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Original Post Date: 2010-04-06 Time: 05:00:01 Posted By: The BeardedMan
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Addressing ZANU PF youths gathered at the Reserve bank Governor Gideon Gono's Norton farm Sunday evening Malema said he was going to confront President Mugabe and tell him that he should not use violence as a way of winning election.
“I am going to emphasise these tomorrow (Monday) to President Mugabe, that you can not win an election with through violence. Violence is not an option. Even if you loose power tomorrow you need to take two three steps backwards and strategise and say this is how we are recapturing power.
“FRELIMO nearly suffered in Mozambique after being a popular organization in the country they nearly lost if they have not lost against RENAMO,so we must fight the battle ideologically on the ground, we need ground forces we need food soldiers equipped with political fuel. Its not about how you shout slogans and how you can exercise violence or use AK47 on your people. Once you do that you are inviting an invasion once you start that.
The US is forever ready for you ,they want to come here and if you give them opportunity to come here you will have failed our revolution, because they will attack you and after finishing you by virtue of being the superpower with all the machinery all of us here will never say anything. They will say if you want to raise voice they will say,”Hey, you want to be Mugabe, and we will just keep quiet because we will be killed. They want to destroy this party and if you give them they way in the form of militants you are going to compromise all of us,” Malema said.“
What is Malema smoking? The political situation in Zimbabwe – and South Africa – has got nothing to do with the United States, but somehow he has brought it in as a factor… Why? Does he really believe that the US might make a stand in Africa?
This is political posturing and his visit to Zimbabwe was not only a waste of time, but he has reversed the inter-party negotiations with his various statements.
I wonder if Zuma is aware of the damage that these men have wrought?
Who is he? The ANC Youth Leader is all – and he is intent on making as much noise and waves as possible.
Malema, members of his ANC Youth League delegation and ZANU PF supporters sang first President Jacob Zuma’s signature tune “Umshini wami” and then “shoot the boer” after Malema had addressed Zimbabweans on Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono’s Donnington Farm near Norton, about 60km from Harare.
Malema told the small crowd of ZANU PF supporters and his fellow youth league members: “I am being blamed for the killing of Tere’Blanche because I sang a song. I’m going to be confronted when I get home tomorrow. I will be accused of many other things.
“We sing the song to remember the fallen heroes of the country. We are children of freedom fighters, not children of cowards. We are not in the revolution to impress anybody.” Then he, his delegation and their ZANU PF allies broke into renditions of the two controversial Struggle songs.
“Why is it that politics in Africa has to be tainted with the threat of more bloodshed – be that black or white blood?
Why is it that a loose cannon like Malema is permitted by Zuma to go to Zimbabwe and virtually turn the clock back, advocate for violence whilst paying just enough lip service to make his utterances barely acceptable?
“Zimbabwe minister Saviour Kasukuwere then assured Malema that even if he was killed when he got home, the “many Malemas” whom he had inspired would take up the Struggle for him. Malema had earlier visited a platinum mine at Ngezi, about 140km from Harare, which is owned by Zimplats.
He and his delegation, and the ZANU PF officials and supporters with him, had a private meeting with the management. But later, while talking publicly on Gono’s farm, Malema said that the ZANU PF officials had confronted the Zimplats management in his presence and demanded ownership of the mine.
Malema said it was wrong that the South African company (Implats) that owned Zimplats was itself owned by foreigners and that this situation “needs to be rectified”.
On Monday Malema is due to meet President Robert Mugabe and then to hold a press conference before returning to South Africa.“
The sooner that he returns to South Africa, the better. The damage he has wrought in the past few days will be felt for some time to come. Inciting a revolution in a foreign country must be some sort of crime.
“One night in February, eight men armed with AK-47 assault rifles raided the Zimbabwe headquarters of a British-based diamond company. Overpowering its four guards, they stole computers, files and a pick-up truck that they dumped in a nearby hotel car park, its keys still in the ignition. Then they vanished into the night as swiftly as they had come.
