Now, even Bob "The African Iron" Mugabe is shaken by the chattering of underlings to the point of talking to Morgan the spy about the betrayal of spies. The Zimbabwe government is calling for a meeting on Wikileaks.
People, these are no laughing matters in ordinary times. As I wrote earlier, this is a far cry from what I thought growing up. My Mom used to tell me about 10 Downing Street when she was a student in London. I marveled at Diplomacy while I read the snow books. The busted US Watergate captured imagination far and wide - but still, the US embassies in Africa were shinning beacons. These Wikileaks materials have erased previous beliefs for sh*t happens! Someone said these things are spy stations. But what is nerve wrecking is how African men buckle to extents where they will tell these envoys where their grandmothers' navels are buried.
Africans, okay....we should be stretched to angles that necessitate BACKBONE LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA THAT SHALL RESTORE THE GLORY OF TIMBUCKTU: BE FEARED AND RESPECTED.
Well, if we cannot have both - to be feared and respected, we should choose to be feared. Nobody respects any geopolity that does not control something that frightens others. It could blocking oil pipes and controlling the price, the threat of nationalizing industries (outfits like Exxon Mobile, BP, Chevron), which give heavy duty campaign donations to Western plutocrats. Remember! with emphasis: there is a thin line between a kleptocract and a plutocrat. The kleptocract in Africa conducts the stealing directly and hijacks the polity. The plutocrat in the West relies on their multinational outfits that engage in mutual stealing with the kleptocract and pass out the goodies in sanitized fashion called Lobbying and Political Action Committees with special interest groups hijacking the polity. It boils down to the same thing: AFRICA IS ROBBED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FEW.
Best wishes,
MsJoe
Zimbabwe: Wikileaks Reports Shocked Mugabe, Says Tsvangirai
Nqaba Matshazi
11 September 2011
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday revealed that President Robert Mugabe had confided in him in the aftermath of the WikiLeaks cables that revealed that Zanu PF members were revealing party secrets to US embassy officials.
Addressing the party's 12th anniversary celebrations at Gwanzura Stadium, Tsvangirai said Mugabe had come to him stunned by the revelations made in cables released by the whistleblower website more than a week ago.
"Who could have thought we could sit with Zanu PF and Mugabe?" Tsvangirai asked. "Now Mugabe comes to me saying, look our people are running to the Americans."
The cables revealed shocking details of the power struggle within Zanu PF and how party members had clandestinely met with US embassy officials.
The cables allege that Vice- President Joice Mujuru, her late husband Solomon and central bank governor, Gideon Gono were the principal high-ranking government officials to confide in the US envoys.
"Jonathan Moyo said we were sell outs and should be arrested, now who has sold out the most?" the premier asked.
However, Tsvangirai did not touch on the cables that fingered his party's members who allegedly said him and his office were weak and indecisive.
The party members are also said to have raised concern at the people Tsvangirai chose to surround himself with.
MDC READY FOR ELECTIONS ANYTIME: TSVANGIRAI
On the inclusive government, Tsvangirai said it was a cross that had to be borne. "It was a painful compromise, which used the wrong formula, where the loser assumes power through the backdoor," he said.
The MDC-T leader said the inclusive government was necessary, giving an allegory of an old man who dies: "you do not just rush to bury him, rather the burial rites take a while".
He said he was ready for elections, but his party wanted polls that had the green light of Sadc, African Union and the United Nations. "How can I be afraid of elections when I won the last one, we can have an election anytime but with set benchmarks like constitution, a referendum and a legitimate delimitation exercise," Tsvangirai told party members filled in Gwanzura Stadium.
Mugabe recently said foreign investments were safe in the country, yet Indigenisation minister, Kasukuwere threatened to shut Zimplats for failure to comply with indigenisation laws.
Tsvangirai said he wanted to reassure security chiefs that even if the MDC-T were to assume leadership, they would not be victimised, but rather would be integrated into the new system.
Meanwhile, moments before the MDC-T leader spoke, party youths were involved in an orgy of violence where they fought among themselves uncontrollably for more than 10 minutes
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