*...If you get down and quarrel every day*
*You're saying prayers to the devil, I say*
*Why not help one another on the way*
*Make it much easier*
*Say you just can't live that negative way*
*You know what I mean...*


I can't remember ever being so proud of African leaders; hell, I can't even
remember ever being proud of African leaders at all, but today, the leaders
of the member nations of The SADC made me proud!

This is a day that I will always remember! - like it says in the lyrics of
"Papa was a rolling stone" - not because "it was the day that Papa died" but
because it was the day, probably the first time that African leaders spoke
with one resonating voice, rallying around a worthy cause, and for the
interests of the long suffering people of Zimbabwe and Africa.

Though coined in diplomatic jargon, they told the West and Britain in
particular, to keep their blood-soak hands off Zimbabwe, mildly resonating
Mugabe's invitation for them - The West - to go hang!

Not only did they show solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe, they ignored
all dictates and demands for from the neo-colonialists to condemn Comrade
Mugabe. On the contrary they urged the West, Britain in particular, to lift
the illegally and unjustly imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe.

The economic terrorism that has been waged against the peace-loving
people of Zimbabwe is nothing other than a deliberate attempt to black mail
Mugabe into abandoning his Land Reform Program upon which he embarked almost
a decade ago.

Today African leaders echoed Bob Marley in the lyrics of "Zimbabwe" :

  *...No more internal power struggle*
*We come together, to overcome*
*The little trouble*
*Soon we will find out*
*Who is the real revolutionary*
*'Cause I don't want my people *
*To be contrary...*
**
*...We'll have to fight, we gonna fight*
*We'll have to fight, fighting for our rights*
*Mash it up ina Zimbabwe*
*Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe*
*Africans a liberate Zimbabwe*
*I and I a liberate...*
**
*...To divide and rule*
*Could only tear us apart*
*In everyman chest*
*There beats a heat*
*Soon we'll find out...*

Every intellectually honest and informed person knows that the crisis in
Zimbabwe is not about democracy or lack of, neither is it about good
governance or lack of;  the issue at the core of the crisis in Zimbabwe is
the Land Issue. Period!

All other problems that Zimbabwe suffer from that other African countries
have been spared from are a direct result of the economic terrorism waged
against the heroic people of Zimbabwe under the leadership of Mugabe.

When the People of Zimbabwe took up weapons to wage a seven-year armed
struggle, they did not do it to live out their video game fantasies, instead
they mobilised their youth to fight for genuine liberation from the system
that allowed among other injustices, less than than one percent of the
population - whites - to "own" eighty percent of the arable land of their
ancestors. Land that was robbed at gun-point and the owners forced to slave
for the thief.

These were not adventurists seeking a revolutionary kick because they had
nothing better to do, and they made this point loud and clear at the
difficult talks at Lancaster House in 1979: Land! Land! Land!

For many years there has been a concerted western media campaign to demonise
Mugabe, led by notable the BBC and CNN and many Africans let themselves fall
for the elaborately orchestrated scam. Shouts of  "democray," "human rights
violations," "regime change," "Tsvangarai!" was all a smoke screen created
in order to allow their agent to assume power thru the back door and undo
all the revolutionary gains that the people of the Zimbabwe achieved thru
blood, sweat and tears.

Since when did Britain care about the suffering of Africans? They still
believe we wash our faces bottom-up... Since when did Britain believe that
sanctions work? Did they not argue to the contrary all those many years the
suffering people of South Africa were resisting worse atrocities against
apartheid? What changed since then? Ah! Now the "natives" are in power. They
are trying to roll back white "gains".

At Lancaster House they agreed to and signed an agreement on Land Reform.
Britain pledged to finance the land reallocation program enabling the
government of Zimbabwe to "buy back" the stolen land. ZANU-PF did not care
as long as the money to "buy back" the stolen land came from somebody else's
pocket and not from the pockets of those who have been disinherited,
exploited, abused.

Ten years, they said, give the white farmers ten years and then the land
reallocation program can begin. OK, agreed Mugabe and his fellow delegates,
ten years...

And they kept their side of the bargain, respected both the letter and
spirit of the agreement and waited out ten years and when it was time to
collect what do we hear? The nerve of Tony Blair... The man man, like many
of his compatriots is suffering from colonial hang over, still obsessed with
that Rule Britannia Rule shit!

Now Tony has enough on his plate, so does Bush, with Irak and now Iran and
the SADC showing them that they can no longer go around bullying poor and
defenseless people, seizing their resources and living fat off their backs.

The SADC leaders bid their time and ignored all the garbage spewed by
imperialist media outlets in the name of news and journalism and after their
deliberation they asked Thabo to have a brotherly chat with Mugabe and the
opposition. They could not have made a better choice.

Thabo is a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, learning the trade under
the tutelage of the dedicated Oliver Thambo who kept the ANC united and
functional from exile thru long and difficult years. I'm not worried because
Thabo understands what it's all about, so they can jump and shout all they
want about about him not condemning Mugabe.

He's not one to  retort: How high sir? when master wannabe says jump,
neither the one to ask: How strongly, Sir? when master wannabe says condemn
Mugabe! Robert and Thabo speak the same language, they know and understand
the machinations of imperialism. They know too that "independence" and
"democracy" are meaningless jargon in the absence of land rights.

Thabo knows too that sooner or later the same issue, land will become the
political hot potato, not only in South Africa but in Namibia and Kenya,
places where a tiny layer of blood suckers "own" sizable chunks of land
robbed off blacks.

Having had their lies and intrigues thrown back in their face they are
already re-grouping, spinning and scheming as is already evident from
BBC's<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6505391.stm>programs barely an
hour after the African leaders emerged from their
brotherly chat, expressing solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe.

Let Thabo make it clear to Tsvangarai that the Land Issue is not negotiable!
That Britain and the US are not funding his party for nothing if he cannot
get that into his thick skull. Let him understand that Zimbabweans are not
ready to give up what their brothers spilled their blood in the battle field
for and which is both morally and legally theirs. I bet when Britain and her
allies understand these givens the vampires will turn their straws into the
blood system of some other weak people, but not here, no more!

Earlier today, a couple of hours after I wrote the text below on BBC's
website, a lady called and said they've been going thru the different
messages posted and my message had caught their eye. She wondered if I would
mind having them call me back to to elaborate on my views in "Have your say"
radio version between 19:00 and 20:00 CET.

Oh yes, I'll be honoured to be be availed the opportunity to get a couple of
points off my chest...

In the mean time news came in about the outcome of the Daresalam talks and
was I thrilled? I could hardly believe what was coming thru the radio!

"Have Your Say:

Added: Thursday, 29 March, 2007, 10:17 GMT 11:17 UK:

What the SADC should do is champion African interests, that is they should
all rally behind the Zimbabwean people and address the issue that is at the
core of this whole crisis:The Land Issue. Why did Mugabe only become a
monster when he began to demand stolen land? The status quo cannot stand.
Zimbabweans did not take up arms to fight for their freedom so that they
would continue to be wretched in their own country. Stop the disinformation
and address the real issue! "

Anyway, I did not hear any more from the charming lady who had called on my
cell phone earlier inviting me to "have my say".  It was as well because a
caller from Kampala virtually spoke for me, taking the words right out of my
mouth!

And when he was done I chorused:
*...They say what we know*
*Is just what they teach us*
*We so ignorant*
*Everytime they can reach us*
*Thru political strategy...*
**
*Long Live The People of Zimbabwe!*
**
Regards,

Kabir

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