- The comments by a British journalist in this article
that the game is up for whites in Africa is very much in line with what
I have been warning people about in the last 2 years. This "Mugabism"
is NOT going to go away. It represents a new, and final trend towards returning
Africa to the Dark Ages, and to undoing centuries of progress. -Jan
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- ZWNews
10-2-2
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- I heard from a well-connected Zimbabwean today that Mugabe's
failure to appear in Nigeria, shows his current weakness. He is in deep
trouble. The South African government, and the Nigerians are trying to
cover for him. They prevented the Commonwealth from kicking Zimbabwe out
- and had to override Australia.
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- I was told that in 2 years, Zimbabwe had gone back about
50 years... That is the extent of the damage done by Mugabe. Apparently
black Zimbabweans are fleeing the country by the planeload. More blacks
have fled from Zimbabwe than all the whites who lived there! There are
well over 300,000 Zimbabweans in England alone. There are MILLIONS in South
Africa.
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- I heard from two Zimbabweans today that Sam Nujoma, President
of Nambia, is very close to doing what Mugabe is. The Zimbabweans reckon
Namibia is next, and when that is over, then it will be South Africa's
turn!!
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- One of the two Zimbabweans I met - in a most colonial
setting I might add - a lovely hotel here in Johannesburg - was a black
man who had fled from there and now resided in South Africa. He looked
at me and said "Do you realise that the white skin is becoming extinct
in Africa?" Then he related how whites had been chased out of country
after country and how Africa had subsequently collapsed. He was sincerely
concerned that the removal of whites from Africa meant the destruction
of Africa. He told me how he was printing pamphlets, and distributing them
among black people in SOWETO, trying to enlighten them so that the same
does not happen here!
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- I have heard story after story in recent months of black
Zimbabweans who fear for us whites and who do not want us to leave this
continent. One black Zimbabwean was at my house a few weeks back. He asked
the question "Why is it that when blacks rule a country that it goes
downhill?" He was stumped, and troubled. (Funny, a plain African man
seems to realise what Academics and Liberals in the USA cannot!!)
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- The black Zimbabwean I met today looked at me and said
"Have you read George Orwell's 'Animal Farm?' Well, that is EXACTLY
what is happening in Zimbabwe now!"
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- His passion touched me.
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- Our meeting took place at a location chosen by the Zimbabweans
themselves, a hotel in Johannesburg, which reeked of colonialism. The lovely
little hotel, and its smart walls were covered in beautiful paintings,
photos, and drawings of the Boer War and other history. There were lots
of photos showing what Johannesburg looked like a 100 years ago. Johannesburg
- the "New York" of Africa - a city of history and progress.
Our meeting could not have taken place in a more interesting spot. The
three of us - all from Zimbabwe - discussed how Africa was heading into
the Dark Ages, and how, in the face of almost insuperable odds we must
go out and wake people up. We agreed South Africa is going to be a key
battlefield in which the fate of Zimbabwe can be determined. As the one
Zimbabwean said to me, South Africa has such clout that it could crush
Mugabe in 24 hours. But, as I told them, rest assured the government here
would not act to save Zimbabwe. HOWEVER, the people of South Africa - the
common folks of ALL RACES - had a lot of sympathy for Zimbabweans and are
almost unanimously against Mugabe. There is a battle to be fought - for
the hearts and minds of South Africans because we hold our neighbouring
country's fate in our hands. I believe that a fierce political battle over
Zimbabwe will yet rage here in South Africa. Rest assured... that battle
is being fought... It is only just starting... Jan]
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- At the recent meeting of the Commonwealth Troika in Abuja,
Nigeria, the South African government appears to have taken a foreign policy
gamble in blocking Australiaís attempt to suspend Zimbabwe from
the Commonwealth. The thinking behind the gamble is that in six months'
time, when the Commonwealth is next due to consider Zimbabwe, what remains
of the country ís white community will be politically dead and buried
with the completion of Robert Mugabeís programme of seizing 11 million
hectares of white-owned farm land; stripped of financial support, the Movement
for Democratic Change will then recede from the African diplomatic landscape,
like Renamo in Mozambique or Unita in Angola; and South African President
Thabo Mbekií s African National Congress will be rewarded for its
"quiet diplomacy" by having a grateful Zanu PF administration
in power in Zimbabwe well beyond the peaceful retirement of Mugabe.
