LETTER FROM ENGINEER SIMBARASHE MANGWENGWENDE IN ZIMBABWE!

Dear Reverend,



Since you joined the great trek into the Diaspora I miss the dialogue we used to have concerning our beautiful but crying country. As I have no contact with the rest of the other colleagues I have to rely on you passing this message on.



You may not agree with me but the reason why the country is suffering is because of rampant corruption that is thriving because the majority of those who should be fighting for change have taken the easy route of going into self-imposed exile. No amount of talking on the internet, print and electronic media and appeals to Thabo Mbeki, George Bush, John Howard, SADC, AU, etc can compensate for the absence of organized support on the ground in Zimbabwe. President Mugabe is very right when he accuses the MDC of being a puppet of the West – this is because they rely on support by our former colonizers for any real pressure on the ruling party. Whenever the MDC’s power has been tested by having their leaders being arrested and beaten up, their elected councils fired from office, etc the only effective protest has come from their external backers and not from Zimbabweans on the ground. Naturally no sane African leader would condone an opposition party whose power base is so nakedly based on former colonizers. This is the message that leads to standing ovations for President Mugabe when he explains it to his colleagues at SADC and AU meetings.



The apostle Paul, in 1 Corinthians 4:20, says “The Kingdom of God is not a matter of talking but of power”. An opposition party can only win elections by becoming more powerful become than the governing party while in opposition. Power is not a result of getting into office, it is the requirement for getting into office. The reason why there is turmoil in Iraq is because the real power that removed Saddam Hussein was a foreign force and people do not like that. We certainly do not want such a foreign inspired regime change agenda - change should only take place when driven by our people and not by appeals to foreigners. The only external power that a sovereign people should appeal to is God, because the will of the people is in fact the will of God.



With best regards



Mbira Vibes

(Simbarashe Mangwengwende:- mangwe@ecoweb.co.zw)

THE DEMO AT THE ZIM EMBASSY IN PRETORIA!

By Trust Matsilele

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THE Movement for Democratic Change and the Revolutionary Youth Movement yesterday successfully forced Zimbabwe's ambassador to South Africa, Simon Khaya-Moyo to agree to sign a petition penned by Zimbabweans in the Diaspora on the deteriorating situation back home and their demands to the Zimbabwe government for next year’s harmonised elections.

The petition would be taken to Moyo’s office in a week's time after about 500 Zimbabweans marched from South Africa's Union buildings to the Zimbabwean embassy in Arcadia demanding to be heard by the authorities there.

The two organizations are demanding that Zimbabweans living outside the country be allowed to vote in the March presidential, local and parliamentary elections. They want the Zanu Pf government to respect the rule of law but most importantly they want to see all stakeholders sitting down to write a new people-drive Constitution for the country.
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The Zimbabwe government is the only country in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) which does not allow its citizens based in foreign lands to vote in national elections. They argue the process is expensive but embassy staff vote for their preferred candidates, a thing the Diaspora is saying should come to an end. SADC protocols, to which Zimbabwe is a signatory, clearly say that nationals living in other countries should be allowed to vote during their respective countries elections.

The MDC’s Nqobizitha Mlilo said such democratic campaigns, targeting President Robert Mugabe’s representatives wherever they could be found around the world, were necessary not only in pressurizing the Zimbabwean government to stop human rights abuses but also to send a clear message to the region that Zimbabweans are a peace loving people eager to finding a lasting solution to the political and economic crisis affecting their country.

They also want President Thabo Mbeki to hear them out as he continues to try and bring Zanu PF and the MDC together to find a way to solve the country’s political crisis.

“This is an expression of patriotism for people who have left their country to still be seen lobbying for the restoration of democracy so that they may go back. It is opposite to the view that that they are economic migrants hence the solution remains a political one,” said Mlilo.

One leading activists, who was arrested last week for organizing a demonstration, Reverand Mufaro Hove, called on the Zimbabwean government to stop torturing political opponents. He said Zimbabweans should unite and “fight the common enemy Mugabe”.

“I also call on you Kaya Moyo to join the struggle of liberating Zimbabweans from the oppressive leader Robert Mugabe as his dictatorship had affected everyone including those in Zanu PF,” said Hove.

Moyo agreed he would next week sign the petition from the two organizations. The petition will carry the Diaspora’s concerns over issues in Zimbabwe and the need to bring the country back to democratic rule.

Activists said Moyo’s acceptance to sign the petition showed a level of political maturity which was absent in Zanu PF as a party generally. Mugabe and his government have over the past few years been accused of using state machinery to cow opposition activists into submission.

APPEAL TO ALL JOURNALISTS AND WRITERS!

PREAMBLE:

It is desperately important that writers remind the people of Zimbabwe and any other friends of Zimbabwe of the socio-economic and political state of the nation of Zimbabwe BEFORE the farm invasions.

This is urgently and terribly important because ZANU-PF would like to establish their sickening peopaganda view that the primary purpose of the MDC was and continues to be to function as a "sellout organization" which Britain both founded and funded.

We therefore need to re-live the experiences of Zimbabwe BEFORE the farm invasions so that we can appreciate the very reasons why the MDC was formed.

WHY WAS THE MDC FORMED?

The MDC was formed in 1999 in response to a very desperate need for the removal of ZANU-PF, a Political Party that had ruled Zimbabwe since Independence in 1980.

There was a growing National Sentiment across the political spectrum that Robert Mugabe and "his" ZANU-PF had to be removed by any means possible from running the affairs of the Zimbabwean Nation.

These sentiments began way BEFORE the farm invasions (even as far back as 1986.)

The farm invasions got off in earnest in 2000 (to date) as a desperate measure by ZANU-PF to rekindle that Revolutionary Flame and try and woo the Black Electorate that had been swept away by and to the young MDC!

It is not a secret that if the MDC had not been there, the status quo would have still been with us (as far the farm "ownership" situation is concerned.)

In fact it was the ZCTU Leaders ie Tsvangirai etc who were asking why the Land Question was not being addressed so that the unemployed and the landless could benefit from having pieces of land allocated to them!

ZANU-PF then picked up the whistle and then ran away with it throwing away all logic in the desperate process.

To Mugabe this was a thick straw to hold on to (and true…. for his personal political survival it was) but the otherwise noble idea was shipwrecked and the present precarious state of Zimbabwe is too clear to even try and hide!

It is therefore desperately essential that writers and journalists compile and reconstruct the landscape of Zimbabwe BEFORE the farm invasions so as to counter ZANU-PF's propaganda!

WHAT WAS WRONG WITH MUGABE AND "HIS" ZANU-PF?

Why were the people of Zimbabwe desperate to have ZANU-PF removed?

In the event of a collapse of the MDC (which I pray never happens), ZANU-PF Propagandists will tell the story of how Tony Blair tried to re-colonize Zimbabwe via the MDC and failed!

Remember Mugabe saying ," MDC isvikiro raBlair…blah blah…"

It will then be very sad and very wrong if the founders, members and sympathizers of the MDC will go down in History as having unsuccessfully tried to install a Counter-Revolutionary Political Party etc etc and all that shallow rubbish.
It must never be forgotten that Zimbabweans across the Spectrum ( ie workers, intellectuals, farmers, the unemployed, the enterpreuners etc …virtually everyone was supporting the "MUGABE MUST GO" refrain!

We must be reminded of the rampant corruption that was increasing unchecked!

