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Mugabe, Mbeki, Maliki: They're Our Boys
By Ilana Mercer
"Zimbabwe's Opposition Leader Is Seized," blared the New York Times. "Zimbabwe's police have launched a new crackdown on the opposition," the BBC chimed, decrying the arrest of Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change, and the stepped-up "campaign of violence and intimidation undertaken by the Mugabe government in recent days." Earlier this month the unfortunate Tsvangirai and other opposition politicians were beaten in police custody.
Politicians and pundits alike, in policy papers and assorted disquisitions (including a State Department Human Rights Report), expound on the tragic tribulations of Zimbabwe. They use strong language and active verbs to implicate Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party henchmen for banning political protest, suppressing "freedom of speech, press, assembly, association, and academic freedom," rigging elections, rounding up and torturing opposition leaders, to say nothing of detaining them without trial; displacing over 700,000 people by turning them out of their shanties; seizing the commercial white-owned farms which fed the country and generated its exports, causing widespread starvation, and making Zimbabwe aid dependent.
Mind you, the commentariat hasn't protested the evils of property confiscation so much as it has bemoaned the fact that the land ended up in the hands of Mugabe's cronies, rather than being redistributed "fairly" to all black Zimbabweans. The process "lacked transparency," one pointy-head complained, as though theft, transparent or clandestine, is ever aboveboard.
Mugabe, we are told, instituted a Soviet style command economy. He nationalized large sectors of the economy and fixed prices. His actions killed off the little economic activity still taking place. As the economy contracted, he continued to promiscuously print money. The result: hyperinflation approaching 2000 percent and predicted by the International Monetary Fund to reach 4,278.8 percent this year. The infrastructure is collapsing. The smell of sewerage hanging over Harare is more than metaphoric—the treatment facilities, like the grid, are not maintained.
At some point in the reams of repudiations and recommendations American writers issue authoritatively about Zimbabwe, they shift mysteriously to the passive voice. Allusions are made to a Zimbabwe where all was sweetness and light. One is told that once-upon-a-time, this helter skelter of a country used to export food. That not so long ago, life expectancy, now 33 years, was 60 years; that in that bygone era, unemployment, now over 80 percent, was extremely low; that Zimbabwe had the "best health care system in Africa," and the highest literacy rates.
Mugabe reversed all this. That much we know. But who was the Prince among Men responsible for the good times? We are never told. The phantom was Ian Smith, prime minister of Rhodesia, RIP. Smith was ostracized by the international community which refused to recognize his minority rule, and treated him like it treated Saddam Hussein, with boycotts and sanctions. The British would not rest until Smith ceded power. When Mugabe was elected Leader for Life in 1980, he celebrated the West's stupidity by committing his first major massacre in 1983. While Dr. Robert Mugabe was eliminating 20,000 innocent Ndebele in Matabeleland, his pals in the US were busy bestowing on him honorary doctorates. By the time the Queen of England knighted Sir Robert Mugabe in 1994, he had already done his "best" work.
Yes, Mugabe is plenty cruel. Always has been. At least as cruel as the Iraqi Shiite security forces we're training and sponsoring, which double up as death squads in their spare time. The "humanitarian disaster" of their making—and ours—is everywhere apparent in Sunni neighborhoods.
The American Founders may have attempted to forestall democracy by devising a republic. Contemporary Americans, however, refused to rest until South Africa too became a democracy. It's a funny thing, then, that President Thabo Mbeki hardly ever protests Mugabe's undemocratic antics. But then Mbeki himself is extremely busy—busy implementing a slow-motion version of Mugabe's program. As columnist Andrew Kenny has observed: "In South Africa, the main instrument of transformation is Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). This requires whites to hand over big chunks of the ownership of companies to blacks and to surrender top jobs to them. Almost all the blacks so enriched belong to a small elite connected to the ANC. BEE is already happening to mines, banks and factories. In other words, a peaceful Mugabe-like programme is already in progress in South Africa."
"Peaceful" is not the right word. The career criminals pillaging, raping and massacring their way across South Africa are certainly in the same league as the Iraqi Shiite death squads and the Zimbabwean state terrorists. My point? Mbeki (South Africa), Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Maliki (Iraq): they're our boys. We put them there.
The US's policy toward Rhodesia was slightly more nuanced, given that it equated African majority rule with Marxism. But once Jimmy Carter came to power, Marxism was no longer an impediment to mobocracy. The US joined the UN, Britain and the rest of the international community in a commitment to ensconce that sexy freedom fighter, Mugabe. The rest is history—as is post-colonial Africa.
The peanut gallery's messiah du jour is Morgan Tsvangirai of the Zimbabwean Opposition Party. They delude themselves that if not for the megalomania of one man—Mugabe—freedom would have flourished in Zimbabwe, as it has in the rest of Africa.
