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Original Post Date: 2001-12-12 Time: 17:55:32 Posted By: Jan
The article below shows clearly that other black governments back the
actions of Mugabe. Mugabe, rather than being out of step with the rest of
Africa is actually heading the vanguard of the future Africa. (Jan)
ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe won a pat on the back on Wednesday
from visiting African ministers when they ended talks by backing his land
reforms and opposing potential sanctions imposed by the West.
Ministers in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) “welcomed
the legislative and other mechanisms the government was putting in place
to guard against violence and to ensure transparency” ahead of March
elections.
The embattled Mugabe, who has run Zimbabwe since independence in 1980 and
has come under increasing fire for stifling dissent, on Tuesday announced
that a presidential poll will be held in March next year but gave no
precise date.
SADC ministers concluded two days of talks with a statement in which they
also “expressed their concern at the distorted and negative perceptions
of Zimbabwe projected by the international and regional media”.
They reiterated their opposition to efforts to impose sanctions on
Zimbabwe for alleged rights abuses.
The communique, issued early on Wednesday, stood in sharp contrast to
recent statements from European, South African and US officials, who have
warned of a breakdown of law in Zimbabwe. The US House of Representatives
had endorsed a bill proposing sanctions.
Mugabe’s government has proposed legislation that would ban foreign
journalists and require Zimbabwean journalists to adhere to a strict code
of conduct.
Another “anti-terrorism” bill, which threatens the death penalty for
anyone convicted of acts of “insurgency, banditry, sabotage and
terrorism,” is widely perceived as a tool to crack down on the opposition
party.
Speaking to state media on Tuesday, Malawi’s Foreign Minister Lilian
Patel said that SADC supports Mugabe’s plans to seize mainly white-owned
commercial farmland to benefit the black majority – a programme which has
been wracked by violence for almost two years.
“We are not being influenced by the West,” Patel said.
“We have come here as SADC, not under some Western forces to demonise
Zimbabwe.”
The two-day talks came three months after a heads of state summit in
Harare, where Mugabe had assured his counterparts that he would rein in
the violence.
This week’s follow-up meeting was attended by ministers from Angola,
Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
– Sapa-AFP