Mugabe and the New Order in Africa

The hate-filled and inflammatory speech of President Robert Mugabe during the State Visit to South Africa, following on the inane and giggling speech of Jacob Zuma must give cause to fear to any intelligent and discriminating observer.  Mugabe, as the current President of SADEC, left no doubt as to his allegiance to China and Russia, and as to his hatred for Britain the America, as representatives of the West.  His derogatory comments about Cecil John Rhodes made it clear that he is the motivator behind the current rash in South Africa of hatred against Rhodes and the Whites who did so much to develop the Dark Continent to what it is now. 

One must take the speech of Mugabe against a background of election-rigging, killing of the family members of the Opposition candidates, torture of thousands of Zimbabweans, unlawful expropriation of productive White-owned farms which were handed to Party favorites, internal terrorism by teenage ‘military veterans’, siphoning off of huge amounts of money to his personal bank accounts, and ‘peacekeeping actions’ by the Zimbabwe military in the DRC, at a time when Mugabe vetoed the payment to a South African country of the cost of water treatment chemicals to be used in an Opposition-held city, in order to gain a shareholding in a diamond mine in the DRC.

Mugabe attacked the West for the lack of equality by African nations in the United Nations Security Council, mentioning in a rather threatening way the role that might be played by the Arab nations against the West.  Given the influence by Mugabe in the African Union, the West should be concerned at the implicit threat by Mugabe to withdraw Africa from dealings with the West.  The drift to radicalism by several of the Arab and African Muslim nations is a trend that Mugabe could easily use to widen the gap between Africa and the West.  Mugabe went to considerable lengths to condemn the actions of the West in Libya, in Iraq and Iran, praising the leaders of those nations, particularly Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi as worthy leaders of democracy in their countries.  Of course, in comparison with Zimbabwe under this bloody dictator, they might have been examples of good governance, but in a comparison with any of the true democracies, there can be no doubt that those men ranked alongside Stalin and Castro.  The thought of permitting African countries under the control of genocidal dictators such as those men and Mugabe to dictate the policies and actions of the United Nations is a cause for many sleepless nights.  During his rambling discourse, Mugabe stated that the ‘colonial master of Rhodesia, Britain, threw helpless men and women down a mineshaft.  It has been conclusively proven that Mugabe’s ‘war veterans’ were responsible for that act, as part of a genocide of the opposing tribe.  However, as both Mugabe and Zuma have frequently demonstrated, truth is a concept that is foreign to them and their ilk.

The fact that Zuma, and the ANC, would welcome a man like Mugabe to a supposedly civilized country such as South Africa speaks volumes about their true views, allegiances and objectives.  The fact that he was permitted to make such a speech on a public platform, with Zuma giggling his acquiescence in the background, must be taken as a warning by any thinking person in the country.  It has long been suspected that the ANC views the Mugabe dictatorship and its actions and policies as a role model for an African government, and the speech by Mugabe now leaves no doubt as to where South Africa is headed.

The title of this blog is ‘Questions for South Africa’.  The answer to many of those questions is now clear.