Dear Robert Mugabe, (From Prof Stan Mukasa!)

November 27, 2006

In today's Letter from America Dr. Stan Mukasa writes an open
no-holds-bared letter to Mugabe urging him to seek mental and spiritual
counseling for a possible redemption for his soul, as the 83-year-old
geriatric dictator approaches the inevitable political and physical exit
doors from this world.

An Open Letter to Robert Gabriel Mugabe President, ZANU-PF

Robert Mugabe:
Jongwe House
Harare

If you close your eyes and imagine what the mood in the country would
be like on the news of your death you may or may not be surprised to learn
about all-day, all- night exuberant celebrations and riotous festivities and
yes, pungwes that will most likely take place along the length and breadth
of this country.
Your ears would almost be deafened by the unending horn blasts from
all those cars.
Or, try what Idi Amin Dada, Uganda's former dictator, did one time. He
spread rumours that he had died. His security chiefs took him on a
helicopter ride and he personally witnessed the ecstatic jubilation that
spread around Uganda.
Lest you think this is an unjustified accusation coming from a
disgruntled Zimbabwean living outside Zimbabwe your very own security chiefs
have advised you that you are the most hated man in Zimbabwe today. They
have also told you that if the leadership of the opposition movement was
organized and united Zimbabweans are ready, willing and able to storm the
State House and hang you upside down by a meat hook like what Italians did
to your fellow dictator, Benito Mussolini, in 1945.
Maybe that explains why you have moved from the State House to your
multimillion-dollar ultra luxurious mansion that you built on the backs of
the struggling masses. And maybe that also explains why you are now busy
militarily fortifying your mansion. You are a fast learner! You are probably
more aware than any of us the degree and extent of resentment, contempt and
hatred that is leveled against you. But all those underground bunkers and
all those missile defenses and radar will not save you or guarantee you a
permanent peace of mind.
You are now 83 years old and way in the sunset of your life. In
African tradition people of your age are regarded with great respect as
sources of wisdom who should teach younger generations the virtues of life.
My grandparents were honorable and well respected. When they died hundreds
of people gathered to pay their respects.
In contrast, when you die thousands of people will come to your
graveside not to pay respect but to make sure it's you being lowered into
the grave so they can pour contempt and ridicule. They will do this
notwithstanding the tradition of not speaking ill about the dead. You will
definitely be an exception to that tradition. Take my word for it.
Zimbabweans are circling like vultures waiting for the day they will hear
the news.
I do not harbor any wish for death for you. I would hope you live long
enough to be brought, like Liberia's Charles Taylor, to trial at The Hague
for crimes against humanity. I would, however, prefer you were tried in Kezi
at the VERY same spot where on one fateful day back in 1983 your Fifth
Brigade soldiers gathered villagers and told them they were "serious about
hunting dissidents." And to prove their point they lined up scores of
civilians and massacred them in cold blood.
This was one of the thousands of acts of genocide committed under your
watch and which resulted in the murder of over 20,000 innocent civilians. At
that spot in Kezi I would hope that each of the surviving relatives of the
innocent civilians you butchered will come and stare at you in the face and
tell you what they think of you. And, after you are found guilty, I would
hope you are saved from the people's rage and the gallows so you can serve
the rest of your miserable life in Chikurubi maximum prison.
While in Chikurubi you will be compelled to listen AGAIN to video
recordings of testimonies from every Zimbabwean who was affected by your
Fascist dictatorship.
The walls around your solitary confinement in Chikurubi prison should
contain a complete record of how you brought death, misery, destruction and
a Stone Age existence to millions of Zimbabweans.
When God at His time should decide to take your life I would hope you
are buried with all your sins so they can be your documented record in the
other world.
In 1980 Zimbabweans gave you an overwhelming vote of confidence when
they voted you in office. Millions converged at the airport to meet you from
exile. Their expectation was that you would bring them out of the settler
colonialism of Ian Smith where they had no political rights.
You betrayed this hope and trust when you started behaving like Ian
Smith immediately after independence. You did not dismantle the colonial
laws that oppressed blacks. You used them to your advantage. Whatever
economic gains Zimbabwe made in the first ten years of its so-called
independence they were a smokescreen for your real motives. These were spelt
out by the late Edison Zvobgo when he said your single ambition in life was
to stay in power indefinitely and at all costs.
Incidentally, Zvobgo may have been in your political party but he
spoke very contemptuously about you.
I remember one day he said people were mischievously misled into
thinking you were very educated by the virtue of all those degrees you
gained through distance education. He said you boasted about having more
degrees than a thermometer. The reality, according to Zvobgo, was, as he put
it, "A B.A .plus a B.A. plus B.A. is still a B.A."
Zvobgo also ridiculed the so-called ZANUPF women's league who wore
dresses emblazoned with your picture and became a characteristic circus and
spectacle at the airport to welcome you from your endless trips abroad.
Congratulations, you probably beat the late Kamuzu Banda of Malawi's record
on this! Zvobgo used to openly scorn those women whom he said were other
people's wives yet they had unashamedly Mugabe's picture almost tattooed on
their butts and other parts of their bodies!
Zvobgo was apocalyptically right when he said you have a schizophrenic
obsession in clinging to power even when you know very well that you have
lost the respect, let alone political support, of the majority of
Zimbabweans. He derisively called you the madman from Ngomahuru - that
hospital for mental patients in Masvingo! He said you had been given a baton
in a relay race to pass it on to the next person. Instead, you fled with
that baton into the mountains where you are still running wildly today!
The fact that Zimbabwe is being ruled by a madman from Ngomahuru
accurately explains the crisis situation in the country today.
Today, everything that can possibly go wrong in Zimbabwe has happened.
Zimbabwe is not at war yet it has all the symptoms of a war ravaged country.
You thirst for blood, to quote a statement from one of your fanatical
supporters Joyce Chiwengwa in reference to another occasion in her turbulent
life of unearned luxury, has been a permanent feature of your despotic rule.
You mobilized unemployed youths and trained them into a militia of thugs
numbering 50000 - more than the size of the army! Then you set them off to
kill, torture, rape, abduct members of the opposition movement. The past six
years have been pure hell on earth for Zimbabweans. Human rights
organizations have documented over 400 members of the opposition movement
who were killed, hundreds of women raped some of whom have now contracted
the deadly HIV/AIDS disease. Your militia thugs also gang -raped women and
we have the riveting testimony about this.
Your disastrous seizure of commercial farms, ostensibly to give blacks
what you called the stolen land, ended up replacing half a million blacks.
It is amazing that you realized that land had been stolen and needed to be
retrieved 20 years after you had been in power and just when you also
discovered you were about to lose the 2000 elections! And now you have
discovered that the same blacks, except your cronies and relatives, you gave
back the stolen land do not deserve it.
As if that was not enough you launched the so called Operation
Murambatsvina which left millions of already destitute Zimbabweans homeless.
You were an odd sort of Robin Hood. You robbed from the rich but you did not
give to the poor because you also robbed from the poor!
The results of your disastrous policies are everywhere around you. You
only need to roll down the windows in your bulletproof imported Mercedes
Benz to see how thousands of Zimbabweans are toiling and scavenging just to
survive from one day to the next.
Zimbabwe's economy, which ironically was vibrant during the settler
colonial regime despite the imposition of sanctions, now lies in tatters. It
has been in recession for the seventh year in a row and has contracted by 40
percent. No other country in the SADC region has experienced this phenomenal
free fall in its economy. Eight out of ten Zimbabweans are unemployed.
Inflation which stands at over 1,000 percent is the highest in the world.
Just to show how high the inflation is , if we exclude Zimbabwe, the range
of inflation rates in the developing countries is between 5 and 100 percent!
Corruption is now endemic and pandemic. You have created out of state
resources and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe a gravy train for your cronies
who are living a life of unbridled luxury in a country where the vast
majority are starving and homeless. And now the pigs in the feeding trough
are stumbling on each other as the trough runs empty. In your desperation to
refill this trough you are gallivanting around the world selling Zimbabwean
resources to the highest bidder.
This has got to be a scandal of monumental proportions. It is more
than a justification for your dismissal from office. Yet you have rigged all
elections because you knew very well that you would lose miserably. You have
also manipulated efforts to seek redress through the courts because the
judiciary system is now stuffed with your cronies.
You have turned down, like a spoilt child, all genuine efforts at
mediating the crisis of governance that you have precipitated. You have, in
what can be termed as act of a madman from Ngomahuru, turned down efforts to
give food and shelter to victims of your disastrous policies. Do you
remember saying Zimbabweans do not need outside food otherwise they will
choke? What can be more insane than this cruel hoax of a statement made in a
country where all indications are that over two million Zimbabweans are in
urgent need of food aid? Even your militia thugs and rank and file soldiers
upon whom, by your very admission, you rely to stay in power have been
reduced to beggars and scavengers.
If there was any chance at all that you are still capable of listening
to reason and sense this letter would demand that you step down immediately
as you have neither a constitutional nor legitimate right to rule Zimbabwe.
This would pave way for a transitional government made up of representatives
of the opposition movements in the country and under the protection of the
United Nations peace keeping forces who will facilitate a democratic
transition to free and fair and internationally supervised elections,
democratic rule, the rule of law and economic recovery.
The crisis in Zimbabwe is 90 percent a direct result of your misguided
policies and insatiable and ruthless determination to stay in power
indefinitely. You will be fully responsible and will be held fully
accountable for BOTH the causes and the consequences of acts of civil
disobedience by the Zimbabweans who are clearly fed up with you.
At the age of 83, you should seek , even at this late hour, spiritual
and mental counselling . You are coming to the end of your life. There is no
redemption for your soul. The future generations and including your own
offspring will spit and curse at your grave. You have brought shame and
disrepute not only to yourself but all those who once trusted you and gave
you the mandate to rule the country.
God may forgive you. But Zimbabweans cannot forgive you because the
blood and the spirits of thousands of innocent civilians that you butchered
in cold blood and thousands others whom you tortured demand justice.

