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BY John Makumbe
‘Regime change has to result in most of our present oppressors fleeing from Zimbabwe in fear for their lives’
It is now almost a year since the majority of the voters in Zimbabwe rejected Robert Mugabe and Zanu (PF) as their rulers in March 2008. In the past eleven odd months, Mugabe and his beleaguered political party have tried every trick in the book to thwart the people’s choice of a national leadership, but none of their tricks has worked. Zimbabwe is still sliding downhill in practically all aspects of nationhood.
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) must be commended for firmly resisting both the dictator and the toothless Southern African Development Community (SADC) in their efforts to keep Mugabe and Zanu (PF) in power. Both Mugabe and his devastated political party know very well that their rejection by the people of Zimbabwe means that even the international community has also rejected them as leaders of this nation. They can try all they want to remain in power but regime change is well and truly on the way. They may succeed in delaying it, but they will not be able to stop it.
Robert Mugabe has made so many enemies for himself that it does not require that Tsvangirai should seek to discredit him any further both within and outside Zimbabwe. It was utter folly on Mugabe’s part to falsely accuse Botswana of training MDC supporters in banditry so that they could overthrow him from power. These accusations were not laughed at only by Sadc leaders, but also by many people in the international community as well as in Zimbabwe.
The reeling authoritarian regime went on to kidnap several MDC supporters and forcibly made them “confess” to having been trained in Botswana in banditry tactics. The futility of the whole exercise is highlighted by the Sadc’s refusal to question Botswana on these allegations. A sensible government would have been embarrassed by this attitude of the Sadc, but not our very own tyrannical regime. A regime that goes as far as kidnapping its own citizens in order to force them to admit having committed crimes has clearly become satanic and evil. To date some of the kidnapped activists are still missing. Whether he likes it or not, Mugabe will one day have a lot to answer for.
Indeed, when regime change finally occurs there will be many in Zanu (PF) and the Mugabe government who will have to face the wrath of the law for their actions against the people of this country. Fortunately the names of most of these criminals are currently being recorded as evidence that can be used against them in courts of law. It is obvious that the kidnapping of Jestina Mukoko and two of her Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) colleagues was aimed at getting at some of this evidence by state hoodlums. What they did not realize is that all such evidence is carefully duplicated and backed up in case of such raids as they committed against the ZPP.
Some of these people will be shocked to find out when regime change takes place, that there will be mountains of evidence against them coming in from all over the world. There will be no place to hide. The spurious accusations against innocent Botswana mean that these thieves and murderers will not be able to seek refuge in that peaceful country when the chips fall. Perhaps South Africa and Namibia will take them in and grand them refugee status. Mugabe and his family will most likely flee to Malaysia where, it is rumoured, he owns a spacious house and possibly even a farm. Regime change has to result in most of our present oppressors fleeing from Zimbabwe in fear for their lives.
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