Mugabe: Not Just a Dictator
Why Robert Mugabe clings to power.
It has been clear, for quite sometime, that Robert Mugabe is more than a dictator. He has ruined the economy of his nation, he has no understanding of governance, yet clings to power. It is not simple Megalomania why he, and those of his ilk refuse to step down. It is the depth of his corruption.
Unlike Jerry Rawlins of Ghana and Nelson Mandela of South Africa who have not plundered the national purse, so can leave office, Mugabe and his echelon have stolen so much that they can not dare to leave power.
The billions of dollars stolen by Mugabe will never come to light until another Party is in power. If he can die in office, be replaced by one of his own, who strives to bury the rape of Zimbabwe even deeper, by the time such is revealed it would be no more explosive than learning that Duvalier of Haiti stole ten million tons of food aid, sold it to another country at a profit, while his people starved. It is “old” news. This is why Mugabe clings to power.
Every so often when a revelation of his corruption is about to break the surface, he will divert with the murders of whites, the smashing of a settlement, one of a dozen acts of blood letting, which supplants the thefts.
If there is a change of government with an unfriendly opposition, Mugabe will be revealed as what he is; a totally corrupt dictator whose impetus has always been profit. If there was a market for slaves, Mugabe would be selling his people.
This is the truth of Robert Mugabe.
A truth he hopes time and obfuscation will hide.
The reason he has the backing of the military is because they too have their snouts in the trough. It is in their vested self-interest to insure that they are not exposed, hence they do not fight because they are loyal to Mugabe, they suppress and kill their own people because they do not want their complicity exposed.
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papabear
On October 25, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I met Mugabe in Zim in the 1990’s while there for a month. I traveled with my wife and son. We traveled through many parts of the country. Sometimes we traveled with friends, sometimes just the 3 of us. We stayed many different palces, some times private homes, and got to know many differnt people. Most of thse we got to know are dead or fled the country. EWe still hear from a few of them. The impression people back then at Magabe;s beiginning and middle terms was that he wanted to be like Jompo Kenyatta. [ a father to his people]. Having spoken with him then and many others I think he really did feel that way. It was going to be ‘ his way or none though’. I think he climbed upon the tiger’s back. Having political opponents harrassed , beaten up and jailed is old politics in Africa as it is in many places. Putting ‘ friends and family’ in positions of power and giving them the ability and seeming blessing to make money as they chose is also part of the ‘ time accepted’ package of newly gained power. When some seemed to really threaten his position but more so of those people surrounding him including his family members and a covy of close friends and syncophants then murder became ‘ acceptable’ and then all bets were off. Ride the tiger [ all of them not just him] or fall off and be eaten. So it stands today.
a fool
On October 25, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Jamaica hailed him, Bob Marley performed at the Independence celebrations, Ja. Gov. Ministers had him up there…and then…
in the late 90s things began to change and by 2000 he was in
the mode of Stalin et. al. It’s not just power, it’s money,
it is corruption. And as long as he is alive he can not afford
to step down. When he’s dead, the millions he robbed will be
revealed.
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