Cry Beloved Zimbabwe

It is very sad that South Africa, whose newly (since 1994, actually) elected democratic black government, who appealled to the Western media and Western states to help isolate the Apartheid regime in South Africa during the days of the struggle for Democracy in South Africa, now seem to wash their hands off the problems of Zimbabwe. Their spokesperson, in the guise of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who had a highly controversial and shameful stint as Minister of Health, now says that the Zimbabwe people must solve their own internal crises.

It is made all the more shameful by the fact that Robert Mugabe, who came to power on an anti-colonial platform against the British colonial powers, now seem to embody the worst of what is structurally the problem with so many African states today, the arrogant and headstrong will to cling to political power, notwithstanding the average population and their wish to grant someone else the chance to decide the fate of the millions of disenfranchised Africans in their struggle for a better life and living conditions agains the structural inadequacies engendered by generations of mismanagement, incompetence and corruption by the very people who were supposed to make "heaven on earth a reality for millions of suffering African people".