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Original Post Date: 2008-04-03 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: JoAn
From the headquarters of TAU
Pretoria, South Africa
April 3, 2008
DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIP – TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN?
The Western world’s news media has followed the machinations of the Zimbabwe election with a mixture of fascination and dread. Various observers have declared the election itself – that is the day of the election – as “reasonably” free and fair, as if this would somehow erase the 28 years of Mugabe tyranny.
Democracy’s face has been sullied by many whose culture never spawned a democratic spirit. Yet they came to power on a so-called democratic ticket, hoodwinking the West into believing that democracy was the panacea that would obliterate the horrors of colonialism, white rule and even apartheid.
While British Prime Minister Gordon Brown intones about the horrors of present-day Zimbabwe – life expectancy 37, 80% unemployment and inflation at ludicrous levels – the irony is lost on Mr Brown that it was his Labour Party government which sanctioned and politically crippled the old Rhodesia to the point of blocking the Beira harbour with British warships to prevent supplies reaching the land-locked country. The British government and the West applauded the coming to power of the terrorist Robert Mugabe – after all, he was democratically elected.
When Mugabe sent in the North Korea-trained Fifth Brigade to massacre more than five thousand Matabeles in the early eighties, there was hardly a peep from the West – Mugabe was after all democratically elected. That was really all that mattered, it appeared. When he threw thousand of white farmers off their legally-owned and productive properties, most purchased after Mugabe came to power, some wrist-slapping sanctions were introduced by the European Union. Those however didn’t prevent Mugabe arriving in style at European functions and conferences, courtesy of his African fellow leaders who refused to attend unless Mugabe was invited.
While Mugabe’s country sank into horror and mayhem, when he bulldozed thousands of poor people’s homes in the middle of winter during his macabre “clean up” of urban slums, his “democratic” status kept the serious critics at bay.
Elections, a creature of Western political culture and development, were held every four years and a Parliament with two houses debated issues within the Constitution. None of these trappings are generic to Africa. But they are part of the democratic process which Mugabe and other cunning African dictators have utilized to hoodwink the West and to keep criticism at bay as their countries pay lip service to democratic principles.
While white rule in Zimbabwe provided food for the population, and a surplus for export, this form of government had to go, said the West. It was replaced by the bizarre democracy of Africa – where Parliaments are stacked with government supporters, where treasuries are looted, where populations sink deeper and deeper into poverty and humiliation, and where the opposition – such as it is – becomes victims of torture, beatings, killings and long prison sentences. The West studiously ignored the real Africa when it foisted democracy on its erstwhile colonies – it would seem the West rather condones hunger, tyranny, starvation and poverty as long as governments are ostensibly democratic.
It seems strange that this is so – who could prefer today’s Zimbabwe to yesterday’s Rhodesia? Certainly not the hungry Zimbabweans who stream in their millions through a porous South African border. Certainly not the black South Africans who are losing houses and jobs to these Zimbabweans prepared to work for lower wages and who sometimes bribe SA government housing personnel to obtain state housing. And certainly not the South African victims of crime committed by Zimbabweans too hungry and poor to care whether they go to jail or not. These South Africans are also victims of the West’s perverted insistence on democracy in a continent that doesn’t know the meaning of the word.
Whoever wins the election in Zimbabwe, one can hardly declare it free and fair. The election itself takes place on one day – but what of the years of intimidation of opposition parties, what of the rigging of voters rolls, what of the over-printing of ballot papers, what of the beating to within an inch of his life the leader of the opposition Mr Morgan Tsvangerai? Surely this is to be taken into account when declaring the Zimbabwe election “reasonably free and fair”?
WASTELAND
Prominent South African politician the late Chris Hani declared he was prepared “to see a wasteland” unless the ANC came to power in South Africa. HHHis party too came to power “democratically”, after years of intimidation, violence, necklacing and murder of thousands.
Zimbabwe is now the wasteland Mr Hani predicted, and it will take twenty five years, if ever, to become even a semblance of what it was – the breadbasket of Southern Africa.
The West now promises aid to a new government in Zimbabwe – rather aid from Western taxpayers than a self-sufficient continent where those who produce are left alone to prosper and live fulfilling lives without harassment and resentment.
The West’s assistance and encouragement of “democracy” in South Africa has now resulted in Australia, British and American warnings to their citizens about South African crime, while their embassies in Pretoria are swamped with productive SA citizens trying to leave a “democratic” South Africa.
The destruction of agriculture in Zimbabwe was the beginning of the end of that once beautiful country. Yet South Africa’s democratic government is now tabling legislation to expropriate productive commercial farms. This South African democracy has seen the slaughter of more than 2 000 commercial farmers and more than six thousand assaults on farms – democracy has brought a crumbling road network, polluted rivers, a world record crime rate, regular blackouts, a hobbled mining industry and the emigration of nearly a million people who were the cream of the crop.
Government minions regularly use the words “our young democracy”, as if this phrase could whitewash the ills of the current regime.
If Mugabe is finally defeated at the ballot box, albeit in elections which are warped and perverted by his government, this could be a turning point in African politics. Tremendous courage is needed to confront a ruthless dictator, but that is what millions of black Zimbabweans are doing. It is a sombre warning to the South African government – those who said the ANC would be in power forever must be redefining their positions.
But must South Africa become the ANC’s “wasteland” before the message gets through to South Africa’s masses that “the better life for all” promises were illusions, and that the few who have enriched themselves care nothing for the people they purported to represent?
The Zimbabwean election, for all its faults, has shown that there is the possibility of ridding a country of leaders whose time has come. Whatever the outcome, it is hats off to Zimbabweans who wanted change and were prepared to even die for it.
Source: http://www.tlu.co.za