It was a raid carried out by hard men who knew their business and wanted this to look like an ordinary robbery. They were not regular thieves, however, but agents of the shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), and this was the latest development in a David-and-Goliath struggle that pits one man against a cabal of corrupt figures at the summit of the Zimbabwean state.
The outcome of the battle has international ramifications. At stake is the unimaginable wealth to be had from the world's oldest and, it is said, richest diamond field, with the potential to bring in a billion dollars a year. “Whoever owns the diamond field controls Zimbabwe and could buy any country in Africa,” one western diplomat says.
Andrew Cranswick is the “David” whose offices – a modern two-storey building enclosed by a high wall in an avenue close to the central police headquarters and State House in Harare – were raided. The operation was staged by the CIO to intimidate and discourage him from continuing his fight to operate the diamond field. In 2006 Cranswick's company, African Consolidated Resources (ACR), set up by both white and black Zimbabweans, was looking for new mining opportunities in Zimbabwe. It pegged a claim to an abandoned, unexploited field, bought for a nominal sum on the chance of finding diamonds there. Problems arose when diamonds were found.
The field is in southern Marange, a dry, barren, sparsely populated district in the hills southeast of Harare, close to the Mozambique border. To his surprise and delight, Cranswick discovered that the diamonds making up the bulk of the find were not, as might have been expected, low-grade industrial diamonds. Among them was a large proportion of valuable gem diamonds. But his euphoria was short-lived. Zimbabwe's Mines and Minerals Act demands that those discovering valuable gem diamonds must declare the fact and give the GPS position to the government. Within hours, CIO agents seized the diamonds, worth US$6m, and Cranswick has not seen them since.
A white African adventurer – bronzed, rugged, totally at ease in the bush – Cranswick, 47, does not scare easily. He was born in Zimbabwe and grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere during the Rhodesian war, which saw the end of white minority rule and led to President Robert Mugabe's rise to power in 1980. As a teenager he slept with a Sten gun under his bed.
Although the Zimbabwe High Court ruled in September that ACR clearly owns the Marange field, Cranswick, the CEO, has a colossal fight on his hands to get it back from the government. In February the Supreme Court ordered all mining to cease pending a final ruling on ownership. Its judgment has been ignored. Meanwhile, millions of dollars from the diamonds are being siphoned off by President Mugabe, his diamond-loving wife, Grace, and their greedy inner circle to enrich and entrench themselves in power a few years longer. Mugabe's circle has failed to give any of the profits from Cranswick's diamond field to their own impoverished state.“
And so the article goes on to explain how Mugabe realised that the mine was just the tip of the iceberg – and so he and his heavies moved in en masse and drove ACR out, and also illegal miners in the area out. And if they didn’t want to leave, then they literally made them part of the mines themselves, killing them and throwing their bodies in the mine slag dumps…
But no one in the free world is prepared to do anything about this as Mugabe has a reputation for being a killer, a despot, a dictator – and no one wants to go up against that reputation lest he label them ‘racists’.
Perhaps one comment on this article put it best… “The man that is Robert Mugabe was born out of a time of conflict. He did what he had to do in the Second Chimurenga war to end colonialism. A man like that can never be expected to rule a country in a democratic fashion. He will do what he does best… kill, main etc to get rid of his opponent(s)…“
They say that mankind is a product of their environment, and when it comes to Robert Mugabe, he turns a blind eye to the needs of the population, content to live on the fruit of the efforts of others, claiming himself the ‘liberator’ and therefore is entitled to the golden chalice.
