“Starving in Zimbabwe ‘amounts to genocide’” reports the UK’s Daily Telegraph on 21st August 2007, quoting David Coultard, a senior member of Zimbabwe’s fractured opposition party “Movement for Democratic Change”. The United Nations World Food Programme has made an immediate appeal for emergency food aid for 3.3 million Zimbabweans who are “facing severe food shortages”. In July, the population of Zimbabwe was estimated to have dropped from 11 million to 7 million over the past few years, partly through deaths from AIDS and malnutrition and partly through vast numbers of refugees fleeing across the borders to neighbouring countries – mainly South Africa. Zimbabwe also has the world’s lowest life expectancy – 37 for males and 34 for females (World Health Organisation). It also has the worlds highest inflation rate – currently estimated at somewhere around 10,000%, but no one knows for sure because the state stopped publishing statistics after inflation reached 4,000% a few months ago.
It’s hard to believe that when the “wicked colonialist” government was replaced by President Mugabe’s “Democratically Elected” Government in 1980, Rhodesia (as Zimbabwe was known back then) produced and exported so much food surplus that it was known as the “Breadbasket of Africa”. And that was despite having suffered fifteen years of UN imposed sanctions and Civil War between the Rhodesian Government and Mugabe’s Communist Chinese backed terrorist insurgents. Back in 1980, life expectancy, at over 60 years was among the highest in Africa and it had the highest education rate in Southern Africa. Hardly any kids go to school now.
Throughout the Rhodesian Civil War, Western Media supported Mugabe’s so called “Freedom Fighters”, as did the World Council of Churches and many other Christian Organisations… and most Western Governments; they provided both moral and financial support to Mugabe and his terrorists. Everyone wanted Democracy for Africa. Sound familiar? (Because it is oil rich, it is unlikely that Iraq will end up with millions starving, but will “democracy” ever bring peace to the place?)
In Zimbabwe, no opposition has ever been allowed to win an election – everyone knows that the elections are rigged. People who are known to support Mugabe’s opposition are killed, or beaten and starved – their homes destroyed – unless they learn to vote for Mugabe’s party.
The Liberals of the western world must now take the blame for the disaster that Africa, especially Zimbabwe, has become. The damage their idealistic views – forced onto people who knew better – is now evident. It is the Black Africans who are suffering – White Africans (including the White African Liberals) have mostly left Africa and are living their lives in comparative safety and luxury in… the West. I have lost touch with my old Black comrades in Zimbabwe, but I fear most are dead by now because they wouldn’t have lived to enjoy their old age. I wonder how grateful their children and grandchildren are to Britain and the USA for their “freedom”?
Peter Davies was a territorial soldier in Rhodesia from 1963 to 1975, where he took part in the capture and interrogation of terrorists. Davies’ novel, Scatterlings of Africa, is based on his own experience in the war, and personal observations of how terrorist activities impacted Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and its people.
Learn more at http://www.peterdaviesbooks.com
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3 users commented in " THE FATE OF ZIMBABWE - Is the end near?, by Peter Davies "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackAlas, true. Out of the frying pan into the fire, as they say.
And many Zimbabweans are opposing Mugabe but have to keep their heads down or they get jailed or beaten up.
The rural areas are back to the pre European days of growing their own food and buying things with money sent to them by relatives who emigrated elsewhere. I am not sure how they are managing in the cities, since operation cleanup destroyed so many of the houses in the suburbs.
Well put, Peter. As you might know the same is happening in South Africa at the moment, the last semi-decent state still left in Africa. Again the greatest supporters of the atrocities here, in South Africa, and the systematic genocide of whites, are the Liberals.
Hard to believe but the Liberals here are South African whites who support and excuse every action of this corrupt, incompetent ANC government by blaming ‘atrocities of the past’ and ‘apartheid’ where it is becoming more and more evident that the policies of separate development (i.e. ‘apartheid’) was probably the only sensible and correct one at the time, otherwise South Africa would have joined Zimbabwe a long time ago.
The other standing joke is that any white who dare to say anything negative against the ANC government is immediately labeled a ‘racist’and a ‘white supremacist’. What none of these idiots remember is that there are 50 million blacks, many armed with AK 47’s, stolen firearms and firearms sold to them by the South African police, to 4 million whites in South Africa, who have been systematically disarmed by the ANC. How is it possible to be a white supremacist under these conditions?
However the pity is that one never meets these PC Liberals face to face. Cowardly as always, they hide behind the media and the Internet but still wreak their selfish, brainless havoc wherever there’s an opportunity to hear the sound of their own voices. What I wouldn’t give to throttle one. Did you know that Mugabe got a standing ovation from the South African ANC government at the African summit held last week?
Nancy & Jonn, thank you both for your comments.
Nancy, I fear the poor people in the towns and cities are even worse off than those in the rural areas (except for the government people, who are living lives of luxury).
Jonn, I am sorry to see that South Africa seems to be going the same way, but I do think Botswana is quiet and making good progress. Yes, because I have a special interest in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia as I knew it), I keep up to date with events there as much as I can and know about the African summit. MOst of the leaders who attended would take the same action as Mugabe if their domination of their countries was threatned by real opposition. That has not yet happened in South Africa - hence relative peace reigns there (I know crime is bad).
Liberals are to blame for it all and will escape the consequences of their philosophy by emigrating when the going gets tough.
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