You are currently browsing the category archive for the 'Mugabe' category.
VOA, the Voice of America, is one news agency reporting the arrest of pastors, several of them friends of mine, in Kadoma. It has been a while now since the Evangelical Alliance of Zimbabwe was (essentially) infiltrated and compromised by pro-government cronies, and genuine believers formed the Christian Alliance. Of course, when anyone dares to challenge the nefarious activities of ZanuPF politics, the first thing the secret police do is look for ways to label them as subversives, inciting violence, and if they can find a way to accuse them of treason.
So 8 pastors concerned about what they see happening in their communities, and who care about people (who don’t get whisked around in long motorcades or helicoptered in and out) … are in a prayer meeting inside a church, when 15 armed policemen and soldiers charge in and take them away to the local jail. A prayer meeting! The arresting officer should hang his head in shame. They spent the night in jail, treated with disdain, and released the following day with no charges against them.
Cabinet level leadership in Zimbabwe is beyond redemption – they have done too many bad things for far too long to have any conscience left but shame on rank and file soldiers and policeman who have exchanged allegiance to their country and the rule of law for propping up the wicked rule of King Robert I of Jongwe. Will the ordinary people of Zimbabwe finally wake up and realise their failure in the courage of civil disobedience comes with the price of a ruined country?
Picture credit: Robert Mugabe created by Caricature ZoneKing Robert I of Jongwe’s favourite gay, Peter Thatchell, writes a good article published in The Guardian Unlimited.
“The inconsistent application of international law is glaring. The ex-president of Liberia Charles Taylor is behind bars and due to stand trial on charges of war crimes. But no such rendezvous with justice awaits neighbouring African despots, such as the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, and Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe. Their regimes stand accused of detention without trial, torture, rape and massacres on an industrial scale. There is, however, no prospect of them answering any time soon for their crimes against humanity.” full article here…
Comrade Emperor Robert of Zimbabwe (all bow and tremble please) wasn’t mincing words on the 25th Anniversary of his nation’s independence from the pesky and past-it’s-sell-date colonial power of Britain.
In his unusually flat and boring monologue, he remarked it was time to turn his back on the west and turn to the rising sun of the east. A poor freedom fighter in 1979, he’s had 25 good years of all things western, dappled with some old fashioned corruption and a head for making money out of his still poor comrades, to now become bellicose and muse once again about comrades and social justice and equality – whilst he and his his mates live such a cocooned existence they really do not have a clue how real people have to live in his utopian Zimbabwe.
The picture refers to new aircraft (two in the initial order) Zimbabwe is purchasing to replace it’s delapidated Air Zimbabwe domestic fleet of 737’s – all three of them. Actually the turboprop idea is quite a sensible route for a change – now watch him go and mess that all up by also ordering 12 new fighter planes for his wars imaginary, and perhaps an Airbus A380 so that once King Bob has sucessfully dealt with Tony Blair, he can show George W a thing or two about how to jet around the world.
Not everything is known about the early life of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, as this newly discovered photo shows. From c.1939, computers and digital manipulation of photography was not yet invented so the picture must be true, surely.
Well if you believe that, then you might also believe that this month’s elections in Zimbabwe will be free and fair expressions of the democratic process – which our own Thabo Mbeki and good friend of His Excellency, claims is the experience and norm in Africa.
Great friends of ours, Mike & Sandi Boyce, recently left Harare, for new things in KwaZulu Natal. I am sure there have been many mixed emotions as they sold a business, packed up a lifetime of living in Zimbabwe, and headed south. In this photo, they are singing ‘An Ode to Bob’ at their farewell party. Oh, it pains me greatly that I could not, should not, post the words. 
Recent Comments