Yours sincerely,

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This letter was not replied by the Zim Govermnent!

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Please kindly comment on the above in relation to SMMZ and the role of the RBZ.





2. You make reference to Judicial Management of SMMZ. As a director of the sole member of SMMZ, I am not aware of any judicial management regarding SMMZ.



2.1 Please kindly furnish me with a copy of the court order granted for the judicial management of the company.



2.2 You will no doubt appreciate that we need to clarify the basis upon which the alleged indebtedness to the RBZ became a state obligation.



2.3 Furthermore, I note that the decree promulgated by President Mugabe paving the way for the Reconstruction and not Judicial Management of SMM, treats the RBZ as part of the state and yet the state is not defined in the Act, please clarify the basis upon which the RBZ, a body corporate in its own right, would be treated as part of the state in relation to SMMZ.



2.4 Please clarify the relationship between the GOZ and the RBZ and how such a relationship is reconciled with the RBZ Act, Banking Act and Companies Act.



3. With respect to disbursements, please clarify the meaning of "the first loan of Z$1 billion was disbursed through Genesis Investment Bank on 30 January 2004". Does this mean that the RBZ had a direct nexus with SMMZ and if so, please provide any supporting information.



4. You then acknowledge that the loans were disbursed under normal PSF terms and conditions except for Z$30 billion through Zimbank where the bank played a facilitation role only. Kind comment on the following:





4.1 What were the normal terms and conditions of the PSF?



4.2 With respect to the Z$30 billion, I note that there is a loan amount Z$20 billion disbursed on 24 May 2004 and Z$10 billion disbursed on 17 August 2004 by Zimbank, but a letter dated 3 November signed by a Ms. Mushipe of the



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makes reference for the first time to the alleged facilitation. SMMZ's board was dismissed by a GOZ and not a court appointed administrator on 6 September 2004 well before the letter from the RBZ. In fact, Zimbank only approached the RBZ on 20 September 2004 also after the alleged reconstruction of SMMZ.