We must be reminded of the nepotism ( eg the evil and illegal removal of Engineer Simbarashe Mangwengwende fom the Leadership of ZESA to make way for Mugabe's corrupt, arrogant and inefficient brother-in-law, Sidney Gata.)

We must be reminded of the wasted resources where Zimbabwe was made by Robert Mugabe to adventure into the DRC to prop up the dictatorship of a certain arrogant autocrat called Laurent Kabila.

We must be reminded of the alleged looting of the mineral wealth of the DRC and the subsequent assassination of the youthful Minister of Defence Moven Mahachi who was calling for a thorough Investigation into the allegations from the UN that Emmerson "Soft-As-Wool" Mnangagwa and others were getting filthy rich from siphoning the mineral wealth of the DRC.

Please remind us of the economic mismanagement –where ZANU-PF concentrated on buliding "white elephants" eg the new Harare International Airport etc in order to create opportunities for crooks and saboteurs like Leo Mugabe to siphon State and other resources.

Remind us of the assassinations and disappearances of many great and valuable citizens of Zim eg Josiah Magama Tongogara, Witness Rukarwa, chris Ushewokunze, Sidney Malunga, Zororo Duri, William Ndangana, Prof "Mas", Willie Dzawanda Musarurwa, and other lesser personalities like Ms Rashiwe Guzha, the CIO Boss Eddison Shirihuru, Albert Mugabe, Peter Pamire, etc etc ad infinitum.

Don't forget the Gukurahundi Masssacres where Robert Mugabe ( the insecure man of a serious inferiority complex) had the sole aim of was to crush ZAPU and bring them to a state of capitulation so as to remove the obvious challenge from the humble but very charismatic Joshua M'qabuko "kaNyongolo" Nkomo.

(By the way …how exactly did his wife Mama MaFuyane die in 2003? Zvakafamba sei chaizvo-chaizvo?)

Remind us please of how the gullible people of Zimbabwe were fooled into believing that the foxy Robert Mugabe and "his" ZANU-PF had accepted the principle of Multi-Party Democracy when they expelled Edgar "Two-Boy" "Murambatsvina" Tekere and "encouraged" him to form his own Political Party.

Thousands were flogged and murdered by the CIO for the simple crime of belonging to Tekere's ZUM.

Dr Patrick Kombayi is a survivor of a Mnangagwa-masterminded assassination attempt.

Please kindly clear the air and remind us of ALL the evils of Robert Mugabe and his version of Liberation/ Independence!

Remind us vividly and in detail of the misappropriation of donor funds where the said funds were used to buy farms for a few top ZANU-PF officials and no thought was given to the land-hungry majority.

Above all, remind us of the frightening economic decline, the rising Inflation, the soaring figures of unemployment etc etc BEFORE the farm invasions.

HELP REDEEM TSVANGIRAI'S NAME!

I am on my knees beseeching you to remind us, remind us and remind us and this doing urgently to counter the heavy doses of ZANU-PF Propaganda.

Whether the youthful MDC Party succeeds to remove ZANU-PF or not; our children and their children should be able to get a-hold of the truth!
PLEASE CLEAR THE AIR!

PLEASE REMIND US OF THE TRUTH!

The issues are now clouded by silly debates about whether to participate or not in ZANU-PF's desperate games (like the stupid unnecessary Senate things) while the greater truths are forgotten in the confusion!

GOD BLESS US ALL!

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MBEKI SPEAKS IN DETAIL ABOUT ZIMBABWE!

SADC returns to Lusaka

 

On August 16-17, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which incorporates 14 (and potentially 15) countries, held its 27th Ordinary Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Government in Lusaka, Zambia. To emphasise its importance, the Summit Meeting was attended by all the SADC Heads of State and Government.

(Seychelles, a member of SADC for many years, was not represented because of a continuing discussion about the membership dues it must pay. The Lusaka Summit, fully sympathetic to the concerns of Seychelles, expressed its determination to do everything possible to ensure that this island-state, geographically and otherwise part of Southern Africa, resumes its rightful place as a fully-fledged Member of the Development Community.)

 

The SADC Brigade

 

Undoubtedly, one of the high points of the Summit Meeting was the launch of the SADC Regional Peace-keeping Brigade. This military-police-civilian brigade is made up of personnel drawn from 11 of the member states of SADC. It has been constituted to respond to the challenges of peace, security and stability that face our region.

At the same time, it constitutes a component part of the African Union (AU) Standby Force which Africa is forming to ensure that it has the organised and multi-skilled force to enable it to respond expeditiously to all situations of conflict on our Continent. Thus the launch of the SADC Peace-keeping Brigade represented, in concrete terms, the resolve of our region and continent to rely on its resources effectively to ensure peace and security throughout Africa.

It was indeed very moving to see the 11 mixed formations, each behind its national flag for purposes of identification, assembled on the parade grounds at the Lusaka City Airport. Nobody present at the launch ceremony could have avoided being moved by the fact that despite the variety of the national flags that led and identified the various formations, all the members of the Brigade marched and drilled with great precision, responding to the commands of one Commanding Officer.

 

Clearly, here, at the Lusaka City Airport, the combined political leaders of our region were presented with a palpable example of the readiness of our region of Southern Africa to act together, to promote African unity, to bind all countries of our region to the cause of peace, to guarantee peace, security and stability on our Continent, and to create the necessary conditions for the defeat of poverty and underdevelopment in Africa.

 

For us, as South Africans, the ceremony to launch the SADC Brigade had a special significance. We were very happy and proud to see members of our National Defence Force and our Police Service parade together with their comrades from the rest of our region. We felt immensely proud when Colonel Botman, of the SANDF, was called upon to assume the position of the bearer of the flag of the Brigade on the very day that the SADC Brigade was born.

 

Armed and peaceful

 

In earlier years, the apartheid armed forces, organised in the SADF, had brought death and destruction throughout our region. They had acted as an instrument of destabilisation, destruction, subversion and regime change in the service of the apartheid regime. Their presence, operations and incursions into virtually all the SADC countries had brought death, suffering and misery to thousands of people throughout our region.

 

Undoubtedly, among the officers from the rest of our region present on the parade ground at Lusaka City Airport, were nationals of various countries who had had to take up arms to defend the independence of their countries, which was under armed attack by forces of aggression that falsely claimed to represent our interests as South Africans.

 

At the same time, there were officers from the rest of our region who had worked with the commanders and cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe, and the rest of our movement, out of the public eye even in their own countries, to contribute to the intensification of the struggle to defeat the apartheid crime against humanity. They did this knowing that inevitably, the apartheid regime, with a benign nod from the major Western capitals, would carry out terrorist acts in their countries, targeting both unarmed members and supporters of our movement, and the civilians of our host countries.

 

Recalling all these painful circumstances, during which the apartheid regime supported the LLA in Lesotho, Super-ZAPU in Zimbabwe, RENAMO in Moçambique, and UNITA in Angola, and various political formations, we could not but be moved to tears by the concrete representation of the fact that democratic South Africa has dedicated all our military capabilities to the cause of peace, friendship, solidarity and development in our region and Continent.

 

We were moved that men and women of the military, police and associated civilian forces from our region, and their political leaders, openly and unreservedly expressed confidence in our security forces as reliable partners in the common struggle to consolidate our region as an African perimeter of peace, democracy and development.

 

As President Levy Mwanawasa of Zambia said at the opening session of the SADC Summit Meeting, it was indeed an important matter of note that SADC was meeting in Lusaka for the first time since its formation in the same city in 1980 as the SADCC. As was correctly observed, this was only possible because since 1980, following the independence of Zimbabwe, both Namibia and South Africa had been liberated, ending the long period of colonialism and white minority rule on our Continent.

