The adverse impact of one important element that the author has missed to analyse in his overall structured approach is that of "get rich quick by any means" that characterised people in the one-party structures that most liberation movements engineered following the assumption of power.

Long years of deprivation of goodies while pursuing the liberation struggle gave way suddenly to the greed to making quick bucks at all costs by most of the cadres who integrated the government and parastal institions.

The victims in the civil society had hardly any recourse to denounce such acts or raise awareness around. Rampant corruption therefore spread like wildfire, which soon brought to a halt the socio-economic take off.

People started to feel the pinch, but they hardly had any opportunity to mount any significant social movement in favour of transparency and accountability. This was further compounded by the fact that the government was by far the largest employer in these countries, except South Africa. Most people in jobs and with good intent preferred to sacrifice the larger interest of the community, keep their mouth shut in order to be able to feed the family. The tentacles of the government reached every nook and corner of the economy and anybody fired for political reasons could hardly find other jobs in the country. Zimbabwe is a perfect example!

Whereas in countries with a diverse economy and a relatively well developed private sector dissidents could find alternative jobs and therefore could sustain their political activism, in the former countries under one-party regimes it was suicidal to raise any voice against corrupt practices.

Political power is concentrated in the one-party regime. The opposition is not allowed any space to breathe, hence the precarious conditions under which the opposition members have to operate.

The contention of the author that people in the opposition parties were also keen to join the loot once in power goes a long way to sustain my argument that an oversized civil service and a weak private sector has been at the root of several evil practices. One had to be in the structure or be able to establish privileged links with people in the structure to be able to make "quick bucks".

A pyramid of privileges grew up superimposed on a pyramid of party cadres. The higher the cadre, the higher the privileges. The higher the cadre, the nearer they were to the top leadership. They did everything to make the king (dictator) believe that he was the best dressed although he was naked! The dicatators themselves living a material life of abundance in pursuit of carnal pleasures hardly had time to listen to the cries of their citizens.

Today a growing number of people, especially youngsters, want transparency and accountability. That is what Mugabe is facing now. Everybody is so corrupt around him that they are more concerned about how to perpetuate the system in order to continue protecting themselves from popular calls to make them account for the failures.

Zimbabwe enters into very unsettling times ahead. Will there be a violent street initiative to bolt away the lunatic Mugabe? Will there be a more reasoned approach for gradual change?

Mbeki has left an incomplete work. Mugabe is vile, overwhelmed by greed (both power and wealth), indifferent to the sufferings of millions of his citizens, ready to even sink the boat that is already wrecked.

The end of Mugabe (and with him the end of the liberation era) is pitiful. A hero who has turned into a murderer and an illegitimate president??

How would Zimbabwe's liberation heroes turn in their graves with restlessness that such a devil is still causing untold sufferings to the people they had so valiantly liberated in order for them to taste freedom, dignity and the fruits of development?

SHAME to whom? Even little kids in Zimbabwe know the answer.

COMMENT 1

Where the Africans Stand to be blamed for the Destruction of Africa

NOT TO SPARE THE AFRICANS WHO THINK ONLY OF DESTROYING THE continent of africa

One thing that can turn the stomach of even the most seasoned Warrior ” African Freedom Fighter “, involved in the work of ending oppression and awakening human dignity in oneself and ones comrades, is the incredible shamelessness of those who profit and thrive off the suffering of their own people and this is what is happening in Africa today .

The mind boggles at the blatant callousness of individuals " THE BLACK AFRICANS " who really and truly do not care about the pain and the suffering of their tricknology causes.

Not even a “I didn’t know” or the usual denial of hard facts. No, the shameless ones are so versed in their insanity of Greed ; they have no need to protect their psyche through such defence mechanisms. Instead they tend to be totally clear and aware of what they are doing.

Take a look at the much talked about African Elites the so called admired Leaders of today’s Indepenedent African Countries .

What have they truly done, for Africa, and African people ? Have they done anything, in aiding Africa to realise wholesome, balanced societies and communities ? Have they guided Africa in the constant rebirth of Africa's roots and culture ? Have they partaken in the process of finding out what the Africans can learn from other cultures and what Africa should avoid like the plague that is hitting Africa ?

The obvious ( though not quite correct ) answer is : They have done nothing. The truth is though, they have done far more than enough in misguiding, decieving and misleading the people of Africa . If it only they had done nothing, the situation wouldn’t be as tragic as it is. No, they have not merely idly stood by.

They have gone beyond the level of the useful fool, who due his / her misconditioning, ignorance and good old fashioned pigheadedness can be used to destroy his / her society and implant the values, norms and governance of the imperialist .

They are now willing fools . In effect, they collaborate with open eyes with the destroyers of humanity for the sole purpose of getting a slice of the cake for themselves, and their little circle of friends and family, or those who share the same social status as themselves.

