TUTU RAILS AT MUGABE

Archbishop Desmond Tutu the Nobel Laureate has again condemned Mugabe’s acts of violence against his people and the Opposition led my Tsvangirai.

Speaking while in Hawaii with students aboard a cruise vessel, he said it was sad that South Africa had failed to talk against Mugabe’s excessive violence and gross abuse of human rights.

A human rights crusader in his own right, Tutu the icon of conscience in South Africa said that he believed that Zimbabweans felt let down by African leaders’ failure to castigate Mugabe about his excesses.

Already, the silence from the Mbeki government as well as the AU is being felt as an impediment to ridding Zimbabwe off Mugabe.

There is no doubt that Mugabe is a great freedom fighter and he also helped ANC in fighting apartheid. But his buffoonery should be accorded the seriousness it deserves and ANC shouldn’t fear to tell him to his face that what he is doing is wrong. They should make him accommodate the opposition. But then again, South Africa still has the Land Problem that has degenerated into chaos in Zimbabwe. When you add the twin issues of Land and support to ANC in the 80’s, then South Africa’s silence sort of (I repeat, sort of), makes sense!

And Tutu will be at it again to the silent chagrin of the ANC and South African Freedom Heroes.

Notable absence to Tutu’s beef is Mugabe’s burlesque retorts to anyone who speaks against him.

The man may still harbors respect for Tutu.

In another surprise, Zimbabwe has narrowly been voted in as the chair to the UN Environment Commision