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If ever we were to sit back and look at the destruction, death and decay caused by Mugabe;s 30 year rule in Zimbabwe, there is one common denominator in all he does.
Money.
The man has made money, riches and power his God.
Instead of being the 'liberator' of Zimbabwe, he has become the ogre that has destroyed the jewel of Africa.
He borrows money that he fails to pay back - even when he borrows from poor African states.
If he wants it, he takes it - and then changes the laws retrospectively. The Zimbabwean land grab is a good example - where he forcibly takes the land from the white commercial farmer, without compensation, and then gives the land to his senior loyalists - who fail to continue with the production of food.
His wife suffers from the same avarice, filling up plane loads of food and trinkets - which are somehow not the subject of any import duty upon arrive in Harare.
When the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe found itself without enough money to satisfy his greed, he instructed Gono to help himself from foreign currency accounts - without permission or authority from the account holders - and Mugabe says that Gono is not a thief as the taking of the money was ‘in the best interests of the nation’.
Neither Gono not Mugabe has been brought to book for the theft, and the money has not been replaced.
Gono and Mugabe have not explained what the money was utilised for. We are expected to believe Mugabe claim.
Mugabe is believed to be among some of the richest people on the planet - and his insatiable desire to have, own, control and manipulate is still unquenched.
And for Mugabe to remain in power, he has had to have people killed, abducted and imprisoned. Yes - he will deny any knowledge of such happenings, but it happens nonetheless.
Mugabe spends his life maligning the West, and almost in the same breath he pleads poverty and puts out the begging bowl for the free world to fill. The free world, however, has fallen wise of his duplicity and now want a say in where and how any aid monies be used.
And the West is not prepared to throw good money after bad any longer, and now demand more reform and concessions. Mugabe’s reply is to malign the West even more.
Perhaps the most poignant and recent absurd claim that Mugabe has made was over the weekend when he said that the FIFA world cup was probably made from Zimbabwean gold - and that he was tempted to not hand it back!
Minerally, Zimbabwe is a very rich country - borne out by the recent finding of diamond deposits in the Eastern Highlands.
Within a few weeks, the diamond fields were overrun by Mugabe’s military and there have been reports of mass shootings of illegal miners.
Control of the fields in reportedly with the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) who, it transpires, are in partnership with a private concern who have been given the mining rights.
Mugabe knows how to look after his own.
Having made bucket loads of money during the war in the DRC, he is now systematically stripping Zimbabweans of the riches that belong to the State.
Mugabe believes that he has a God-given right to rule Zimbabwe and has claimed that 'only God can dethrone him'.
Mugabe is a very rich man - it is just a pity that his business, political and personal ethics are nowhere near as rich.
Robb WJ Ellis
The Bearded Man
