Wednesday

Robert Mugabe asks for confrontation

This is no longer a laughing matter, time will tell by Kirth Dube.
Zimbabwe a failed state run by Robert Mugabe and his criminals on Tuesday ordered the riot police to seal the exits of the country's main referral hospital, Parirenyatwa, to prevent staff including doctors, specialists, nurses and engineers from marching into the city centre to protest about the country’s deteriorating health system. The state-owned Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday that 36 people had died from cholera and more than 430 people had been infected in one single district in Matabeleland South (Mthwakazi), near the border with South Africa.
Last week the Zimbabwe Times said that 12 opposition supporters were on October 30 seized by state security agents in Banket, Mashonaland West province. The State agents raided the homes of the MDC leadership and arrested the MDC members, including a two-year-old girl.During the arrests, police are said to have seized property including a computer and official party documents at the home of MDC’s national executive member, Concilia Chinanzvavana. She and her husband, Emmanuel, an elected councillor in Banket, are alleged to be among the 12 MDC activists who received military training in Botswana. The Zimbabwe Times quoted a source saying the 12 were transferred from Banket to Harare and were initially held at Mabelreign Police Station before they were moved to Avondale Police Station. They were then released into the custody of Makedenge, who has moved them to an unknown location.They are being charged with treason under the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act for allegedly undergoing training in banditry, which carries life imprisonment if convicted. The 12 are being charged under a clause that reads: “Any person who attends or undergoes any course of training, whether inside or outside Zimbabwe, for the purpose of enabling him or her to commit any act of insurgency, banditry, sabotage or terrorism in Zimbabwe shall be guilty of training as an insurgent, bandit, saboteur or terrorist and liable to imprisonment for life or any shorter period.”The officials and activists are accused of being part of a team sent by the MDC to Botswana to receive training in sabotage, terrorism and banditry.
I have never been able to “accept” much about the Zimbabwean government and its security agents. I was raised and perpetuated the notion that accepting any form of limit was a week act of resignation.
I somehow ascertained, then, that self-acceptance was worth building into my character.
I have come to various conclusions in life where I find no purpose in our lives as a nation. We now live constrained to social and political rules that not only diminish us but impedes us from reaching our maximum potential. People like Robert Gabriel Mugabe are egocentric beyond comparison, always thinking of themselves and not caring that their actions are hurting others and not realising that in turn hurt themselves.
How can we be free when political and social boundaries hold us down, when the Zanu PF regime defines our personalities and how our lives are decided without our consent. Today in Zimbabwe we see evil beyond imaginable, we see a desperate regime clinging to power through every evil means possible. Life must never be taken for granted. The Zimbabwean government’s act of arresting and torturing opponents, their act of refusing health workers the right to demand a better health service for the citizens whom cannot access adequate health care in their own country shows what kind Mugabe’s regime is like. It is and has been my belief that if one does not respect my life and takes it for granted I should not do likewise but in this instance, I change my gears completely.
In its own stance the Zimbabwean regime has asked for confrontation from its own people. “War is what happens when language fails.” Like Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck once declared to the Prussian House of Delegates and said “The great questions of the day, are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.” As for now history tells us that it repeats itself and the waves are heading that direction.

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