en who carry guns and are allowed to pull the trigger on them,” he said in a speech on Armed Forces Day last week. He said it in Shona. It was not part of his prepared speech. But he said it. How do you reconcile prayer with hate speech?
If he wants to go the way of dialogue he must stop using threatening language. If he continues to rely on guns there is no point in talking. He must make a decision: he cannot have it both ways.Both the president and his partners in dialogue need to be quite clear about this.
Furthermore: people critical of the present government are not enemies of the state. They are merely exercising their rights, indeed doing their duty as citizens. Even beginners in civic education know: governments change, the state remains. Soldiers serve the state, not the government of the day.
Elementary, isn’t it? Except in our beloved country. – Commentary, In Touch Jesuit Communications