Respected Zimbabwe judge OB
Rarely does one see such writing and respect for a judge in Zimbabwe, alongside some pithy comments on President Mugabe: http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/?p=17991 and http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/...on_Sansole.php
davidbfpo
Making Sense of Mugabeism in Local and Global Politics
Yes a lull in posting on Zimbabwe, although there has been some news - none good - and more signs that the coalition is is far from being a work in progress.
Riding to the rescue of President Mugabe, no, not the Chinese, but an academic journal: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 6, 2009, pp 1139-1158, with the title Making Sense of Mugabeism in Local and Global Politics: `So Blair, keep your England and let me keep my Zimbabwe´
ABSTRACT
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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has emerged as one of the most controversial political figures since 2000, eliciting both admiration and condemnation. What is termed `Mugabeism´ is a summation of a constellation of political controversies, political behaviour, political ideas, utterances, rhetoric and actions that have crystallised around Mugabe´s political life. It is a contested phenomenon with the nationalist aligned scholars understanding it as a pan-African redemptive ideology opposed to all forms of imperialism and colonialism and dedicated to a radical redistributive project predicated on redress of colonial injustices. A neoliberal-inspired perspective sees Mugabeism as a form of racial chauvinism and authoritarianism marked by antipathy towards norms of liberal governance and disdain for human rights and democracy. This article seeks to analyse Mugabeism as populist phenomenon propelled through articulatory practices and empty signifiers. As such it can be read at many levels: as a form of left-nationalism; as Afro-radicalism and nativism; a patriarchal neo-traditional cultural nationalism and an antithesis of democracy and human rights. All these representations make sense within the context of colonial, nationalist, postcolonial and even precolonial history that Mugabe has deployed to sustain and support his political views.
Phew, you read this far. No wonder Mugabe remains in power.
davidbfpo
It's Tired, Trite, and Still Plays
Mugabe still plays the anti-imperialist card as he destroys Zimbabwe. His rhetoric should anger the continent but it won't.
Tom
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Mugabe condemns 'bloody whites,' meets with EU delegation
HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has condemned "bloody whites" for meddling in his country's affairs and attacked the West for trying to impose its rule on the southern African nation.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe met with a delegation from the European Union.
Mugabe's comments on Friday came a day before he met a delegation of European Union representatives who are in the country to ease relations and push progress on Zimbabwe's political reforms.
Mugabe denies blame for Zimbabwe woes
And to complete the thought here is Mugabe
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Mugabe denies blame for Zimbabwe woes
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, in a rare interview Thursday, depicted himself as an African hero battling imperialism and foreign attempts to oust him rather than the widespread perception of a dictator clinging to power at the expense of the welfare of his people and country.
The 85-year-old Mugabe, the only leader of Zimbabwe since it became independent from Britain in 1980, rejected repeated assertions by CNN's Christiane Amanpour that his policies have driven the nation once known as Africa's breadbasket to virtual economic collapse.I
nstead, Mugabe accused Britain and the United States of seeking to oust him by imposing economic sanctions, the effects of which he said were worsened by years of drought.
He denied that his country is in economic shambles, saying it grew enough food last year to feed all its people, and defended policies that have driven white farmers off their land as properly restoring that land to indigenous Africans....
..."Zimbabwe belongs to the Zimbabweans, pure and simple," he said, then adding that white Zimbabweans -- even those born in the country with legal ownership of their land -- have a debt to pay.
"They occupied the land illegally. They seized the land from our people," Mugabe said. When Amanpour pressed him on white farmers being forced off their land, he shot back, "Not just off their land. Our land."