The Zimbabwe Ruins
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Just how bad are things in Zimbabwe?
For years now, the world has watched the deteriorating situation in the land that was once Rhodesia. I was born in that beautiful southern African country, the jewel of Africa, known at one time as the safest country on earth. What a country it was!
I well remember the words of the anthem we used to sing every week during the school assembly: the words of “We Who Follow”:
Once a column came a-marching The early fathers of our land
In the long, long, long ago; Have left their trust in us:
And they came to found a country On guard for all they won, we stand,
That the world would come to know. As those who follow must.
It was built on toil and courage Rhodesia! Our homeland,
Out of what was wilderness; We’ll ever cherish thee.
So they gave us this our country Rhodesia! Our homeland,
To preserve and ever bless. We’ll ever cherish thee.
I can never think of those words without emotion, even all these years later. It was a special country. I still cherish the childhood memory of it in my heart. A land of sunshine, breathtaking beauty, cleanliness and orderliness. Indeed the world came to know the country of Rhodesia. And tragically, in time it came to hate it, and to turn against it, and to support the Marxist terrorists who waged a murderous guerilla war against the white government, that left tens of thousands dead across the land, and finally culminated, thanks to international isolation and vast financial and other support for the terrorists, in Rhodesia becoming the Marxist state of Zimbabwe. And Jesuit-trained Marxist terrorist Robert Mugabe came to power. The West knew what kind of a sadistic, vicious, brutal, cold-blooded Communist he was… and still they supported him.
He took over an incredibly well-governed, prosperous, beautiful land. This, after all, is the country of the Victoria Falls, and of the famous Zimbabwe Ruins, and it was home to some of the greatest game parks in Africa. It was the breadbasket of southern Africa, feeding its own people and exporting food to other parts of the continent. Education was of the highest standard. It was rich in mineral resources. In the late 1970s the Rhodesian dollar was worth more than the U.S. dollar.
Twenty-four years later, President Mugabe and his insane policies have reduced once-prosperous, once-peaceful Zimbabwe to ruins. The world does not fully realise just how utterly devastated Zimbabwe now is. Words cannot adequately convey the full horror of the situation, the full magnitude of the destruction. Way back when Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, the joke was, “One used to visit Rhodesia to see the Zimbabwe Ruins (Rhodesia’s famous ruined cities and fortresses); now one will visit Zimbabwe to see the Rhodesian ruins.” Liberals used to scoff and say that this was simply the view of white racists who could not believe that blacks could govern a modern, successful state. Alas, those liberals (like liberals the world over) were living in dreamland: today, Zimbabwe is in ruins. And it was reduced to ruins by the Communist philosophy of its evil dictator, Robert Mugabe.
Mugabe puts the blame everywhere except where it should be squarely laid: on his own shoulders and on those of his cronies in the ruling party, ZANU-PF. He blames Britain, the former colonial power which ruled Rhodesia prior to Ian Smith’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965. He blames Zimbabwe’s now-tiny white population. He blames America. But he knows very well that Zimbabwe is in ruins because of himself. Yet his sycophantic cronies in the ruling party continue to pour praises on his head. This year, the so-called “Reverend” Obediah Musindo, a wolf in sheep’s clothing, said, “It’s my prayer that President Mugabe should live longer to deliver us to the Promised Land.” Well, Mr Musindo, Mugabe has had twenty-four years to do that, and he hasn’t succeeded. In fact, there’s no Promised Land to go to; only a wasteland. As for Vice-President Joseph Msika, he said, in reference to calls for Mugabe to step down: “Mugabe go? Go where? He should rule even if it means he is walking with the aid of a walking stick. He is the father of our nation; he is entitled to rule us forever.” Ah, there it is, you see: the meaning of “democracy” to African Communists. For them, whoever came to power against the white Colonialists by means of terrorism and bloodshed deserves to rule forever. “Democracy” is what these wicked men hide behind, and the world is fooled by it. Government of the people, by the people is anathema to these men. It is government through the barrel of a gun, government by a strongman.
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