WHY???

Why did they accept the Mercs? WHY?? And then the one WHITE guy is the only one with the sense to do the right thing....WHY??? I know it's probably not appropriate to say this but shit I really believe that you cannot let a poor man become a politician....Can you really blame those MDC sods for taking the cars? No, not really. Think about it...some of these MDC cats have been in this struggle for 10 years, making absolutely no money. Many of them live in really modest accommodation and have never owned mudziyo wakaita seBenz. So for a brief moment they will be excused....BUT they should have just touched the Benz and whispered "Some day...." and turned them down.
How does this look to the people whose lives continue to suck ass even though MDC is in office? MDC needs popular support right now. They need to be looking at the Diaspora and asking people to go back. This is such a critical time I can't believe they would even risk accepting those cars. But they did so now what?? ZANU PF is carrying on unchecked. Chamisa just lost his ministry and no one seems to care. Oh Biti...poor Biti...He is the only one I have repect for really, he and Coltart. The rest are tired and hungry and they are looking for comfort. They are Hyenas and Vultures feeding on a carcass. ZANU has drained Zimbabwe of life and the MDC are expected to resusitate a carcass?

All MDC members now in the cabinet who went into existing portfolios are shocked to discover the depth of disintegration. There is almost nothing left in the social services ministries which the MDC has taken on.

These guys haven't got a shot if they don't reach out to non-conventional resources. The western governments are not going to fund this puppy while Mugabe is in office. It goes against everything their democracies stand for. Diaspora. Zimbabwe is wealthy n terms of human capital. MDC has to figure out a way to harness that shit.

"It's our country too"!!! We Zimbabweans in the Diaspora have to think about Zimbabwe in these terms. It's our country too! We are obligated to go back when and where we can. Mugabe cannot live forever, and the generals have little left to steal. We just need to shore up and wait. A better day is coming but we can't expect the MDC with the little resources they have to do this by themselves and we cannot relax our expectations for accountability. The MDC are public servants they need to be accountable for the actions they take and the decisions they make. Someone needs to ask WHY?? and we should get the answers.

There is time to give the Merc's back...................

Nomangingamemeza

I am sitting on the train today and I am reading ZWNews and there is nothing good. It all just keeps getting worse. All around me are people who don't know or if they do don't give a toss what happens in Zimbabwe. I am suddenly filled with rage and despair all at once, because for all my caring what am I really doing? Am I not just the same as the people I ride train with every morning? When does the moment of obligation begin? I think of my kids and I am riddled with guilt, who will speak for them when the time comes?

Today the ANC released the following statement:

“It has always been and continues to be the view of our movement that the
challenges facing Zimbabwe can only be solved by the Zimbabweans themselves.
Nothing that has happened in the recent months has persuaded us to revise that
view."

WTF? Pray tell, what more can we do? We rejected the tampered with constitution in 2000, we voted for MDC is record numbers in 2002, and did the same in 2005. This March we did the same and yet we continue to suffer for our troubles. What do we do next? Take to the streets? Kill?

Here lies my moment of obligation...no one is coming to our aid y'all! Tis time to shit or get off the pot. I am going home in December....Irrational as it may seem I refuse to die in this country. I belong in Zimbabwe, ndirimwanawevhu. When the very people who terrorise us today decided to combat injustice they did when the last straw laid it's final blow and I think this is it now.

ZVAKWANA! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! SOKWANELE!

What Crisis?

This picture was in my inbox this morning and just when I was lambasting South Africa (Thabo Mbeki) for inaction in Zimbabwe. One would have thought the xenophobic attacks against immigrants that began last month in South Africa would have made this man open his eyes and take action but no, instead the Mbeki-led regime in South Africa has chosen to condemn Zimbabweans to death. We will never forget this Baba Mbeki asizoze sikukhohlwe! Infact all you African leaders take heed. Robert Mugabe will not live forever and when he dies the murders and deaths that will continue to occur Zimbabwe will be on your hands. The hunger you continue to foster and nurture will be at you doorstep. The ruthless morally void Zimbabwean youth will be your worst nightmare.

How can you be so comfortable with have this mess in your backyards? Sure you benefit now from Zimbabwe's evicted white farmers and the brain drain but there are only a few of those...what happens when the 16 year old who has stopped going to school and has no skills comes to your door begging for food? Only he shan't be 16 anymore will he? No, he will be a sad, hungry, disappointed and bitter young man. What then will you tell him? Is your hatred for white western powers so entrenched that you really cannot see that there is no more a western sponsored neo-imperial scheme being waged against Zimbabwe as there is one in your own countries. Neo-imperialism is everywhere Zimbabwe is as much a victim of it as any part of the Global South and really has no place in the immediate Zimbabwean crisis.

