https://youtu.be/1NpjFiM4TQk
I was watching this and realized that we also have our own Mugabe. He needs to retire early to avoid a coup. he has been aaround for too long now people see him as a small god. They have started kneeling before him. Shindwe!!

I have watched the clips on the violence in SA and my conclusion is that our SA brothers need serious help. Years of oppression where the only meaningful work was toiling in the mines, farms, while living in shanties had a devastating effect on them psychologically. The anger in Malema typically expresses the psyche of the blacks.

ANC has failed them terribly. Mandela set the tone, Zuma messed the Mbeki years, and subsequently sold SA to Indians during his term. Cyril is part of what Malema calls" white monopoly capital" and is soo deep in the white economy. The factionalism in ANC is soo deep and factions always plotting on how to bring down the president. Too much corruption deals/past among the key leaders like DP, Secretary General and others.

The boers should just take back power and run the place before it degenerates to another Congo.

Mugabe answers your question regarding gukurahundi. Before and after independence there was rivalry between mugabe's ZANU and Joshua Nkomo's ZAPU. After Mugabe took power at independence ZAPU and their ndebele supporters then imported arms from the soviet union to topple mugabe. It is Nyerere who informed Mugabe about the arm imports through dar es salam port. Then Mugabe sent the army to mop up the arms which had been distributed to the ZAPU ndebele supporters, just like any leader would have done. Did you want Mugabe to sit back and do nothing?

@hardwood.
Lets says that mugabe is right that ZAPU was trying to import weapons and that said weapons were impounded by Nyerere at the Dar es Salaam port. What should the correct course of action be?

I believe he should have arrested the ZAPU dissidents, produced the evidenced and have them sentenced in a court of law. Even detention of dissidents would have been semi-acceptable. Instead what did he do?

He went about killing 20,000 Ndebele civilians.

1. Any Ndebele of fighting age was considered a dissident and shot in the head.
2. Young Ndebele men were forced to dig their own graves and then shot in front of their families
3. Even ordinary teachers, farmers, councillors etc were summarily shot
4. A harmless mentally dissturbed woman had boiling water poured on her
5. Women were raped by ZANU soldiers
6. Homes were burned down
7. Starvation was used as a weapon by destroying crops and closing shops
8. Government food aid was stopped
9 . Only bars were left open so that ZANU soldiers could drink heavily before going to beat civilians
10. A muzungu missionary was beaten senseless for trying to protect his maid from beatings and rape


Are you suggesting that indiscriminate murder , rape , torture and starvation of civilians is an appropriate reaction to ZAPU leaders importing weapons?

Also
The ring leader of Gukurahundi Brigadier General Emile Munemo admitted that the whole exercise was about retribution because according to him, Ndebele feel superior to Shona and they had aold scores to settle. It was not about the shipment of arms as you claim.

@hardwood

Why would Nyerere allow weapons to be sneaked in through Dar es Salaam, only to warn Mugabe after the weapons had already been sent to mashinani?
It does not make sense.

In fact there is evidence that those weapons that Mugabe is referencing were planted by Mugabe's goons in collusion with apartheid south Africa



Link

Seems like a similar tactic to the one Moi applied during the 1982 coup where he allowed the coup to happen so he could around using it as an excuse to jail and fire officials from the Jomo Kenyatta government.

The General I referenced above admitted that Gukurahundi happened because of hatred between Ndebele and Mashona.

Also please explain why these drunk soldiers went around raping women and pouring hot water on elderly women among other things.