Zimbabwe election: How Mugabe thinks

Posted: April 1st, 2008 | By Ray Hartley | Posted in General | Tagged as , , , , , , , , , ,
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Zimbabwe’s state-sponsored Herald newspaper has an upside: It provides the reader with a direct insight into how President Robert Mugabe sees the world. Here is an extract from an editorial under the headline Tsvangirai Will Never Rule Zim:

Morgan Tsvangirai has been on cloud nine dreaming that the hardships will propel the electorate to turn to him as the Messiah.
We are not fools.
It pains us to hear Tsvangirai’s claims of having pioneered the land reform, when we know for certain that he was sponsored to reverse the programme.
We have also not forgotten a letter to Cde Kumbirai Kangai, the then Minister of Agriculture and Lands.
The letter came from Tsvangirai’s masters in 1997 — written by Clare Short — then foreign affairs minister in Blair’s government.
Short wrote in her letter that there was no way Britain was going to fund the redistribution of land, and she even went further to claim herself to be of Irish origin.
Finally to Tsvangirai, I say to you, you will never ever rule Zimbabwe.

Take note of the “never”. Presumably that includes the scenario in which he wins an election.

Read the full article here.

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Comments

 

John Malamba

April 2, 2008 at 5:45 am

This is strange to me. the western press and South African white people have all along being saying that Mugabe steals elections. If in deed he has lost this election, would this not be proof that he actually won fairly in the past? If he in deed was rigging in the past he would not have to be surprised by his loss now.

The truth will eventually come out and when it does, I think, history will record that white resentment and malice fomented a lot of lies about Zimbabwe.

 

Canute

April 2, 2008 at 8:15 am

Not at all. You can rig elections and still lose, if the level of discontent is large enough – if your enough of your base turns against you or at least become apathetic. He was able to ‘win’ elections in the past when he could still rely on supporters to suppress the opposition. That opposition has grown so large, and so desperate, and his own supporters have grown tired of rhetoric, are suffering the same hardship as everyone else, and lost their enthusiasm. This is much bigger than white resentment. This is about Zimbabweans recognizing the need for changing the status quo to end their suffering.

 

OkaDube

April 2, 2008 at 6:05 pm

@@John Malamba, as a (black) Zimbabwean i can’t stand such uninformed rants as yours. Robert Mugabe previously won elections by RIGGING and would try this time – except that he isn’t so free to do it anymore. Do you know the resolutions that were passed at the meetings between Zanu-PF and MDC which were brokered by the SA gvt? One of them was that opposition parties be allowed to monitor ballot counting, a luxury previously unheard of. To prove that RG planned to rig again, consider that at the last minute he changed one of those resolutions to allow police to “assist” people to vote; where did you ever hear such nonsense? It was an intimidation tactic, mearn’t for earmarking his detractors and intimidating them.

You then go on to spew a lot of racist drivel. Qute frankly, i’m sick and tired of fellow black people like you playing the race card at the drop of a hat. “I was denied (x) because i’m black”, “government must help me with (y) because i’m black…” ENOUGH!! People like you taint the image of some of us who actually want to succeed by hard work when you piggyback on your skin colour at every turn.

Your sickening arrogance warrants this stinging response.

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