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Now that the 15 nation Southern Africa Development Community has again been supportive of Mugabe, and with the West’s candidate for control of Zimbabwe becoming part of its government, will the West be forced to reluctantly lessen its economic war to make their inside man look good?
Additional background on the Zimbabwe - Western powers confrontation can be read in an earlier OEN article published Dec.10, 2007:
Descendants of Bloody Racist Colonizers of Africa Pretend to Care, Keep Sanctions on Zimbabwe
“A Theater of the Absurd, Europeans speak out for democracy in Africa.
"A freaky, preposterous, ridiculously self-righteous pretense of concern for the suffering in Zimbabwe from white prime ministers of European nations that had for centuries killed, enslaved, plundered, and exploited Africans mercilessly and still bilk the continent through their domination of powerful unscrupulous international financial and trade organizations."
80-year-old President Robert Mugabe, who is seen by millions of Africans as a liberator, continues to be condemned by white E.U. leaders who continue a choking financial embargo against Zimbabwe. These celebrity politician grandchildren of the masters of Africa’s murderous military occupation are silent about their cruel punishing of Zimbabwe over many years with strict and severe E.U. and U.S. economic sanctions.
The presidents of Namibia and Angola have urged Western nations to lift the sanctions imposed against Zimbabwe, saying they are "illegal and unfair".
Senegal’s president, Abdoulaye Wade, accused Europe of trying to impose a “straitjacket” on Africa.
What is rarely mentioned in Western media (naturally unrelentingly Capitalist in slant), is the frustration of the people of Zimbabwe and other former colonies, that white ‘owners’ of most of the best land so many decades after colonial liberation still refuse to negotiate and accept a fairer distribution of the land. Most incredibly not withstanding that the African governments have in large allowed the whites to keep titles to so much land stolen under imperial colonialism – and that Mugabe’s government had for years protected white ownership from squatters and demands of squatters rights, always in the name of continued stable production and benefit for all Zimbabweans, while European investors threatened punitive action if the status quo be changed in any meaningful way."
The tight net of connections and relationships between European financial grip and profits and local whites goes unreported in all this sanctimonious criticism of Mugabe for civil rights abuses and praise for an opportunistic opposition allied with, and supported by big media and money from abroad.
“Africa doesn’t want charity or paternalism,” said Alpha Oumar Konaré, the Chairman of the African Union, “We want to play in the global economy but with new rules.”
Its not only Africa, but the whole third world that wants out from under first world control and its program for freedom for foreign investor profits, supported by faked democracy through investor control of a so called ‘free’ press, not to mention covert support for government undermining violence and currency manipulation.
All this is not malicious in intent, simply the mindless requirement that capital have growth and profit from the work or lack of work of subjected human beings everywhere.”
PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE, SPEAKING AT THE 62 ND SESSION OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY-NY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2007.
"The West still negates our sovereignties by way of control of our resources, in the process making us mere chattels in our own lands, mere minders of its transnational interests. In my own country and other sister states in Southern Africa, the most visible form of this control has been over land despoiled from us at the onset of British colonialism.
That control largely persists , although it stands firmly challenged in Zimbabwe, thereby triggering the current stand-off between us and Britain, supported by her cousin , most notably the United States and Australia.
