Dear Dr John Makumbe,

We heard you "LIVE" on Radio "702" here in South africa giving an Ultimatum to the South Africans about their expected role in the resolution of the Mugabe-made crisis in Zimbabwe!

 

We agree with you in full and we are asking you issue that particular ultimatum in writing so we can post it on our blogsites!

 

We hold you in the highest esteem and we thank you for your kindest co-operation in this regard!

 

Rev Mufaro Stig Hove.

 

THE RADICAL SOLDIER.

 

mufarostig@yahoo.co.uk

 

revmshove@yahoo.co.uk

 

Cell: 0791463039 RSA.

 

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COSATU'S INTEREST IN ZIMBABWE!

Ex http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/Business/Article.aspx?id=419772

 

and posted on

 

www.cosatudemo.blogspot.com

 

 

 

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SPECIAL COMMENT POSTED ON WEBSITE!

Zimbabwe is about White Supremacy

BY John Iteshi

http://johntina1.spaces.live.com/

Izhiogoagbo@yahoo.com

London

Racism, the worst kind of racism is the only reason for British media's
obsessions about Mugabe. Nothing in Zimbabwe equates to one tenth of what
happens in each of the 36 states of Nigeria. What the opposition leader
Morgan Tsvangirai, did by trying to instigate mass uprising, cannot be
attempted successfully by anybody in Nigeria today. Just dreaming of it
aloud will put you in jail in Nigeria let alone starting it. Before 2003
general elections key political opponents of the Federal government and
various state governments were assassinated, but they made no real news to
BBC and other western media. Just few months ago in Ebonyi State one of the
poorest States, the governor locked up two journalists for over three months
for publishing articles which accused the governor, Sam Egwu of corruption
in a local newspaper. What a pity, this fact did not make any news to the
democracy loving western media! Currently, oppositions at all levels are
being openly suppressed and systematically excluded from contesting the next
elections by the electoral body headed by a government stooge (in fact there
are clear evidence that the head of the electoral body has forged
certificate but he cannot be removed because he has a mission to install
government candidates). The vice president of Nigeria is openly humiliated
and denied his official privileges just for standing up against the plot by
the president to extend his rule through the back door. One would have
expected the democracy loving white world to stand up against the evil
regime of Obasanjo, but nothing like that has happened.

The clear message being sent across Black Africa seems to be that all one
needs to succeed as president of his country is to be a friend of the west
even at the expense of his people just like Obasanjo and not transparency
and good governance. The fact is now clearest that any Black African leader
regarded as good by the west is definitely evil or incompetent. Example
Obasanjo vis-à-vis General Abacha who was condemned in the west but has left
indelible landmarks of great infrastructural development in Nigeria... For
the benefit of those who are unaware of the facts. Abacha ruled Nigeria
between November 1993 and June 1998 during which the oil market was not at
all booming, but used the meagre resources wisely enough to rehabilitate
roads, hospitals universities and other public amenities through the
Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF). Obasanjo's democracy has ruled Nigeria since may
1999 witnessing unprecedented increase in revenue through the unprecedented
oil boom and irresponsible disposals of the most lucrative public
corporations in the name of privatisation, but has achieved virtually no
definite success in any sector. Roads are basically left where Abacha left
them in 1998 and I speak as an enlightened Nigerian who knows Nigeria. I
visited Nigeria in 2005 October and travelled by coach round the country to
see if there has been any changes. I travelled from Abuja to Abakaliki via
Enugu; from Enugu to Onitsha - Benin - Ore - Lagos and from Lagos to
Ibadan-Okene-Abuja and was shocked to see that we have wasted 8years of
unprecedented economic boom. There are global drumming about economic
reforms and progress in Nigeria, while the reality is that only white rogues
collaborating with the government are the gainers. Destroying landline
phones networks and public payphones in order to force every Nigerian to
depend on GSM (which enriches mainly white South Africans) is what people
call economic progress in Nigeria. The fact that western media and their
governments have continued to praise a government as evil as Obasanjo's
despite clear evidences of everything they claim to stand against makes me
confident that any government condemned by the west might not be all bad
after all. Perhaps, Idi Amin might have not been as bad!
It seems to me that the only reason the white world is against Mugabe is
because he expelled white farmers because genuine concern for the Black race
would have meant that Nigeria being the largest Black society would be given
greater focus. It is now clear to me that BBC and other British media are
far worse than the British National Party (BNP) which is labelled racist.
The BNP is not threatening the existence and survival of the Black race
while British journalists are. I am most grateful for the hospitality of the
British state for affording me the good life and respect that no Black
country can afford its Black citizens. I do not shy away from the hard fact
that the most racist white country would treat ordinary Black immigrants
better than the best Black country would treat its own citizens. Therefore,
I am grateful to Britain, but at the same time believe that my people must
be enlightened about the true location of racism. The real racism is not
about local people genuinely resenting to uncontrolled immigration of
dubious people into their country. I put myself in the shoes of ordinary
white British people who have no other country to run to! What I call racism
at its worst is the one-sided stand of the "white world" on Zimbabwe.