 

Regional solidarity

 

This statement was significant not only as a celebration of victory, but also as a signal of what Southern Africa must do to accelerate its advance towards the eradication of poverty and underdevelopment throughout our region, in the interest of the masses of the people of our region, who had carried the burden of the struggle finally to end colonialism and apartheid in Africa and the world.

 

Accordingly and correctly, the Lusaka Summit Meeting focused on the urgent task to transform the economies of our region, to ensure that as an integrated whole, they meet the aspirations of the masses of the people of Southern Africa.

 

In this regard, the Lusaka Summit Meeting was exposed to what can be done. President Bingu wa Mutharika announced that Malawi would donate 5 000 metric tons of maize each to Lesotho and Swaziland, in the light of their food shortages, caused by drought.
President Mwanawasa also announced that Zambia had donated 10 000 metric tons of maize to the World Food Programme (WFP) to be made available to any SADC country in need.

 

The Zimbabwe economy

 

The Summit Meeting also approved the urgent initiation of a process that would identify the measures that the SADC region should take to assist in the economic recovery of Zimbabwe. The report prepared by the SADC Secretariat in this regard
says:

 

"The restoration of the country's foreign exchange generating capacity through Balance of Payments support is crucial: however, the most urgent action that is needed to start this process is to establish lines of credit to enable Zimbabwe to import inputs for its productive sectors, particularly for agriculture and foreign currency generating sectors.

"SADC should do all it can to help Zimbabwe address the issue of sanctions, which is not only hurting the economy through failure to get BoP support and lines of credit, but also through reduced markets for its products. Sanctions also damage the image of Zimbabwe, causing a severe blow to her tourist sector.

 

"Zimbabwe on her part must continue to implement robust policies to reduce the overvaluation of the exchange rate, to reduce the budget deficit and to control the growth of domestic credit and money supply which fuel inflation, and to reduce price distortions in the economy. Equally important is the need to avoid frequent changes in policy initiatives, which have caused uncertainties and led to the view that the policy environment is unpredictable."

In this regard, on Monday, August 20, the Business Day newspaper published a wholly fabricated story alleging that the SADC leaders were divided over this report, describing a discussion at the Summit Meeting that never took place. This is consistent with an unethical practice in sections of our media in terms of which they manufacture news and information and communicate complete fiction as the truth.

 

The newspaper manufactured an unbridgeable "rift" resulting in a non-existent paralysis among the leaders, arising out of the discussion that never took place. The fact of the matter is that, acting on the recommendation of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security, (the Organ), the SADC Summit Meeting accepted the report on the Zimbabwe economy, as well as the proposal of the Organ that our Finance Ministers, in consultation with the Government of Zimbabwe, should use the report to elaborate specific interventions that could be made by our region.

 

The hostile allegation that our countries have recklessly turned their eyes away from the problems of Zimbabwe, because of the imperatives of solidarity, has always been nothing more than a product of propaganda, which all thinking persons would recognise as such. The reality is that in a very real sense the problems of Zimbabwe are our problems, in the same way that the problems of the rest of Southern Africa are problems for Zimbabwe as well. Our entire region stands to benefit most directly from the recovery of Zimbabwe, in much the same way as Zimbabwe benefits from the progress of the region of Southern Africa, of which it is an integral and inalienable part.

 

The Lusaka Summit Meeting reconfirmed these fundamental positions, which include unqualified respect for the sovereignty of Zimbabwe and the right of its people to determine their destiny. At no point will SADC and its member states act as a super-power that has the right to expropriate the people of Zimbabwe of their right to self-determination, as imperial Britain did

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African unity & regional economic integration

 

The Lusaka Summit Meeting agreed that the 2008 normal SADC Summit Meeting, which will be held in our country, will launch our regional Free Trade Area. This Summit Meeting will also discuss the decision to transform the SADC region into a Customs Union by 2010. Before then, detailed work will also be done to prepare the basis for the radical improvement of all elements of the regional infrastructure. All this indicates the serious commitment of SADC rapidly to advance the critically important objective of mutually beneficial regional integration.

 

As we have reported before, the July 2007 AU Summit Meeting decided that the African Regional Economic Communities must serve as the driving force towards the political and economic unity of Africa. This important decision adds an important dimension to the historic obligation SADC has, seriously to attend to the issue of our region's integration, and its cooperation with other regions of our Continent.

 

This is particularly important in the light of the fact that our region conveyed a united view at the Accra AU Summit Meeting, insisting that the only rational and possible way to proceed towards the realisation of the objective of a United States of Africa is "from the bottom up", with the RECs, such as SADC, serving as the critical building blocks of the architecture out of which will be realised the age-old continental dream of African unity.

 

The 27th Ordinary Summit Meeting of SADC confirmed the determination of our region to respond to this challenge. The launch of the SADC Brigade, the first component of the African Union Standby Force, represented a practical demonstration of the commitment of the peoples of Southern Africa to help give meaning to the resolve of the peoples of Africa to take their destiny into their hands. This is confirmed by the fact that the entirety of the AU/UN "hybrid force" for Darfur, which will include SANDF and SAPS personnel, will be composed of African personnel.

 

As we knew and said during the difficult years when Lusaka served as the Headquarters of the ANC, Africa will be free!

 

Thabo Mbeki

 

Source:

 

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/anctoday/2007/at33.htm

 

 

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Gwisai and Davis Trying to Privatise The Masses !!!