(Hmmm...clever, sexy, right-of-centre yummy yummy girl...Schwwwiiing!)
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Beautifully put. I love the irony in the last paragraph, though it may be a little too subtle for the people it was intended for.
AFTER 27 YEARS OF MUGABE (MIS)RULE:
From Zimbabwean Herald --
Major power cuts loom
By Tsungirirai Shoriwa
ZESA Holdings has put in place a strategy to support winter wheat production, which will see the introduction of 20-hour load-shedding periods for households to ensure uninterrupted power supply to farmers.
Under the scheme, domestic consumers will be disconnected from 9pm and reconnected at 5pm the following day, leaving them with four hours' supply for the next three months.
The new developments come at a time when Zimbabwe, like any other country in the Sadc region, is facing power shortages, which have been attributed to overwhelming demand and dwindling supply.
Current power woes have been a result of low generating capacity from the country's power stations due to ageing equipment and lack of spares. Zesa Holdings group chief executive officer Engineer Ben Rafemoyo yesterday said the power cuts would last until the end of the winter wheat season in August.
Eng Rafemoyo said while the cuts might not be on a daily basis, the frequency would be determined by the supply and supply forces.
"It does not necessarily mean that our domestic consumers would be disconnected on a daily basis, but we will follow the rules of supply and demand. We are trying to share the same little cake that we have among more people. As the public might be aware, load-shedding and power cuts are a balancing act and their frequency will vary with demand.
"We urge our consumers to understand that this is being done for a worthy cause. We want to keep our industries and our agricultural sector ticking. It is better for us to produce adequate wheat than to import flour in the end," Eng Rafemoyo said.
He said they resorted to the same measures during last year's winter wheat season though on a smaller scale as compared to this year.
In a notice yesterday, the power utility said the strategy was developed after realisation that winter wheat production heavily depended on adequate irrigation and, as such, reliable electricity supply was key to the success of the programme.
Zesa said it arrived at the decision after wide consultations between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Energy and Power Development, its own experts and those from the Department of Agricultural Research and Extension Services.
"A window period between 2100 hours through to 1700 hours the following day will be created to allow uninterrupted power supply to support the wheat irrigation activities.
"The four-hour period between 1700 hours and 2100 hours (evening peak) is reserved to allow the domestic sector to carry out their normal household chores," read the notice.
Zesa said the scenario would ensure maximum production on all land under wheat.
"Farmers are being encouraged to grow wheat this winter and are, thus, assured of this level of support in regard to security of electricity supply to ensure sufficient irrigation cycles to sustain the crop.
"Even those with sizeable hectarage will be able to maintain adequate irrigation cycles provided they have sufficient irrigation infrastructure."
The Government has targeted 76 000 hectares of irrigated wheat this winter season.
The winter wheat season coincides with the peak period of electricity consumption.
Zimbabwe consumes about 1 500 megawatts of power during summer and 2 100 megawatts during winter.
Zimbabwe needs about 400 000 tonnes of wheat annually for its flour and bread requirements but yields have been erratic in recent years, forcing the country to rely on imports.
The country has in the past failed to meet targeted winter wheat production due to a number of constraints, which included inadequate power supplies.
Other factors that usually affect production include the late supply of inputs to farmers, inadequate fuel, lack of tillage and harvesting equipment and quelea bird invasions.
From Zimbabwean Herald --
Major power cuts loom
By Tsungirirai Shoriwa
ZESA Holdings has put in place a strategy to support winter wheat production, which will see the introduction of 20-hour load-shedding periods for households to ensure uninterrupted power supply to farmers.
Under the scheme, domestic consumers will be disconnected from 9pm and reconnected at 5pm the following day, leaving them with four hours' supply for the next three months.
The new developments come at a time when Zimbabwe, like any other country in the Sadc region, is facing power shortages, which have been attributed to overwhelming demand and dwindling supply.
Current power woes have been a result of low generating capacity from the country's power stations due to ageing equipment and lack of spares. Zesa Holdings group chief executive officer Engineer Ben Rafemoyo yesterday said the power cuts would last until the end of the winter wheat season in August.
Eng Rafemoyo said while the cuts might not be on a daily basis, the frequency would be determined by the supply and supply forces.
"It does not necessarily mean that our domestic consumers would be disconnected on a daily basis, but we will follow the rules of supply and demand. We are trying to share the same little cake that we have among more people. As the public might be aware, load-shedding and power cuts are a balancing act and their frequency will vary with demand.
"We urge our consumers to understand that this is being done for a worthy cause. We want to keep our industries and our agricultural sector ticking. It is better for us to produce adequate wheat than to import flour in the end," Eng Rafemoyo said.
