Moin und fröhliche Weihnachten zusammen.
Kaum kümmert sich die Welt um sich selbst und das Fest, unterstützt die südafrikanische Regierung das illegale Mugabe-Regime mit 300.000.000 Rand:
Concern as South Africa gives aid direct to ZANU PF
http://www.swradioafrica.com
By Tichaona Sibanda
24 December 2008
The South African government has gone against it's word and provided the
regime in Harare with farming inputs, forming part of the 300 million rand
package it promised to dispense only when a unity government was in place.
But Zimbabwe's agriculture Minister Rugare Gumbo confirmed to the state
media this week that farming inputs forming part of the aid package had
arrived in the country.
This contravenes the conditions of the aid that were outlined in September
when the plan was announced, which said the R300m in aid was conditional
upon the successful formation of a unity government between Robert Mugabe's
Zanu-PF and the two factions of the MDC.
South Africa has also failed to explain why and how inputs have been given
to the regime, when they announced back in September that they would only
provide funds through aid agencies and Non Governmental Organisations.
Responding to what it called 'confusing reports in the media' South African
government spokesperson Thabo Masebe confirmed that they were providing the
aid to Zimbabwe. He however said it would be released through new SADC
mechanisms that were announced last week and they were satisfied that it
would reach the intended recipients in a non-partisan manner. He did not
explain the Zimbabwe state media reports that said the aid was already
there.
It is well known that Mugabe uses food aid as a political tool and blocks it's
distribution to areas that voted for the MDC in the March elections. Farming
inputs are also distributed in a partisan manner, given only to ZANU PF card
carrying members.
MDC MP for Mbare in Harare, Piniel Denga, told us they 'smelt a rat' when it
was announced during last week's ZANU PF conference in Bindura that their
supporters would get a Christmas bonus of farming inputs.
'Since we knew they lacked the capacity to buy these inputs we just wondered
where the goods would come from, but now we know thanks to the state media.
The South African government can never be trusted on issues concerning ZANU
PF, they protect and look after their interests,' Denga claimed.
The legislator added; 'What the South Africans should know is that by giving
inputs like fertilizer to ZANU PF is as good as sprinkling it along the
mighty Zambezi river - just wait and see.' Archbishop Tutu suggests using violence to remove Mugabe
http://rawstory.com
Agence France-Presse
Published: Wednesday December 24, 2008
Nobel Peace Prize laureate says he's 'ashamed' of South Africa for not
acting
LONDON (AFP) -
Archbishop Desmond Tutu launched a stinging attack on South
Africa Wednesday, accusing it of failing to stand up to Zimbabwe's President
Robert Mugabe and betraying its apartheid legacy.
Tutu, the retired archbishop of Cape Town, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and
anti-apartheid campaigner, told BBC radio he was \"ashamed\" of his homeland.
He suggested that South Africa had surrendered the \"moral high ground\" which
it gained in the post-apartheid era.
Tutu also told BBC radio that violence could be used to remove Mugabe, who
should then be indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
His comments came amid rising international pressure for Mugabe to quit and
an outbreak of cholera which has killed over 1,000 people, according to
UNICEF.
The top US envoy for Africa Jendayi Frazer said at the weekend that it had
lost confidence in the power-sharing pact between Mugabe and the opposition,
remarks dismissed as \"stupid\" by Mugabe.
\"I certainly am ashamed of what they've done (South Africa) in the United
Nations,\" Tutu said.
\"For the world to say no, we're waiting for South Africa's membership of the
security council to lapse and then we can take action, that is an awful
indictment of a country that has had this proud record of a struggle against
a vicious system in the way that we did, that we should have been the one
who for a very long time occupied the moral high ground.
\"I'm afraid we have betrayed our legacy... I mean, how much more suffering
is going to make us say no, we have given Mr Mugabe enough time?\"
South Africa is due to leave the UN Security Council within days after two
years in a non-permanent seat and commentators say this could remove one
major obstacle to UN action against Mugabe.
Tutu raised the prospect of using violence to remove Mugabe.
\"If Mr Mugabe remains obdurate and as intransigent as he has been about the
formation of this government of unity, then he must be asked to step down,\"
he said.
\"If he refuses, I really do believe that we have to invoke this new doctrine
of responsibility to protect\".
Asked whether that meant using force to remove Mugabe, Tutu said: \"Yes, yes,
or certainly the threat of it\".
\"He needs to be warned and his cronies must be warned that the world is not
just going to sit by and do nothing, it's going to try and remove them and
in addition he is going to be charged before the ICC,\" he added.
Tutu said he hoped \"against hope\" that the African Union would take action,
adding that some parties \"can be shamed into taking a more firm stance\",
including South Africa.