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Written by Lameck Funduka

Thursday, 05 July 2007

Directionless opportunists? Opinion By Lameck Funduka I thought Mike Davis and the Combined Harare Residents Associations (Chra) were with us until I read his interview with Violet Gonda on SW Radio, attached below. Munyaradzi Gwisai who was also in the interview showed a remarkable failure to mature, or is it naked ambition on part of both gentlemen? While acknowledging the need for unity, they tried to find any excuse they could to say the MDC was not the appropriate party to lead that unity, yet all the efforts that they were pointing to as successes in mobilising the people can be directly attributed to the MDC.     The reason is simple; they think that by acknowledging the MDC they will have lost the possibility of getting into political power themselves. I say slow down brothers; we are in this together and it's not too late to come back. Mike has had a flirtation with organising Harare residents to demand their civic and consumer rights  and now thinks they are his his people. I say, Remember Trudy Stevenson! And I do not mean it from a racial point of view, just that as soon as you lose direction they will also show you the door. It is clear that Gwisai wants to use the now mobilised masses in his International Socialist agenda, which he does not care when it comes to fruition, as long as he has pushed worker consciousness that much further - even at the expense of postponing the deposition of the current regime and perpetuating the suffering.  Even WOZA, which was not in the interview but was being referred to as another centre for grassroots initiative, seems to be fumbling in the dark while refusing to recognise the leadership of MDC in any united movement that might succeed in mobilising the masses for the final push. First, WOZA was part of the civic partnership, then it was not, then it was consulting its members about whether they wanted to be in the campaign, then it was demanding – through the Press for that matter, representation in the SADC negotiations. I am glad it has gone back to the electrical power struggle with Zesa. The SADC negotiations, even if they were to succeed, are not going to make Zimbabwe's future social order. It is still going to be decided by us the Zimbabweans and our Zimbabwean institutions, party cells, local community organisations, and people, WOZA and Chra included, because they are the ones working in these areas of social policy. But demonstrating inclusion in what are essentially political negotiations between the two powers which have been recognised by the SADC as necessary to bring about the transition to peace and democracy in Zimbabwe, was completely misplaced. The MDC through Mbeki's initiative is not negotiating the Constitution of Zimbabwe or the social policy – just how Mugabe can be persuaded, pressured or otherwise kicked to step aside for the benefit of his people. Of course the power of the MDC to be so recognised also comes from its partners, and their withdrawal weakens it, but they should recognise that they are under the umbrella of the Save Zimbabwe Campaign or the Crisis Campaign representing their particular social policies, not in the political power structure of MDC. MDC itself is still struggling with elements within it about whether they should be united by being incorporated in the leadership, which the MDC President has said is not possible, leading to an attack from Job Sikhala at St Mary's where Sikhala said Tsvangirai is a Zanu (PF) sellout. Grapes are sour indeed. The civics must not be deceitful and say we are fighting for children's rights, consumers' rights, civic participation rights or socialism, then, when they have opened our eyes so that we can see for ourselves that the MDC represents all these ideals, they start telling people that the MDC is not the right party to lead them – trying to destroy the very house whose foundation they helped to build. This is pure opportunism and it shows up in such contradictions. They mobilised the masses for the struggle, using their various tactics; the masses joined them, and together created the conditions for sustainable mass action. Now that the masses also see for themselves that their power to make a change comes from their united efforts and they gravitate towards the main stream, the leaders think they must stop them because they should be driving. In one breath they criticised the international travelling and networking that the MDC leadership is doing and in the next they praise it for having been effective in mobilising the international community. It is clear they are trying to find reasons for negating the MDC for selfish reasons. How can they be left out in race in which they never declared their intentions to run? I think it is time that opportunists within the civic movement were denounced for what they are. Their members, i.e. Chra and WOZA are already supporters if not full members of the MDC and should be told that their leaders are misleading them. I think a clear message should go out to members that they are being led in some of these coalition partners by people who are trying to achieve political power by deceiving their members that they are fighting for residents' rights, socialism, women's or whatever it is. Right now the crucial thing is creating a level playing field so that even the NDAs, the ZUMs, the Federal Parties and any new formations may be able to campaign freely, and in this struggle we need everybody. When it is most crucial that they should lead their members to the united final push to create the conditions for a free and fair election, so that we can start creating the society we want, they start trying to hold back, while trying to negotiate themselves into political leadership. Suddenly everyone wants drive the political bus. Who is going to be there still fighting for the women's rights, the community rights, for the inclusion rights for marginalised communities; who is going to oversee the drafting of a people's constitution, who is going to represent the residents of towns and cities, and hold the new political leaders to account for their promises. Is the MDC government not going to consult these same organisations that were its partners in pushing out the dictator about its social policy? I should think in the affirmative. And, of course, if it does not they have every right to also show it some Tough Love all over again. So for me there is no privatisation of the democracy struggle by the MDC, rather there is an attempt to privatise the masses by those who are the MDC's partners and working with the masses. Fortunately the masses have an inherent capacity to refuse to be privatised because their interests do not change - food, shelter, good living and better living, and yes participation in the running of their affairs. Lameck Funduka, Not Far From Where You Are.

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Indigenisation Bill another platform to loot!!! BY TENDAI BITI

Indigenisation Bill another platform to loot

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By Tendai Biti MP

Last updated: 06/28/2007 15:23:09

ON FRIDAY, 22 June 2007, the government of Zimbabwe gazetted the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Bill. In broad and general terms, the objective of the Bill is to ensure that 51 percent of the shares of any public company and any other business is owned by indigenous Zimbabweans.

In addition, the Bill prescribes that no projected or proposed investment in a prescribed sector of the economy should be approved unless indigenous Zimbabweans hold a controlling stake in the investment.

Over and above this, all government departments, statutory bodies and local authorities and companies should procure 50 percent of their goods and services from a company with a controlling interest held by indigenous Zimbabweans.

Quite clearly, the Bill has far reaching consequences with regards to the issue of ownership and investment by companies in Zimbabwe.

In dominated social formations such as Zimbabwe, underdevelopment and uneven and unequal distribution of property characterizes the structural economic base of the country. Decades of colonialism have resulted in a skewed economy owned and controlled by a minority few whose mandate and interest was to serve the colonial metropole under circumstances wherein the majority black population was not a beneficiary of the national cake.

The colonial State was thus a gate-keeping State, with its most intrusiveand ambitious distortions based on narrow export-orientation and raw material production in which the African and African labour were mere objects of the reproduction of this client State.

Independence therefore, if it was to be meaningful, should have gone beyond the mere changing of the guards. It must involve the structural reconstruction of the State and the economy. Without this, independence becomes a meaningless charade that generates its own vicious contradictions, to the extent that in the overwhelming majority of cases, there has been no reconstruction and redefinition of the post-colonial State and post-colonial economy.

The colonial gate-keeping State has been reproduced under post-independent labels, but the old contradictions of deprivation and pursuance of narrow interests have been perpetuated.

The post-colonial State thus remains anti-majority and anti-development, but one, which without the military and economic might of the former colonial master, has to reproduce itself through patronage, coercion, repression, clientelism and rent-seeking activities..

The question that begs an answer is: Does the Indigenous and Economic Empowerment Bill represent a genuine attempt to restructure and reconstruct the State and the economy in order to transform Zimbabwe from the caretaker State it has been to a people-oriented economy? The answer, sadly, is No.

Between 2000 and 2004, the government of Zimbabwe embarked on a land reform programme that resulted in the compulsory acquisition of 11 million hectares of land. That the land reform programme was an essential ingredient in the process of reconstructing the State and the economy is not in dispute.

However, four years after the implementation of the programme, it is not in dispute the despite negligible pockets of success, the programme has been a cataclysmic exposure of Zanu PF's greed and asset stripping. The programme has been a disastrous expression of greed, aggrandizement, wastage and unbridled avarice, what Ibbo Mandaza described as "voracious primitive accumulation" in his foreword to Edgar Tekere's book, A Lifetime of Struggle.

The net result has been a total decapitation of agricultural capacity by more than 73 percent of the 2000 output. In the 2006 agricultural season, Zimbabwe could hardly produce 600 tonnes of maize and finds itself in the embarrassing position of having to import food from countries such as Zambia, who not more than five years ago, were entirely dependent on Zimbabwe's agriculture.

A cursory and casual drive through Zimbabwe's greenbelt (Banket, Chinhoyi, Alaska, Lions Den, Karoi) will expose the catastrophic consequences of Zanu PF's greed expounded in the name of the land reform.

For us in the MDC, the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Bill has nothing to do with the genuine economic empowerment of the indigenous population, a population which has done well on its own in asserting itself in the commanding heights of the economy. The financial services and retail sectors are both dominated by indigenous capital.

The Bill therefore is a mere avenue of further patronage and rent-seeking activities by the big guns in Zanu PF. It will allow Zanu PF and its acolytes access into the remaining sectors of the economy, in particular mining, which, because of high initial investment capital, it has hitherto been unable to access.

Indeed, empowerment will take place but of the very same looters that have brought the country's economy to its knees and that for the past seven years have been eating not just the fruits of independence, but the stem of independence as well.

The Bill will not empower the millions of Zimbabwean workers and poor people who are surviving on less that US$ 1 per day and are dying in their thousands every week. It will not empower the average Zimbabwean in Dotito, Highfield, Msampakaruma, Nkayi or Makokoba.

