It is totally incomprehensible to me, and others, judging from published letters, that PAC spokesperson Kenneth Mokgatlhe can put in writing the drivel he thinks regarding the “greatness” of Robert Mugabe.
No question the dispossession of 90% or more of productive farmers of their farms, starting in 2000, and giving them to indigenous Zimbabweans, has resulted in this land now being in their hands. Interestingly, there is a growing trend of the new farm owners, whose farms have failed, or are about to fail, to invite former farmers to lease the land in order to farm it, or to become paid "consultants”, because they possess the necessary farming experience.
Mokgatlhe avers that indigenous Zimbabweans are now free, but it seems to me that they have been freed only to starve in their own country, a country that prior to 2000 was the breadbasket of Africa, exporting maize and tobacco, growing their own food for domestic consumption and with the highest educational standard in Africa.
One million Zimbabweans will starve unless food aid reaches them. Is this what freedom is all about? Is Mokgatlhe not aware of the millions of Zimbabweans living and working here in South Africa so they can send goods and money to their families back home in order for them to survive? Is he not aware that the Zimbabwean inflation rate peaked at 516 quintillion percent?
That’s 516 000 000 000 000 000 000%. Talk about tunnel vision.
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
It seems to me that people of Messrs Mokgatlhe and Mugabe’s ilk are so consumed with hatred that they are prepared to close their eyes and ears to reality, and cause the unspeakable and unnecessary suffering of their own people in the pursuit of a failed political ideology, instead of embracing economic pragmatism and allowing that beautiful country to realise its full potential.
So sad. So stupid.