DEAR EDITOR—NYARAI (a Zimbabwe Guardian contributor) in a recent opinion article says the people of Zimbabwe are intelligent enough to make an informed choice.
In 1973 a military coup in Chilean saw the overthrow of Salvadore Allende. Thanks to Britain and its allies by “make the economy scream.”
The trick has always been to gradually wear down the people via economic hardships and thus push them slowly towards an imaginary tipping point. In other words, the people voted against Zanu PF ‘with their stomach’.
Except that, unlike Chile in 1973, Zanu PF and President Mugabe still managed to hang on and split the vote 50-50 with the opposition.
Who is getting political support because of the economic hardships?
The entire hullabaloo from the West through the media never reaches Zimbabwe, true but why Zimbabwe. When Nigeria’s opposition parties rejected the result of the presidential election won by Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, saying it was rigged Brown (he is yet to be elected by his own people anyway) and “the international community” pretended they had gone on holiday.
Over 200 Nigerians died in election violence, but no hullabaloo from the West. Why? Don’t Nigerians deserve more democracy?
Nyarai you are the one who is politically deluded, not Dziva. Mary and Nyarai the word confusion summarizes you.
Lack of information, an abundance of deliberate disinformation (newspapers, television and the internet) all of it supplied faster than you can digest it.
This all leads to your ignorance and ignorance often leads to tragedy. Knowing that something is wrong is not the same as knowing how to put it right.
You should not confuse diagnostics with therapeutics. The future belongs to the wise not to the impulsive.
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