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Thabo Mbeki
Misleading G8 On Zimbabwe
If recent media reports carried out by leading
international press to the effect that South African president, Thabo Mbeki was arguing that a government of national unity to
be born under his mediation is the panacea to the Zimbabwean crisis are true,
then Mr. Mbeki is clearly misleading the world. What makes the whole issue
laughable is his argument that tough global targeted sanctions on the regime
that is murdering its on people will lead to civil war in Zimbabwe.
Moreover,
his assurance that Mugabe is on his way to
retirement soon is at best a serious expression of his failure to appreciate
the dynamics of the Zimbabwean crisis or at worst a frivolous attempt to
defend his friend Mugabe against the people of Zimbabwe. It is in this
context that Mr Mbeki must now publicly tell the
whole world that his mediation efforts has failed and thus let the African
Union and SADC appoint other serious and impartial mediators who can
extricate Zimbabwe
from the Mugabe-Mbeki made crisis!
Mbeki
is widely reported to have warned the G8 leaders that any global targeted
sanctions against the regime will lead to a civil war in Zimbabwe.
This is clearly misplaced.Mr Mbeki must understand
that civil war can only break out if there are two or more protagonists who
are armed. The truth of the Zimbabwean issue today is that we have a ruling
party that has armed and unleashed the army, state security agencies, the
militia and so called war veterans against the unarmed people of Zimbabwe
whose only crime was to vote for the opposition MDC.It
is instructive that even Mbeki clearly knows that the MDC does not have any
arms and neither has it any army. Thus what surprises everyone is how Mbeki
can predict civil war. He should clearly explain that the illegitimate junta
will intensify the genocide that is currently underway in Zimbabwe out
of frustration because they stole the people's vote but have no capacity to
solve the economic problems which are a result of policy kwashiorkor of the Mugabe regime. Such a scenario can never be called civil
war. The MDC is clearly committed to a peaceful democratic transition which Mugabe and Mbeki are denying. Mbeki is actually complicit
in the genocide that is taking place in Zimbabwe through shielding the
regime and even arming them when he knows that biologically and politically, Mugabe and ZANU PF's time is up!
As
the leader of the biggest economy in SADC and indeed in Africa,
Mbeki is showing his clear poor grasp of regional, continental and global geopolitics. One does not need
to be a rocket scientist to understand that the current configuration of politics
in SADC, AU and the world makes it impossible for the people of Zimbabwe to
militarily confront Mugabe and his junta even if
they wished because no one will supply them with the bases and weapons.
Therefore talking of civil war by Mr Mbeki is clearly
reckless and exposes the extraordinary paralysis of analysis on the part of Mr Mbeki who throughout his 10 years at the helm of South Africa
had been trying to project himself as a leading African statesman.
His
other assertion meant to assuage the G8 was that Mugabe
will be retiring in the coming few years. Mbeki does not know Mugabe and his insatiable appetite for power. For indeed Mugabe has delusions that the title deeds to Zimbabwe are
in his pocket. Was Mr Mbeki not listening when Mugabe declared that he was anointed by God and only God
will remove him? Even someone who at 84 years does not feel any remorse or
shame sponsoring goons to main , kill , torture and rape long suffering and
unarmed villagers. Mbeki, your friend Robert
Mugabe
will not retire in his lifetime in the same way you wanted to remain the
de-facto South African president had you not been defeated by the courageous
ANC comrades led by Zuma at Polokwane.
When
history or infact, God eventually deals with the
dictator and his junta north of the Limpopo, Mr Mbeki you are sure to go down in history as an
accomplice in the horrific suffering the innocent people of Zimbabwe are
going through at your watch. It is therefore not too late for you to make a
deep self introspection and quit immediately as the mediator to the
Zimbabwean crisis and declare publicly your support for the Zimbabwean junta
rather than blocking those with well meaning efforts to liberate the
suffering masses from the illegitimate dictatorship under your nourishment.
For history and indeed the unborn Zimbabwean and African generations will
never forgive you for commission and omission at the people's greatest hour
of need.
Garikai Agenda Chimuka writes
from the Netherlands
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