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| Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe |
Who will believe Mugabe's sense?
Zimbabwe's president called for an end to violence and hostility as the country moves toward a constitutional referendum and elections, on Monday. President Robert Mugabe, 88, in an hour long address at a national shrine known as Heroes Acre outside Harare, said he wanted all parties and religious and activist groups to show tolerance for each other in the coming months. "If people have a difference of opinion and want to defect from one party to another, it must be respected and expressed in elections. We don't want any more violence or blood spilt," Mugabe said, speaking mostly in the local Shona language.
Although Mugabe was speaking sense and making peace at the same time to his people, but people of Zimbabwe find it hard to believe their President who have been Zimbabwe's leader since the country won independence in 1980. In the past he has referred to democracy as a foreign concept to Africans, and on several occasions he has said the West cannot preach democracy to him since he fought British colonial rule in Zimbabwe. So I find it surprising when he speak peace to the world, because peace goes together with democracy. And he should have spoken in a language that everyone understands.
As the leader clenched his fist and raised it into the air, the symbol for his Zanu-PF party, he reassured Zimbabweans that the image of the fist is not a gesture of violence despite its past use and forceful nature when placed alongside the open hand symbol of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic party."It was not for violence against our own kind," he said of the party's fist symbol. Amid violence in recent years, Mugabe has often raised his fist in the air as a warning to political opponents. The raised fist, Mugabe said, was used to fight colonial-era white rule and was "the punch that knocked them down." Is his message strong enough to convince the nation? http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/Zimbabwes-president-calls-for-peace-20120813
Peace definetly goes together with democracy, President Mugabe should ensure that the message and image that he potrays to the public with his clenched fists works hand in hand with the ideology of citizens in the country. The fist is a contradiction to what he is trying to communicate to the public.
ReplyDeleteI find it hard to believe that President Mugabe actually said all of these but its actually good to hear that he wants to take a different turn on things but people should watch out because no one can really confirm the man, like really now.
ReplyDeleteMugabe just have to do a serious campaign, about trust and peace, Because he always do the opposite of what he tells people to do.
ReplyDeleteIts good that President Mugabe is realising that he is aging fast now and Zimbabwe needs to change they way it operates
ReplyDeleteThe better word of peace that Mugabe can speak is abdication, it would be much better for Zimbabwe and the world at large to see him step down as president.
ReplyDeletei hardly believe what he said because he never listen to anyone and also practise what he preaches but maybe for a change he`ll leave up to his words.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he realised what he did to the people of Zimbabwe, so his coming back to his senses
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