Sunday Letters

MDC emerged from within Zanu (PF) because of the mismanagement of the economy of Zimbabwe in the name of the misdirected Revolution of Robert Mugabe. MDC has more true War Veterans than ZANU (PF), which has bornfrees of the Border Gezi training centres. MDC is bracing for anything that ZANU (PF) will choose to do in the next few weeks. MDC does not need to look elsewhere as the sons and daughters of the soil are now prepared to confront ZANU (PF) from all fronts internally.

The CIO should tell the old man the truth, that change is imminent, no matter the current resistance to change. God has decided not to let his people in Zimbabwe continue to suffer.

Remember, guns are everywhere in Zimbabwe supplied by China and dished out to drunkards by the Military Junta. ZANU (PF) is not Zimbabwe but only a political party on its way out.

Mugabe must stop the violence and go to China in peace, Mengistu will soon join him there to play the game of draft as before. His bank account in China has enough gold and diamonds for them. Zimbabweans have spoken loud and clear. Listen to them talk in buses, bars, at work and at home. ZANU (PF) has no chance any more. We want our freedom back

THE BUSH LAWYER, United Kingdom

Students severely beaten

EDITOR – The Zimbabwe National Students Union condemns the violent response by the riot police at peaceful demonstration at the Bulawayo Polytechnic. It is shocking that the police had to descend on the campus armed with sophisticated artillery including hand grenades, rubber truncheons, AK 47assault rifles, on the defenceless students who were only armed with their books and pens.

Students were severely beaten as riot police tried to disperse the crowd. This resulted in about four students being injured and admitted at Galen House clinic. The students were protesting against top-up fees of Z$75 billion which the college is forcing them to pay, the ongoing political violence rocking the nation, and the living conditions on campus.

We warn those who are inflicting pain and suffering on the students and people of Zimbabwe that justice will prevail soon, we are determined to fight for a bright future for our country, where education will be accessed by all without favour. We urge the students to gear up for the run-off presidential election as it is the day we are finishing off the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe.

BLESSING VAVA, Bulawayo

Dragons can be killed

EDITOR – Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed – said G. K. Chesterton.

Robert Mugabe is in every sense a dragon. Laying waste the land, devouring human lives, demanding the most vulnerable be sacrificed for his appeasement, hoarding treasure he can’t possibly use just so others can’t have it, armoured, intractable, smoking with resentment and rage, and stinking of hubris. Having deified their own power, such contempt have his ruling proxy elitist thugs for the collective wisdom of citizens, they will not be removed by runoffs, regardless of the outcomes. They have no interest in the betterment of Zimbabwe. Rather the prosperity of her people is everything they fear. They cling to power for no other reason than that they may continue to eat the flesh of damsels and babes. Make no mistake—these dragons will continue to savagely brutalize Zimbabweans no less if they win than if they lose.

Let Zimbabweans abandon hoping in the humanitarian intervention of Britain, the USA, or African neighbour nations for deliverance from these dragons.

The dragon Robert and his maggot-spawn can only be removed by a unified appeal to the hosts of heaven: chariots of fire, legions of angels, and the pulling down of strongholds.

Starting this present moment, let every powerless Zimbabwean begin to speak, mutter, and whisper the holy name of Jesus with every breath he or she draws. Just the name of Jesus is itself a complete prayer. The name of Jesus casts down the mighty from their thrones, and exalts the lowly. The name of Jesus routs pride and bondage straight back into the hell from whence it sprang. So let every lowly and powerless soul between the Zambezi and the Limpopo breathe the name Jesus into the air until victory is ours in the heavenly realms.

ED RILLING, by email

Heading for a coup

EDITOR – We are heading straight for a military coup given the messages from their commanders to the policemen and soldiers. This afternoon we had the occasion to drive into a new executive suburb of Harare and were gob-smacked by the size of the mansions in the area. For example the house of the treasurer of the Zim. Rugby Union is twice the size of ours.