4.2.1 How is the term facilitation defined in the context of the Zimbabwean law?



4.2.2 What were the terms and conditions of the facilitation arrangements?



4.2.3 Are there any documents executed between Zimbank, RBZ and SMMZ, and the unnamed principal in this transaction?



5. You state that the loans were subsequently converted to direct RBZ exposure together with the accrued interest at 10%; 16% and 50% depending on the time the loan was disbursed respectively.



5.1 Please indicate the conversion date.



5.2 What were the terms and conditions underpinning the conversion?



5.3 Who represented SMMZ in the conversion arrangement?



5.4 The GOZ has claimed that the funds were converted to a GOZ loan and yet you state that the loans were converted to RBZ loans. Please clarify the GOZ's involvement in this matter.



6. You state that subsequent disbursements have since been made on a regular basis in line with instructions from the Governor of the RBZ received through the Financial Intelligence, Inspectorate and Evaluation and Security Division, bringing the total principal disbursements to the company as at 26 January 2006 to Z$967,329,350, 878.33.



6.1 You may be aware that SMMZ is still a company wholly owned by SMMH. To this end, we need clarity as to the basis on which the alleged disbursements were made and how the funds were applied.



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6.2 What was the nature of the instructions issued by the Governor of the RBZ? Can you furnish me with a copy of such instructions and the basis upon which it was issued?



6.3 What is the Financial Intelligence, Inspectorate and Evaluation and Security Division and what is its relevance to the SMMZ matter?



6.4 What is the role of the RBZ and the Governor in the alleged reconstruction of SMMZ?



6.5 How are requests for funding motivated, approved, disbursed and monitored by the RBZ?





I look forward to your urgent response on the above.







P. Mariemuthu

Cc: His Excellency President R.G. Mugabe

Hon. Minister H. Murerwa

Hon. Attorney-General, Gula-Ndebele

Mrs. L. Spickett, Case Officer - Companies House - UK Magwells Solicitors

Costa & Madzonga Attorneys

International Monetary Fund - Managing Director

Congrats again to the "Dream Team!"

 

 

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Zuma says will not turn into another 'Mugabe monster'

http://www.zimonline.co.za/Article.aspx?ArticleId=522 JACOB Zuma . . . I am no Robert Mugabe JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s former deputy president Jacob Zuma has rejected charges that he is a new Robert Mugabe in the making branding the veteran Zimbabwean leader a “monster.”  Zuma, who is heavily tipped to succeed President Thabo Mbeki as leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in 2007 and possibly state president two years later, was speaking in an interview with a British newspaper, The Sunday Telegraph.  Political commentators have expressed fears that if Zuma wins the South African presidency, he will introduce populist economic policies reminiscent to what happened in Zimbabwe where Mugabe seized white farms for redistribution to landless blacks.  "As a member and a leader of the ANC all I do is carry out ANC policies," he said. "How could you have an individual who would become such a monster? The ANC system does not allow for that kind of thing."  The ANC, while acknowledging that there is a crisis in Zimbabwe, has in the past steadfastly refused to openly attack Mugabe who is still revered in Africa as a liberation war hero.  The criticism of Mugabe by Zuma ranks among the most forthright by a senior ANC official.  But Zuma defended Mugabe’s land seizures blaming the crisis on Britain which he said failed to honour its promises to fund land reforms in Zimbabwe. He also defended South Africa’s policy of “quiet diplomacy” towards Harare which his government has pursued over the past six years. "Other people have adopted the policy of criticising Mugabe from a distance, which only makes him more angry. We are the only ones who have engaged him on the issues," Zuma said. - ZimOnline

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Association for International Broadcasting awards
In the catagory for
International station of the year - radio
The winner is............................................ SW Radio Africa

SW Radio Africa is delighted to announce that it has won the award for International Radio Station of the Year from the AIB, the Association for International Broadcasting.

We are also delighted that Mandisa Mundawarara was highly commended in the award category, International Radio Presenter of the Year.

These non commercial awards offer peer review of output, personalities and technology - they are the only awards that celebrate excellence in international cross-border broadcasting. The 2006 awards have been judged by an international panel of broadcasting experts, including professional TV and radio critics from leading newspapers.

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Mugabe's prosecution and punishment!

By Admore Tshuma

http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/opinion222.14957.html

Last updated: 11/08/2006 02:34:59

THE unprecedented economic meltdown coupled with gross violation of human rights in Zimbabwe merit the prosecution and punishment of Robert Mugabe.

After clinging to power for nearly three decades, Mugabe has made sure that he wholly paralyses the economy of a country once regarded as the brightest beacon of hope in southern Africa.

Today, Zimbabwe has been relegated to a begging bowl of southern Africa and according to latest World Bank figures, Zimbabweans now have the shortest life-span the world over. This is not political rhetoric but a product of a reliable scientific measurement.

The country is deep in poverty, and Mugabe is responsible for the severe deprivation of human basic needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. This is the exact and universally agreed definition of absolute poverty -- a condition which is more prevalent in Zimbabwe today.

I wish to argue that Mugabe is prosecutable and chargeable with systematic violations of economic, social and cultural rights which rise to the level of serious crime under international law as understood by the Princeton Principles of Universal Jurisdiction, interpreted in light of Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

With half of Zimbabwe's population facing grinding poverty and millions more having emigrated to other countries where some live miserably as illegal immigrants, just eke out a decent living, the systematic character of the violation of economic, social and cultural rights by Mugabe's regime have assumed a genocidal dimension.

How Mugabe created poverty in Zimbabwe is perhaps the simplest question that does not need academic research.

Mugabe is responsible for political repression, killing and deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction in whole or in part, first for the vulnerable group, the Ndebeles and then Whites and then everyone.

This is against the background that we now live in a globalised village - what a political leader says or does in Harare makes a chain reaction all the way to Washington DC. It's the New World Order and it's unchangeable.