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- Mugabe first used the expression "the game is up"
for Zimbabwe's whites in August, when he said his "fast track land
reform" would be successfully completed by the end of the month, with
300,000 black Zimbabweans settled, ready to plant crops. British journalist
Max Hastings, writing in Londonís Daily Mail, commented: "Africa
is reverting to a dark continent...The remaining whites will be driven
out of Zimbabwe. The wise ones will go while they still have the skin on
their backs. I would go further and suggest the game is up for the white
man throughout Africa." Underlining Mugabeís gameís-up
declaration, his Agriculture Minister Joseph Made taunted the MDC when
the Land Acquisition Act was steamrollered through Parliament, saying that
the Act's annulment of all victories won by commercial farmers in court
meant the party had failed to deliver promised reversal of land seizures
to its white masters, and would wither away. But Mbekiís gamble
may be based on a false comparison between the MDC and Mozambique's Renamo
and Angola's Unita rebels, both of which had backing from former white
colonists. Renamo had support from former "non-assimilados" ("unassimilated"
rural Mozambicans) against the urban black establishment, and Unita had
a tribal base. In election after election, however, the MDC has shown itself
above tribe and race. Its urban support is among Zimbabweans earning perhaps
Z$10,000 - 50,000 a month, who may employ domestic help and own a television
but cannot afford a car, let alone the BMWs and cell phones of Mugabeís
black elite.
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- Also, Mugabeís boycott of Abuja revealed his inherent
weakness. Just as independent journalists have been excluded from his press
conferences for the past ten years because he does not like their questions,
Mugabe dared not face questions from Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
As his wartime companion Edgar Tekere avers, Mugabe loses his nerve when
unable to play the bully. In contrast, given a clear road as at the Johannesburg
Earth Summit, or surrounded by his goons with machine guns and rocket launchers,
or met by some stammering diplomatic nonentity, he revels in the role of
hectoring headmaster. As well as the reluctance of African leaders to criticise
each other publicly, Mbekiís policy toward Zimbabwe is motivated
partly by an obsession among some ANC luminaries with what they see as
blacks regaining ownership of South Africaís resources. Many in
the ANC may have sympathy for the likes of Jocelyn Chiwenga, wife of Zimbabwe's
army commander, who told a farmer whose land she has appropriated that
she "had not tasted white blood since 1980, and missed the experience,
and that she just needed the slightest excuse to kill somebody". Offered
a compromise over farm usage, Jocelyn Chiwenga said (according to papers
lodged at the High Court last week) that she "had no intention of
shaking hands with a white pig."
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- There could be no greater contrast to this than the treatment
fellow inmates accorded recently-retired High Court Judge Fergus Blackie
when he was detained on September 13 on spurious charges of misconduct.
Blackie, 65, could not be brought food and medication when thrown in filthy
cells in Harare's worst slum area, Matapi Hostels, since his whereabouts
were kept secret from his family and lawyers for 27 hours. His seven cellmates,
some of whom may have seen him before from the dock, willingly shared their
humble provisions with him. The light at the end of the Zimbabwean tunnel
can be seen clearly from the Matapi police cells, by those who know where
to look. Morgan Tsvangirai, asked about the ANC's gamble, reminded South
Africa that ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity that never succeeds:
some of the intended victims always survive, even when confronted with
enemies of vastly greater efficiency than Mugabeís Zanu PF. "This
movement was not created by the white community," said Tsvangirai.
"This movement was created out of the suffering of the people of Zimbabwe.
You cannot destroy the MDC because you chase away the whites - and some
of them will not be chased away. We represent the future, Zanu PF the past."
At Abuja, added Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwean people "had been abandoned
in their hour of greatest need," but they would face their fate and
liberate themselves.
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