He said they resorted to the same measures during last year's winter wheat season though on a smaller scale as compared to this year.
In a notice yesterday, the power utility said the strategy was developed after realisation that winter wheat production heavily depended on adequate irrigation and, as such, reliable electricity supply was key to the success of the programme.
Zesa said it arrived at the decision after wide consultations between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Energy and Power Development, its own experts and those from the Department of Agricultural Research and Extension Services.
"A window period between 2100 hours through to 1700 hours the following day will be created to allow uninterrupted power supply to support the wheat irrigation activities.
"The four-hour period between 1700 hours and 2100 hours (evening peak) is reserved to allow the domestic sector to carry out their normal household chores," read the notice.
Zesa said the scenario would ensure maximum production on all land under wheat.
"Farmers are being encouraged to grow wheat this winter and are, thus, assured of this level of support in regard to security of electricity supply to ensure sufficient irrigation cycles to sustain the crop.
"Even those with sizeable hectarage will be able to maintain adequate irrigation cycles provided they have sufficient irrigation infrastructure."
The Government has targeted 76 000 hectares of irrigated wheat this winter season.
The winter wheat season coincides with the peak period of electricity consumption.
Zimbabwe consumes about 1 500 megawatts of power during summer and 2 100 megawatts during winter.
Zimbabwe needs about 400 000 tonnes of wheat annually for its flour and bread requirements but yields have been erratic in recent years, forcing the country to rely on imports.
The country has in the past failed to meet targeted winter wheat production due to a number of constraints, which included inadequate power supplies.
Other factors that usually affect production include the late supply of inputs to farmers, inadequate fuel, lack of tillage and harvesting equipment and quelea bird invasions.
Watch out Knorrig there are 4 other fellows below that post that are more ready than you will ever be! Schwing!
Former madam
Former madam
Truer words have not oft been spoken. What the punchline is to this whole joke is that the leftist liberal c*ck sucking yanks are slowly but surely trying to get themselves into the same boat. Embrace the Kaffirs, let us pay today for supposed indiscretions against their ilk from 150 years ago. I tell you what, the Sheepshaggers had the right plan, they hunted and shot the Aborigines like animals, somehow I see the merit in that plan. Definitely not as a trophy but definitely something like exterminating roaches. The world and our beloved South Africa are quickly settling into a Mandelatopia of crime, murder, and rape. Then once the deputy president has gotten past hid Monday morning routine without being successfully prosecuted because he has rights as a kaffir of Zulu origin... Remember the shower for AIDS... the rest of the country follows suit. Is it any surprise with leadership like that, that these ignorant butt-fucking mo nkeys stand up and claim theft from whitey is not a crime. Something should be done about this problem, they are a natural disaster and need to be exterminated. This was a well written article and I hope that more people in the international community wake up and smell the sewer system that is Africa. South Africa, how many of your Sons were killed in a war to protect you from the very garbage that now rules you. Hoe many innocent boys were thrown into the deep end to protect our way of life and now suffer under the very animals they were trying to stop??? The White man made South Africa and the kaffir is breaking it. God help us because it seems we do not want to help ourselves. All liberals should be dragged into the street and shot maybe therin lies the solution.
Thank you for a brilliant Blog. Keeping those of us sitting away from home trying to earn money to survive at home informed. You have my support!!!
Thank you for a brilliant Blog. Keeping those of us sitting away from home trying to earn money to survive at home informed. You have my support!!!
The Boer in South Africa should ask Morgan Tswangarai what his official policies towards the whites in South Africa would be, should he become the next Zimbabwean President.
The author of the blog: "Mugabe, Mbeki, Maliki: They're Our Boys" is Ilana Mercer. She was born in SA from where her father Rabbi Ben Isaacson was forced to flee due to their anti-apartheid activism. The family departed for Israel in the 60s. She returned to SA in the 80s, married and had a daughter. She immigrated to Canada in 1995 and then moved to the U.S. She is in her forties and describes herself as a "fire breathing dragon". I like this article but there are others.... She used to look like a nerd but (after a lot of plastic surgery) her new set of pictures make her look like a S&M mistress. But who cares!
On the topic of Zim, BBC (tonight) was reporting on the vast numbers of Zimmers crossing into SA. On the one hand you have a fence made of metres of razor wires and then half a kilometre away you have a normal fence with a gate that you can just open and walk in. No guards could be found. They are just pouring into SA. What gives?
Former madam
Post a Comment On the topic of Zim, BBC (tonight) was reporting on the vast numbers of Zimmers crossing into SA. On the one hand you have a fence made of metres of razor wires and then half a kilometre away you have a normal fence with a gate that you can just open and walk in. No guards could be found. They are just pouring into SA. What gives?
Former madam
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