One might want to know, as human memory is very short, who are the actual victims of Mugabe's murderous regime, the answer is first they were the Ndebeles.then Whites..later everyone. Mugabe has always assumed that Ndebeles were by definition enemies and opponents of his regime. Remember, there was a time in the late 1980s when Mugabe tried to establish a one party state in Zimbabwe. He saw Ndebeles as a hindrance to his plans of a one-party state, hence he attempted to exterminate them.

This "genocide" was both ideological and national in character, for in effect, it sought to annihilate an entire political spectrum from Zimbabwe's public life by persecuting elite members of the Ndebele society.

There is no doubt that Mugabe's regime should be held accountable for the unprecedented levels of poverty, or what we would call social genocide. In my view, his crime stems from a deliberate reduction of the living standards of the country's poorest and working people, because of intentionally redistributing wealth upwards and reconcentrating wealth among his cronies. Using this theory of social genocides, one can authoritatively conclude that Mugabe's enemies (and victims) are the majority of Zimbabweans.

In addition, Mugabe's regime can be pursued under the 1986 Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economics, Social, and cultural Rights, echoed in part in the language quoted above from 1993 Vienna Declaration, the 1997 Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the evolving General Comments of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the findings of Special Rapporteurs on related topics. Such principles, guidelines and comments are all essential elements of the emerging normative framework of international poverty law.

In the Maastricht Guidelines (1997), this emphasis is further elaborated: "It is now undisputed that all human rights are indivisible, interdependent and interrelated. Therefore, states are as responsible for violations of economic, social, and cultural rights as they are for violations of civil and political rights.

Violations of the Covenant occur when a state fails to satisfy what the committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has referred to as a minimum core obligation to ensure the satisfaction of, at the very least, minimum essential levels of each of the rights, thus a state Party in which any significant number of individuals is deprived of essential foodstuffs, of essential primary health care, of basic shelter and housing, or of the most basic forms of education, is pram facie, violating the Covenant.

What is more depressing is that even if Mugabe goes today, his legacy will continue to haunt Zimbabwe for many years to come. It manifests itself plainly in the form of hostility between Zimbabwe's two major tribes, Shona and Ndebele.

Because of Mugabe's earlier preachings of tribalism, Zimbabwe is today a more divided country than it was before independence in April 1980. This is evidenced by the fact that when one visits football grounds, internet chart rooms and so forth, there is a lot of tribal slurs going on.

These are some of the behavioural attitudes which our society has unwittingly inherited from Mugabe's quarrelsome brand of politics. Remember if Mugabe had not resorted to planting seeds of tribalism he would have lost the 1980 elections to Joshua Nkomo.

From independence, Mugabe's vampiric government lacked particularly a basic attribute of all laws, and that is the simple ability to provide rational guidance for exemplary conduct. For Zimbabwe to flourish and move on as an egalitarian society we need our version of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose major task would be to investigate the Mugabe regime crimes in order to reconcile and unite a deeply divided society.

What is more glaring is the deliberate inequality Mugabe tried to create between Ndebele and Shona - today Harare and Mashonaland are regarded by an average person from Matabeleland as upper class and privileged against the background of numerous skyscrapers and glassy buildings in Harare and well-constructed roads while Bulawayo is still reeling from medieval buildings put up by the Smith regime in the 1970s.

Perhaps leading British social scientist Prof Peter Townsend's definition of absolute poverty gives us a better insight of what is happening in Zimbabwe today. Prof Townsend argues in his celebrated work on poverty that individuals, families and groups in the population can be said to be in poverty when they lack the resources to obtain the types of diet, participate in the activities and have the living conditions and amenities which are customary, or at least widely encouraged or approved, in the society to which they belong to.

According to the Bulawayo City Council, in the first six months of 2003, up 67 people died in the city as a result of malnutrition. The figure included both children and adults.

Zimbabweans lack many more necessities that are needed for a human being to properly function and participate in his society. Individuals or families whose resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life are said to be living in poverty. In the study of poverty and inequality we find that both financial exclusion and debt are associated with low income. Moreover, debt is strongly associated with a range of psychiatric problems.

Mugabe's laws are a deliberate ploy to bring down Matabeleland - salaries are higher in Harare even if people are doing the same job with same qualifications and working for the same company. What seems to be a problem is to be based in Matabeleland. And more daring was the fact that in the 1990's, the Chronicle newspaper which I worked for, earned more revenue for Zimpapers, but still Herald employees in Harare were paid far much higher than Chronicle workers.

When I was still at The Chronicle, firebrand politician Welshman Mabhena once told me that Mugabe has a secret agenda to destroy the Ndebele as a society. Mabhena said Mugabe blames Ndebeles for his miserable, fatherless childhood.

Mabhena said Mugabe's father walked out on the family and left his wife to fend for the off-springs to live with a beautiful woman in Bulawayo's Makokoba suburb, identified as MaTshuma, and has never forgiven the Ndebele for his miserable upbringing. According to Mabhena, Mugabe achieved revenge for his troubled childhood by sending the 5 Brigade to kill the Ndebeles.

For the greater part of my seven years at The Chronicle, I worked with many Shona people, journalists, clerks, messengers etc - most of them, if not all could not even attempt to speak in Ndebele except for those who grew up in Bulawayo. Yet all Ndebele employees at Chronicle did speak fluent Shona. It is not their fault.

Remember, when Mugabe appeared on television in the mid-1980s, he deliberately twisted his tongue, coming up with a horrible accent in an attempt to say a Ndebele word. He was in a deliberate contempt of the Ndebele language. However, Mabhena argues that Mugabe can speak in Ndebele fluently as the two were teachers at Hope Fountain on the outskirts of Bulawayo - implying what Mugabe intended to demonise the Ndebele language and its values, hence no Shona child would envy to speak a demonised language.

I had an opportunity to be among reporters who listened to Mugabe's speech on the funeral of Joshua Nkomo in Bulawayo's Ascot stadium. I can reveal that, on this day he spoke fluent Ndebele without even fumbling. I thought to myself: "Mr President you have finally invoked your Hope Fountain Primary School days".

