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(HERALD) Sadc must avoid being used by Westerners

Sadc must avoid being used by Westerners

EDITOR — Sadc should not allow itself to be abused by the Anglo-Saxon. Zimbabwe is under siege from an unrelenting and shameless imperial bully. The regional body should ensure that it serves the best interests of member-states and provide a shoulder to lean on in challenging times. We have come together a long way and the darkest hour is before dawn.

Zimbabwe — in line with its democratic tradition — held its elections, the results of which on the Presidential vote are believed from unofficial reports not to produced an outright winner.

A situation which, as prescribed by the law, may lead to a run-off election. Can anyone in their right state of mind, call this electoral position we are in a "crisis"? Is it a national crisis when an opposition leader fails to garner enough votes to be declared winner?

It is an electoral crisis within MDC-T alone and those who represent them in Sadc, it seems. We have got other serious challenges socially and economically which anyone can describe the way they want, "dire", crisis, disaster or whatever brought about by illegal economic sanctions imposed by the West which Tsvangirai and his allies lobbied for with unparalleled vigour.

Zimbabwe is today described in the Western propaganda media as a country under wanton destruction by President Mugabe and Zanu-PF, and in terms that are alarming.

Opening or signing off statements in their Press are unfounded statistics of people alleged to be displaced, killed, commodity shortages and an impending genocide.

This impending genocide gospel has been preached to the world for many years with time frames given for their occurrences passing with no such incidents.

That gospel has found new converts.

Converts who are too close for comfort.

We wonder why some who should be better informed to trash this propaganda and onslaught on a sister nation tend to be believing and justifying it.

Is it because the lies have been repeated too often such that they now take them for the truth?

Some religious leaders, people we expect to be morally upright, have been making statements that amount to inciting anarchy. Utterances that are so reckless and irresponsible, calculated at sowing tension, confuse and foment hostilities.

Our regional body, Sadc, seems to have been invaded by a cancer, which is engulfing even those we expected to be vaccinated and resistant.

Contaminated cells need to be quarantined. Sadc had been the most politically stable and peaceful region in the whole of Africa, any one who seeks to destabilise it for personal glory and egocentric motives should be damned by all progressive heads of Sadc. Someone is playing with fire here.

We have got a fantasist whose missions are Hollywood-inspired.

The onslaught on Zimbabwe is uncalled for. Westerners are building towers and towers of lies, and all that for regime change and imposing Tsvangirai on the people. Why foist this man on the people?

We will choke.

It is undisputed that a large number who voted for Tsvangirai and MDC-T were driven by a desire to have economic sanctions lifted, and not out of a genuine belief in his leadership capabilities nor as an endorsement of his policies.

How will Tsvangirai govern with no implementable policies, especially on land?

Trying to reverse land reforms will be tantamount to declaring war on the people, obviously reversal will be resisted.

The extent, form and shape of the resistance can only be imagined.

Tsvangirai will obviously be under immense pressure from his principals to deliver to their kith and kin the "Promised Land".

He has promised to deliver undeliverables. Without sanctions, even Langton Towungana will beat Tsvangirai hands down. Zimbabwe is better off without him, and will be more than happy to give him away for adoption.

For example, in the Mhangura House of Assembly constituency Zanu-PF got 11 042 votes against MDC-T’s 1 647.

It is a constituency comprising mainly of resettled farmers, will they comfortably and obligingly pack and return to a dilapidating compound of a defunct mine at the orders of Tsvangirai, foisted on them by sanctions and residents of Kuwadzana and Budiriro.

Tsvangirai can never rule without rendering the country ungovernable.

President Levy Mwana-wepi (where from) (Mwanawasa) what have you fallen for, to demonstrate such zeal over a Chinese ship with Zimbabwe’s arms, to ignore Sadc protocol and traditional procedures in convening such a summit on Zimbabwe’s elections.

Cad Mash.
Harare.

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posted by MrK @ 9:18 AM