Mugabe’s rant yesterday…
Well Bob couldn’t let the opportunity to speak go by and what a fool he made of himself. The first thing that was obvious and apparent is that he sounds really, really old, slow and weighed down.
He opened his rant after Gono’s budget statement was over by claiming that Gono’s written statement ended with the words that he “committed the monetary statement to God’s hands”, but Bob insisted he didn’t hear Gono say it.
Well we heard it, over the radio, clear as day. Will somebody please turn up Bob’s hearing aid!
But we were shocked when he extended Gono’s feeble joke and went on to say that God’s name also has a zero in it, but his does not, and he doesn’t know who can remove that “O” from God’s name – blasphemous to say the least and disrespectful beyond any bounds of taste.
He tried to redeem his attempt at humour with the idea that “as we work, plan and think” the spiritual aspect of our lives is always with us. Later on another religious reference was brought in that all those who work against Zimbabwe are those who claim to be Christians, a religion that was brought by the colonials, but whose ancestors are unchristian he said
One high note was his reference to the MoU and that those in government and Zanu PF are totally committed, and that he “hopes” the “others” are too.
But then the geriatric ramble went from bad to worse.
He pontificated long and hard that we are not alone in this world, we “wake and live” for each other. We all have flesh, a brain, a life, we all have “love, sorrow, sympathy, pity” and it was about at that time that I started to nod off. Then he said “I have a farm” and how he grows maize for others who also have a stomach, but not only for that mind you, he does want to be paid for his labour, he must also be satisfied.
This was the introduction to his attack on profiteering and black marketeering and that it is those evil people who undermine the concept of what is fair and affordable. He then moved to those people who are responsible for the fact that we are down in production, but not in resources, that so many lack discipline.
Then came the clanger: the threat to bring in a state of emergency - “Entrepreneurs across the board, don’t drive us further. If you drive us even more we will impose emergency measures.” He went on that emergency law dictates that decisions are made for people, freedom is lost.
Of course he had to move into the sanctions arena, as expected. “Illegal and vindictive” sanctions are not targeted against individuals, they are intended to effect regime change.
Bob smirked over the state of Western stance claiming they say, “We don’t want that horrible government to be run by that terrorist”. The illegitimate president then claimed he has no time for those Browns, Blairs and Bush’s, who influence Zimbabwe with “puppets to echo their demands” ending with dangerous rhetoric, “why should I leave the seat of power that my people have given me?”
Bob is outraged that the United Nations’ own charter, has been twisted and manipulated to invoke Chapter 7 against him, hesays he is no threat to international peace and security. He labelled as “dishonest, hypocritical, unreliable leaders” those Western leaders who lie about Zimbabwe. “They want our land. Their children are deprived.” He lamented that we still carry the burden of CJ Rhodes’ ghost whose remains are still in Matobo, that he is the cause of all our problems because he took our land.
“Keep outsiders out” is bob’s mantra and he invoked this again towards the end of the endless tirade, claiming that compromise is difficult, but the MoU is the road map open for debate.
He made a further attempt at humour with his words to the effect that the opposition has realised we are all the same, and that, “only through unity can we defeat imperialism”.
Well, Mbeki jetted in yesterday. Maybe he can make more sense of the geriatric tyrant bent on believing his own pack of lies.
July 31st, 2008 15:07
I gave up, nauseated, when we got to the point of saying “we all have flesh…love, sorrow, pity”.
Love is what I feel for Zimbabwe and my brothers and sisters there. Sorrow and pity is what I feel when I read the news and see the photographs, like the ones on the sidebar at Sokwanele. When I hear about yet another MDC activist, beaten, mutilated, and left in a field with only the Winter sun to shed tears over another beautiful child of Zimbabwe gone from this world.
Mugabe has no share in that kind of sorrow or pity. All he has is self pity and the whining conviction that the entire world can “go hang” as long as he retains his ill gotten gains to his dying day.
He obviously does not realise that there is an entire religion, the Jews, who remove the O from God. Why? Because unlike him, they honour the Creator so much that they fear to take His name in vain!!
July 31st, 2008 20:05
You know i lived in zimbabwe at the time of gukurahundi i tell it was bad you know people were killed thrown away in mine shafts to rot and some where just left in the open to be taken away by the sand and nature you know this man is a mad man he dont give a dame of any one the talks are just a delay so he can prolong his stay this man should have a war crime docket opened and he should be hanged like saddam of iraq i tell you if morgan t is not awhere he will be just taken and swallowed like joshua nkomo this man is a kller bbc news some one must tell bbcnews to show this to the world to see and show this to the UN security counselor and take action please for this is getting away with murder
July 31st, 2008 22:08
Ever heard of a man who likes listening to his voice ad infinitum?
Ever heard of a man who speaks nonsense for twenty years and everyone in zimbabwe appears to listen and be impressed/amazed by his nonsense.
Ever heard of a leader who boasts of having so much eduacation and health, but is blind to his people’s health and wellfare. A leader who boasts of degrees in violence.
A man who is so overwhelmed by corruption that he believes it is good and boasts that he created millionaires in zimbabwe. While millions suffer and are used as just political bait.
A man who knows what is right but has been blinded and turned deaf to reason by sycophantic praises that equate him to God.
Now when such a man speaks, I listen in disgust. When people praise him I look on and wonder what evil has possesed them. When such violence as we have witnessed is brushed as insignificant, I cry tears at the thought of the reality of the consequences of this on our people’s psyche, mental health and general economic well being.
Where are the values we profess to have as Africans.
Where is the ubuntu/hunhu. When the other nations describe us as primitive and underdeveloped, we take offence.
I see enough proof from these circumstances myself to be wary of what I really call myself in terms of identiy.
If gideon gone oh! or robert tell me to be proud to be zimbabwean I will turn in revulsion because I am Zimbabwean but not defined by their putrid perception of it.
August 1st, 2008 10:22
I came to see if atrocities had continued during the “talks” and of course, they have. Our press published a picture of a man on fire during the xenophobia. I need to know why they are so mum about Zimbabwe and why some of the images on your site aren’t published on the front page of The Cape Times.
Also, I get suspicious when I read that bob considers the “talks” as going well.
Well done to you. RGM has tried to muzzle the press which has proved futile.
August 1st, 2008 12:57
@Gavin Calf
Thanks for raising that point… let’s email the South African press and ask them why they’re not publishing the images… specially Trevor Ncube’s Mail and Guardian!
August 1st, 2008 23:36
Mugabe must be sent t ocourt for his wrongs, and so must Mnangagwa and all the Generals from the so called Army of Zimbabwe.