What I found more interesting is when I visited South Africa recently, I found out that in every street there is a Zimbabwean who happens to be Shona and they all speak in Zulu which is close to Ndebele. The excuse we were given by our fellow employees at Chronicle was that Ndebele was such a difficult language to learn as it involved learning to pronounce cliques omankankane or uxakuxaku. As a head of state Mugabe's hatred of the Ndebele people was never a secret which penetrated deep into the social fabric of society. Even children in Matabeleland know that Mugabe hates Ndebeles so is vice versa in Mashonaland.

Unfortunately, such a behavioural attitude is contagious even among the unborn generation. There is alarming hostility among the two tribes, this hostility turns out to be Mugabe's strength. For example, consider what happened in the run up to the division of the opposition MDC. Under normal circumstances, and in a proper democratic institution, Tsvangirai should have been ostracised for what he did. He called in for a vote and when he lost that vote he decided to use brute force, so what is the difference between Tsvangirai and Mugabe?

W2hen some dissenting voices queried and tried to bring in sanity in the name of democracy, they were simply labelled "dissident Ndebeles", because of that label very few Shona people would support the rebelling Ndebeles.

The purpose of my article is to argue that a leader such as Mugabe who has presided over the world's fastest shrinking economy, thereby, condemning the entire population to poverty is guilty of social genocidal crimes and crimes against humanity which should be prosecutable at the international court of tribunal.

To start with, designing and legislating brainless policies which result in mass poverty is a crime on its own. Apart from the 20 000 Ndebele speaking people of Matabeleland who were massacred by Mugabe's Fifth Brigade, estimates say up to 10 000 people from Matabeleland disappeared and had not been accounted for to date.

Murderous state-sponsored hit squads have been in existence at least since the independence of Zimbabwe in April 1980 and are widely acknowledged to have stirred up much dissident activity in Matabeleland in order to justify the killing of civilians in the region.

There is a school of thought which says the six European tourists killed at Esigodini area allegedly by the dissidents were in fact murdered by Mugabe's murderous hit squads in order to justify the deployment of the Fifth Brigade.

There is no doubt that Mugabe and his government are guilty of crimes against humanity. To some extent, crimes against humanity overlap with genocide and war crimes.

But crimes against humanity are distinguishable from genocide in that they do not require an intent to "destroy in whole or in part" as cited in the Genocide Convention of 1948, but only target a given group and carry out a policy of widespread or systematic violations. Crimes against humanity apply in the context of war and in times of peace as well.

The good thing about it is that no one is immune to prosecution for crimes against humanity - this applies to those who acted on behalf of the state and even the head of the state himself is not immune.

The Geneva Convention, states that if the head of state sends an army to a
troubled area or province, and that army happen to target civilians, the head of state is guilty of war crimes. The Convention goes on to state that, under such circumstances it is the duty of any nation or anyone else to prosecute or the International Criminal Court has a right to indict the head of state with his accomplices.

What makes the Zimbabwe situation more needy is the gruesome killings of people of Matabeleland especially in Tsholotsho, Lupane and Gwanda.

Coming back to the crunch of my paper, the sorry state of the Zimbabwe's economy here does not need us to consult a rocket scientist or a Professor of economics. I'm sure even a young school boy would tell you that Mugabe and his gangsters have messed up, and the destruction of our economy was long expected.

Much of Mugabe's legislations are so capricious in their drafting as well as in their application. Above all, the whole battery of laws makes political dissent a crime. The normal functions of a responsible citizenry becomes the business of the country's jailers. Mugabe's government has increasingly conferred forms of lawless discretion on his functionaries in the civil service, the police and the military. The deployment of the state's resources to inflict random terror and assassination on the state's own citizens.

Poverty levels are unprecedented and Mugabe, like a woman in a polygamous relationship, keeps on churning abuse at George Bush and Tony Blair - guess what, they don't reply back they just shut up.

When a BBC reporter confronted Tony Blair in 2002 at the height of bloody farm invasions, and asked him why he was not engaging Mr Mugabe in talks Mr Blair simply said: "I will not sit in a round table conference with a leader guilty of mass murder. In fact, I will do everything for him to go."

Blair and the whole international community can go a step further than just pushing for Mugabe's exit. He should be brought to account for his murderous reign and sermons of hatred that have divided our beautiful land.

Admore Tshuma is a former Chronicle Chief Reporter now reading for a PhD at the University of Bristol specialising in Global Poverty, Social Justice and Human Rights Law.

He can be contacted on atshuma@hotmail.com

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Is Robert Mugabe the "Master-Assassin"?

This letter requires answers and is self-explanatory! Rev M S Hove. Cell in RSA: 0027791463039 mufarostig@yahoo.co.uk

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Open Letter To President Robert Gabriel Mugabe!
PREAMBLE: There have been many open letters to you,your Excellency!

The most challenging ones used to appear in "The Daily News" (which you made all efforts to silence! I wonder if you by any chance read any of them. The people you claim to lead were writing to you in your capacity as The Executive President of the Republic of Zimbabwe.They were trying to offer solutions to to the country's problems and others were asking questions. (You remember its you that was saying Zimbabwe is a Nation of Rumour-mongers.) You mainly ignored these various "Open Letters" but you cannot afford to ignore this one. Cde Robert , you have perrenially sorrounded yourself with timid "bootlickers" and praise-singers and nobody knows better than you that any system that ncourages "Hero-Worship" of "The Boss" tends to lead to lead to a Dictatorship and you very well know that we have been in that state (of Dictatorship) even before these "born-frees" of ours were born!