Over and above this, the legal construction of this Bill is suspect. The compulsory acquisition of 51 percent equity of companies clearly brings the Bill into conflict with property rights as enshrined in section 16 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe.

In addition it is in flagrant breach of Article 17 of the Universa Declaration of Human Rights.

Another problematic issue is the fact that all decision pertaining to the approval of any transaction and any change of ownership in respect of the Bill are solely to be handled by the Minister responsible for administering the Act.

Put simply, to the extent that the execution of the provisions of the Bill is solely resident in the Minister, the legal construction of the Bill remains suspect because subjective application is inevitable. One wonders why, as in other jurisdictions, those functions are not given to an Independent Empowerment Commission.

The bottom line is that Zanu PF has failed and has absolutely no answer or solution to the current structural crisis arresting the country. Instead of concentrating on resuscitating the collapsed supply side of the economy, Zanu PF is disingenuously seeking to destroy those remaining pockets of this challenged economy.

They will not fool anyone and history will judge them harshly!

Hon Tendai Biti, MP is MDC Secretary-General

RADICAL SOLDIER TO SAY: "GOOD-BYE" TO BRO LEARNMORE JONGWE!

THE RADICAL SOLDIER TO WRITE A PROPER GOOD-BYE....

TO BROTHER LEARNMORE JONGWE!

 

Mr Robert Mugabe went to town speaking various foul things about the tragedy

that sorrounded the great, young man, Mr Learnmore Jongwe!

Some of us just wept and could not hit back!

Mr Robert Mugabe is the last person that should have spoken about Mr Learnmore Jongwe!

The most evil person under the sun, that Robert Mugabe / Matibili!

To Bro Learnmore I say, "I'm really and sincerely sorry young man!

I, personally identify with you!

I wish I was there then to share your feelings, emotions etc!

Then you fell into the hands of wicked men mhondi vana Robert Mugabe!

Self-professed professors of violence!

Men who kill others like they kill flies!

You inter-acted with hypocrites like Cde Thabo Mbeki

(LINK),

Robert Mugabe

and Tobaiwa Mudede (whom you correctly described as a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR!)

Bro Learnmore, I have yet to release you from my heart!

I have a lump in my throat about your going!

I will write a few things which mainly will be pieces of advice to spouces of POLITICIANS!

No.....YOU ARE NOT GONE!

Some of us have not yet fully released you!

YES....AS THEY SAID AT YOUR FUNERAL.......

HEROES LIE IN OUR HEARTS!

MANY AT THE SO-CALLED "NATIONAL HEROES ACRE"

WILL BE EXHUMED WHEN THE TIMES COMES!

Yes....You are not visible among us!

Your courage will forever inspire us!

I'm very sorry my dear Brother LEARNMORE, true son of the soil,....

NOT THE BLOODY ROBERT MATIBILI!"

REV Mufaro Stig Hove....THE RADICAL SOLDIER!

 

 

Peace and Tranquility???

 

 

 Cell in RSA: 0791463039

 

REMEMBERING THE LATE, GREAT "BOB" MARLEY'S DEPARTURE (11th May, 2007)

"FOR MEMORIES OF ONE OF OUR OWN, ROBERT NESTER MARLEY PLEASE SEE, LISTEN AND DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY!"

http://web.bobmarley.com/index.jsp

 

THE LATE, GREAT, LEGENDARY BOB MARLEY "We remember you on this day that you passed on!....

...but Bob can you believe the man who cruelly murdered His Majesty, Ras Tafari, Emperor Haille Sellasse is being kept by Robert Mugabe in the Zimbabwe you welcomed with such joy in April, 1980? We remember you this day, dear Iron Man!" Ras Radical!

 

 

Stephanie Marley!

Rita Marley!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ziggy Marley!

 

Rohan Marley!

 

 

A SINCERE FAREWELL TO THE HON TONY BLAIR!

A SINCERE FAREWELL TO THE HON TONY BLAIR!

 

"From Dr Joshua M'qabuko Nyongolo Nkomo in the 80s to today, the Government of Britain has very religiously looked after those fleeing that local madman of ours, Robert Mugabe! The issues where we need Britain's assistance, we will definitely approach Britain after we are through with our own Serious Internal Problems! Many of these serious problems have absolutely nothing to do with you, Hon Mr Blair! In fact you did well to ignore that evil deranged demagogue that has terrorised us well before you even entered Politics! By God's grace and with some muscular activity, we will overcome! ANYWAY, FARE THEE WELL THOU GREAT MAN!" Radical Soldier of Zimbabwe!

 

A BIT OF PERSONAL INFORMATION!

I'm planning to do the very extra-ordinary in the very near future!

(In June next month to be exact!)

If any-one thought we, Zimbabweans, are docile....then I'm afraid they will have to re-think!

The things that are happening at home need real men that will start the avalanche!

Please note that I will post updates on my plans on a restricted site where one needs my permission to enter!

To get the permission please send your request to my e-mail address below!

MORE NEWS IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS!

Yours for the love of troubled Zim,

Rev Mufaro Stig Hove.

mufarostig@yahoo.co.uk  

Cell: 0791463039 RSA

THE RADICAL SOLDIER!

P/S....Today 10th May, 2007 the Labour Court in Harare is sitting to hear my request to have ZESA give me a proper honourable Retrenchment Package!

I worked for them from the 10th July, 1989 to when they dismissed me in 2003 and to when I won at the Labour Court in January, 2006.

For the full story please visit the www.radicalzim.blogspot.com  web-page!

 

THE INTERVIEW BY THEARCHBISHOP PIUS NCUBE!

PLEASE CLICK BELOWAND SEE AND HEAR FOR YOURSELF!

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_VwTIPm4

 

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EVEN MORE ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY!

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Son Of JFK Conspirator Drops New Bombshell Revelations
Costner was set to make documentary on Hunt's confession, before Miami mafia stepped in, E. Howard believed government had sabotaged his wife's plane

Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Thursday, May 3, 2007   http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/030507jfkconspirator.htm

As the explosive revelation of E. Howard Hunt's deathbed confession, in which the former CIA agent and Watergate conspirator admits that he was part of a CIA conspiracy to assassinate JFK, continues to rage across the Internet, the establishment media remains almost mute on what is undoubtedly one of the biggest stories of the decade.

Saint John Hunt, E. Howard Hunt's oldest son, joined Alex Jones yesterday to drop new bombshells about his father's story. Click here to listen.

Hunt was first made aware of what his father knew about the events of November 22nd 1963 when he came into receipt of hand-written memos that outlined the birth of the plot to kill JFK in Miami where it was discussed that a coup needed to take place in order to topple Kennedy and save the CIA from being splintered into a thousand pieces, as JFK had promised.

Saint John then opened his mailbox one January morning in 2004 to discover an unlabeled cassette tape on which his father details the identity of the individuals that were involved in the actual assassination of JFK.

 

E. Howard Hunt names numerous individuals with both direct and indirect CIA connections as having played a role in the assassination of Kennedy, while describing himself as a "bench warmer" in the plot. Saint John Hunt agreed that the use of this term indicates that Hunt was willing to play a larger role in the murder conspiracy had he been required, but was primarily used in an oversight role.

Hunt alleges on the tape that then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was involved in the planning of the assassination and in the cover-up, stating that LBJ, "Had an almost maniacal urge to become president, he regarded JFK as an obstacle to achieving that."

Saint John Hunt.