It is accepted that the takeover of white farms could have been more
diplomatically done, but it cannot justify the current scale of global
condemnation of Mugabe. What the white supremacists pretending to be
messiahs are insinuating is that Zimbabwe cannot survive without white
farmers who clearly were not even farming to feed Zimbabweans in the first
place. What is being propagated around the world is that no Black country
can survive on its own even though, I know that there had been no evidence
of starvation since the controversial take over of farms. What needs to be
done by enlightened and decolonised Black people is to rally round and use
the Zimbabwean case as an inspiration for building successful societies.
Zimbabwe is by far more democratic and successful than most other Black
African countries like Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, DRC etc., but today it bears
the ignoble reputation of being one of the worst places to live in. Even
though nobody can prove that the best of the 36 state governors of Nigeria
is not worst than 10 Mugabes as I have severally challenged the BBC to do,
we are still being fed with lies about Mugabe. It is therefore very clear
that Mugabe would have remained a friend of the west if he had not expelled
white farmers. Hence, it is purely and squarely about race!
John Iteshi

http://johntina1.spaces.live.com/

Izhiogoagbo@yahoo.com
London

A POEM BY BRO DANIEL MOLOKELA!

FREEDOM CHETE!

Those who've always known her

Say she is not only such a beauty

But that she's always vivacious

Abounding with energy and life!

Yet today when I saw she was so different

It wasn't the normal her at all

As she limped up to court with her co-accused

She was visibly drained and deflated!

Her normally beautiful bright face

Was not so today, she looked a bit darker

Her eyes were ruddy, more of blood shot

Far from the sparking white eyes she normally has!

Those who saw her latest pictures

Say she now has a battered body

Polished black all over by the brutality of the police

Far from her normally golden crisp body!

I also saw her as she struggled out of the court

The medics also had seen enough of her pain

She was lifted up into a waiting ambulance

Driven through the avenues to a hospital ward

But as she left, a stinking air of injustice filled the air

Covering the whole rotten area of the magistrates courts

But I am told when she woke up in her bed

In the privacy of Avenues Clinic

The nurses thought the first words she muttered

Had a familiar ring around her!

"Freedom Chete!!!!"

All she wanted was her people's freedom

All she wanted was her own freedom

"Freedom Chete!"

That's all she wanted. Just that!!!

Mr. Daniel Molokele
Centurion, Pretoria, RSA
Cel. +27 72 947 4815
Tel. +27 12 657 1445
Fax. +27 86 691 6257
Website: www.danielmolokele.com

Bro Moeletsi Mbeki Paints A Gloom Picture For Zimbabwe !

http://crybelovedzimbabwe.blogspot.com/2007/03/moeletsi-mbeki-paints-gloom-picture-for.html

Moeletsi Mbeki Paints A Gloom Picture For Zimbabwe

I watched Moeletsi Mbeki's interview on Sky News this morning and I am afraid the picture is bleak. He starts by pointing out that Zimbabwe is a landlocked country that if any pressure was needed then it can only be exerted by the neighbouring countries i.e South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. He then points out what he conceives as the primary reason for the neighbours for not exerting pressure on Zimbabwe is mostly because they fear that their support for MDC and Morgan Tsvangirai would send a wrong message for Africa's most industrialised region. Souther Africa being the most industrialised has more people working and this has given rise to trade unionism, the trade unions using their sheer size are becoming more and more political. He cites the case of Zambia where Kenneth Kaunda was ousted by a trade union leader after 27 years in power. Therefore African leaders are reluctant to be drawn into the issue of Zimbabwe for fear that they own labour movement might oust them from power one day. Mr Mbeki argues that the influx of refugees would not make a big policy change as he acknowledged that even in South Africa, COSATU the largest umbrella labour body in whole of Africa poses a threat to South Africa's ANC led government. COSATU is only civic body together with The Church Council of Souther Africa which issued a statement concerned by what was happening in Zimbabwe. On Human Rights day in South Africa it has promised to demonstrate against South Africa's quiet diplomacy and the illegal arrest and torture of Zimbabwean's opposition and civic leaders on their way to a prayer meeting.

