Who Will Come To Zimbabwe's Aid

Yesterday marked our independence from colonial rule which we achieved 28 years ago, but we are neither free nor are we independent having escaped the frying pan of from minority white rule for us to fall into the fire of the Mugabe's black on black brutality. What is happening in Zimbabwe today is a shameful betrayal of the reason why the real gallant heroes of Zimbabwe such as Tongogara took up arms to fight white minority rule that denied the majority black population the right to vote, they fought for one man one vote, they fought for self determination, they fought for the ability of every Zimbabwean to vote for a government of his choice. But today 28 years later their sole objective for taking up arms is an illusion for the people of Zimbabwe, the economy of Zimbabwe has collapsed unable to bear the weight of the world's highest inflation which experts put at 300000% and will reach half a million percent before July, the health sector has collapsed people of Zimbabwe are dying of curable diseases, the education system has collapsed, just about 1 million people in Zimbabwe are in formal employment, 4 million have fled the dictator's regime to seek political and economic refuge mostly in South Africa and the UK including this writer. 6.5 million people face starvation, 3000 people die in Zimbabwe every week of HIV and AIDS the life expectancy has been reduced to 35 for men and 34 for women. Our country today is in the grips of fear, terror and outright brutality which the illegal government of Zimbabwe is sanctioning against defenseless people. Our government institutions such as the ZEC, the judiciary, the army and the police are now partisan having lost their ability to function independently and professionally after being purged by Mugabe and are now stuffed with his loyalists whose sole aim is to help him cling to power. We have had harmonized general elections, and 21 days later the results of the Presidential polls have not yet been released, the electoral body has even succumbed to Zanu PF pressure despite irrefutable evidence that they lost the election, they had time for the past three weeks to open up ballot boxes and stuff them with Zanu PF votes in order to claim that they won an election that everyone knows they lost. They recounting votes for 23 constituencies illegally as the Zimbabwean law states that only the candidate can challenge the results in court 48 hours after they have been announced, the disputed constituencies are enough to overturn the majority that MDC holds in the house of parliament. Our country today has no functioning government there is a constitutional vacuum, instead its run by an illegal military junta and members of the Mugabe's previous illegal cabinet whose term of office expired on the 28th March 2008. Almost in every major town of Zimbabwe from Mutare to Bulawayo there is heavy intimidatory police and military presence and there are reports that Chinese soldiers were seen in Mutare. Torture camps have been set up for the sole purpose of torturing and thereby displace MDC supporters who voted for change in case there is a run-off, MDC election agents are disappearing without trace, 200 opposition supporters have been brutalised and two killed in the rural areas as Mugabe uses terror and brutality to desperately cling on to power. There is no independence in Zimbabwe its just a farce, the fruits of our independence will only be achieved when Mugabe concedes defeat and Morgan Tsvangirai is allowed the to form his government and get on with the business of rebuilding Zimbabwe's economy.

Are people of Iraq better than those of Zimbabwe, or are people of Afghanistan better than those of Zimbabwe? If our life is equal as those of the Iraqis and the Afghans why then are the world superpowers United States and Britain ignoring the plight of Zimbabweans? Over 8 years since Mugabe stole the first elections in Zimbabwe there has been a lot of tough talk on Zimbabwe and little action. The travel bans imposed by the EU and US on the dictator and his military junta that now run Zimbabwe do not affect them as they can easily circumvent them rendering the whole exercise ineffective in bringing democracy to Zimbabwe. It is the travel bans that Mugabe has sold to his African brethren as western economic sanctions that he blames have crippled the Zimbabwe's economy, but the governments of US and UK know the real reason the economy of Zimbabwe has plummeted is because of Mugabe's disastrous policies and corrupt government that have reduced the one time bread basket of Africa to a basket case and human rights chamber of horror. Its the same lame argument that have been picked by Mugabe's apologists led by Thabo Mbeki who fashion themselves as Pan-Africans, who swallowed Mugabe's lies about Western sanctions and that MDC was a lackey for Britain who wanted to recolonise Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe has no oil I stated this on very first post when I started writing this blog because if Zimbabwe was of strategic importance to America or Britain then Zimbabweans could have long been freed from the tyranny of Robert Mugabe by now just as the Iraqis from Saddam Hussein and the Afghans from the repressive Taliban regime.

We have been uncharacteristically peaceful as a nation for 8 years despite provocation from the Zimbabwean government there are no guarantees that Zimbabwe can remain peaceful. Will the world only react as Tsvangirai asked when there are dead bodies in Zimbabwe? Already the illegal government is busy buying arms from China either using aid money meant for ordinary Zimbabweans or mortgaging the country's natural resources for the exchange of arms that it intends to use on ordinary unarmed civilians whose sole crime is vote Mugabe and Zanu PF out of power. The Chinese vessel failed to offload its cargo in South Africa thanks to the members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) who refused to offload the weapons and is said to be heading towards Angola or Namibia and we know Angola sides with Mugabe so as does Namibia and the world's superpowers should halt that consignment reaching a blood thirst dictator. If the world does not act now there will be catastrophe in Zimbabwe.