ZIMBABWE
RUINS
IN
HI(TLER)S IMAGE
Acknowledgement:
F Esterhuyse, Beeld, 2002-08-31
CHIEF
DEVIL
| Zimbabwean President
Robert
Mugabe was back in action during the last week of August 2001, blaming
everyone from the international media to the opposition and their "white
handlers" for his country's woes. Denying that his targeting of white farmers
was racist, Mugabe had these choice words for his critics:
"Why should they [the
white commerical farmers] be treated as if they are next to God? If anything
they are next to he himself who commands evil and resides in the inferno.
There are those who think white skin is God's creation and black skin is
the creation of satan. So why did they come to a country run by people
created by satan?" |
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MRS
MUGABE, THE FARMER
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Robert Mugabe's wife
Grace Mugabe laid claim to the farm Iron Mask Estate, 48 km northwest of
Harare, after choosing it for herself. The white owners, Johan and Eva
Matthews (both in their seventies) were told in August 2002 to vacate the
farm with immediate effect since Mrs Mugabe "wished to move in". It comes
after reports that white owned farms were also confiscated to be given
to Muhammar Gadafi, president of Lybia, in payment for oil supplied by
his country to Zimbabwe. |
And whereas the so-called
"land reform" policy of the Mugabe regime is "justified" by claims that
the land is confiscated to give to the "landless" masses, in practice things
have proved otherwise. In a list published in August 2002 of Zimbabweans
who were given free farms taken from white farmers (without any compensation),
family members of Mugabe, senior judges, ambassadors, bank officials, police
and army officers, senior journalists and even a gospel singer and the
chauffeur of Zanu-PF's head office are some of the "lucky ones".
The receivers of free
farms include chief judge Godrey Chidyausiku, judge Charles Hungwe, Joseph
Chinotimba (vice president of the trade union federation), and lt-genl
Guveya Chiwanga (chief of the army).
Tobaiwa Mudede, registrar-general
who was in charge of the previous general election, receives two farms
for his contribution towards getting Mugabe re-elected, and Shiri Perence
receives three farms. Perence was in charge of the Matabeleland massacres
of the eighties in which 20 000 people were killed by Zimbawe soldiers.
Border Gezi, who led the
attacks of farms in 2000 and was a former minister of youth affairs, sport
and culture, receives one farm. (He died in 2002 of Aids related complications).
Paradzayi Zimondi, chief of prisons, receives one farm and his deputy Solomon
Sizibisa receives two farms.
The deputy president,
Joseph Msika, and the minister of environmental affairs and tourism, Francis
Nhema each receive a farm, and the minister of foreign affairs, Isack Mudenge,
receives two.
The minister of local
government, public works and housing, Ignatius Chombo, informed the farmer
of the farm Allan Grange in West Mashonoland during the last week of August
2002 to vacate the farm immediately because he wants to move in. The farm
is 400 hectares in extent and the barley crop, which the farmer had to
leave behind, was worth ZIM$130 million.
The names of at least
twelve Mugabes appears on the list of new farm owners, including three
sisters of Mugabe. Mugabe's wife Grace receives two and his sister Sabine
three farms. One of these is Gowrie, where the owner (Mr Terry Norton)
was murdered by squatters. Several senior journalists, most of the state
broadcaster, receive farms.
WHILST
ZIMBABWE IS BURNING...
LOOKING
AT IT THROUGH DIFFERENT GLASSES
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Thabo Mbeki has admitted
in the British press that his policy of "quiet diplomacy" towards Mugabe
has failed dismally. In the South African press he described it as a "success"
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GAG
THE PRESS
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Mugabe's regime is putting
the pressure on the independent Zimbabwe press. Geoffrey Nyarota, editor
of the "Daily News" was arrested because his paper reported that police
vehicles were seen participating in transporting looted property from white
owned farms. He later had to be released.
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WHAT
DOES IT SPELL?
POPULAR
MAN: WANTED BY ALL
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WANTED
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ENEMY
OF
DEMOCRACY
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WANTED
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ENEMY
OF THE
RULE
OF LAW
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WANTED
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ENEMY
OF
ZIMBABWE
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WANTED
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ENEMY
OF
AFRICA
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Acknowledgement:
Die Burger, 2000-04-20
SPOT
THE DIFFERENCE
Subtitle: In good company
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The Jewish shopkeepers
are the enemy of the state.
- Adolf
Hitler
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The Kulaks* are
the enemy of the state.
* large farmers |
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The Indian shopkeepers
are the enemy of the state.
- Idi Amin
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The white farmers
are the enemy of the state.
- Robert
Mugabe
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ZIMBABWE
RUINS
Acknowledgement: Zapiro
(Mail & Guardian)
Hitler Hunsvi, instigator
of the illegal farm occupations by so-called "war veterans", died of Aids
related malarial symptoms in May 2001. He was declared a "national hero"
by the Mugabe regime. (Acknowledgement: Zapiro, Sunday Times)
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