President Mugabe is a hero, a gifted visionary who saw through the white supremacist agenda. The architects of the Lancaster House Diktat( the "compromise" which marked the end of white minority dictatorship in Zimbabwe) had hoped that our black people in 10 years time after signing the diktat would be content with rims and bling bling and we almost did. If not for the tireless efforts of the great revolutionary Robert Mugabe who kept the injustice of land distribution on the agenda.
The vilification, the allegations of human rights abuses and insinuations that there is no rule of law in Zimbabwe is nothing but a smokescreen to cover the West's true agenda; ruling by proxy and protecting the unfair privileges of the white settlers in Zimbabwe.
Now they say Robert Mugabe is buying weapons from the Chinese, big deal; I personally offloaded weapons from USAF Lockheed Galaxy C 5 Aircraft in 1997 at Harare Airport. What.
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There's one big obstacle: Thabo Mbeki. South Africa's lame-duck president is the most powerful actor in the region, and so far he's resisted any calls to get tough with Mugabe. Mark Gevisser, Mbeki's biographer, says the two leaders have had a deep personal connection since the days when both were struggling against white rule, years after most other African countries had achieved independence. "Mbeki made a point of telling me that he considered Mugabe to be a father figure," Gevisser says, adding that Mbeki (19 years younger than Mugabe) has never emerged from the shadow of his old mentor.
No one knows whether a peaceful transition is possible. "It's going to be difficult to choreograph, very complicated—with one central question being how to manage the security forces," says Mark Bellamy, a longtime State Department Africa hand now at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. Tsvangirai, who is widely believed to have won the March vote, has promised that Mugabe will be shielded from prosecution if he steps down, but Mugabe's senior security officials have no such guarantee. "Some of these guys are war criminals or abusers of human rights at the very least," says one well-placed Western diplomat in Harare, asking not to be named on such a sensitive topic. "They definitely know that if Mugabe gets a golden parachute they're not going to get one, and they're doing everything they can to keep him in there." For now Mugabe's enforcers are standing tough. NEWSWEEK has obtained a memo from an internal briefing to a group of police and intelligence officers by Zimbabwe's deputy minister of Home Affairs. "We are a Liberation Movement and will not hand over power," it says. It speaks for itself.
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