In the Alex Jones Show interview, Hunt reveals how Kevin Costner, star of the JFK movie, had shared a mutual friend with E. Howard Hunt and had subsequently visited Hunt in Miami in the interests of producing a documentary film based on Hunt's knowledge of the plot.

"Kevin Costner flies down and is introduced to my father by this mutual friend and Kevin just blurted out, 'so who killed JFK'? My father's jaw dropped and he turned around and looked at his wife and said, 'what did he say'?"

"So the whole thing just kind of blew up in its face and that was the end of that," said Hunt.

Hunt said that Costner had become "somewhat of a conspiracy enthusiast" after having made the JFK movie and was very interested in starting a project based on E. Howard Hunt's revelations.

"What my father devised was a code and a key to give Mr. Costner the relevant information without naming the names," said Hunt, "He listed out a chain of command and a timeline series of events and things that took place along with the most important players in the plot."

Costner considered the information to be "dynamite stuff," but elements of the "Miami mafia" derailed the project and the documentary never got off the ground.

Saint John Hunt also revealed for the first time that E. Howard Hunt thought that the Chicago plane crash that killed his wife in 1972 was not an accident. Investigators discovered at least $10,000 dollars in Dorothy Hunt's luggage, money that Saint John Hunt alleges was Nixon campaign funds used to payoff the families of the Watergate burglars to keep them quiet about the involvement of the Nixon White House in the Watergate break-in and cover-up.

"Later on in his life at one of these bedside confessions....tears started welling up in his eyes and he said, 'you know Saint I was so deeply concerned that what they did to your mother they could have done to you children' and that caused the hair on my neck to stand up - that was the first disclosure from my father that he thought there was something else going on besides sheer pilot error," said Hunt.

Eyewitnesses reported that the plane exploded above treetop level before it had even hit the runway.

Hunt said that "at least 20-25 FBI members," as well as numerous DIA agents were at the scene of the crash within minutes before rescue personnel had even arrived, and that this fact was attested to in a letter sent by the head of the Chicago FBI to investigator Sherman Skolnick.

Hunt cited numerous coincidences surrounding the aftermath of the crash, including Nixon's appointment of his henchman, Egil Krough, to the National Transportation Safety Board which investigates plane crashes, the very day after the incident.

When asked about the photos of the "three tramps" that were arrested on the scene of the JFK murder but were later ordered released, Hunt agreed that they likely showed his father and the two other key conspirators.

"As my father's son, every time I look at that comparison photo between the tramps and my father - it looks like my father to me," said Hunt.

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Hunt also said that he was reasonably confident that one of the other tramps was CIA operative Frank Sturgis, who his father had also named as a key member of the murder plot.

Hunt said that his father was not one of the shooters but was more of a manager of the plot on a command level, but was later "hung out to dry" by the CIA and the government.

Asked why Hunt became a willing conspirator in the plot to murder JFK, Hunt responded,"Within intelligence circles, he felt that it was an imperative situation that President Kennedy not be allowed to serve in that office for any longer because there was a lot of crucial things coming down, there was the Vietnam war, there was also the anger and the threats Kennedy had made to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces."

Hunt also said that his father eventually desired to become the director of the CIA and Kennedy was a direct obstacle to that goal.

Hunt concluded by agreeing that his father's legacy was that of a patriotic American who was manipulated and twisted by people like LBJ and Nixon, later to be deserted and have his family torn apart by these same criminals.

E. Howard Hunt finally redeemed himself shortly before his death by blowing the whistle on the JFK murder plot, but now there is a fresh attempt to bury this information on behalf of the compromised and cowardly establishment media, who have afforded this bombshell story almost no attention at all while lavishly devoting coverage to the mindlessness of Britney Spears' comeback and radio host Don Imus' off-hand comments.

Once again the responsibility lies with alternative media and the Internet to make sure E. Howard Hunt's story is heard.

 

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EXILED ZIMBABWEANS PRINT A "ONCE-OFF" COPY OF THE "DAILY NEWS!"

Amnesty Int'l publishes version of The Daily News

 

ex www.talkzimbabwe.com 8 May, 2007.

Geoffrey Nyarota - founder and former editor-in-chief of the The Daily News

Itayi Garande 08.MAY.07

 

EXILED Zimbabwean journalists and researchers published a one-off issue of the banned and closed newspaper, The Daily News dedicated to covering the current state of Zimbabwe's media on Press Freedom Day.

The paper aptly named The Daily News in Exile is a six-page report of violence, repression, and struggle in the troubled country.

Focussing mainly on the Zanu PF government's clamp down on freedom of expression, Geoffrey Nyarota (founder and former editor-in-chief of the The Daily News and now editor of the online paper - thezimbabwetimes.com) writes about "his experience as a Zimbabwean newsman and his fears for the colleagues he was forced to leave behind."

Other contributors to the special edition are Sandra Nyaira (former political correspondent with The Daily News), Nyasha Nyakunu, (Research and Information Officer for the Media Institute of Southern Africa) and Simeon Mawanza, researcher on Zimbabwe with Amnesty International.

The edition tells the story of The Daily News, from its founding in 1999 up to the time it stopped publishing on February 6 2004.

When it eventually closed in 2004, it had risen to become the nation's leading independent news source, despite the bombing of its printing press, the arrest of its staff, the occupation of its offices by police, and constant harassment by state monitors.

The Daily News in Exilecarries the slogan "Telling It Like It Is For World Press Freedom Day" (May 3). It carries detailed reports, statistics, editorials, cartoons, and photographs that recount recent and historical press freedom violations in Zimbabwe.

The paper was published by the Amnesty International Irish Section, and is written by Geoffrey Nyarota (the founder and former editor-in-chief of The Daily News), Sandra Nyaira (a correpondent for The Daily News), and researchers Nyasha Nyakunu and Simeon Mawanza.


Please click here to read The Daily News In Exile in PDF format

 

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WE ZIMBOS SOMETIMES BEHAVE LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN!

You talk about Amnesty for Mugabe!

 

Did he ask for it?

 

Mugabe and his fellow Mafia friends are "on top of the world!"

 

They "inherited" millions of hactres of well-prepared land and farm-houses and they read about inflation only in the newspapers!

 

They have the milk, the meat and even diamonds etc.....ALL FREEE!!!

 

They do not pay for transport to anywhere!

 

Its all Government fuel!

 

MUGABE AND ZANU-PF CAN CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER 20 YEARS!

 

If they had any guilt about destroying The Economy , they would have called for some Conference of all Political Players already!

 

Now you ask another Political Viper to sort out your problems for you!

 

He is busy doing his best to "crush" his own "rivals" -  THE ZULUS!

 

He is busy trying to remove a name....just a name from a road named after Mr Mangosuthu Buthelezi!

 

Where is magnanimity?

 

Is it not completely stupid to "start" a man who is quiet?

 

Mandela had made Buthelezi a Minister of Home Affairs and at certain times made him Acting President when both he and Mr Mbeki went eg to the States!

 

Now came a Robert Mugabe!

 

ZIMBOS LETS NOT BEHAVE OR THINK LIKE CHILDREN!

 

Our people are suffering acutely and we cannot afford these jokes!

 

You Zimbos wake up!

 

You are your own liberators!

 

FORGET ABOUT THESE TREACHEROUS SO-CALLED TALKS!

 

FORGET ABOUT THABO MBEKI!

 

WAKE UP!

 

You will remember I said these things!

 

Rev Mufaro Stig Hove.....

