The examples of the Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe are the same tale of two countries on the same continent. Both countries’ heads-of-state, their respective cabinets and governments are besieged and their economies bankrupted.
The international Western media was given the go-ahead for its continuous mauling of Gbagbo and Mugabe and a host of other senior African leaders.
Similar to the Ivory Coast’s President Laurent Gbagbo, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has a problem with the “former” colonial master and not as much with the opposition.
France has direct business and financial interests in its “former” colonies, which include all fourteen-member Francophone countries of the CFA.
ECOWAS is the West African political, military and economic bloc. The SADC is a similar structure in southern Africa.
Ghana, one of the leading military powers of ECOWAS made it clear that it would not participate in any form of military intervention in the Ivory Coast. Liberia has also announced that it would not intervene militarily. This has ruled out any military intervention.
South Africa is perceived to be a leading military and economic power in the SADC. It too is clear that it would not intervene militarily in Zimbabwe. In fact, president Jacob Zuma is on record for having called for the lifting of all sanctions against neighbouring Zimbabwe.
One needs to understand the huge power-network of the French Connection in Francophone Africa, as much as the US-Israeli-UK-EU-Canadian-Australian-New Zealand interests in Anglophone and Lusophone Africa and the Mid-East.
Unless these destructive foreign interests have been fully resolved, structures such as ECOWAS, the SADC and the AU accepted as equal to the UN, EU, NAFTA, the ICC and other strategic global organs, progress towards a peaceful and stable situation with subsequent economic growth will not be achieved.
In addition, overt and covert foreign-funded and directed economic-, as well as political destabilisation programmes should be identified and cancelled with immediate effect. Until this has been achieved, real peace and stability would be impossible and many of Africa’s rulers would not have accepted the responsibility of power and government.
The French government seems hell-bent to remove President Gbagbo from power. Obviously, the respected, former history professor poses a real threat to French interests not only in Cote d’Ivoire, but also throughout Francophone Africa, as he enforces his control over his country. This could spill over to other Francophone African countries. Gbagbo and his team of advisers are known to have no time for the “Colonial Pact” and the attached “Cooperation Agreements”, which led to “independence” from colonialism in 1960.
France is a leading member of the European Union (EU) and a close friend of the US.
In the case of Zimbabwe and “operation final push”, the “Lancaster House Agreement of 1979” is not only disrespected. It is simply ignored. The “former” colonial master, Britain, and the new global colonial power, the US, openly breached an international agreement signed by British Prime Minister in 1979, Margaret Thatcher and all other participants, including the US.
Britain’s Prime Minister and head of the Labour Party, Tony Blair, ignited such breach in 1998, shortly after his election to 10 Downing Street. Ever since, Zimbabwe remains besieged, sanctioned and President Mugabe demonized. The international West literally got away with libelous character assassination, destabilisation and undermining of the state.
The arch-colonial International Crime Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, themselves a “former” colonial master, has not even considered to lay charge for breach of an international agreement, not to mention of illegal sanctions, causing starvation and disintegration of the infrastructure of a souvereign, independent country, against those foreign leaders, who left no valuable Zimbabwean stone unturned, to discriminate against a head-of-state and his government.
According to WikiLeaks, former US ambassador to Harare, Christopher Dell, remarked about their international Western interest, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) and its leader, current Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, “Zimbabwe’s opposition is far from ideal and I leave convinced that had we had different partners we would have achieved more already.”
Dell added: “The current (MDC-T) leadership has little executive experience and will require massive hand-holding and assistance should they ever come to power.”
US ambassador Dell’s observation led to his further point: “Morgan Tsvangirai is the indispensible element for opposition success, but possibly an albatross around their necks once in power.” He did not seem convinced of their structures.
Prime Minister Tsvangirai’s role is similar to that of Kenya’s Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, and the late, former head of south Sudan’s SPLF movement, John Garang, who died in Ugandan president Museveni’s helicopter, when it crashed.
The ambitious widow of Mozambique’s president, Samora Machel, and current wife of former South African president, Nelson Mandela, Madame Graca Machel, stated at a media conference held after a two-day UNICEF mission, who she traveled to Zimbabwe with in November 2010, “I have been impressed by the progress made in Zimbabwe. The level of commitment of the inclusive government to improve the well-being of children under difficult circumstances and with limited resources is amazing and highly commendable. Despite all the challenges, progress is here.”
