zimfinalpush
My problem is with employing "tabloid tactics" to bring down Gandanga fanika
Mugabe. Now all we see are these so called "analytical" stories that carry
too many inconsistencies, misconceptions and even lies. Its a joke to write
about Zimbabwe to a Zimbabwean audience and put it wrong. It destroys the
whole credibility about the article. This is why we have a serious gap
between Africa and the west when it comes to Mugabe/Zimbabwe because such a
story lacking in factual truth can fly abroad but not in Africa and SA. I
mean tabloids tactics just embarass you, but I would like to see how a
gandanga is being embarassed by most of these stories. Maybe Madonna will
give up the baby, but even she goes on with her life.
It seems we seem to forget the basics of who we are and how we live when it
comes to our own country. Perhaps its because we live in foreign countries,
perhaps its because siding with western powers and media is the way to go,
but what really does it do to Mugabe save for the fact that such stories add
more coffers and time to organizations working in Zim?
When people talk of hunger at home, they do not talk of maize from white
farms. Our population is mainly rural with more than 70% living in rural
areas. The other 15-20% in town actually rely on subsistence farming for
food so what really affects these people is drought not land redistribution.
I mean we have had 2 serious droughts before with white farmers in place so
whats new?
"The suggestion that drought was and is the cause of crop failures has been
proved to be a false story put about by Mugabe in order to account for
famine in Zimbabwe. Craig Richardson (Associate Professor of Economics at
Salem College in the United States) in a comprehensive independent report
tabled at the United Nations, proves conclusively that the only 'drought' in
recent times was in 2001-2002."
The problem in Zimbabwe is leadership. We do not have concensus in what we
want and how we want it. How to move and who we are as a people. We want
land reform only in theory not practice. We want democracy in theory and
only if democracy means removing Mugabe.
A lot of you Zim guys in SA even think that white people is the answer
because you have not been exposed to the notion of doing it for yourself.
Most of you attacked Arthur until you beat him into a pulp only for Biti and
company to start having HOTEL rallies with Robertson and Robinson. Only for
Biti and company to start calling for companies like Barclays to pull out!
And we still Mugabe rigs the elections? Who in their right frame of minds
would tolerate such nonsense?
In as much as I think its good to solicit for funding, we need to do so with
firm understanding, belief and strong will of who we are and what we want as
people. Tiri kufarira n'anga neinokwira mai!
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