With an election coming up, I thought it might be interesting to poll Zimbo’s on how soon they expect to be going home. http://scotchcart.wordpress.com

So, you think President Mugabe and friends are British agents?

Talking about how benevolent white rule is (or was) in comparison to the dictatorships that follow is often intended to defend the weak moral response to the crimes of the former (by focusing on their ‘virtues’ to their supporters) while focusing upon the ills of the following regimes, forgetting that the reason that the people of Zimbabwe (including the leader of the opposition movement, the MDC) overwhelmingly supported Mugabe and thought he was beneficial for the country, and yearned for liberation from foreign rule.

May I ask whether any of those who agonise over the wonders of yester-year benefited in any way from the material profits torn from Africa and colonialism? And whether all the current cries over oppression are really sincere, since it doesn’t really seem to bother Britain (BAE) how weapons and torture devices are employed by regimes like Egypt, Saudi and the UAE against their own populaces, or indeed it didn’t matter until only a decade ago how apartheid was an appalling crime against humanity…

until you actually feel that every human life is worth what yours is, take life only in self-defense, and consider in the words of the Qur’an that to “kill one soul is to slaughter the whole world” - then all cries of human rights just sound like opportunistic agonizing, as much from Britons concerned about Zimbabwe but not about Palestinians or Pakistanis, as from muslims concerned with Gitmo but not with their own regimes or Darfur.

Another sad thing is that administrative frameworks implemented by colonial authorities to exploit and suppress the “natives” still exist to this day.

Posts such as that of ‘PC’ (Provincial Commissioner), ‘DC’ (District Commissioner), ‘DO’( District Officer) complete with their own Police Force known as the Adminstration Police (in Kenya, at least) exist purely to make sure any grassroots civic institutions, democratic grassroots processes, organised protests etc never happen.

These structures were originally put in place for the benefit of Lord Delamere and others like him(am guessing).

Right now,nobody needs these structures anymore but they exist to serve as a private army for whoever is in power -if Kibaki wanted to emulate Mugabe, all he has to do is issue orders to these shadowy soldiers.

They even still wear colonial uniform! -looking like characters in the film ‘Zulu’.