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Tuesday, 16 October 2007
IF MUGABE IS A HERO....THEN THE WORD HAS LOST ITS MEANING!
GABORONE - Why do African leaders tip-toe around the rogue Zimbabwean president?
It cannot be the nonsense that President Robert Mugabe is viewed as a hero and so they revere him even when he kills the same people he supposedly 'liberated.'
Heroism is bestowed on dead people after taking into consideration the sum output of their efforts, behaviour and unselfish, daring servitude to the people or the nation.
Otherwise 'living heroes' have to constantly renew their status until they die.
Nelson Mandela, the world's most revered statesman, is considered a hero on all fronts and there is little dispute about that. But to maintain that 'living hero' status, Mandela has to be careful.
It only takes one small mistake for his hero status to evaporate. Is Mugabe a hero just because he is perceived to have liberated Zimbabwe?
If so, then, does that hero status still stand in light of what has and continues to happen under his stewardship?
Thousands are believed and known to have died at his hands in the Midlands and Matabeleland provinces in what he, himself, termed 'a moment of madness'.
There are politically motivated killings blamed on his supporters and he does not chide them.
Apparently, all these negatives, abuse, mismanagement of the nation's finances and the economy do not take anything away from a hero.
Mugabe remains a hero for failing to maintain, just to maintain, what our nation inherited from the white government.
He remains a hero after destroying the nation's agricultural base and presiding over starving people that he refuses to give food because they are suspected of not supporting his political party.
He remains a hero whose vanity demands that in every city, town and township be a street named after him.
He remains a hero to African presidents when he sends millions of his people into neighbouring countries to look for food. Just how do African presidents define 'hero'?
If Mugabe is a hero by any measure, then Africa, not just Zimbabwe, is doomed. But that shows us that Africa has never been able to elect the right people into office.
Will we ever get an African president who can distinguish himself or herself apart from the 'presidential' garbage we have seen on the African continent since the 1950s up to today? Not likely.
Africa appears to have not even one president with principles anchored in conviction, reality and belief. Africa's so-called presidents are chancers who entered politics, not to serve, but to be served and to accumulate wealth.
They behave like sheep swayed by a shepherd dog. And, indeed, it appears to me those collies have a far better sense of direction than SADC leaders.
Unlike African presidents, those mutts not only know where they should go but also know the right thing to do with what's entrusted to them. SADC, like the rest of Africa, urgently needs meaningful leadership.
Africa does not deserve the leadership it has. Let us start with Joachim Chissano, the former Mozambican president. It appears to me that Chissano is a bored man.
I am almost certain that he did not buy a pig farm while he was president. Because of boredom, he is spouting embarrassing garbage about Zimbabwe and, in particular, Robert Mugabe.
Chissano, like the now widely discredited Levy Mwanawasa, urges that Mugabe be invited to the Portugal summit 'to engage him in an exchange of views', something he failed to do with Mugabe while he was president.
Only last year Mugabe refused Chissano to be a mediator in the Zimbabwean crisis. During his presidency, Chissano softly but conspicuously turned away from Mugabe after discovering that Mugabe was an unreasonable dictator, immune to any constructive suggestions.
Chissano, unlike Samora Machel, went on to concentrate on rebuilding his nation and he did a splendid job without being unnecessarily weighed down by Mugabe.
Mozambique's revival must be credited to Chissano after the disastrous start Machel reigned on the country. But today, Chissano spouts falsehoods about engaging Mugabe in debate, thereby retarding efforts to reign in the notorious Zimbabwean leader.
Mozambique is on an economic rise and keeping Mugabe in power gives Mozambique access to markets that would otherwise be filled by Zimbabwe.
Sometime this year, Zambia's Levy Mwanawasa broke with the old tired and self-defeating chorus from unthinking African presidents.
He likened Zimbabwe to the legendary Titanic and raised hopes that African leaders were, at last, ready to confront Mugabe.
Within a few days of that statement, Mwanawasa had dispatched a high ranking envoy to mend fences with Mugabe.
Mwanawasa wanted the Zimbabwean issue debated at the Lusaka SADC meeting, Mugabe did not. Mugabe, unschooled in verbal decency, berated Mwanawasa in a closed-door plenary session.
"Mwanawasa, who do you think you are?" Mugabe is reported to have growled angrily at the hapless Zambian who immediately retreated into a cowardly posture, telling Mugabe that he had misunderstood his intentions.
As suddenly as the strike of a match, Mwanawasa's confidence deserted him. Since that day, he has been behaving in an embarrassing manner.
Suddenly, Mwanawasa said the Zimbabwean situation was being exaggerated and told the world that he would not attend the Portugal summit if Mugabe were excluded.
He is now Mugabe's tea-boy, fetching the political sticks where ever Mugabe chooses to throw them. What a shame, a president, a lawyer and no principles at all.
Addressing American students at an Arkansas university, Mwanawasa said all the problems the opposition parties face in Zimbabwe were self inflicted.
"Seizures of land from white commercial farmers in Zimbabwe were a bit harsh," he said. "But opposition forces brought the push by Mugabe upon themselves."
Don't ask me; I have no idea what he meant. Mwanawasa said western powers must be willing to talk to Mugabe.
"Dialogue is the most important thing…talk to him; give him your message… and you will find you will be getting better results."
This is from a SADC chairman. He, along with his organization, failed to speak to Mugabe and now invites foreigners to engage Mugabe in talks. No wonder he won the presidency with only 29 percent of the Zambian vote!
And Mwanawasa added another untruth, claiming that the issue in Zimbabwe is over land. It is not and never was. And Mwanawasa knows it.
Several months ago, Ghana's John Kuffour raised the hopes of Zimbabweans when he stood with Thabo Mbeki outside the presidential offices in South Africa and pointed out that Mugabe was a problem not to be tolerated.
It now does not appear as if Kuffour remembers that anymore because his 'African Union', like the cowards in SADC, said they would not attend a summit in Portugal if Mugabe is excluded.
This really is pathetic; African leaders sacrifice their national economies, potential assistance and possible opening of trade markets for the continued survival of one of the world's most notorious dictators.
Then there is Mbeki!
And where are Wade and Kibaki? Early on, they made noises about the Zimbabwean tragedy and both seem to have forgotten about it.
Early this week, Wade said he was going to Zimbabwe in two weeks' time to talk to Mugabe because, he said, it should not be left to Mbeki alone. I wish him the best!
Mugabe's irrelevant recent speech at the UN was more than embarrassing to himself. He tried to give the world an incorrect recital of history. He spoke, not of Africa's or Zimbabwe's problems, but of his own desire to survive.
It showed us the helplessness of rage. It was like attending his own funeral. Unfortunately for Mugabe, he can never make himself look better by reciting someone else's shortcomings.
African leaders are an intolerable embarrassment. And I badly want to remind them that honesty goes deeper than facts. Honesty is rooted in the soul rather than the world.
Africa needs honest leaders and none of what we have now.
*Tanonoka Joseph Whande is a Botswana-based Zimbabwean writer
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