Rally For Zimbabwe

"Britain, America, Australia... and New Zealand are truly and 
seriously committed to regime change, they seek a regime change in 
Zimbabwe. ...They are pursuing it through acts of economic sabotage 
and they use weapons of mass deception, (under the cover of) 
instruments of democracy, human rights, rule of law, good governance, 
to sound reasonable. ...They steal our foreign currency earnings, 
they attack even our own currency to the point of saying it's scarce, 
to blame the government, to seek regime change, and they drive the 
parallel market." -- Jonathan Moyo, Zimbabwean Minister of 
Information.

  
Ladies and gentlemen
Africans and all lovers of freedom must harken to the plight of 
Zimbabwe and the government of Robert Mugabe.

So long as the current outside pressure continues, Mugabe should 
remain in power and must remain in power if Zimbabwean national 
sovereignty is to survive.

Those opposition leaders who run to outsiders (western powers) for 
help in toppling the present government and who ascribe to the anti-
Mugabe propaganda peddled by those outsiders will, if they succeed, 
only have advanced their own personal political fortunes. 
Their 'success' will most certainly set back Zimbabwean independence 
for the foreseeable future. Because such 'success' would be 
ultimately dependent on the favours of those western powers eager to 
punish Zimbabwe and oust the Mugabe government for its land reform 
policies that have taken land from whites and given to landless 
Africans, they (the opposition), as government leaders in Zimbabwe, 
will find it very difficult to steer an independent course either 
politically or economically.

Zimbabweans fought for their independence from inception when there 
was virtually no outside support, through periods when conservative 
western opinion was greatly against them and they won their political 
freedom by consistent perseverance. 

Now the war for national sovereignty and economic independence has 
begun. It is a 'cold' war that is going on not only in Zimbabwe but 
elsewhere in Africa. It is fought, not with guns, but by diplomacy 
and misinformation, and by political and economic pressures. In some 
places (Congo, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone) it has been 
transformed into 'hot' wars of guns and bombs.

Every country in Africa is affected by it. Zimbabwe is merely the 
frontline for the 'cold' war.

If they succeed in overthrowing Mugabe, hardly any sub-Saharan 
country in Africa will be able to withstand the threats of 'hot' war 
and economic strangulation that will be employed ever more flagrantly 
in wrestling political and economic control in Africa away from 
Africans. This is the still hidden face of neo-neo-colonialism. Don't 
let it succeed Africa!!!

The stakes are that high!!!!
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From Mail&Guardian Online

Excuses, excuses
 
07 November 2003 08:13 
 
  
Zimbabwe's information minister on Thursday accused some western 
powers of sabotaging the southern African country's economy in a bid 
to unseat President Robert Mugabe's government.

Jonathan Moyo told a high level meeting on the country's economic 
crisis that the countries wanted Mugabe to leave power over his 
controversial land reforms, during which a minority group of whites 
lost land to thousands of landless blacks.

"Britain, America, Australia... and New Zealand are truly and 
seriously committed to regime change, they seek a regime change in 
Zimbabwe," he said.

"They are pursuing it through acts of economic sabotage and they use 
weapons of mass deception, (under the cover of) instruments of 
democracy, human rights rule of law, good governance, to sound 
reasonable," Moyo said.

"They steal our foreign currency earnings, they attack even our own 
currency to the point of saying it's scarce, to blame the government, 
to seek regime change, and they drive the parallel market," he told 
top government, economic and civic officials seeking solutions to the 
economic malaise.

Zimbabwe is grappling with a record economic problems characterised 
by hperinflation at 455% and shortages of most basics, among them 
grains and fuel.

The economic problems have been widely blamed on Mugabe's government.

Said Moyo: "This country is under de facto economic sanctions."

Mugabe and his closest associates have been placed under targetted 
sanctions which include travel bans to the European Union and the 
United States on allegations of right abuses.

Zimbabwe has repeatedly accused Britain, the former colonial power of 
bankrolling the leading opposition, the Movement for Democratic 
Change (MDC).

Moyo accused government workers of failing to implement government 
policies because of bureaucracy and ideological differences.

"Right now there is in our country a frenzy against government 
authority, against policy. The state machinery has been weakened," he 
said.

"That is why we have a flourishing parallel (black) market, that is 
why we have hyperinflation .. the instruments for intervention are 
not there," he admitted.

The two day conference convened by government and business heard on 
Wednesday that Zimbabwe's economy was being undermined by 
contradictory and ineffectual government policies, corruption, greed 
and the country's negative image abroad. - Sapa-AFP 



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