 

THE RADICAL SOLDIER!

 

Cell: 0791463039

 

mufarostig@yahoo.co.uk

 

revmshove@yahoo.co.uk

 

BRO KUTHULA MATSHAZI REPLIES THE RADICAL!

Hi Rev. Mufaro Hove,

It's good to hear from you after a long while.

You say, "…the problems besetting our beloved Zimbabwe are far greater than just Mr Blair, the land issue (which is very legitimate and had to be resolved) and the racism of a greater majority of the white people (which also is not in dispute at all!)". Why are you talking about Blair? I was very specifically arguing about why we shouldn't re-invent Tsvangirai.

When I read your letter I realised that you are frustrated because it seems I do not tow your line as you expect me to, as you said, "I've tried my best to show you". As I have always said Radical, do not force people to accept your ideas. People will always have their views on issues. It's not a scandal to disagree. If I am guilty of having a passion for criticising Tsvangirai (which is based on sound facts) then it's equally okay for you to spill out your passion against President Mugabe. No one condemns you as you do to other people when they hold different opinions on these matters. Its sad that you do not realise the simple fact that you are as passionate for Mugabe and yet you try and stand up to admonish me. Isn't that hypocritical?

You say, "Tsvangirai may be as ugly or as dull or whatever any intellectual like yourself may label him but he is our only hope!" That's your problem. Because you see him as your only hope then you do not want him to stand scrutiny. I am sure you wouldn't want to have a president who has not been scrutinised. If you want, then fine, but I do not, hence my scrutiny of Tsvangirai.

You say, "I started writing myself hoping characters like you could see the picture!" That's the problem. You were so convinced in your mind that you would go out, tell people your story and hope that they would consume it passively. No Radical. There are so many pictures out there and even if we see your picture, we might decide to change it for us to accept it.

You say, "THE STORY IS MUCH BIGGER THAN YOUR PROGRAMMED INTELLECTUAL MIND SEEMS TO GRASP!" You assume that I am programmed, well fine. And you are not? I am surprised why you would even waste your time talking to programmed minds? Are you really going to attempt to waste your time talking to programmed minds? You never cease to amaze!

You say, "I love to be "corrected" where I am wrong!" – defensive, in the know how and very confrontational".
I wonder why you put corrected in quotes? Maybe you are suggesting that you are never wrong.

"THE ONLY WAY FORWARD IS THE CONVENING OF A TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION LIKE THE ONE THAT WAS DONE HERE IN RSA WHERE I AM AT THE MOMENT!" Why do you think that the mere convening of this body would end all our problems? It beats me. Or you are trying to say this commission might be one way to deal with a certain specific issue?
 

Best, Kuthula Matshazi
Visit my Blog at http://kuthula.blogspot.com

 

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OPEN LETTER TO BRO KUTHULA MATSHAZI!

I've posted this letter on  www.zimfinalpush.blogspot.com and will post your reply unedited when you reply!

 

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6th May, 2007

 

Dear beloved Brother K Matshazi,

 

I've been communicating with you for the past four years in various Forums!

 

I've tried my best to show you that the problems besetting our beloved Zimbabwe are far greater than just Mr Blair, the land issue (which is very legitimate and had to be resolved) and the racism of a greater majority of the white people (which also is not in dispute at all!)

 

What surprises me about you is your dedication to attacking  Mr Morgan Tsvangirai with a passion more vicious than even Robert Mugabe's.

 

In your latest article,

 

http://kuthula.blogspot.com/2007/05/why-tsvangirai-should-not-be-re.html,

 

 you sadistically attack him with your usual passion!

 

But my dear brother, you forget that Zimbabwe's problems did not begin with Mr Blair and the Land Issue or with the emergence of your Arch-Enemy, Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC!

 

Ask Dr Joshua Nkomo

 

 (http://gukurahundi.blogspot.com/2007/04/full-letter-from-dr-j-m-n-nkomo-to.html)

 

and then ask the Rev Ndabaningi Sithole

 

(http://zimgossiper.blogspot.com/2007/05/unsung-heroes-rev-ndabaningi-sithole.html).

 

Many victims of Robert Mugabe fortunately wrote books, letters etc before they passed on!

 

The MDC has a lot of members who were part of ZANU-PF at very high levels and many still pretend to be ZANU-PF but pray that Mr Morgan Tsvangirai "soldiers" on!

 

Tsvangirai may be as ugly or as dull or whatever any intellectual like yourself may label him but he is our only hope!

 

What we are tired of is the evil Dictatorship of Robert Mugabe!

 

Every problem which you are "concentrating on" at the moment will and must be solved but only after Robert Mugabe is safely locked up somewhere!

 

You come from Matabeleland!

 

Please refresh yourself by reading the Catholic Report on the Atrocities committed by the so-called Fifth Brigade" at your own home area (http://gukurahundi.blogspot.com/2007/01/compiled-by-catholic-commission-for.html)

 

Please also ask your sweet beloved President Robert Mugabe (or is he Malawian Matibili) to reply my letter to him (http://dearmrrobertmugabe.blogspot.com/2006/11/is-robert-mugabe-master-assassin.html) or try to reply on his behalf!

 

Ask his girl-friend Oppah to assist you because she was there at the deaths of Tongogara, Moven Mahachi, William Ndangana, Zororo Duri and many more brothers who died in mysterious car accidents!

 

Your programmed mind-set will ask:

 

What has that got do with the problems besetting Zim at the moment?

 

GOOD QUESTION!

 

We will not allow Mugabe-Matibili to escape judgement!

 

Then the corruption and misappropriation of Zim moneys eg when Leo Mugabe and Kofi Annan's son swindled the building of Harare International Airport of millions of US $!

 

Please kindly read my article on "brave writers" required at (http://zimfinalpush.blogspot.com/2006/10/appeal-to-all-journalists-and-writers.html)

 

I started writing myself hoping characters like you could see the picture!

 

I'm still not discouraged!

 

Please read my own experiences of the 16th of June, 1984 at Kadoma where we killed Ndebeles like yourself for the sole reason that they were either ZAPU or we suspected they were ZAPU and hence were "dissidents"! (http://zimfinalpush.blogspot.com/2007/03/memories-and-thoughts-of-former-zanu-pf.html)

 

What I'm trying to say Bro Kuthula Matshazi is:

 

THE STORY IS MUCH BIGGER THAN YOUR PROGRAMMED INTELLECTUAL MIND SEEMS TO GRASP!

 

We rigged the Elections, Kuthula!

 

From 2000 to today...we rig Elections Kuthula!

 

Read my article "YES WE RIGGED AND STILL RIG THE ELECTIONS IN ZIMBABWE!" (http://zimgossiper.blogspot.com/2007/04/full-submission-on-rigging-of-zim.html)

 

Please try and represent Robert and ZANU-PF and challenge me!

 

I love to be "corrected" where I am wrong!

 

Bro Kuthula, Blair and Bush we will approach when we have sorted out a lot of "in-house" issues!

 

THE ONLY WAY FORWARD IS THE CONVENING OF A TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION LIKE THE ONE THAT WAS DONE HERE IN RSA WHERE I AM AT THE MOMENT!

 

 

 

Awaiting your speedy reply,

 

Your brother in the Zimbabwean story,

 

Rev Mufaro Stig Hove.

 

mufarostig@yahoo.co.uk

 

revmshove@yahoo.co.uk

 

Cell: 0791463039 RSA.