Robert Mugabe was stealing and in bed with the so-called neo-imperialists for years. Still is, because all of his subsidiaries are still making money in Zimbabwe. While the rest of you African leaders are now forced to be transparent and actualy do the right thing as public servants, Robert Mugabe is laughing all the way to the bank. You are all of the younger generation....Tsvangirai's peers and Mugabe is the last of the dinosaurs; you all know what the consequences of a dictator and mismanagement are, yet you continue to allow Mugabe to torture the people of Zimbabwe and perpetuate the stereotype of African incompetence.

We claim in Africa that the west bullies us and we have no sense of autonomy, well here is a situation in which the west is being meddlesome in a constructive way and we have the opportunity to exercise this autonomy and what do we do? Dig our heals and go back on our words. Levy Mwanawasa you coward! As the head of SADC you should by-pass South Africa and stick to your guns when criticising Zimbabwe. We lose legitimacy if we cannot challenge each other when we fail.

Zimbabweans cannot do this alone. Modakuti tidii? Tife here? I am not suggesting that you interevene physically, the spirit of resistance in Zimbabwe is there, we just need to know that we are not alone in this.

This is some fucked up bull shit right here.

There is no crisis indeed. You will live to regret those words...all of you.

Wither To Zimbabweans?

Latest news on the BBC is that immigrants are being attacked and sometimes killed in Johannesburg and the quitely acknowledged South-African xenophobia is manifested. Wait quietly acknowledged....wasn't Makwerekwere a hot song once? Ahh but I digress. I could I suppose rail against the South Africans and get pissed off at their behaviour which was my intention when I started this post but then again.......Mencken comes to mind "People get the government they deserve", if we don't like the behaviour of the South Africans....go home! This violence against immigrants in South Africa, the South African leadership's apathy to intervene in Zimbabwe, and the recent move by Botswana to make their border with Zimbabwe less porous; all of this makes me wonder if we are not seeing the beginnings of an Isolationist period in Africa. Hear me out: I think Isolationism is a splendid idea for African states. Why should we be each other's keepers when internally we have our own burdens to carry. Much as I hate to agree with him (for non-Zimbabwe related reasons) Mbeki was right "Zimbabwe is not a province of South Africa" we cannot expect intervention from outside for our problems just as South Africa cannot expect employing Zimbabweans to occur without consequence.

And so we wait...........

I am surprised at my anxiety and hope for the outcome of the vote at home. I spoke to K this morning and she sounded so hopeful and now I am sick with worry that the election is in the process of being stolen. At this point I'll give up the Hague for a new President and constitution. All we want is fot the old man to GO......This cannot go on....right....I mean we cannot have this go on ...... can we? The official result apparently will be announced at 0400 GMT so we wait..............................................

Vote 2009

I suppose I should post something given that my fellow Zimbos are going to be practising citizenry in the next few days.....but honestly I can be excited nor can be fired up about this anymore. The more things develop the clearer it becomes that only the death of RGM is going to bring any kind of hope for Zimbabwe. I mean how do they (Tsvangie and Makoni) even begin to compete with dead people on the voter roll, police escorts in the voting booth, intimidation and promises of violence from the army and the police?

At this point I await death but while I wait I can smile when I get a dose of Zimfeminizmo

Wolves in Sheep's clothing

The news this weekend has been centered on Dumiso Dabenbgwa's support of Makoni's presidential bid. Ladies and Gentlemen we need to err on the side of caution. Why are we not extremely suspicious of these people? The euphoria that has risen, especially among those of us in the Diaspora, is amazing. Simba Makoni is the name on everyone's lips. But no one is asking the real questions, the important ones. Why does Makoni deserve our support? Why are we so comfortable with supporting a man who has made up the backbone of Zanu support? Makoni has never been a people's politician, all his political appointments have been bestowed upon him by Rob. Do we really not see Bob's hand in all of this? Knowing Bob the way we do, would Simba Makoni not be in hiding if was his bid a truly independent one?



We need to wake up! These elections should not happen without a new constitution. Makoni stands to inherit the same constitution that has kept Mugabe in power. So far Makoni has not even reached out to civil society groups, the individuals who have kept their finger on the pulse and know better than most what it is the people of Zimbabwe want in their leadership. We need a clear and conscise plan, one that will ensure that the reconstruction phase, that is inevitable after Mugabe, will include the needs and interests of ALL Zimbabwean not the elites.



The entire country needs to do this together. We all need a lesson in democracy. Our leaders need to understand their responsibilities as publics servants, the people need to understand what it means to be a citizen and how to exercise their rights as citizens. The marginalised need a voice. Only then will elections and new leadership mean anything.