printHere we go again: Zim’s failure is being reduced by the chattering class to the shenanigans of one man. As I have written, “The peanut gallery’s messiah du jour is Morgan Tsvangirai of the Zimbabwean Opposition Party. They delude themselves that if not for the megalomania of one man—Mugabe—freedom would have flourished in Zimbabwe, as it has in the rest of Africa.”
What bunk!
What western know-nothings never contemplate is “who was the Prince among Men responsible for the good times [in Zimbabwe]? The phantom was Ian Smith, prime minister of Rhodesia, RIP. Smith was ostracized by the international community which refused to recognize his minority rule, and treated him like it treated Saddam Hussein, with boycotts and sanctions.”
“The British would not rest until Smith ceded power. When Mugabe was elected Leader for Life in 1980, he celebrated the West’s stupidity by committing his first major massacre in 1983. While Dr. Robert Mugabe was eliminating 20,000 innocent Ndebele in Matabeleland, his pals in the US were busy bestowing on him honorary doctorates. By the time the Queen of England knighted Sir Robert Mugabe in 1994, he had already done his ‘best’ work.” (Excerpted from “Mugabe, Mbeki, Maliki: They’re Our Boys“)
Thus will South Africa be eulogized with reference to what Mbeki or Zuma did wrong, rather than with reference to the West—it would not relent until that country passed into the hands of a ruthless, voracious majority. No federalism was allowed. No rights for the Afrikaner and English minorities were ever considered. In fact, the US opposed those trifles and agitated for raw democracy.
Now what we have in my former homeland is African democracy as raw and as ripe as sewerage.
The God that Failed strikes yet again…
The Queen: Apparently, money cannot buy brains. I am assuming she is a dupe. Is there a more favorable alternative?
I hope that when the baby-boomers die, white liberal guilt will die too. Then things will be called what they are.
Oh, and also, I don’t like the Queen giving knighthoods to murderous thugs. It cheapens mine. 😉
I am ashamed that my country is this way. And now, to make things worse, our monetary policy (which we copy from Zimbabwe) is causing starvation across the region and around the world. In these unstable regions, bloody violence will ensue. We will be lucky if we can escape the same fate here.
I’m not so sure it’s the Queen’s fault. From the Wikipedia article on Orders, Decorations, and Medals in the UK: “Candidates are identified by public or private bodies, by government departments or are nominated by members of the public. Depending on their roles, those people selected by committee are submitted either to the Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, or Secretary of State for Defence for their approval before being sent to the Sovereign for final approval.”
I suspect that the sovereign routinely gives final to everyone the minister in question approves.
JUMS24,
“I suspect that the sovereign routinely gives final to everyone the minister in question approves.”
I don’t suppose she has the authority to fire whoever mislead her? However, she could publicly renounce her decision and denounce those who misled their “Queen”.
The involvement of the US and the UK in the demise of Rhodesia and the installation of Robert Mugabe is still going to bear unhappy fruit for these two countries. Effectively what they precipitated was placing the vast treasure house of mineral wealth in Southern Africa as well as it’s strategic value directly in the hands of enemies of the west.
Mugabe is a Chinese puppet, his terrorist war was supplied entirely by weapons from China, China has propped him up for the entire duration that Zimbabwe fell down a sink hole and in recent days a Chinese ship with 77 tons of small arms has been in anchor outside Durban South Africa, destined for Mugabe’s army.
The history of collusion between Mugabe and South Africa’s Mbeki in this regard is also plain to see except to those who don’t want to.
[We don’t usually publish conspiracy and conjecture. I’ll allow for now the China-will-be-the-end-of-the-West paranoia. But please note that we require proof by way of links to credible sources.–IM]
Zimbabwe is a peek into our future if we continue on the current trajectory. The Weimar Republicans in power look More and more like Mugabe every day.
Ilana: As a fellow former South African, like you (I still have SA citizenship though) are you aware of a Dr. Aran McKinnon that had this interview. He seems to be a Canadian if I look at his CV and a typical left wing ignorant quasi-intellectual operating from a historical socialist (operating from a Marxist exploitation presupposition).
http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/04/10/aran-mackinnon/
[Well spotted; thanks. My book will counter these idiots and their libertarian accomplices.–IM]
I heard the Chinese have also become quite frustrated by Mugabe, but – like all over in Asia – they follow a wise policy of non-interference in the political internal affairs of others, unlike many countries in the West and are actually the better capitalists.
Ilana: are you aware that Mbeki is actually related by family to Mugabe via his wife and that they have joint minining/business interests in another African country, in diamonds and probably minerals like copper etc. as well? No wonder they are so friendly towards each other… but we forget about the “African renaissance” that Mbeki has prophethised ! 🙂
It is interesting that Morgan Tsvangirai
was actually the trade union leader of Zimbabwe, the Cosatu equivalent and actually resort to the more “left wing” within the forme ZANU-PF alliance, before he started the MDC, just like Zuma in SA is supported by Cosatu and the SACP and Zuma is more critical towards Zimbabwe than Mbeki. Interesting disconnect. One suspects it has to do with a power struggle. Even if the end of Mugabe’s rule is in sight, one does not know how Zimbabwe is going to come out of this mess: it wil take years to recover and decades to be the “kitchen of Africa” again, unless they absolutely promote white farmers. One wonders whether they would attract white farmers from SA? That would be an interesting development. The currency is not worth the paper it is written on, has to be totally reevaluated. The US Fed seems to go in the same direction of printing, as Marc Faber remarked last year.