Allow me to congratulate Mugabe on yet another election "win". Although the elections are set for March 29, it is already pretty obvious that Mugabe is going to be returned as president - a hollow victory for himself and his country. All the signs point to one thing: A repeat of the rigged, stolen elections that have come before this one. It'll be business as usual, although business is not something much happenign in Zim anymore.

I will not for a minute disrepect our elders and their wisdom and deny them their right to support Mugabe. But I will respectfully disagree with them, and strongly at that.

What I will say to the SWAPO Elder's Council though, is this: The Zimbabwe of tomorrow belongs to the future generations, and when their time comes Mugabe will not be there any more. He will have said his goodbyes to our world.

The time has come for Zimbabwe to look beyond Mugabe and his appendix, ZANU-PF. It is now time to look to the future. Mugabe's time has come to say: "I have done my part, now it is over to the younger generations". They want change, my Comrades and we all know that. YOu may not like it, but it is the undeniable truth.

Zimbabwe is not the property of Mugabe and his appendix, and it will outlive him just the same way that Namibia will outlive SWAPO, the Elder's Council, Nujoma and every other human being.

I say to you: To say the current situation is due to neo-colinialism or neo-imperialism is to slap the people of Zimbabwe in their face and kick them in their teeth. It is to say to them that they are stupid and naive and ignorant and gullible to vote for MDC and Tsvangirai.

I say the opposite: Every Zimbabwean who casts a vote for MDC and Tsvangirai knows full well why he or she casts their vote. The colonialists also wrongly assumed that we Africans don't know what we stand for; that we can be swayed and that we won't know the meaning and power of a free vote.

You, my Elders, are making the same mistake. You are saying that those Zimbabweans who voted for MDC and Tsvangirai are stooges, and puppets and misguided. You are making a mistake, and I would have expected more wisdom from you. What you should have said is this: "Let the people of Zimbabwe come together to rebuild their country together and look to the future."


NAMIBIA: SWAPO elders throw weight behind Mugabe

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"Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism." - James Luther Adams:

Um sure they are just seeing their own end in Mugabe's end and think there is still something to be done to prevent the inevitable. Funny wisdom is supposed to come with age, but some still have to learn that it is futile to fight the inevitable and that change in this world is indeed the only constant........

Comrade_0007!!

WISDOM come with age; but so does DEMENTIA!!!!!!!!