|
|
Issues | Africa | World | Philosophy | Afrikaans | Leisure | General |
| 13 March 2002 | E-Mail this page to a friend |
|
The world, quite justifiably, found it unacceptable that whites can run an undemocratic country that discriminates against blacks. South Africa was therefore isolated internationally and made to pay the price of being out of sync with the prevailing zeit geist. The fact that far worse atrocities happened all over the rest of the continent, didn't seem to bother anyone.
It was as if they felt that it was "acceptable" for blacks to be undemocratic and have a disregard for human rights, but when whites do the same, it is completely unaccepetable. South Africa was not the only undemocratic country in Africa, but it was a "black and white" case for the western world to exploit in flagelating their guilt complexes over slavery and colonialism.
Apartheid is still not justified, but recent events went a long way towards explaining the feeling of fear white Africans experienced when they deemed international isolation preferable to black rule. Furthermore, the resistance of the white Rhodesians to a Mugabe lead state was vindicated today. If they knew in 1979 what they know today, they would never have agreed to the Lancaster House agreement. The agreement which set the stage for Mugabe's destruction of a once prosporous country.
Mugabe has never been a "model democrat". He has been gerrymandering and slaughtering his way to a one party state ever since he took power in 1980. More than 20,000 casualties in Matabeleland in the early Eighties is a grim reminder of the last time he faced any real opposition.
Now, for the first time in two decades, he faced an even greater challenge during the recent presidential "elections". When opinion polls and every other indication was that he would definitely lose, independent observers noted that he:
|
to name but a few...
|
Under his leadership the Zimbawean dollar went from a value of US$2 at independence in 1980 to a current level 0.03c and falling fast. The inflation rate is 120% and rising. All this while he is actively destroying agriculture, one of the last foreign exchange earners left. The loss of potential foreign revenue is secondary to the even greater disaster looming when the inevitable happens and Zimbabwe runs out of food. "A country that used to be the breadbasket of the region" in the words of the ligitimate Zimbabwean leader Morgan Tsvangirai is now a "basket case".
No doubt Mbeki and company will try to whitewash this shameful chapter in African history. No doubt my tax payer money is going to be used to feed the inevitable starving masses, the same way I already have to finance the fuel and electricity we provide to Zimbabwe.
|
For me as a South African, the way the whole sorry affair was handled by the Mbeki administration makes their Aids policy look like a resounding success. For Mbeki, the feelings of an anachronistic power mad despot outweighs the suffering of millions of Zimbabweans, the devaluation of the rand, the scuppering of any hope of an "African renaissance" and the destruction of an invester friendly environment.
Two years ago I wrote to the United Nations and to Thabo Mbeki's office warning about the consequenses of Mugabe's lunacy. In fact the UN at the time passively supported the violent farm invasions of February 2000.
While African democracy remains a contradiction in terms, where "One man, one vote" is taken literally to mean "once" and African leaders are not prepared to act against tinpot despots, the continent is, sadly, doomed.
On his current path Mbeki's "African Renaissance" is going to be precisely that - a return to the stone age.
Last 25 Visitor Comments |
|||
| Name | Subject | Date | |
| MJ | Anonymous | General Comment | 11/19/2006 |
| DH andrews you racist Yankee bastard from a proud black Canadian. You albino mutant | |||
| D. H. Andrews | dandrews_at_sport.rr.com | get "Out of Africa" | 1/17/2006 |
| My philosophy (as a White American) has always been to leave the Black Africans ALONE. We have no buisness there and it's pretty darn clear they don't want us there. They are an extremely primitive (human) species and in no way can we "Westernize" them or "civilize" them. Their native intelligence won't allow it. Their presense here in the U.S. is a terrible mistake. We should have "repatrioted" them to Africa at the end of the Civil War. Let's give up and pull out. Let nature take its course over the next couple of million years. They, as a people, have never been anything but a failure on the World's stage. AIDS (and their inability to deal with it) will be their demise. (Oh, by the way, you Africans who have access to a computer and are reading: thanks for sharing AIDS with the rest of the World; if it hadn't been for your ignorance in eating contaminated monkey meat, the Western World would have had to suffer through it). | |||
| Visitor | Anonymous | General Comment | 11/9/2005 |
| frik, tien uit tien vir jou opmerking. Ons sal NOOIT Afrikane wees nie. So kom ons gee pad uit die land en laat die spulletjie nou hulle vryheid geniet. Nog so tien jaar en dis 'n tweede Zimbabwe of Zambie - waar hulle boere smeek om te kom boer. | |||
| Sam | Anonymous | Afromonkeys suck | 7/4/2005 |
| I am an American and proud of it,let me add my 0.02$. Afro-baboons suck,they have IQs less than the diamonds that are found in their CUNTries,Name one baboonland that has done well,at every G8 summit the naked baboons come begging for aid.Oh but AIDS is doing some housecleaning over there. Amen. | |||
| Peasant | p_at_whitepower | African Renaissance | 6/23/2005 |
| a white african, jimmy (is that your white name) is a colonial who came to this land with that magical invention called the WHEEL and chased the stone age natives away with his thunder stick, and began picking up the gold and diamonds that the natives had been shitting on for the last millenium and build skyscrapers and roads so the stone age natives could pretend they were now part of the 1st world. | |||
| Visitor | Anonymous | General Comment | 5/30/2005 |
| Jacob, you're going to end up a bitter hatefilled old man if you keep trying to make life fair. Deal with it. | |||
| Frik Hefer | frik_hefer_at_comcast.net | Black rule | 4/6/2005 |
| I can not stomach black rule, because after a couple of years blacks have been in power ,they blame everything that has gone wrong,whilst they are in power, on the white man, the world should have seen by now, and have experienced from all the failed African lessons, we are wasting our time in Africa, get out of Africa White man, and the last to leave please turn the lights off! | |||
| killer | jjam_at_kirby.com | fun | 3/11/2005 |
| Smell the chese and yes I know an invester nitin | |||
| Chifundo | chifundo_at_gmail.com | re: Mugabe | 12/19/2004 |
| Zimbabwe was an independent country for 20 years, and for all those years the majority of the land belonged to the white minority! Mugabe took a drastic step and I support him. | |||
| Nitin De dhia | nitin_n_dedhia_at_yahoo.com | Broker | 12/18/2004 |
| Hi My Name Is Nitin I Am Indian If You Have Invester Give Me E-Mail | |||
| Lisa | lisaswart_at_yahoo.com | I am proud to be African | 12/2/2004 |
| Reply to Jimmy:I was born in Africa, just because I am white has nothing to do with where I am from - my roots are in Africa! Let no one deign to tell me otherwise! | |||
| Jamming Jimmy | jimjam_at_kelele.com | White african? | 12/1/2004 |
| How can there be such a thing as a white african? Come on get real. Yes, there are Europians living in africa who are white. But no white africans. The black people who live in Europe are more Europian than the White man who lives in africa being an african. Leave africa to itself. If you dont like it, simply leave. Thats all there is to it | |||
| kiguthara | kig@kelele.com | another imperialist | 2/13/2004 |
| Oh dear what's wrong Can't stomach black rule ? Anyway, Africa is free from white supremacists now, Mugabe is wrong , but that does not excuse your yearning for Smith's fascism. Amandla! awethu! | |||
| Jimmy Jam | jjam@kirby.com | The truth on Mugabe | 7/5/2003 |
| HE WEARZ UGLY GLASSES. | |||
| Previous Article | Canada's day of shame re Zimbabwe |
| Next Article | Zero Hour in Zimbabwe |
| HOME | Top | Back | E-Mail Page | E-Mail us | Guestbook | |
 |