Eight reasons why President Mugabe is wrong on Mandela !

 

One of Africa’s most popular liberation leaders, Mr Mugabe has clashed with the West over controversial policies that saw white-owned farms violently seized more than a decade ago.

In neighboring South Africa, where white land ownership is still a flash point, Mr Mugabe says former president Nelson Mandela was not hard enough.
He says former colonial master Britain — with whom he has had a fraught relationship over the land grabs — "will praise you only if you are doing things that please them".
"Mandela has gone a bit too far in doing good to the non black communities, really in some cases at the expense of (blacks)," Mr Mugabe says of his former South African counterpart.
"That’s being too saintly, too good, too much of a saint," the Sunday Independent newspaper quotes him saying in the documentary.

The above might be President Mugabe's opinion on former South African first black President and icon Nelson Mandela. Here is why its wrong and insensitive:

1)It is wrong to judge harsh and unfairly some body's way of leadership, who has a different style and conviction than you. He must let South Africans judge Mandela, even as Zimbabweans will judge him.
2) It is wrong to drag the ailing old man into Zimbabwe's political crisis and try to justify oneself by creating comparison of the two different situations.

3) It was him, President who refused to be compared to Nelson Mandela, few years ago, he  was asked to follow Mandela's model and retire. He said and I quote, "I am not Nelson Mandela. There is a Mandela way, and there is Mugabe way"

4) We all know that it was not until the opposition was about to take him out that he allowed the war vets to take over the white men's land that he had presided over for twenty years!

5) Despite  him being hard on whites, millions of black people are still poor, may even more poorer than before.

6)It is in public records that  Mugabe has murdered, maimed, tortured his own black people, defending his position of power since 1980.

7) Zanu Pf, President Mugabe's party has brain washed him for many years, telling him that he is the only person capable of leading Zimbabwe. Something which is a big lie.

8) That up to about 1998, Zimbabwe was ruled party by Britain, despite having a black leader in the office!