It is not a feast per se, but an event where youths have a chance to meet their hero. This inspires them to emulate his exemplary qualities of nation-building, patriotism and principled leadership.
Zanu-PF youth leader, Absolom Sikhosana, defending the week long festival that kicked off yesterday, celebrating the 85th birthday of Robert Mugabe. Mugabe’s “nation building” has lead to a cholera epidemic, the destruction of Zimbabwe’s health and education systems, an unemployment rate over 90% and hyper-inflation as high as 231 million per cent. Happy birthday, Robert.
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Lexington Green
February 23, 2009
8:44 pm
This review of a Mugabe biography, chastises the author for calling him a tyrant and not digging deeply enough into the colonial background that supposedly justifies the ensuing mayhem.
http://www.hindu.com/br/2009/01/13/stories/2009011350041300.htm
It is something like Jesse Jackson's immortal statement that young African American men engage in massively disproportionate levels of violent crime out of "frustrated rage against oppression". Even if its true, you still want to avoid getting shot or having your face kicked in, no matter what the deep underpinnings of the violent behavior may be. Or in Mugabe's case, you have a whole country reduced to a disease-ridden, starving, tyrannical wasteland. Even if it is still as a matter of the chain of causation "Whitey's fault", pronouncing that fact gives no guidance to solving the existing problem.
Munro Ferguson
February 24, 2009
5:52 am