Mbeki having lived in Zimbabwe when he was forced to flee apartheid was there when Mugabe ordered the massacre of more than 50 000 civilians to crush Joshua Nkomo's opposition Zapu PF which later merged with Mugabe's Zanu PF. He then uses this example to say that things will get worse before they get better in Zimbabwe. Asked about the fact that The MDC President feels that last Sunday's events were a tipping point, he answers that Morgan is an optimist. He says he knows Mugabe personally and know that he has an appetite for violence and will continue to exert brutal violence to stop regime change in Zimbabwe.

Mr Moeletsi Mbeki is a brother to South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, has a strong background in journalism, with a resume that includes a Nieman Fellowship and time at the BBC. He was a media consultant for the ANC in the '90s, and is currently the chairman of Endemol South Africa. He has always bee outspoken and differs on many things from his brother South Africa's president. He caused waves when he said: Africans Were Better Off During Colonial Times Than They Are Now

 

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Mr Mduduzi Mathuthu of Newzimbabwe.com corrected!

The Editor of Talkzimbabwe.com has "corrected" some views expressed by Mr
Mduduzi Mathuthu!

Please kindly go to www.zimdebate.blogspot.com
<http://www.zimdebate.blogspot.com/>

Ex www.talkzimbabwe.com <http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/>

"Britain should invade Zimbabwe!"

http://gorey.com.au/archives/1691

Posted on March 11th, 2007

I'm not the first person to notice Britain
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/02/09/dl090
2.xml> 's hypocrisy in relation to Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe. As readers of
the Daily Telgraph commented, if Zimbabwe had a thimblefull of oil it would
have been brought into line by now.

Europe intervened in the Balkans and the "coalition of the willing" did a
job in Iraq, but nobody seems to care about Zimbabwe.

Britain, in my view, has more legal grounds to invade Zimbabwe than it did
Iraq. Britain was the former colonial power in Rhodesia and negotiated the
Lancaster House Agreement <http://www.divshare.com/download/213642-59f> .

The agreement is actually worth reading. It sets out the principles under
which democratic Zimbabwe should have been governed, and was in fact
governed for the first few years.

Mugabe has clearly violated the agreement. He has breached conditions
including white representation in parliament, independence of the judiciary,
citizenship and payment of pensions.

These should be sufficient grounds for Britain to demand change or otherwise
invade. Who knows? Maybe John Howard will even commit a couple of hundred
Australian troops.

Get a stable, decent government in place and my guess is that thousands of
white Zimbabweans and black middle class professionals will return to the
country and make it prosper.

Numerous, numerous blogs and websites by fellow Zimbos!

 

I’m receiving a lot of communication and appreciation from numerous other Zimbos who have their own websites and blogs or refer me to various other websites!

 

An example is www.makaipa.blogspot.com , www.zimpolitics.blogspot.com etc.

 

My request, therefore, is please lets use www.zimdebate.blogspot.com as the place where one just posts the web-site, blog etc which one wants others to visit!

 

Post your web-site from your e-mail address (and you will be anonymous if you don’t sign it) to revmshove.debate@blogger.com.

 

In due course , we must have a library of these blogs, etc.

 

For the “think-tanks”, and for the future!

 

Howz that, good people?

 

M S Hove…(Rev.)

Communicate with COSATU from your E-mail address!

Please kindly note COSATU needs to get your views and suggestions (not only about the impending Demos) but also about what you believe shouls be the way forward in the Zim crisis!

 

I, Radical Soldier, am a South African Citizen by birth ID No. 5610185233088 and RSA Passport No. 446313414.

 

I've therefore got my legs in both countries as a Zimbabwean by descent.

 

So I'm committing myself to assisting the Zimbos and that's neither debatable nor negotiable!

 

We cherish the input of individuals and Organizations!

 

You can use a fictitious profile (that's perfectly acceptable!)

 

The web-page is www.cosatudemo.blogspot.com

 

Rev Mufaro Stig Hove....The Radical Soldier.

 

Cell: 0791463039 RSA.

 

www.zimfinalpush.blogspot.com

 

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COSATU TO DEMONSTRATE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE ZCTU!

