Zimbabwe is a tragedy July 21, 2008
Posted by Rethabile in human rights, sadc.Tags: zimbabwe
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‘Zimbabwe is a tragedy in more ways than one. It is a despicable disgrace to Africa and reinforces the racist notion that black Africans are incapable of ruling themselves. We took over from the departing white colonialists and in country after country we ran our economies into a sump [sic] and ruined our countries. The exceptions are few. Ian Smith, the former and late prime minister of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, must be dancing in his grave. This hurts and cuts deep into my African pride.’
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Cuts into mine, too. But Mugabe isn’t alone. The big question is, What is the African going to do about it?
Nice post! Thanks for the info… Have a nice day!
We are killed by greed. We can rule ourselves, we have done so for so long before the whites came with the rum and the mirror, and the power and the money. Now we want the power and the money and nothing will make us bulge. That is Mugabe. That is Africa.
I guess a bigger question is: what is Africa expected to do? And do we start viewing this expectation through traditional western values?
We have, since “independence”, been purpoted to embrace traditional western values (democracy being one of those values). Trouble is we do not want to step down when voted out of office, so we loosen old knots and tie fresh ones just to keep holding on to power. Now I honestly don’t think we can go back to the way we used to rule ourselves in days of old, so we have to be democratic, literally and all the way, to be able to have peace and advance our peoples’ lives.
And that’s the honest truth…
A lot to think about — sorry it’s been so long!