MATSHONISA, THE INFAMOUS AFRICAN POLITICAL INCUBUS (September 10, 2002)

For Southern Africa and for the Southern African people, the socio-economic legacy of Zimbabwe’s illegitimate Mugabe regime is––in the Southern African Nguni Language––best summed up as: MATSHONISA (i.e. the unconscionable morally bankrupt destroyer of other people’s fortunes).

For it is thanks but no thanks to the Mugabe legacy that a once highly regarded breadbasket of the sub-continent has now been brutally reduced to a shameful chief begging bowl holder of a hunger stricken impoverished subcontinent no longer able to sustain or feed itself.

For it is due to the 1980s Gukurahundi Mugabe instigated ethnic-cleansing war crimes type horrendous mass rapes, murder and mayhem, torture and rights abuses, that some of Zimbabwe’s most able productive people (more than a million good and true Zimbabweans) have either been driven into exile or lie in mass graves (over 20 000 war crime casualties as confirmed by independent reports) as Stalinist type monuments to Mugabe’s shameful reign of terror.

But what do the SADC and NEPAD African leaders have to say about this infamous MATSHONISA?

According to recent media reports in the African Sub-continent the SADC and NEPAD leaders appear to have leave of their senses by throwing all caution and conscience to the wind, by rising to the defense and protection of such MATSHONISA––instead of rising to the defense and protection of the victims (the democratic constituency) of such notorious MATSHONISA.

AND MEANTIME––and for the foreseeable future––this infamous MATSHONISA, the incubus upon the SADC and NEPAD initiatives, seems destined to have the right of his life at every one’s expense; as he arrogantly scorns the European Union and United States Targeted Sanctions whilst he takes tax payers and the funding sponsors of the SADC and NEPAD initiatives for a ride just for the fun of it.

What then do we do about Mr. Robert MATSHONISA Mugabe? Surely we cannot stand and be defeated by a man whose cause is without justification.

By: Thabo Siziba.

N.B: Article published by the Zimbabwean newspaper, The Zimbabwe Independent, on September 20, 2002. Title of article was “The absurdity of cheering master of mayhem”.