Who Will Save Zimbabwe?
By
Ross Dix-Peek
North of the Limpopo River and south of the mighty Zambezi, ensconced in south-east Africa, lies a land once proud, and now reduced to a pitiful hovel.
This land struggles under the yoke of the Devil incarnate.
Its starving, poverty -stricken masses wait with baited-breath for salvation from decades, of blood-curdling oppression and subjugation.
This land, Zimbabwe, and these people, the Zimbabweans, cast their eyes heaven-wards, punch-drunk , and with naught left to offer.
But salvation is nowhere to be seen; only more suffering, more pain, and constant affliction! Britain, the United States of America, and a multitude of others, are scarcely to be heard, and yet these were the very people who demanded "Democracy", many, "soi-disant" experts on Africa, despite never having set foot upon its blood-soaked soil! The Zimbabweans thus cast their eyes to Africa, and the Africans. Surely they, their brothers, will help them. But their pleas fall on deaf ears, their plight ignored. Africa cares not, for they are themselves Demagogues and Dictators!
How did it all go so wrong, ask those who demanded "change" three-decades-ago.
What happened to the utter delirium, that was independence, the unbridled joy, that was "freedom"?
But, is it not blatantly obvious?
Those who know Africa's History, its protean past, are not shocked, nor caught unawares. When that viper, Robert Mugabe, usurped power way back in 1980, and took the helm of poor Zimbabwe's destiny, only the dimwitted, the obtuse, the fatuous, thought that Zimbabwe and its "enfranchised" masses were well on their way to prosperity.
Only the befuddled, Harold Wilson, David Owen and Garfield Todd among them, thought that their work was done, that they had helped erect an African 'Utopia".
Initially, things went well, and angst turned into unfounded euphoria.
Zimbabwe would make it, so many thought.
But, history and reality was against them! Still, they took no heed.
Twenty-seven years later, "Utopia" is now "Dystopia", quite literally the "Zimbabwean Ruins".
Yet none of those reprobates who were responsible for the unforgivable destruction of a wonderful country, have even proffered a semblance of an apology, nor attempted to right such an egregious wrong!
And still, the demented one, rife with syphilis, holds sway over the broken and dejected masses.
But, do not think for one moment, that a change of government, and the genesis of a new leader, will herald peace, prosperity, rejuvenation and a new dawn.
That is not how Africa works; Africa is the very crucible of Dictatorships, Oppression and Subjugation!
And so we lamentably entreat, Who will save Zimbabwe? And the Zimbabweans?
The sad verity, the abject truth, is...no-one, not the world, nor Africa, and certainly not South Africa!
They quite simply do not give a continental damn!
About the Author
Born in Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe),in 1970. Resident in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. An Archivist by profession, and freelance writer. Interested in History, Military History, the English Language and its etymology,Books, and other pursuits.
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