[On the face of it, this article makes sense. I said a similar thing on the back page of Government by Deception. I said that blacks had adopted wrong policies and had told lies and that this would result in them eventually discrediting themselves in the eyes of the world. Indeed, thanks to Mugabe, et al, this is happening. I think South Africa will yet be the one that does the biggest damage to the “black race’s image”.

This article is weird, and I question the black writer’s logic. He claims that the MDC was going to engage in massive “Land Reform” prior to Mugabe doing it. Is this really true?

To me, this writer is really, in a back-handed way hates the West. I would almost go so far as to say that this writer might even, in a sophisticated way, be a supporter of Mugabe. To me the last portion comes across as garbage. Jan]

Here’s another article that would interest you: MH, USA

Why Mugabe should be a worry for Africa and the Black Race
Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:03:00
By: Danford Damba

The Zimbabwean situation or rather crisis should be of utter most impotents to the African continent and the black race universally. The Zimbabwean issue is more than what meets the general eye; it is a water shed, a defining moment in the making of African history and that of the black race. It will be in the history not of Zimbabwe alone but of the world. The Mugabe regime™s wanton destruction of Zimbabwean will have a negative impact not only on the Zimbabwean future alone but that of Africa and the black race.

This is what fellow African leaders, black empowerment movements and the generality of the African and black population worldwide fail to see. It is also possible that our full of I know president and his Z.A.N.U (Permanent Force) party do not know the tragedy to which they are exposing Africa and the black race. Whether one likes it or not the question of race is one which the world can not run away from, I am not trying to be a racist here but just trying to face facts as they are.

Mugabe seems to think that he is at war with Tony Blair who I will bet does not lose a little bit of sleep over Zimbabwe. He froths and shouts at Blair at the list of the given opportunities he get.

Now that Blair who came into power a decade later than Mugabe is leaving office next year I wonder who Mugabe will pick on as his next target of his imaginary war or as an object to use as one of his diversionary tactics. Blair of all things in the world can never care so much about Zimbabwe and neither will George Bush of the U.S.A.

This is what the black race world wide should know including people like U.S.A Secretary of State Condolence Rice who I think needs to be constantly reminded that she is black. The issue is I don™t believe that that the likes of Bush and Blair want to see Mugabe out of power at all but rather want and have to a greater extent helped him to stay in power.

Mugabe™s continuous stay in power and his destruction of Zimbabwe serves well the interests of the west. The west has always portrayed Africa as a failure and the black race as incapable of doing anything positive on its own. Zimbabwe thus under the mentally deluded Mugabe to the likes of Bush and Blair is a good example to the whole world that blacks can not do anything without the white man.

The west would rather have Zimbabwe grind to a halt if it has not already come to that. They would rather have Zimbabwe come to it knees so that it will serve as an example to the world how a black person is a failure without the white man.

Mugabe on the other hand has played the piper and thinks that actually he is invincible whilst he is being used to degrade black people and Africa. In his self imposed delusion Mugabe thinks he is leading the third world fight against the west yet he is actually serving the west™s cause. The west is using Mugabe as an example to the whole world to portray African leaders as a pack of confusion that needs guidance from the west in order to run their countries.

Soon after the constitutional referendum in 2000 it was quite clear to the whole wide that the tide of Zimbabwean politics was about to change. The exit sign was on the wall for Robert Mugabe and the opposition led by Morgan Tsvangirai was set to take over Zimbabwe. Events however did not turn out that way thanks to the interference of the west led by Britain and America in Zimbabwean internal issues. The west knew that the M.D.C was going to take over Zimbabwe and interfered in order to make sure that this would not happen.

It™s not a secret that if there was anyone who advocated for land redistribution then it was Morgan Tsvangirai whilst Mugabe then was turning a deaf ear plus a button wielding hand to anyone who dared talk about land reform to which the people Svosve will testify.

It meant therefore to the western world that the coming into power of a government with a comprehensive land redistribution plan the M.D.C it would mean the success of the land reform in Zimbabwe which indeed would serve as an example to fellow African countries that in indeed land reform could be carried out successfully. This, the likes of Tony Blair wanted to avoid and they did so in a diplomatic way which the ordinary could not see. They could not let such an example be set for the world.

It™s no secret that the openness with which the west especially Britain and America got involved in the Zimbabwean issues played straight in to the hands of Robert Mugabe and to a greater extent made people suspicious of the M.D.C. as a foreign dominated party. This did cost the M.D.C many votes especially amongst the rural folk and former freedom fighters who would not in accept anything associated let alone backed by the former colonial master Britain.

The point here is not that they were not supposed to get involved, after all Zimbabwe is a member of the international community and should be open to public scrutiny .What™s questionable is the what the objectives of the interferences was because surely it was not remove Z.A.N.U P.F whose demise was clear and imminent.

First to go on the M.D.C destruction path was the American giant news broadcaster Cable News Network. C.N.N aired a video clip on which Morgan Tsvangirai was shone clapping hands while white farmers were making cash donations. Up to today this video is being used by many to discredit the M.D.C as a party which fronts for the white man. C.N.N as broadcaster had every right to run that story, what™s questionable is whether they did not know the kind of response it would invoke within the majority of black Zimbabweans.

Tony Blair™s public statements that his government was indeed working with the M.D.C to remove Mugabe, s regime from power only served to save Mugabe,s day in office. Bush on the hand has been doing the same thing. It is highly questionable to assume that the likes of Bush and Blair governments did not have the intellect and capacity to see that their more than open involvement with the opposition was going to work into Z.A.N.U PF, s favour and thereby heavily disadvantage the opposition M.D.C.

Blair and company new and the ulterior motive was for the M.D.C to lose its support amongst the landless, the rural poor and the working class which would mean a loss in the elections as this then was M.D.C largest support base.

The west especially the British and Americans have since history been involved in internal politics of many countries and indeed successfully getting the governments of their choice into power. Never in their history have they done it the Zimbabwean way. Regime changes have always been done quietly and silently by the west and not the loud mouth theory which we have seen in Zimbabwe.

The west™s so called smart sanctions are of no use and in essence are not really being fully implemented. For example many Z.A.N.U P.F offspring™s are still learning in European and American schools using their parent™s loot to pay their school fees. The west is not interested in removing Mugabe as per see but to provoke him into producing the worst that can come out of him.

The west in their wisdom clearly saw that they were better of with Mugabe who because of his arrogance would best serve their interests of showing Africa and the black people as a failure rather than Tsvangirai. Mugabe thus was and still is the kind of messiah the west was looking for, the one who would clearly signal to fellow African countries to stay of the path of land reform. Any other African leader who might try to embark on a land reform programme will be told to look at what happened and is happening to Zimbabwe.

The west wants to keep Mugabe in power as long as possible so that he completely destroys Zimbabwe. They can not have the opposition come and restore democracy then turn around to the west and say you now do not have any reason not to support the land reform to which they would they would have been caught between a rock. Mugabe is just dancing to the west™s tune. His erratic behaviour is actually what they want from him a shining example to the rest of the world that Africans can not farm on their own, that if you remove the white man from the picture then you are bound to starve.

Mugabe is setting a bad record about Africans and the black race; he is taking the black race centuries back from where it emerged. He is no longer a Zimbabwean issue he should be a cause for every African and black person to lose sleep. African leadership have to realise the kind of damage this man is doing to the continent and lead the initiative to remove him rather than be disillusioned into thinking that it is the west which wants to remove him

Source: zimdaily.com
URL: http://zimdaily.com/news/117/ARTICLE/1091/200…/p>