The world belongs to Mugabe?

Zimbabwe President has illusions about owning the world like Adolf Hitler


Whatever it is President Mugabe relies on it sure has convinced him that he owns the world. For how else would the octogenarian Zimbabwe leader think and act as he does?

After losing in a presidential election he not only staged in defiance of a public internal and regional outcry for a new constitution to be in place before the election, but also under his terms and conditionality as well as unsupervised direction and control, he simply refused to accept the outcome.

He roped in Military commanders- all of them renowned deviants who pride in disobeying legal instruments hardened by Liberation War participation a defeated former Justice Minister, an unethical Central bank Governor, a compromised Judiciary, and an Electoral Commission headed by an unethical former Judge elevated from within military ranks to conspire with Zanu PF hardliners to deny the people their vote.

For 35 days after the electorate had voted President Mugabe and his coterie of electoral fraudsters held onto the results that showed their hitherto invincible master had been convincingly walloped by the man he used to taunt as a fat chicks puppet of the West and ignoramus tea boy.

For all his craving for publicity, the humiliated Zanu PF leader stayed out of the public arena for the entire 35 days while his underlings crafted a political escape route for him and when it became evident there was none other than military defiance he instructed George Chiweshe the Electoral Commission Chairman to announce a watered down defeat at the hands of Tsvangirai that justified a runoff between him and the MDC leader.

All standing laws were bent backwards to accommodate President Mugabe’s out of time and unjustified demand for a second round of votes between him and victor Morgan Tsvangirai.

A 21 day prescription of maximum time in which such a demand could be legally entertained in terms of the Electoral act was extended to 90 days by a former Justice Minister plucked out of a dissolved cabinet to vitiate the law and supplant a dissolved Parliament which the defeated Mugabe did not find proper to revive at the time he realised he had to revive the former Cabinet he had dissolved.

Such impunity can only be the preserve of a mex owners and President Mugabe has never minced his words about his proprietorship of Zimbabwe.

Using those self acclaimed proprietary rights President Mugabe decreed a 27 June 2008runoff of the Presidential election he had resoundingly lost on 29 March 2008.

The victorious Tsvangirai appealed to regional and international political bodies for assistance to ascend to the thrown but got a cold shoulder from the then South Africa President Thabo Mbeki who sided with Mugabe and sold the illegal runoff alternative to the SADC, AU and UN with the vigour of a man possessed with demons.

Having won the illegal request President Mugabe unleashed a nightmarish electoral campaign that saw no less than 300 MDC activists massacred by his Zanu PF party militia under the command of commissioned National Military and Security officers.

Morgan Tsvangirai was denied any campaign space in which to operate. His campaign vehicles, materials, and agents and supporters alike were impounded, persecuted, murdered, denied food, tortured, raped, detained, displaced and generally abused in the name of Mugabe.

The regional political forces that had coerced Tsvangirai to contest an illegal runoff on promises of a violence free contest went into hibernation as soon as Mugabe rolled out his vicious campaign and a distraught MDC party that was sponsoring him was left with no option but to pull him out of the facade that was passing on as a runoff presidential contest between him and Mugabe.

And when he did Justice Chiweshe on whom rested the national responsibility to conduct elections within minimum acceptable conditions for elections that would be passed as credible but had remained mute about the obvious violations suddenly came out of his shell.

He convened his Electoral Commission as an Electoral Court to preside over the pullout from the runoff by Tsvangirai and declared it null and void. But hitherto the same commission had received several written complaints from the same candidate with evidence of unbridled violence but had simply ignored them.

Mugabe indeed owns Zimbabwe and everything in its borders for how else could anyone be allowed the level of impunity and not be brought to book?

After completing the runoff as a solo contestant following Tsvangirai’s last minute withdrawal from the sham contest, Mugabe’s surrogates managed to count the same number of votes that took them 35 days to count after the 29 March election within 48hours of the close of ballots and within that period announce Mugabe the “winner” with a landslide 85% up from the paltry 43% he allegedly garnered in March.

Having proved that he owns Zimbabwe it was his next mission to show that he equally owned Africa as well. Within hours of his inauguration he was off to Egypt’s Sharm El Sheik venue for the Africa Union ordinary session as its latest elected Head of a member state.

