This is a short post to re-introduce what I had planned to write about Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe. I am confident that he is going to sail through the elections despite a number of opinions from the "talking heads" on the broadcast channels and written in the print publications.
I was listening to the Focus on Africa programme on BBC last night, the soundbite showed him in good mood and he was declaring war on the lackeys of British colonialism. By this, he was definitely referring to Morgan Tsvangarai and not Simba Makoni [by the way, he has not been attacking the latter directly, could it be that this was a ploy to divide the anti-Mugabe vote?]
We should not underestimate the Old Man. I did not wholly buy this demonising of RGM because the British are as guilty of causing the mess there as he is. Points to ponder: Who stole the land from the natives in the first case? Who set the land tenure that became the bone of contention over the years? Who reneged on the deal to compensate the white farmers? Could the present situation in Zimbabwe be partly due to the machinations of the British as a way of punishing Mugabe for throwing their kinsmen out of the country?
Fellow Africans, let us keep in mind these people did a lot of evil during the colonial period when they were overlords for which we are yet to hold them accountable for!!!
Congratulations to RGM....the challenge should be to make Zim a better country to live in than just fight to cling to power. This should the legacy he should bequeath to Zimbabweans.
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