When Tsvangirai visited London and addressed the many Zimbabweans there, to the international Western’s surprise he was booed off the podium.
Meanwhile, Southern Africa’s foreign-owned and controlled private media continues it’s slanderous thirteen-year campaign against a souvereign African head-of-state. The media has forgotten, how colonial-apartheid and its economy were much part of the same media and the advertising industry. During the time of the ‘cold war’ some fifteen million people had been killed in the colonial-apartheid wars of this region, excused as “fighting the total onslaught of communism in the cold war” and the implementation of discriminatory laws, many of which are still in place.
There is another media offshoot; the British-EU sponsored “The Zimbabwean”.
It writes in one of its latest editions, “Activists rejoice as Tsvangirai pushes for an uprising” and “MDC is slowly moving in the right direction”, that “Mr. Tsvangirai relishes the prospect of adopting the same methods that were used in Tunisia and currently being used in Egypt to get rid of the dictators there. The encouraging sign is that Mr. Tsvangirai finally realises that Mugabe will not go via purely democratic means.”
According to “The Zimbabwean”, US-Australia’s media baron, Rupert Murdoch’s FoxNews.com interviewed Tsvangirai, as already reported. The interviewer, Amy Kellog, asked Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister and member of the Government of National Unity (GNU, which Madame Graca Machel recently lauded for its cooperative successes in Zimbabwe), referring to the recent upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt, “Could that happen in Zimbabwe and is President Mugabe nervous?”
“The Zimbabwean” reports the Prime Minister’s response, “To me, when people take their rights, and start demanding more rights, there is nothing wrong with that, including in Zimbabwe. That was the whole purpose of our struggle for the last 10 years.”
“The Zimbabwean’s” reporters openly declared that they agree with Tsvangirai’s views, writing, “We agree with you Mr. Prime Minister. There is nothing wrong with a popular uprising to remove a dictator like Mugabe. So you should stop drinking tea with this murderer and mobilize for an uprising. Removing Mugabe from power is your destiny and you should cease the moment and mobilize your troops. This is your moment to be ruthless and render Zimbabwe ungovernable.”
Surely, the Zimbabwean government and their SADC counterparts realise the rogue and treasonous element and would not allow the aforementioned recklessly inflammatory words to ferment any such actions. Neither Zimbabwe, nor any of its neighbours, not even Botswana, would be able to tolerate an ungovernable situation to develop in Zimbabwe.
“Operation final push” to “push Mugabe and the ruling ZANU-PF out of government by force”, has raised its head again.
For any member of a souvereign country’s cabinet and government, more particularly for a Prime Minister, a most senior member, to make such recklessly unintelligent utterings, would be a serious case of high treason.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is in aforementioned context therefore not fit to govern. This seems to be the reading of former US ambassador, Dell, too.
It would be interesting to find out where exactly Prime Minister Tsvangirai and his MDC senior member, Finance Minister Tendai Biti, were during South Africa’s discredited “xenophobia” in May 2008 and what exactly they were doing there.
Imagine the consequences, if British Prime Minister David Cameron would call for an uprising against Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family. Or, how would US Vice President Biden’s call for massive mobilisation to topple president Barak Obama and his government in the White House go down in America and the international West? Would such actions also be hailed as “pro-democratic” and “pro human rights” and other such “freedoms”?
For any media organ, wherever it may receive its funding and directions from, to prominently publish such emotive and treasonous claptrap, to even side with it, puts it on par with the perpetrators of the Rwandese holocaust, where close to one million people were murdered. It certainly eradicates any form of credibility such “publication” might have possibly enjoyed, if it were the case.
Both, the Prime Minister and his publication’s call for a national uprising to make Zimbabwe ungovernable, fly directly into the face of cooperation of the GNU and democracy.
This too means the MDC-T is not ready for an election. The political opposition seems to act on the instruction of its funders and opts for destabilisation and a violent take-over. This would however, also destabilise the SADC region. The MDC-T actually queries the size of its own electorate and therefore its chances for a victory.
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