He was well received only to be told that his claim to Presidency and Head of State of Zimbabwe would not be recognised on the strength of his proclaimed victory in the 27 June 2008 election runoff.

A resolution was passed there at demanding that the despotic leader who had defiantly announced he was going to meet any detractors at the AU summit head on to go back and negotiate his legitimacy with the MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

He returned home with his tail between his legs. But because he was sure he owned Africa he pleaded with loyal African subject and then South Africa President Thabo Mbeki whom he had ditched with the Kariba draft Constitution preferring to run elections under his Zanu PF party proposed Constitutional Amendment No 18 to persuade Tsvangirai to revive the Sadc mediated talks that had been going on for nearly a year without any tangible results prior to the March elections.

Mbeki obliged and proceeded to defend the despot’s claim to Zimbabwe presidency at the G8 summit in Japan and again with the aid of combined China and Russia veto at the United Nations where a British sponsored international embargo resolution that but for the veto would have carried and pushed Mugabe to the political dustbin where he truly belongs.

With Mbeki on his side Mugabe survived and not only did he regularise his disputed incumbency of the Presidential office but he also carved political relevance for his party that had been scattered by shocking electoral defeats for its bigwigs.

Mugabe had once again proved that he owns Africa for how else would African leaders accept him into their meetings and even allow him the leeway to set aside an election result they had witnessed and declared credible after he lost?

How else would anyone explain why the SADC heads of State made frantic efforts to
regularise Mugabe’s stolen victory and yet are now conspicuous by their silence as he breaches the very agreement they use to legitimise him at will?

Having proved that he not only owns Zimbabwe and Africa the buoyant octogenarian leader is now on a mission to prove that he owns the world.

He has the reputation of the using the most uncomplimentary language when dealing with Western Nations leadership from the days he led the liberation struggle against British colonisation of the country.

Recently he has labelled British Premier Gordon Brown a tiny dot, US Diplomat Mr Johnnie Carson, US assistant secretary of state for African affairs an idiot, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan a little lady who behaves as if she is bewitched and former US Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Fraser a little American girl trotting around the globe like a prostitute.

His tirades against former British Premier Tony Blair are legendary and need no repetition here.

But perhaps the most telling revelation about President Mugabe’s inflated ego that informs him that he has claim to world proprietorship is his revelation that his country has a Constitution that places obligation to compensate those his government dispossess of property rights on third parties.

“The responsibility of compensation rests on the shoulders of the British Government and its allies. It is enshrined in our constitution that we will only pay for improvements and we have honoured that," he declared recently in front of international investors the government was trying to lure to the country.

The constitutional clause he avers to was passed by the Zimbabwe parliament without a single British government or its proxies contributing its views to the formulation of the clause.

President Mugabe believes that the British government must compensate the Zimbabwean farmers he violently dispossessed of farms and parcelled them to his supporters to but votes because the same government had illegally acquired the same farms violently when its nationals colonised the country.

British imperialism that resulted in the colonisation of our country was wrong and immoral. It does not deserve anyone’s support as it is no different to enslavement of a whole nation.

However it was none other than President Mugabe who on becoming Prime Minister and Head of the Republic of Zimbabwe in 1980 assimilated the descendants of the colonists as his subjects and free citizens of the country with equal rights to all others.

Not only did his government discourage the descendants immigrating to their home of descent but he also legislated against them acquiring any other citizenship than Zimbabwean.

Many of the farmers he violently chased off the farms bought the farms after 1980 with the tacit and written approval of the Zimbabwe governments that he has headed since becoming the prime Minister in 1980 and later President.
The title deeds held are not from the British government but the Zimbabwe governments he presided over.

It borders on insanity for a president to sign into law a clause that requires other sovereign states to compensate Zimbabweans for losses they incur as a result of deliberate action on the part of their government.

And the clause sounds that much more bizarre if the Head of State seeking foreign investor confidence in his country declares that whatever they find in place and buy they will not be able to seek compensation for if the government decides to expropriate it.

It can only be right in the world owned by a president who believes he owns it like Mugabe. Yet in reality he owns nothing but owes plenty to the very world he thinks he owns.