CAPE TOWN - Helen Zille, leader of South Africas main opposition, has warned the countrys politicians against playing the race card, saying the implications would mean dealing with a situation similar to that which President Robert Mugabe had created. Zille, president of the Democratic Alliance, outlined how Mugabe had wrecked Zimbabwes democracy and economy through his racist antics.
At the extreme opposite end of the spectrum, epitomising the politics of race mobilisation is President Robert Mugabe. He has wrecked Zimbabwe more thoroughly than anyone would have thought possible. But the label Mad Bob misses the point. He is quite sane, and knows exactly what strategy to follow to stay in power. His sinister formula is: blame the whites and the imperialists for everything, she said in a statement to The Zimbabwean this week.
The sad irony is that Mugabes victims are overwhelmingly black Zimbabweans. The 20 000 people he slaughtered in operation Gukurahundi in the 1980s were all black. The 700 000 people he drove out of their homes in Operation Murambatsvina in 2005 were all black.
She accused African leaders of standing behind Mugabe much to the detriment of Zimbabwe over the years.
Mugabe knows he can commit any atrocity against black people because, as long as he denounces so-called white imperialists, he will be guaranteed support by most African leaders. His latest outburst against the bloody whites will bring him a big round of applause. If Mugabe appeared at an African National Congress conference now, he would probably get a standing ovation, she said in a statement from Cape Town.
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