations.
Every member of the opposition has officially been labelled “an enemy of the State”.
People despise President Mugabe, not the State. Mugabe can never be the State. Honourable Members of Parliament are being arrested and beaten up for no reason.
Please, Sirs, show the world and the United Nations that where democracy is at stake there can be no compromise.
Mugabe must be given 48 hours or less to leave office.

Kidman Maroto - South Africa


What are we going to find in Bob and Grace's bedroom?

The TV coverage from Iraq streams in apparently on the assumption that we want to know all about how the Iraqi dictator and his henchmen lived. Do we care or is it that we would rather see what Grace has spent all that taxpayers money on in Paris and other exotic shopping destinations?
One thing is for sure that we are going to be appalled at the sheer waste of money and total lack of regard for the current suffering of those on the receiving end of Bob's failed policies not to mention that the source of the finance was corruption and theft.
There is no foreigner who can come to liberate us
I call upon every Zimbabwean to come together and heed the call by the MDC on the need to intensify mass action across the country, in particular the “march to State House” which is on the cards.
There is no foreigner who can come to liberate us – South African President Thabo Mbeki and his Nigerian counterpart Olusegun Obasanjo are a concrete case study to support this.
There is, however, need to educate those citizens in Gweru, and other towns who ignored the stayaway call. These people might not know that it is their democratic right to express their anger over the prevailing lawlessness and economic disaster being spearheaded by the Zanu PF government which is in power by virtue of its vast experience in electoral manipulation.
By ignoring the stayaway call, the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce and some players in the banking sector in Gweru should be left to wallow in their ignorance.
Funny enough, their leaders in Harare “surprised and surpassed” all and sundry when they (together with NAGG’s Shakespeare Maya) breathed fire and brimstone on television, charging that the stayaway had killed business and affected their members’ profits.
These have benefited from the skewed economic policies of the ruling regime, for example, the foreign currency exchange rate which has resulted in massive “abnormal profits” from “nowhere” as the industrial base and general incomes have been eroded by the regime’s induced inflation.
That is why these business leaders thronged State House to congratulate “President” Mugabe just after the disputed poll last year.
With well-known disastrous management styles of some of these “captains of industry”, especially those in the banking sector, the departure of this disgraced regime will see an abrupt collapse of their organisations and institutions since they will no longer be patronage beneficiaries of treasury bonds and bills by this overspending regime.
This regime will continue to limp from one bank to the other, borrowing to raise funds for its survival as well as to purchase weapons of coercion against its peace- loving citizens.
However, all those people who support this regime will be exposed after the inevitable fall of this government.
Therefore, let’s rally behind Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC as they are the only ones with the capacity and sincerity to take Zimbabwe where it belongs.

Victory is certain
Anderson A Mutongi - Shurugwi

 

Mugabe, get your war cabinet out of Harare

Wouldn’t it be appropriate for President Mugabe and his so-called war cabinet to move to their strongholds of Mutawatawa and Uzumba- Maramba-Pfungwe as they have no stake in Harare?
Well done, MDC, for retaining Highfield and Kuwadzana. .

P G Banzai - UK

 

Iraq: focus on the lessons for Zimbabwe not on the merits of US actions

Zimbabweans have more life-threatening issues to waste valuable time on Iraq.
Instead, we should have been drawing parallels between the Iraq situation and ours.
It’s unfortunate we don’t have oil or a strategic position to lure the superpowers to save our own desperate situation.
Zimbabweans should debate and act now. Look at Eddison Zvobgo, educated at Harvard – he cannot even put up an academic/political challenge to the disgraced Mugabe regime!
We can’t have our intellectuals spending valuable time on national TV debating the Iraq war. People are dying every day from hunger, Aids and abuses. Adults are being massacred daily by Zanu PF thugs.
Zimbabwe is a country full of lawyers, but its society is unaware of its constitutional rights, and human rights are violated each and every minute.
Why are there no demonstrations against these blatant violations?
Action is needed against this cruel regime, not stupid debates on Iraq.

Innocent Suffering - Harare

 

Jocelyn Chiwenga soon to rue gloating about Gukurahundi

It is not only disheartening, but also soul-breaking and painful to hear the wife of the commander of the Zimbabwe National Army, Jocelyn Chiwenga, openly straining the fragile fabric of the purported “national unity and integrity”.
As a victim of Gukurahundi, I did not expect such insults and mockery to epitomise the post-genocide era, especially from the wife of the army commander.
One wonders why nothing is done to prevent this unbecoming behaviour of the commander’s wife. Maybe it’s because she is not “an enemy of the State” – they are of the same mind and idea with the State.
No arrests under the Public Order and Security Act are being made when Jocelyn violates some sections of it. The hour shall come, Jocelyn.
In his book, Matigan, Ngugi wa Thiongo said: “There is no night so long that will not end up with dawn.” In Ndebele, sothi, ubukhisi ngamozolo, njalo zobohla manyosi.
It was not only chickens, dogs and donkeys’ blood that was spilt during those ugly days which Jocelyn seems to be celebrating, but it was pure human blood.
Her sentiments per se speak volumes on the purpose, aims and goals that were achieved during Gukurahundi. This is evidenced by the quiet stance that Zanu PF has taken towards the strings of misbehaviour of the boastful commander’s wife.
Some people are languishing in cells and prisons for only holding meetings, while ironically some people claim to be above the rule of law. What kind of governance is this?
Anyway, it reminds me of what Joshua Nkomo once wrote, when he was in exile (1983). In his letter to Robert Mugabe, he said: “. . . this is not governance, but the abuse of governance in which the rule of law is being turned into the law of rule” – as if the late Nyongolo was a prophet, that one day in the same government there will be a certain lady who would boast that there is no rule of law in Zimbabwe!
To Jocelyn, I say that the blood was never spilt in vain, and at no time will it be a mere joke and a threatening weapon to silence us.
God is for everyone and He is a God of justice and peace. One day a leader will arise in Zimbabwe and ride above tribal and racial politics, and unite the people of Zimbabwe.
There shall be no more Shona or Ndebele divisions, but Zimbabweans – absolutely no more supremacists, but equal Zimbabweans.
The vision of the great sons of the soil like Josiah Tongogara and Nkomo shall surely come to fruition.
The tribal and racial intonations that seem to be inherent in Jocelyn’s threatening speeches will one day become a thing of the past when power finally exchanges hands.
Selidumela emansupeni, mthwakazi. Zvichapera. (The day of reckoning is fast approaching.)

Nduna Yamabutho - Harare