By now, for those who have even the vaguest familiarity with Zimbabwean politics, it is apparent that President Robert Mugabe is a racist, fascist, homophobic, and ultimately nefarious man. Zimbabwe did show signs of potential in the early to mid-1990s as mortality rates decreased and immunization rates increased. However, overly racist and authoritarian policies halted Zimbabwe's growth.
As a cholera epidemic has swept the nation over the past few months and shows no signs of slowing down, Mugabe now appears to be close to insanity. Unfortunately, his insanity has spread to all senior officials in Zimbabwe. Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu places the blame for cholera squarely on the shoulders of the British, claiming that they "are continuing to plant anthrax and cholera disease." Mugabe has long been known to refer to all his critics and detractors as "born-again colonialists," suggesting that anyone who disagrees with his "nationalist" politics really wishes to re-implement Western white rule in Zimbabwe. The claim that British PM Gordon Brown is to blame for the cholera outbreak is a new low.
Just a few days ago Mugabe claimed that the cholera outbreak was under control. Seeing as Mugabe is 84 years old his remarks can easily be dismissed as senile. However, to hear the so-called Information Minister state that the British are using biological warfare on the Zimbabwean people is frightening. Even if Mugabe is deposed as President, it appears there are several other maniacal despots waiting to take power.
Robert Mugabe has gone so far as to refer to himself as a "black Hitler" in the past. Upon initially being compared to Hitler by the UK Parliament, Mugabe controversially stated "This Hitler had only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people...If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold." As Mugabe stands by idly, going so far as to deny the cause of death for thousands of his people, he certainly is acting in a Hilteresque manner. Mugabe may not be a tenfold Hitler, but the fact there are ten or more Hitlers in the upper ranks of the Zimbabwe government is equally, if not more, terrifying.