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Dear Cdes,

The solidarity from the COSATU is much needed and goes a considerable way in inlfuencing a vast number of cdes in South Africa that Robert Mugabe is no longer the 'hero' he was when he was leading the struggle for independence in Zimbabwe. The solidarity of COSATU is therefore very welcome and deserves our support.

Recently the government has shown ist disregard of social dialogue, banning political rallies and almost restarting a 'State of Emergency' in Zimbabwe. This a gangster state that has cornered that coercieve apparatus for its own class advancement and survival. Mugabe screams that his 'cabinet is corrupt' yet he appoints all of them back. Its a military-business-political cabal that disregards court orders.

At least Chavez had the temerity of not acting until the consitution has been reformed - in that way one might argue that Chavez acts within the Rule of Law!

Our solidarity must never be based on the simple fact that they 'are amongst the very few world leaders willing to confront head on the naked hypocrisy and general aggression of the US government, in particular now under the leadership of George W Bush'. Anti-imperialism, at least I thought, has moved away from clapping hands for everyone who defies 'the empire' to a solidarity that is based on what type of economy and politics is going on at the national level to reflect this anti-imperialism. Zimbabwe looted the DRC in the name of this anti-imperialism. Farms were distributed to colleagues -- the government's own Utete Commission said that -- contrast this with Cuba and Venezuela.

However it is my view that Mugabe can not be compared to Chavez or for that matter to Castro. To makes this comparison and conclusion shows a weak understanding of the Zimbabwean political economy. There is glaring evidence of the Harare government being concerned with its standing at the IMF (hence the paying of debt etc -- so as to improve credit ratings and borrow again - never mind Mugabe's own rhetoric -- Gono will be wincing). If Robert Mugabe was to, by grace, be offered an 'adjustment' loan he would run there.

COSATU has been making solidarity interventions on Zimbabwe which have been very strategic. This however does not rule out the fact that Mugabe must be exposed for the fraud he is. Pandering to his anti-imperialist rhetoric by comparing him to Chavez is dangerous.

In solidarity

Tinashe


On 3/5/07, Bongani Masuku <bongani@cosatu.dorg.za> wrote:

Dear Cdes,

The CEC of COSATU adopted a programme of action on the two countries, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, particularly around April, with the ZCTU stay away of 03 and 04 April in Zimbabwe, as well the 12th April commemoration of the king's decree that bans political parties and all other such freedoms since 1973 in Swaziland, as the target dates for action.

Programmes were adopted, but am just highlighting a caption of the media statement by the CEC released last week.

We are meeting with the Zimbabwe Solidarity Forum in less than 30 m inutes time from now and the Swaziland Solidarity Network tommorrow at 5pm.

Regards,

COSATU CEC statement - 1 March 2007

The Congress of South African Trade Unions held a scheduled meeting of its Central Executive Committee from 26-28 February 2007, attended by the National Office Bearers and delegates from all 21 affiliated unions.


"On Swaziland,

COSATU will be mobilising its members to demonstrate at all the SA/Swaziland borders on 12 April 2007, in solidarity with the people and trade unions of Swaziland fighting for democracy and human rights. 12 April 1973 is the day that King Sobhuza banned all political parties and introduced a decree that remains in force taking away all peoples basic freedoms such a right to association, right to assemble and a freedom of speech.

On Zimbabwe,

COSATU will be demonstrating in all the establishments of the Zimbabwe government, such as their High Commission, in support of the general strike called by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions on 3-4 April. Both the economic catastrophe and the attacks on human rights have worsened, as reflected in the swelling tide of migrants fleeing into South Africa, which his has led to widespread exploitation of these workers by unscrupulous employers who are taking advantage of their situation whilst at the same time distorting the South African labour market. The CEC resolved to struggle to organise and protect these and other vulnerable immigrant workers and to demand harsh penalties for employers breaking the labour laws.

COSATU does recognise the heroic role played by the Zimbabwe government and people in the liberation of our country. Further COSATU does appreciate that perhaps President Mugabe and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are amongst the very few world leaders willing to confront head on the naked hypocrisy and general aggression of the US government, in particular now under the leadership of George W Bush. But that does not mean that COSATU will close its eyes when President Mugabe's government tramples on workers' and human rights whilst blaming all his country's problems to imperialists. Whilst it is true that the global balance of forces limits space for more radical change, he too must take personal responsibility for leading his country from being the breadbasket of our region and continent to being the basket case of our region and continent."


With Comradely Regards,

Bongani Masuku
International Secretary
COSATU HQ
Braamfontein

 

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