“Since early 2009, Zimbabwe has had a unity government. But real power lies with Mugabe and the security chiefs in control of the armed forces, police and intelligence services. The government is powerless to stop this inner circle. A parliamentary committee looking into operations in Marange was snubbed for months. “The government has not received a cent from the biggest find of alluvial diamonds in the history of mankind,,”Tendai Biti, the finance minister, has complained. Cranswick's battle for justice is risky. In March, the CIO raided his house and offices. He has received death threats. Last year, a gang of Israeli diamond smugglers put out a contract on him to make sure he did not get in the way of their supply of diamonds smuggled out of Marange. Now, impeccable sources told me that beside his name in secret government files is written the word “Bull-Bar” – CIO code for a person designated to meet with a “road accident”. Cranswick has made light of it, but this is no joke. A surprising number of Mugabe's opponents have died in strange road crashes in the past 30 years. Cranswick is on guard not to become another victim. But he also says he is not going to lose sleep over it. Risk is part and parcel of living and working in Zimbabwe. It goes with a certain freedom he likes, which he knows he could not have elsewhere.“
Take the time to read this article. I am glad I did as it fills in a little more of the detail surrounding Mugabe’s unwillingness to participate in a coalition government.
Diamonds – and loads of them – are Mugabe’s goal.
Morgan Tsvangirai has, on more than one occasion, appealed to Zuma to take the Zimbabwean crisis back to SADC, the body the is acting as the guarantor of the Global Political Agreement.
Zuma has ignored this request – and now is sending his mediation time – once again – to Harare.
What a total waste of time!
Zuma, who last month visited Zimbabwe as the African Development Community’s chief mediator, set a deadline of March 31 for the political parties to resolve their differences.
But President Robert Mugabe, MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, of the breakaway MDC, failed to meet the deadline and gave Zuma’s facilitation team only a verbal update.
Zuma’s spokesman, Vincent Magwenya, yesterday said the team was heading back to Zimbabwe. It hoped to secure a written agreement between all parties.
“The deadline was missed and the negotiators representing the political parties asked for more time. The president is hopeful that all outstanding issues will be concluded this week and that a full report will be presented to him,” Magwenya said.“
So Zuma makes a deadline which is not met and his answer is to return to the negotiation table where nothing has been achieved anyway? Is this the action of a ‘mediator’?
Much of what little good has happened in Zimbabwe since the negotiations began again at the beginning of this year are ruined with the unguarded statements of one of Zuma’s own – Julius Malema.
ZANU PF will take encouragement from Malema’s statements and will do very little to arrive at a solution within the coalition government. They want full power – nothing less.
“Since the signing of the Global Political Agreement in 2008, Mugabe and Tsvangirai have blamed each other for the lack of progress in their unity government. Tsvangirai has blamed Mugabe for reneging on key provisions of the deal and continuing to undermine MDC ministers.
Mugabe accused Tsvangirai’s party of working with the West to impose sanctions on ZANU PF ministers and others loyal to him.
The dispute is also about Mugabe’s continued refusal to remove central bank governor Gideon Gono, and attorney-general Johannes Tomana, from their posts. Mugabe has also refused to appoint the MDC’s Roy Bennett as deputy minister of agriculture.“
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“A total of 205 accidents claimed the lives of 36 people in Zimbabwe since the eve of the Easter Holiday last Wednesday. According to police figures 279 people were injured in what has turned out to be the bloodiest Easter Holiday in Zimbabwe's history.
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesman Superintendent Andrew Phiri blamed the accidents on speeding, drunken and reckless driving made worse by the use of vehicles which are not roadworthy.
On Sunday evening 7 people died on the spot in Marondera when a truck collided with a Nissan pick-up which was carrying 21 passengers. The pick-up was carrying far more people than its capacity.
Transport Minister Nicholas Goche confirmed it was already the bloodiest Easter holiday in the history of the country. Last week three accidents which killed 33 people were declared national disasters.“
Although Mugabe will blame the ‘colonialists’ the state of Zimbabwe’s roads leave much to be desired. Mugabe hasn’t maintained much in Zimbabwe in thrity years, bar the pretence that the freeworld wants to colonise the country again and that the former powers wants to steal the mineral riches of the country.
One of his governors even blames sanctions for the distance from Bulawayo to Gwanda!
And, in the meantime, people die daily from these failures.
“Another factor in the high number of accidents is the poor state of the country's roads. Under the ZANU PF regime infrastructure like roads and bridges deteriorated as corruption, mismanagement and bad policies took their toll.“
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Source: http://thebeardedman.blogspot.com/2010/04/tuesday-6th-april-2010.html