His way or the highway

Robert Mugabe over the past few weeks or so has been garnering plenty of news headlines & of course for all the wrong reasons: he's been riding roughshod over the opposition & those folks who are vocal in saying that they are anti-Mugabe through & through.

If I've heard rightly, he has also said that he'd rather die in office. Just imagine that: someone that relentless in his determination to stay in power saying that he'd keep his position 'til last!! But with Zimbabwe's dictator & a half, his singleness of purpose is frighteningly clear: what he's trying to tell us is that he's keeping his precarious foothold over his nation up to his death & if anyone has an issue with what he just said, they'll have to answer to his cronies in the ZANU-PF party who are more than happy to re-educate the opposition.

In a country already bedecked with suffering & misery, it is no surprise that this latest spate from Mugabe is just one tip of the iceberg among many addressed already (e.g. by the United Nations). As anyone worth their salt knows by now, Mugabe's antics over the years have gone from bad to worse & for the past week or so they've been downright horrible. The very man whom so many Zimbabweans looked up to as a savior & redeemer is now no more than a pariah, persona non grata, a heartless, callous figure with no regards to life or death...Seriously, Mugabe deserves to be shunned for all his actions over a majority of the 28 years he's been in power. We've seen it all before from the likes of men such as Charles Taylor & Idi Amin: their relentlessness to stay in power not only made suffering & despair inevitable but with both the loss of innocent lives as well.

But it will soon be a matter of time before Mugabe will be brought to heel for all the hurt he has caused his land. And as for him wanting to die in office? Many folks who are sincerely & fiercely anti-Mugabe sure hope that he doesn't stick around that long or hope that one day he will have to answer for every flagrant action of violence, etc. he & his ZANU-PF clowns have resorted to over the years to cow the opposition back in line.

Oh, & one more thing: one way or the other, he'll have to step down from his autocratic perch even if this means doing it by force.