There is no way the privileged or cronies can survive any changes of the system. Another example is the senior army officer who took over the remaining hectares of the Buffalo Range Sugar farms – no discussion and don’t take any of the farming equipment away.

ANON, Harare

UZ misgovernment

EDITOR – The situation at UZ is not welcoming for local or foreign students. The town life I dreamt of in the rural areas looks like the rural areas; students’ use buckets to fetch water, as their taps are dry. On July 3 last year students demonstrated against fees increasing and the police intervened with force. This year the halls of residence were deemed unfit for human habitation. They claimed to be renovating them but locks that were damaged on July 5 have now disappeared due to suspected vandalism. Students have no accommodation and the locks have not been repaired. This is a sign of misgovernment.

SITHOLE PAWENI, University of Zimbabwe

Fight Xenophobia

EDITOR – The Producers’ Alliance of South Africa hereby wishes to formally confirm its full support for the newly formed initiative, Filmmakers Against Racism (FAR). We trust that FAR will be able to deal with the current issues of Xenophobia in South Africa and its neighbouring countries. We fully condemn the actions of Xenophobia in all its forms and in all its far-reaching facets. This is an important cause for all victims of Xenophobia; those who undergo the suffering and those who cause the suffering.

MAKHAOLA NDEBELE, The Producers’ Alliance, SA

Send Mugabe packing

EDITOR – The run-off in Zimbabwe will definitely send Mugabe and his cronies packing. They can beat us, maim us and disfigure us but they won’t take our vote – ALUTA CONTINUA, by e-mail

Mugabe – guilty and dismissed

EDITOR – Mugabe, having been dismissed on 29 March 2008, has decided to appeal the verdict. In the court, the voters accused Mugabe of maladministration, rape, torture, extortion, thuggery, world-record hyper-inflation, lying, poor roads, no good education, deterioration in farming, hunger, murambatsvina and gukurahundi, but the list is endless.

Witnesses were economic refugees from all over the world, victims of Gukurahundi were there in millions too. It took the judges a month to deliberate but when the International criminal court intervened, the verdict was finally passed: Mugabe was found guilty of all the accusations and was dismissed with immediate effect. He was given an option to appeal, which he quickly did. The date for his appeal is 27 June 2008. It is expected that Mugabe will be dismissed again. However, some analysts are giving Mugabe no chance; if people like Kaunda and Kamuzu Banda were dismissed then Mugabe should be too. Voters are being advised to come in millions to hear this case on 27 June 2008.

T.S., Harare

Premature democracy

EDITOR – If democracy ever existed in Zimbabwe, I want to know when. I found the following definition from a history book A Government for the people, by the people, to the people.’ Does the Zanu (PF) government qualify as democratic? Everyone should benefit, not just a minority group of people. If democracy is a baby then the nine month gestation period has been more like nine years.

Democracy was born prematurely on 29 March and kept in a vessel to complete its gestation. Truly speaking the baby was fine in the womb and jealous nurses injected it and kept it aside when it was born to swap it for another child. Simply put: our child democracy is alive and it needs fed. we need to guard it against predators or we will never see our beloved again.

T CHADA, by e-mail

Junta is propaganda

EDITOR – With all due respect, will you stop using the word Junta. I get the funny feeling you are the only newspaper using this term. Nothing wrong with that but it appears to me that you are doing exactly what the Herald is doing: trying to make people think and see things ‘your’ way instead of just reporting facts and letting the readers to form their own opinions.

Do not openly show that you will do everything to discredit Zanu rather just give us the news without spicing it up with irrelevant words and issues. They call that propaganda and I don’t want to read good or bad propaganda.

ANONYMOUS, by e-mail

We must remain resolute

EDITOR – I am appalled by the violence that is currently gripping our nation. In all this Robert Mugabe and his rogue ‘government’ are not moved in the slightest. It is business as usual for them. While the Zanu (PF) claims that the MDC is engineering the violence it is inconceivable that they would kill their own activists and candidates. Matonga and Chinamasa have continued to insult the intelligence of Zimbabweans and to laugh at the people’s suffering. The only response for the people is to go out and vote in large numbers on June 27. We must remain resolute in the face of this criminal regime.