But Cde Robert,our dear country (which you correctly call "The Holy Land"),is in a despicable state of severe political ,psychological ,social and economical turmoil and decay. You, Cde Robert ,do not know what I am talking about because you move about with bodyguards and the few people who have access to you eg Prof "Mafikizolo" Jonathan Moyo are just committed political prostitutes and despicable, stinking hypocrites. You deliberately created that sorry scenarioand apparently you sadistically enjoy every moment of it. We then have imbeciles and crooks like Didymus Mutasa who have the guts to say, "any publicity is good publicity…" including his clapping of a ZRP Inspector! Then we have Elliot Manyika who shoots from the hip on Election Day at Zengeza! (Talk about any publicity being good publicity!) For sure there was "good publicity" and the young man was buried with "great publicity." (Talk about degrees and diplomas in violence!) We also have Joseph "Mugodhoyi" Msika who breathes "hellfire and brimstone" when the CIO beat up Zanu-Pf youths (in error); yet he sips his whiskey quietly when the same CIO beat up , rape , mame and murder MDC members on a daily basis! Now Cde Robert, we want to expose you as the "Public Enemy Number One" in this our God-forsaken but beautiful country! Your primary objective is to remain in power "till death do us part". The main reason is because you face death sentences for your supervisory role in the assassination of hundreds of your actual and potential "enemies" before and after uhuru. Like the brave Margaret Dongo once said in the August House..(The House of Assembly), all the Central Committee Members and the Cabinet Members are "your wives". Those that have dared stand up to your Dictatorship have suffered serious consequences eg car accidents and other various strange misfortunes. I and others have decided to bring you down to Mother Earth and to break that false sense of cohesion which exists in the ill-fated Organisation called ZANU-PF. ZANU-PF without you, Cde Robert, has hope of redemption!

We know how numerous PolitBuro members have attempted to bring sanity to our God-forsaken situation but you then intervened spitting venom and threatening to rain down "fire and brimstone"on those who exhibited what you call "rank-madness" (whatever that means!) A ready example is when Cde Emmerson Munangagwa sent Colonel Dyke to the MDC leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai to try to work out an Agreement to get Zimbabwe out of the hole that it is in. After the 2000 Referendum, you have stayed in State House in the same manner that a man can have conjugal relationships with a woman who has said she no longer that particular man. That then becomes "domestic rape!" You are effectively raping a whole nation and if you thought you would "hang on" until 2008, then can I inform you very sternly that you are completely mistaken! YOU MUST LEAVE BEFORE CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR! In fact, you should have left 15 or 20 years ago! Please go on ZBC and ZTV and explain your role in the happenings that I will list after this Preamble: and perhaps if you did that you may have done one honorouble act before you leave that Esteemed Office (which you have occupied for many years without the mandate even of the Political Party you claim to lead ie ZANU-PF.) Every honest Zimbabwean knows that the Legitimate Leader of The Republic of Zimbabwe since 2002 is the MDC leader, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai.. We ALL know what happened because you used us to do the things that were done! You instructed the Chief Justice to hold up the Election Petition Hearings because both The Chief Justice and you know very well that like the other 38 Parliametnary Election Petitions which the MDC won against "your" ZANU-PF; you will have to move unceremoniously out of State House! But Cde Robert, you can fool some people some time….YES!….but you can't fool ALL the people ALL the time!

The issue is not about sovereignity or the land etc! These you hammer on to confuse the situation! We will solve and rationalise the land issue after you, Cde Robert, are gone! Like the MDC leader once said on a certain warm ,nice, sunny afternoon at Rufaro Stadium, "What we want to tell Mugabe today……….GO PEACEFULLY OR WE WILL REMOVE YOU VIOLENTLY!" Incidentally the people of Zimbabwe are generally peacce-loving and cheerful….and Cde Robert you have really capitalized on that! Cde Robert, you have insulated yourself from competition and challenges for the leadership of ZANU-PF since you took over the leadership therof in 1963. What's special about Robert Mugabe, though? Cde Robert are you telling us that since 1963 (ie 40 years), its only you who has the ability to lead ZANU-PF and Zimbabwe? Which Congress or National Conference was afforded the opportunity to vote properly (by secret ballot) to choose its First Secretary and President? Cde Robert you so educated and so intelligent that you know very well that this "show of hands" business is always intimidatory! May I take this opportunity to salute the "dissidents." Margaret Dongo, Dzikamai Mavhaire, Edgar Tekere, Eddison Zvobgo, Patrick Kombayi, etc. They dared stand up to the Zimbabwean Deity ie The Great Leader, His Excellency , Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe. We know that Cde "Border-To -Border" ruffled some feathers when he suggested that "new blood" be allowed to lead the Party even up to the position of First Secretary and President! He met his rough and sudden demise a few weeks later on that black Saturday morning! By your intransigence and arrogance , you have finally caused the creation of the real "monster", (the MDC) which which will finally bring sanity to this madness that you have externalized from your own personality to the rest of the population! The CIO which you consider as your "Boys' Scouts" and "Girl Guides", should be informing you that the MDC is actually growing from strength to strength! Your own PolitBuro Appointees are contacting them (The MDC) periodically and hoping your demise will come sooner rather later so that we can start cleaning up the mess that you have been presiding over.


This , Cde Robert , has been the Introduction!

NOW FOR THE QUESTIONS PROPER!

In the process of the healing of our wounded and bleeding nation, I humbly request you, sir, to reply the questions that continue to haunt many Zimbabweans both within the Revolutionary Party ZANU-PF and those that belong to other Political Parties. Even the "non-political" persons need replies as well since you are occupying an Elevated Post whose decisions affect practically every citizen of this great but sad nation. All the violence that you have organised and supervised in the Name of winning the people over to "your" party ZANU-PF ; ALL THAT VIOLENCE HAS WORKED IN A COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE MANNER. ZANU-PF is now generally viewed as a primitive, blood-thirsty Mafia Organisation which considers itself above the law as it wrecks havoc in the country like the proverbial "bull in a china shop."


ONE: THE DEATH OF CDE JOSIAH MAGAMA TONGOGARA! That great guerilla leader, who exactly was with him in that LandRover when he met his untimely death? Was it Oppah Rushesha-Muchinguri (who is widely believed to have been your girl-friend) or was it Joyce "Teurai Ropa Nhongo" Mujuru? Is it true or false that you arranged for his elimination because you knew he had high regard for Cde Joshua Nkomo and you were not happy with his hammering on the need for The Patriotic Front to contest the 1980 Elections back home as one Political Party?


