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Two prominent South African clerics who returned yesterday from a fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe have called on the United Nations, through the Southern African Development Community (SADC), to consider sending troops into Zimbabwe to prevent the country sliding into a situation similar to Kenya.
I am grateful for the role of Dr. Boesak and the delegation that journeyed o Zimbabwe. I have been one who has articulated that South Africa has to play it diplomatically as they engage Zimbabwe and the ruckus that has been caused under the leadership and reign of Robert Mugabe.
I understand as a South African, the need for addressing Robert Mugabe with ‘kids gloves’, but it is time that our country play a role in providing a critical consciousness, and a mindset that will cause Robert Mugabe to consider the injustice that he is heaping on his own people.
I have exclaimed that South Africa must not seek to act like the USA, we have no business trying to regulate the world, but our country has able leaders who have a social justice concern, and we should lobby the against the powers that be in Zimbabwe that are propelling human rights violations. We stand up and resist this fowl reality of oppressed becoming oppressor, in Zimbabwe and at home.
I am grateful for the role of Dr. Boesak and the delegation that journeyed of Zimbabwe. I have been one who has articulated that South Africa has to play it diplomatically as they engage Zimbabwe and the ruckus that has been caused under the leadership and reign of Robert Mugabe.
I understand as a South African, the need for addressing Robert Mugabe with ‘kids gloves’, but it is time that our country play a role in providing a critical consciousness, and a mindset that will cause Robert Mugabe to consider the injustice that he is heaping on his own people.
I have exclaimed that South Africa must not seek to act like the USA, we have no business trying to regulate the world, but our country has able leaders who have a social justice concern, and we should lobby the against the powers that be in Zimbabwe that are propelling human rights violations. We stand up and resist this fowl reality of oppressed becoming oppressor, in Zimbabwe and at home.
Yours sincerely Seth Naicker Program and projects director Office of Reconciliation Studies Bethel University 3900 Bethel Drive,# 2083 St. Paul, Minnesota 55112-6999, USA Tel: 651 638 6417 seth-naicker@bethel.edu indiAfrique - Training and Development smnaick@hotmail.com
Let it be the very very last option
Please elaborate.
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