September 10, 2009

SADC has no justification to exist

Don’t look for silent or quiet diplomacy from me. I am not like that.

Zimbabweans are abused, not only by murderer Robert Mugabe but by so-called SADC presidents.
The outcome of the SADC summit in Congo is an insult to citizens of this region.

It is a shame that Africans continue to be protected by European and western governments when we have useless money-gobbling organizations like SADC and the African Union.
SADC’s call for the removal of sanctions is a pathetic invitation to other nations to join in the abuse of Zimbabweans.

SADC talked about progress which the Zimbabwean people do not see.
SADC even went as far as snubbing the Zimbabwean Prime Minister.
One thing that I know for a fact is that I am not the only one who sees that SADC leaders are imbeciles not worthy of our time.

They are spending donor and taxpayers’ money to call meaningless summits to support, protect and encourage dictatorships in the region.

It is fascinating how African presidents arrange and stage expensive summits to discuss none of the region’s problems.

SADC leaders ignore pressing life-threatening issues in the region and look the other way as some of their own abuse and kill innocent citizens. If the murder, abuse and starvation of citizens are not discussed at such summits, what then do they gather to do and talk about?
I say SADC presidents are imbeciles, and I base this on my opinion of what a leader should be.
I base this on what I have observed over decades; they are all the same and are shameless political cannibals.

A leader is a protector, not a murderer of the people under his or her care.
SADC leaders not only encourage but protect those of their group who savage own citizens.
Why are situations in Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Lesotho and even in the misnamed Democratic Republic of Congo allowed to fester within their midst? Don’t these so-called leaders aim for something positive at all?

I fear to use the word barbaric, for it has racial and negative connotations, but our so-called leaders are nothing short of being barbarians; they are working against humanity.

Robert Mugabe and his army put young Joseph Kabila in power as president of the DRC.
Now little Joe is not only president of the DRC but is also Chairman of SADC, a supposedly serious grouping of regional nations who must oversee and make Mugabe adhere to agreed terms of the flawed and so-called Global Political Agreement that SADC itself crafted and forced on Zimbabweans.
SADC was supposedly formed to care and promote member countries.
But like any other African grouping, the purpose is vague, allowing member states to completely ignore whatever SADC suggests be enforced.

SADC is deemed a weak organisation with member states not happy to give it the powers that they agreed to give it when they launched the overhaul of the organisation in 2001.
Even Wikipedia laughs at SADC.

“One significant challenge is that member states also participate in other regional economic cooperation schemes and regional political and security cooperation schemes that may compete with or undermine SADC's aims. For example, South Africa and Botswana both belong to the Southern Africa Customs Union, Zambia is a part of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, (Botswana is not) and Tanzania is a member of the East African Community.”

SADC is a useless organisation that is not profiting any of its member states.
SADC appears to be spearheading the destruction of Zimbabwe; it has absolutely no effect in any other country in the region.

I still want to know of any country that can tell the world how it benefited from SADC, except for the nonsensical diplomatic jargon purporting to have achieved some obscure agreements that have absolutely nothing to do with the people who are paying heavily for SADC’s existence.
Other countries in the region might laugh and scorn at Zimbabweans as we complain about how SADC is inadvertently killing our country by its support of Robert Mugabe but they must ask themselves which country is next? Because there is going to be a next one.

SADC is a dangerous organisation, especially in that it protects a genocidal maniac in Zimbabwe.
Why can’t they be principled enough to take ethical and moral stands on obvious issues?
SADC cares little about hunger in member states; it worries none about human rights within member states and, worst of all, it protects murderous leaders.

Even when there are natural disasters, SADC is hardly heard about.
They come to life in organizing useless summits, workshops and pointless, unnecessary “get togethers” where dictators are treated as if they own the countries they are ruining.
SADC is a master in offering catering services.

Doesn’t SADC Secretary General, Tomaz Salomão, know that the very same people who continue to be murdered by governments in this organization are the same people who are paying his exorbitant and undeserved salary?

Or, maybe, he is just a mercenary; does he have a conscience?
Shame on you, Salomão!
It appears as if fellow Africans in other SADC countries think that Zimbabwe is an isolated case and that Zimbabweans are cry babies.

SADC is setting terrible precedents with Zimbabwe and this is the way they are going to treat every other country.
SADC is not there to solve the region’s problems.
We are all in Africa.
Whether we accept it or not, Africans in general and Zimbabweans in particular are doomed at the hands of our own leaders, for whom we lost so much blood and sweat to get elected.
It is now all clear to Africa and beyond that SADC leaders should all be taken to the International Court of Justice for obstructing justice and for supporting and encouraging genocide against defenseless people.
Are these leaders the best Africa has to offer?
Are these tribesmen the true representatives of their nations' hopes and expectations?
Do South Africans wish us continued ill?
Do South Africans wish for Zimbabwe what we are going through?
Does Mozambique, a country which suffered so heavily on behalf of Zimbabweans before, during and after our independence, wish to see our continued annihilation at the hands of a fellow freedom fighter who has become politically rancid?

Does anyone care to remember what treason is?
My confusion arises from how a group of presidents can sit down and allow an aged despot, who has killed enough people to fill all the catacombs of heaven and hell, to be sent back home with what amounts to "a green light" to continue with the murder and abuse of innocent civilians who, at all times for the last 20 years, have always hoped that our neighbours, not America, Britain or Europe, would come to our aid.
In all honesty, what do so-called African leaders think they are doing?
No one has to be told that.

The heart of the matter is that SADC reflects dictatorial tendencies such as those espoused by its founders. SADC has a carefree attitude towards regional citizens, who are in need of assistance and active resolution of conflicts perpetrated by its own leaders.
SADC is a disgrace.
What do you think?

Send me your comments on tano@swradioafrica.com This gathering in the Congo, of heartless African tribesmen masquerading as presidents, was a sad indication of how African leaders are addicted to the abuse of their citizens.
As for the MDC, they should wake up and realize that they are wasting everybody’s time. We told them not to get into this nonsensical government of national unity but they thought some of us were stupid.
The MDC needs to overhaul itself; even new leadership might help. After being snubbed by the very people who forced them into this, the MDC has a true reason to quit this government, regroup and try something different.

SADC is assisting in the abuse and murder of Zimbabweans. SADC is destroying our country.
I am Tanonoka Joseph Whande and that, my compatriots, is the way it is today, Thursday, September 10, 2009.