TWO: THE DEATH OF CDE WITNESS RUKARWA! How and why was Cde Witness Rukarwa die? (Cde Witness Rukarwa was a Governor and Resident Minister of Mashonaland West after Cde M Chivende.) His wife (who is a qualified and Senior Nurse) swore that she saw what looked like a bullet wound on her husband's head. Of course when "The Herald" came to her to seek more information, she vehemently refused that she had even issued that statement. That has been the pattern since 1980 that the truth is heard initially but for obvious reasons the witness changes his/her statement and vows that they never said it for fear of you and your dreaded CIO (commonly known as the SEE-TEN.) The CIO operative Mushambadope (who is now late and who was in the vehicle at time of the supposed accident) gave us a few details which we will devulge after your response to this our humble missive.

THREE: THE DEATH OF THE GREAT "GONO GOTO!" Is it not true that when the great journalist ,Willie Dzawanda Musarurwa died the poisoned food he ate was actually meant for the other great journalist,Geoff Nyarota? Is it not true that the error occurred when an unintelligent hotel employee gave the two the wrong plates? If we are wrong, please kindly enlighten us!

FOUR: THE DEATH OF CDE CHRIS USHEWOKUNZE! The details of what happened on that fateful night are too numerous to be tackled in this missive. But we wonder what the now late Cde Hebert Ushewokunze meant when he said (at the funeral): "Iwe zvawapedza ese masahwira anga achifanira kuzokuviga, kana wafa uchazovigwa nani?" We all knew that he meant you, Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Please comment on this allegation!

FIVE: THE DEATH OF CDE SIDNEY MALUNGA! We wonder who believes that story of the "black dog" which confused Cde Sidney Malunga's driver and caused him to "veer" off the road thereby supposedly causing that "fateful accident." As usual, only "THE TARGET" dies and the accompanying passengers live to tell the bizzare stories! Except in the case of Cde Zororo Duri who perished with his children but again we understand that it was the lucky God-protected Mr Geoff Nyarota who intended when Cde Duri was caught in the "cross-fire".) Were you involved in the death of Cde Sidney Malunga, Cde Robert? If you were not, as The Executive President of The Republic of Zimbabwe, we ask you to institute urgent Inquests into all these said "mysterious" deaths.

SIX: THE DEATH OF CDE "LOOKOUT" MASUKU! That gallant ZIPRA Commander was unwell (to put it midly) when he left prison. We generally believe that he was "poisoned" or had some form of "slow puncture" done on him while in prison. In shona we call it "mafiramberi." That he was not declared a National Hero is sobering enough, but we need clarity on how he really died? Did you arrange his elimination, Cde Robert?

SEVEN: THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN NLEYA! "PARADE" magazine used to update us on the distress signals that were being sent out by the now late Captain Nleya. The said Captain was allegedly being followed by "men in dark glasses" for some time until he was founded murdered in the mountains somewhere in Hwange. What has never ceased to amaze us is how you, as the overall father of The Nation of Zimbabwe, how you have publicly expressed your concern at the strange and mysterious deaths of ALL these said ill-fated souls. Even if you would weep and express ignorance in the planning of the elimination/assassination of the said people, you still stand guilty of the "Sin of Ommission." It is said that evil thrives and flourishes when good man say nothing! THAT IS THE PRIMARY REASON WHY WE HAVE DECIDED TO GIVE THE NATIONA CHANCE TO HEAR YOUR SIDE OF THE STORY AND THEREBY "CLEARING THE AIR", SO TO SAY!


EIGHT: THE DEATH OF CDE ZORORO DURI AND HIS CHILDREN! We understand that Cde Zororo Duri was advised that he was on your "hit list" and he then decided to travel everyday with his children. We understand that so impatient was the master-assassin ( whether it was you, Cde Robert or it was somebody else), the order was given that if he continues to travel with his kids: he can as well "go" with them! But what boggles the mind is that in many of these supposed accidents; Cde Oppah Rushesha-Muchinguri is always the first to arrive at the scene of the accident! For now lets leave that issue at that until you Cde Robert respond to this missive.

NINE: THE DEATH OF CDE WILLIAM NDANGANA! The former Deputy Minister of Defence (Responsible for Paramilitary Training) had given Cde "Two-Boy" (Cde Edgar Tekere) a lift when they were going to Harare from Mutare for the Opening of Parliament. That , we are told, incensed or infuriated you because Cde Edgar Tekere was the leader of the now defunct Z U M at that time. So we gather that an order was given that both Ndangana and Tekere had to "go!" Cde Ndangana did give a lift to Cde Tekere on the way back from Harare to Mutare but we understand Cde Tekere had some "sixth sense vision" or alternatively a SEA-TEN Operative tipped him and he decided to remain at some point in Harare. He then (as we are told) got onto a bus heading for the same destination, Mutare. To cut the long story short, we understand he saw the scene of the accident (in which he was supposed to be involved) from inside the bus and the asked the bus driver to drive on to avoid his detection (that he was in this bus.) As usual , Cde Oppah was the first to arrive at the scene of the accident and the rest of the story is now history! But our request, Cde Robert, is: Please cleanse and exonerate yourself, for it is alleged that it is you who is the master-assassin in all these "accidents."


TEN: THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF CDE PATRICK KOMBAYI! We were very much shocked and disappointed when you ,the Mighty Robert Gabriel Mugabe, The First Secretary and President of the Almighty ZANU-PF stooped down low to "offer" Presidential Pardons to Cde Partick Kombayi who had really nearly lost his life in a "Democratic Battle" in Gweru! That story is in itself long but the billion-dollar question is: WHAT MESSAGE DID THAT PRESIDENTIAL PARDON GIVE TO THE ZANU-PF THUGS THAT PERPETRATE VIOLENCE IN ZIMBABWE?? Cde Robert you are intelligent and educated enough to decipher what I am trying to imply by my question!