I must warn Bright Matonga and Patrick Chinamasa that time and history will judge them harshly. Deputy Prime Minister, Tariq Aziz, made it his job to defend the Saddam Hussein regime. Now time has caught up with him! In the same way Deputy Information Minister Matonga will be called to account. It may take years but he will account for his actions.

My message to the suffering masses is:

Simukai muverengwe musi wa 27 June. Handei tinovhota kuti vana vedu vawane maticha, kuti tiwane mabasa, kuti zvinhu zviwanike nemutengo watinogona tese kubhadhara uye kuti tive nehurumende inomirira zvido zvevanhu. Ngatisatyisidzirwe ne kurohwa, kupisirwa misha uye kuurayiwa kwehama dzedu. June 27 izuva rinotipa mukana wekutsividza utsinye hwe Zanu (PF) nekuenda kunovhotera Zimbabwe itsva. Simuka Zimbabwe.

NYENGETERAI G GIDI, United Kingdom

Get rid of Mad Mugabe

EDITOR – I address this email to a country in the clutches of despotism. Mugabe is MAD! I am so sorry to see the people of Zimbabwe starving and living in horrible conditions. Please, for your own good, get rid of Mugabe. Reform your country, utilize a fabulous wealth of resources and emerge from tyranny. Best wishes to the people of Zimbabwe – SIMON, by e-mail

Blood on his hands

EDITOR – I cannot understand the kind of genes that make up this ailing, grip-losing Zanu (PF) presidential candidate. What will he lose if he just steps aside? If only we had enough financial resources to hire a rocket scientist to tell him he is no longer needed.

What boggles my mind is the fact that he still has the confidence that he will win the June 27 elections. Old man it’s time to sit down and start counting your days. Do not forget the blood on your hands and the number of souls that you destroyed. Heaven was watching and judgement day is approaching. Till June 27.

ANONYMOUS, by e-mail

Speech please

EDITOR – On February 8 1958, the late Sir Garfield Todd made a lengthy speech at a special congress of the Southern Rhodesia Division of the United Federal Party. He defended himself against former ministers, who had accused him of dictatorial tendencies. Later, Sir Edgar Whitehead was elected leader of that party and he went on to become Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia. Todd’s speech was taped by officials from the United Federal Party. The tape went missing. No-one knows if it was transcribed. It might have been and it’s possible that copies of Garfield Todd’s speech exist, possibly in Zimbabwe, possibly in the UK. If anyone has a copy of that speech, or knows someone with a copy of that speech, I would be enormously grateful if he or she would contact me – TREVOR GUNDY, trevor.grundy@zen.co.uk

Surrender Zim to God

EDITOR – * 3 weeks prayer before 27th June

* Election Board counts votes but God counts prayers

* 27th June is a celebration day, for now let’s drop our last tears in prayer.

* 27th June ZIMBABWE IS CROSSING OVER do not be left behind by lack of faith.

* Whether the devil likes it or not, God will deliver His people

* 27th June 2009 we will be celebrating our first year of a new Zimbabwe. There will be plenty of food, peace and good governance.

* God will remember the prayers of his servant E.H. Guti, apostles, pastors, evangelists and teachers of the Word and He will remember the cries of the people to save Zimbabwe.

* When Jesus cried on the cross, He lost His life to save us.

* Therefore, I am calling all Zimbabweans who are in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Angola, UK, USA, France, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, China etc to join us now, for 3 weeks of prayer before 27 June.

Prayer meetings on Sundays the 8th, 15th and 22nd June from 1pm to 3pm at BIZWENI CHURCH in Somerset West to pray for Zimbabwe elections on 27th June. 27th JUNE ZIMBABWE IS CROSSING OVER – PASTOR STANLEY 078 493 6382, United Kingdom