His take on Zim situation far-fetched
from white farmers for distribution to black people.
Mugabe then went to Tony Blair, and Blair told him essentially to go to hell. Consumed by rage, Mugabe lost his head, and unleashed war veterans to terrorise white farmers in Zimbabwe.
The tragedy of the whole saga is that the war veterans who did the dirty work themselves got no land; the farms went to senior Zanu-PF politicians, in the same way that top ANC politicians got rich from BEE deals here in South Africa.
Untrained to farm, and unwilling to take off their trendy suits and ties, the Zanu-PF politicians who took over land from white farmers did not produce. Over time, Zimbabweans ran out of basic foodstuffs. It got to a point where there were long queues at supermarkets for something as basic as a loaf of bread.
Combined with biting sanctions from Western countries, which targeted Mugabe and his cronies, Mugabe’s angry approach ran his own country aground, and drove millions of his people out of the country, just to survive.
In the process, Mugabe continued to howl gigantic curses against imperialism, while his people starved. Of course, Mugabe and his wife were well fed.
Having destroyed independent media, state media painted a picture of Zimbabwe as a land of surfeit, telling the world that stories of hunger in Zimbabwe were manufactured by the BBC.
As the Movement for Democratic Changing was rising, Mugabe lost his mind even more. He dismissed the MDC as agents of foreign forces seeking regime change, the daydreaming Mantashe plagiarised last week.
The MDC was supported from outside, just as Zanu-PF continues to receive support from China, but hunger is real in Zimbabwe.
The irony of it all is that the white farmers that Mugabe terrorised now produce food in countries such as Zambia, Mozambique and Nigeria.
Today Zambia has a maize surplus. It even exports maize to South Africa.
“Part of the pap that ballooned Mantashe’s stomach as he was daydreaming about foreign forces in Zimbabwe came from white farmers in Zambia, the chaps who were terrorised by Mugabe.
Zimbabwe is a tragedy of Shakespearean proportion. As Mugabe’s anti-imperialism howls were getting louder and louder, his country was becoming a perfect colony of the US.
It reached a point where the many zeroes printed on one Zim dollar note could not buy even a toilet paper. As a solution, Mugabe adopted the US dollar as Zimbabwe’s currency. What a joke!
But why retell all these wellknown details? It is to ensure that South Africans are not fooled by idiots who want to distract people from reality.
We must not forget that some idiots once tried to make us believe that Thuli Madonsela and Julius Malema were CIA agents.
The sad story of Zimbabwe teaches us the important lesson that, when things fall apart, idiots become even more bizarre in their daydreaming.
The good thing is truth is like cream in milk; it always rises to the top.