ELEVEN: THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF CDE GODFREY MAJONGA! We understand there was a love triangle between Cde Emmerson "soft-as wool" Munangagwa and Godfrey Majonga. Or was it bigger than that? We as the people of Zimbabwe need answers because we can't have a nation of rumours, like you observed yourself Cde Robert!

TWELVE: THE DEATH OF MR PETER PAMIRE! How much was Cde R G Mugabe involved? If we don't get replies, we will give the versions we got from "reliable sources."

THIRTEEN: THE DEATH OF MISS RASHIWE GUZHA! How much was Cde Robert involved eg the kidney reqiurement for Cde Sally? Etc. If we don't get replies, we will give the versions we got from "reliable sources."

FOURTEEN: THE DEATH OF CDE EDDISSON SHIRIHURU! Was he now "singing" about the death of Rashie? Did he commit suicide or was eliminated? Was he in love with Rashie? Or was it Cde Robert? Or both? If we don't get replies, we will give the versions we got from "reliable sources."

FIFTEEN: THE DEATH OF CDE MAURICE NYAGUMBO! Was it really suicide? Or was he forced to drink the poisoned chalice? If we don't get replies, we will give the versions we got from "reliable sources."

SIXTEEN: THE DEATH OF CDE "BORDER TO BORDER." If we don't get replies, we will give the versions we got from "reliable sources."


SEVENTEEN: THE DEATH OF CDE MOVEN MAHACHI. As usual, Cde Oppah was the first to arrive! If we don't get replies, we will give the versions we got from "reliable sources."

EIGHTEEN: THE DEATH OF BISHOP MUZOREWA'S SON! You remember that young man that used to boast in the "Parade" Magazine that his wife's wardrobe was miles ahead of Cde Grace Marufu-Goreraza-Mugabe's? His death..was it really natural? If we don't get replies, we will give the versions we got from "reliable sources."

NINETEEN: THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF MR MORGAN TSVANGIRAI! From that attempt on his life in the ZCTU Office in Harare to other attempts at Chivhu and Mvurwi…who is behind them? Is it the "mighty" Robert Himself? If we don't get replies, we will give the versions we got from "reliable sources."

TWENTY: THE BOMBING OF THE "DAILY NEWS" PRINTING PRESSES! Twice the "Daily News" Printing Presses were bombed. The thugs that used sophisticated explosives were never found! Do you Cde Robert, have any idea? If we don't get replies, we will give the versions we got from "reliable sources."

TWENTY_ONE: THE BOND THAT USED TO EXIST BETWEEN CDE ROBERT AND THAT MASTER- ASSASSIN : THE "NGWAZI", DR HASTINGS KAMUZU BANDA! We, the simple, peace-loving people of Zimbabwe were both ashamed and disappointed and full of shame at exaggerated bond of affection that used to exist between our Jongwe (whom we held in high esteem) and the Malawian "The Ngwazi", who used boast that he had neither hesitation nor regrets that he threw his "enemies" into the crocodile-infested rivers alive. Cde Robert, own dear Cde Jongwe (not Learnmore) please assist us with answers! If we don't get answers, we will give the versions we got from "reliable sources."

TWENTY-TWO: THE DEATH OF NONE OTHER THAN THE UMAMA WETHU , MAMA MAFUYANE! Surely we are never given a break at all! "The Daily News on Sunday" of the 10th of August ,2003 reported that the death of Mrs J M N Nkomo, the former ZAPU President and subsequently the Second Vice-President of ZANU-PF and the State of Zimbabwe, the paper reported that this lovely motherly widow had allegedly assassinated by ZANU-PF Women's League Members. The Bulawayo Police had confirmed receiving the story from Thandiwe, Dr Nqabuko Nkomo's daughter. Now we read in the "Independent" that Miss Thandiwe is developing "cold feet" over the request for an Inquest! If we don't get answers, we will give the versions we got from "reliable sources."

TWENTY-THREE: THE DEATH OF THE WAR VETERAN'S LEADER, CAIN NKALA! Mrs Nkala says the people who took her husband are the same people that used to take him before that fateful day! (That means fellow War Vet Colleagues and ZANU-PF hangers-on). A Senior Policeman, Maceleni, was part of that stage-managed scene of the "discovery" of Cde Cain Nkala's body! So, Cde Robert, What is the real truth? Was Cde Maceleni, the policeman eliminated because he was "singing" too much? If we don't get answers, we will give the versions we got from "reliable sources."


TWENTY-FOUR: THE DEATH OF THE MDC SPOKESMAN, MR L JONGWE! Was it a case of "dzawira mutswanda", Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe? How did Cde Learnmore get those "pills" in that cell? Who gave him and why? If we don't get answers, we will give the versions we got from "reliable sources."

LAST BUT BY NO MEANS LEAST:


TWENTY-FIVE: YOUR OWN YOUNG BROTHER, ALBERT! (HIS STRANGE DEATH!)

Cde Robert, please kindly answer ..TRUE OR FALSE!

a.) Cde Albert was in love with Sally? T/F

b.) He was not really in love as such, but he was asked by your mother (Mbuya Bona) to help out since was about to die and Cde Robert had no grandchildren to give her? T/F

c.) Cde Albert was actually murdered and the "fall into the swimming pool" was just for Public Comsumption. T/F

d.) Cde Salyy then was sent to Great Britain (the home of the "Blair Toilet") for an abortion. T/F If we don't get answers, we will give the versions we got from "reliable sources."

To sum up , Cde Robert, we hear rumours that you are afraid of leaving Office because of the questions that may lead to your rough demise! We understand that soldier Goreraza (whose wife, Grace you took) is also insane with fury! Please do it the Biblical way! Here it is: First John chapter 1 verse 9: "If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from ALL iniquity." We love you and we are praying for you!


Yours faithfully,

Cde Trust Sibanda

trust_sibanda@yahoo.co.uk

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