And while South Africa has declared a cholera disaster in the area that borders Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe claims that the cholera epidemic in his country is over.
Zimbabwe's Information Minister, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, said after Mugabe's televised address that George Bush and [British Prime Minister] Gordon Brown "can stop calling for the invasion of Zimbabwe now that we have defeated cholera. The claims they’ve made that we cannot control or govern our country have been laid to rest. We don't need to hear more from their dirty mouths. We don't need to hear more about military intervention from their leashed poodles in Kenya, either."
In another interview that displayed the paranoia and insanity of the authoritarian regime, Mugabe’s Information Minister said that the initial cholera outbreak was sparked by a “biological attack” by the British government and not by the lack of clean water in Zimbabwe.
Several African and Western leaders have said in the recent days that Robert Mugabe should step down from power. Kenya's Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, went further, saying that African countries need to force Mugabe from power in order to save Zimbabwe and its citizens.
Commenting on Mugabe's "arrest" of cholera, the Movement for Democratic Change, the main opposition party in Zimbabwe, said that Robert Mugabe has clearly displayed yet another moment of "madness" when he denied the existence of a cholera epidemic in the country.
People in Zimbabwe have nothing to lose. They can wait and die from starvation or cholera or finally rise up and revolt until they defeat the ruthless tyranny of Robert Mugabe who is finally being compared to Adolf Hitler by some prominent Africans.
Article comments
1 - Zedd
Savo,
I seriously think that Mugabe is a major drunk or drug addict. No human could remain sane while doing (and saying) the things that he does. For some reason substance abuse is never a consideration when discussing dictators.
I believe the Blago (Illinois governor) is also a drunk OR crackhead OR some other type of fiend.
It's easy to tag them as "sociopathic megalomaniac" but I think that sometimes the answer is much simpler. JUNKY. It's the only way that anyone could be so nervy and get up to face the world the next day.
2 - Glenn Contrarian
Zedd -
I have to disagree. Hitler was not a drunk. He may have been dependent on some drugs, but not to any great extent.
POWER is the most powerful intoxicant and the greatest aphrodisiac. It's not for nothing that we have the old saying about absolute power....
3 - Zedd
Glenn,
I realize that you pride yourself on being a contrarian, however it has to be said that you don't know if he was an addict or not.
I never said anything about power not corrupting.
Mugabe's ramblings are just that, ramblings. They are displaced and bizarre. There is no climate that has fostered his actions. He is either nuts or drunk. While white supremacy does permeate in every kilometer of the globe, his ramblings have no relation to that challenge. He has no ideology, not even Mugabeism. He is just talking crazy. I think he's a drunk. Much like most abusive spouses the confidence for his unjustifiable reign comes from the booze.
4 - Cannonshop
Actually, Zedd, I've wondered for a few years if someone shouldn't be checking the lead levels in whatever Mugabe's been drinking, since he's gone from being relatively moderate and a half-decent administrator into a total lunatic moron starting in the mid-nineties, compleat with the kind of paranoid lashing out you get with certain forms of Alzheimers...or heavy metals poisoning. Relatively speaking, he's gone from Claudius to Caligula rather quickly (as time goes for kings and dictators), his country was once racially tolerant and prosperous, it's gone rather pointedly away from those things and down the drain in (relatively speaking) nothing flat.
5 - Ruvy
Nice to see Zedd paying attention to these articles - finally!
Now, where was that article about Brooklyn again?
6 - Glenn Contrarian
C-shop -
You might be right. I think you may have hit the nail on the head. But as Zedd pointed out, it may be drugs, too.
7 - Dr Dreadful
If there were any doubt left that Mugabe and his cadre are totally tonto, they are now accusing inoffensive Botswana of plotting a coup in Zimbabwe.
8 - Zedd
If this situation wasn't so devastating and so evil, this bunch's demise would be as juicy as any good "train wreck". It will be delightful to see them go down, one meltdown at a time. Unfortunately Mugabe is too old, when the time comes, he won't have enough time to suffer adequately for the carnage that he has caused.
9 - cooper
Realizing that Mugabe is crazy is a good start, especially as some there are now claiming the West introduced the Cholera, but I wonder at the lack of attention being paid to the fact the United Nations let the Zimbabwe regime of Robert Mugabe take a cut of all aid money it raised until early November, money which was converted at a government-imposed rate at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. The inflation rate there having soared to 231,000,000% in October - I think it was higher in November - in a country where a large part of the population makes less than 5 dollars a day, surely there is some culpability on the part of others.
The increasing poverty, due to the inflation, is part of the reason so many of the increasingly poverty stricken are dying from this disease.