 

 

 

P/S:

 

DO YOU KNOW HOW I LOST MY JOB AT Z.E.S.A. (which I loved so religiously!)

 

PLEASE READ THE LETTER WHICH MADE ME GET FIRED BY ZESA MANAGEMENT AT THE INSISTENCE OF Dr SIDNEY GATA.

( http://radicalzim.blogspot.com/2007/04/zesa-and-radical-soldier.html)

 

(http://www.fingaz.co.zw/fingaz/2003/June/June19/4156.shtml )

 

I THEN WON THE CASE AT THE LABOUR COURT AS YOU PERSONALLY KNOW BUT THEY WOULD NOT TAKE ME BACK!

 

http://radicalzim.blogspot.com/2007/04/stig-hove-wins-case-against-zesa.html 

 

and

 

 http://radicalzim.blogspot.com/2007/04/herald-reported-on-zesa-losing-case.html

 

 

 

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"MUGABE SEEKS MARTYRDOM!" (VERY FRIGHTENING, SOBERING THOUGHT!

Mugabe the martyr

http://www.africanupdate.com/journal/2007/5/5/mugabe-the-martyr.html

 

The pan-African movement was an important movement in the continent's recent history.  The idea that Africans, not only in Africa but world-wide, would unite to wrest away the continent's fortunes from European imperialists or Cold War-era superpowers in order to usher in a new, united Africa that acts on its own accord and benefits from its own actions is a truly noble thing.

But in the post-Cold War period, with the Western powers now largely ignoring Africa, the pan-African movement seems to be losing its way.  Anyone who does not believe this fact should pick up the May issue of the New African magazine, the long-standing, respected publication of the pan-Africanist movement, and they will be convinced.  The issue amounts to nothing less than a full, unadulterated sponsorship of Robert Mugabe's failed regime in Zimbabwe and it includes at its zenith an interview, filled with loaded, softball questions, of Mugabe himself with the magazine's editor Baffour Ankomah.  In addition to the interview, page after page of a 'sponsored supplement'  (sponsored, of course, by Zimbabwe's Ministry of Information and Publicity) paints the country's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai as a violent instigator who essentially earned the beating that he received in March at the hands of Mugabe's police force by being a puppet of the West.  Other articles take great pains to show that Mugabe actually enjoys wide-ranging support among the people of Zimbabwe.  It also blames the country's 2,200% inflation rate and 80% unemployment rate entirely on the ruthless sanctions put into place by the United Kingdom and the United States.  The supplement ends with a laughable quote made by Mugabe during his address last month at a gathering that marked the twenty-seventh year of Zimbabwe's independence where he congratulates his citizens for refusing to be "re-colonized" and, in typical Mugabe fashion, continues on to rail against the British government.

There is no mention of the massive food shortages, and resulting starvation, that has occurred since Mugabe's disastrous land redistribution policy began seven years ago.  The shortages, of course, are blamed on drought and sanctions.  There is no mention of the countless electoral irregularities that have occurred in Zimbabwe.  There is no mention of the brutal sweep that Mugabe's thugs made through Harare recently that amounted to the destruction of hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses of Zimbabwe's people.  There is plenty of talk about the Southern African Development Community's recent summit in Tanzania that resulted in what amounts to a shocking endorsement of Mugabe and his regime's practices.  There is also plenty of discussion about the secret backroom dealings of the US and British governments, ruthlessly trying to undermine Mugabe's poor, peaceful, government despite the fact that it only wants what is best for its citizens.

Let's concede that Zimbabwe's situation might in fact be more complicated than what is regularly presented in the Western press.  Its current troubles may be caused by a number of issues, it is fine to recognize that fact and it is fine to try to present both sides of the story.  But when a nation's "democratically" elected leader, who has been in power for twenty-seven years, presides over a government that has the highest inflation rate in the world, one of the highest unemployment rates in the world, and the lowest life-expectancy in the world and, at the same time, is facing extreme food shortages that will likely result in the death of large numbers of its population, regularly ignores the rulings of the judicial branch of its government, suppresses freedom of the media, is continuously accused of human rights abuses by a wide range of governments and nongovernmental organizations, has been accused of rigging elections by multiple sources, and openly beats and tortures political opponents, that, in a nutshell, is the definition of a failed state.  How would it be possible for a leader of such a failed state to hold any popularity at all unless it was through deception and tyrannical means?  It is simply impossible.

Now, even if it is conceded that Mugabe isn't entirely to blame for the situation in Zimbabwe (and that would be a lot to concede), even if we agree that the West has to share some of the blame, how could anybody or any media outlet advance the notion, in 2007, that Mugabe is a freedom fighting victim of Western imperialism?  How could anyone say that Mugabe really just wants what is best for the people of Zimbabwe and that if it wasn't for Tony Blair and George W. Bush and the evil meddling of their governments this would be the golden age of Zimbabwe?

It is a sad indication of the status of the pan-Africanist movement today when one of its most important media outlets decides to accept such an obviously flawed and dangerous argument.  It is ironic too that Mugabe's argument is, in the end, diametrically opposed to the well-being of Zimbabwe's people, African people, the very thing that the pan-Africanists should be fighting hardest to protect.

 

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URGENT "STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS" FROM THE OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT!

"STATE OF THE NATION" ADDRESS BY YOUR PRESIDENT!

I think there is a bit of confusion in our beloved country of Zimbabwe today!

Who ever said I won the Presidential Elections of 2002?

I never said so!

All I said was Tsvangirai's Election Petitions are "frivolous and vexatious."

I also pleaded with all patriots to "recognize" me as the Executive President.

I am the only person who can keep this country of Zimbabwe together!

If I removed myself from the top seat, the country will degenerate into chaos (racialism, tribalism, regionalism and all the negatives you can think of!)

Now we are in this whole mess because you simply refused to do the obvious- JUST RECOGNIZE ME. PERIOD!

Do you honestly think Tsvangirai can run this country?

I'm very disappointed with you, my fellow countrymen!

Running a country is a very complicated, delicate task!

You do your best and you are still accused of not doing your best!

WHO REALLY COULD HAVE MANAGED THIS ECONOMY BETTER THAN ME?

Now about the so-called rigging and the so-called-violence!

Your focus should be on the major issues!

Would we really stand by and allow Mr Blair to re-colonize our country, take away our Sovereignty and take over all our resources?

Would you allow someone to take your wife and you just stood by?

Please lets be very serious, Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends!

About assassinations:be very careful!

This may break the whole Nation apart!

Who killed Cde Hebert Chitepo?

So why do you ask who killed General Josiah Magama Tongogara?

About the so-called "Truth and Reconciliation Commission!"

Where and when do we start?

Who will remain without blood on his hands?

Do you know how Dr Parerenyatwa died? Was it Smith's men or was it an internal struggle?

So will you raise the dead to ask them to testify?

Then last but not least: where in the world are "perfect people"?

The words "rigging", "assassinations" etc are English words!

Are they Shona words?

MUTIKWANIRE! (STOP THIS LUNACY!)

Please recognize me, rally behind me as your God-given father and lets move forward and re-build our Nation!

About the unfortunate isolated incidents in the Southern part of our country (the so-called "Gukurahundi Massacres"), please lets not open old wounds!

The Ndebeles can be very naive if they think we have forgotten their vicious raids against our peace-loving Shona people in the 1890s!

Please let all bye-gones be bye-gones!

MAY THE GOOD LORD ABOVE BE WITH YOU ALL!

Yours Faithfully,

ME.

 

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