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Much sound and fury
16 April 2005
Amengeo Amengeo
one begins to notice among the
so-called 'exile news sites' a ratcheting-up of negative doomsday rhetoric.
This indicates to all but the mentally deficient that these 'exile news
websites' have ceased to be disseminators of news and have become
dispensers of vitriolic anti-Zimbabwe propaganda. Hysterical and alarmist
stories without any documented backing, forever citing anonymous sources
designed to sow confusion and alarm have become the norm. The backroom
strategists and intelligence analysts controling these groups have missed
the point entirely else they would have understood that ZANU-PF's electoral
sweep has less to do with manipulated ballots and more to do with an African
understanding and acceptance of what the land reform program truly
means.[The rural vote carried the day] Land is a burning issue in Africa and
any politician that ignores this fact does so at his risk. Recently Kenyan
parliamentarians have unanimously adopted measures to seize lands back for
Africans[one legislator said Mugabe is a hero to Africa because he initiated
the land reform process], Malawi is contemplating seizing lands and
redistributing them to peasant farmers. The Maasai are demanding their
tribal lands back. This is an irreversible trend which has less to do Mugabe
and more to do with social awakening and the realization that after decades
of colonization and forty years of independence the liberation struggle
still continues. Democracy and human rights are irrelevant issues generated
by the West to divide and conquer anew. Where was the West's concern for
democracy and human rights during the apartheid years and when Smith[never
in a thousand years] of 'Rhodesia' was butchering Africans? Thus the shrill
propaganda emanating from sites like Zimonline and SwradioAfrica and most
South African papers have a very hollow ring. To the masses of Africans
Mugabe has become a popular voice and negative and vitriolic rhetoric can do
nothing but strenghten him in the eyes of Africa. Does he not get a standing
ovation wherever he goes in Africa? We have ceased to fooled a long, long
time ago.
Amengeo
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