Truly , a fitting title would be accomplices to the crimes of genocide, enslavement, terror and the rape of the collective mind of an entire people. There is no excuse only arrogant greed, lack of remorse, lack of compassion and shamelessness .

Just see for yourselves of Africa :

Who goes to Paris, London, Washington, etc and signs away the land underneath the feet of their own people?

Who agrees that their people should work for nothing under inhuman conditions for multinational companies in the name of foreign investment?

Who agrees to ethnically clear an area of unwanted tribes, so the global economy, or rather the global monstrosity can gain access to the resources that lie in Ancestral Lands of Africa?

Who swears by , obeys and enforces ridiculous Colonial laws that still are in place in many so-called independent African countries, as Administrative law?

Who continues to pay off loans which are nothing more than economic entrapment designed to keep Africans locked in the ideology and practice of poverty?

Who continues to obey the thinking, that Africa must grow and export agricultural produce for Western markets instead of cultivating food to feed THEMSELVES ?

None other than the African Elite. ( SO CALLED ELITE ) And why? So they and their little clique can get rich and fat without doing an honest days work. So their children can go to fine European schools and speak French and English with the proper accent. Not giving a damn about the blood split to ensure their material living standard and status as elites.

Take Azania (South Africa). As the Racist regime came to the end of its overt power, - now it just rules covertly -what happened ? Was their justice, was their liberty, was their redress, was their a redistribution of Land? Far from it, there was - to be blunt - A BIG FAT LIE !!!!!!!!!! that comes out of the African Elites mouth

More than 70% of the Land, which the Racist government had seized through the 1913 land act, has remained in the hands of the white farmers. . The agents of Apartheid, the butchers who had tortured and killed with impunity for years were allowed to do a confessional song and dance and let off scot-free. In the name of reconciliation and Christian charity.

It is simple in mind; whatever academic title or social rank the Africans hide behind, the majority of African Elites are nothing more than an imperialist fifth column within African societies. Until Africa gets rid of the mentality that infects these twisted minds of these Elites , until it is forever barred from all affairs that touch on all African collective wellbeing all talk of change , remains just that so " Africa Moribund " in the hands of these African Elites .

N.B

Whilst Lado is fighting over this issue , the same African Elites are busy in their conspiracy working hard as enemies or joining hands wih Lado's enemies to destroy Lado in Africa . . . .

COMMENT 2

IF ONLY THE AFRICANS KNEW WHEREBY THEY HAVE BEEN TRICKED AND WHEREBY THEY GO WRONG !!

Notables points :

3rd August 1875 ------- Can be remembered as the beginning date , as the European States divided the African Continent amongst them , ( the Paris Resolution ) and once again on - 26 February 1885 ----- (The Berlin Treaty) where they took African Freedom and Liberty and imposed their Religion and their Values on the African Peoples .

1945 - The Pan Africanism Association was formed . With the death of the King Atabua ( of the till now Occupied Kingdom State of Lado in Africa by " BRITAIN AND BELGIUM " ) was actually the end of Pan Africanism with its founded Head Quarters at Arua - Aru in the Independent Kingdom State of Lado as Lado was / is Rightly situated in the Heart of Africa .

Where Africa was Tricked and wrongly guided in the prepared for , a received independence s Issues !

After the Assassination of the Chairman of PanAfricanism ( King Anacleto Atabua ) on 14th April 1948 by the British , because he asked USSR to raise the question of Lado at the UN in 1947, and the British found that was not the right thing to do. and inorder to cover up this most important History part of Africa , the Wester World Europeans decided to draw the African Minds to establish a new system of a giving Independence to the African People by encouraging the Secretary of the assassinated King Atabua " Francis Kwame Nkuruma " to take over to work on this issue of Indepedences but without Sovereignty issue at hand to the African people . Francis Kwame Nkuruma betrayed the African People over the Question of Sovereignty This is the biggest mistake he ever made .

1958 ---------- The Western - European Agreement with Nkuruma led to the initiatives of the formation of Organisation of African Unit in the African Independence Conference held in Accra in 1958 giving in the end the rise to : In 1961, the OAU Charter was drawn without formulating the Rights of Sovereignty issue of the Independent African Nations . This was and is the Political Suicide for the African Nations which still today are properties of the Western - European Controlled Nations and whereby we are witnessing now ---

" is that the African People are ridding themselves of the Ruling Elite, who have Betrayed their People, and who have only been kept in Power with the massive Support of the Old Colonial Powers, mainly Britain, France and Belgium, who have and are still now contributing heavily with Military Expertise and Weaponry. And not least to the pockets and Foreign Bank Accounts of their African Leaders " . The Africa Leaders since from Independence are still under the control of these Colonial powers till today with exception of " Lado Occupied " still struggling for Freedom since from 1947 when Lado refused and refuses still to sign for a given Independence witout her Territorial and the Peoples Sovereignty ( see the the story of Chroonological Political History of Lado in Africa : .

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