British Journalist: The Game is up for Whites in Africa

Original Post Date: 2002-10-02  Posted By: Jan

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Date & Time Posted: 10/2/2002 5:22:15 PM
British Journalist: The Game is up for Whites in Africa

[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.

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.

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.

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!!

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!

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!!)

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!”

His passion touched me.

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]

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 Australia™s 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™s white community will be politically dead and buried with the completion of Robert Mugabe™s 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 Mbeki™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.

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 London™s 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 Mugabe™s game™s-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 Mbeki™s 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 Mugabe™s black elite.

Also, Mugabe™s 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, Mbeki™s policy toward Zimbabwe is motivated partly by an obsession among some ANC luminaries with what they see as blacks regaining ownership of South Africa™s 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.”

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 Mugabe™s 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.

Source: ZWNEWS
Published: Wed 2-Oct-2002
URL: http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID…br>

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