ZIMBABWE AND SA
SIMON LINCOLN READER: No viable transition without the restoration of justice
Hopefully, Zimbabweans appreciate that a demonstration of the pursuit of justice is overdue in the Southern African Development Community region
A new dawn, squealed one of The Guardian’s reporters on the subject of Zimbabwe last week. Some days I walk past The Guardian’s headquarters. Long before I moved to London, I red-pilled myself into understanding what actually goes on in there. Conflating the resignation of a corpse with the miraculous ascent into democracy is irresponsible. Perhaps what The Guardian meant was a new receptionist called Dawn has started working there, replacing the old one, who also happened to be called Dawn. The Conservative Party issued words to the effect of "Zimbabwe is Britain’s oldest friend". Gwede Mantashe, who has stood idly by the devouring of the state in SA, countered these sentiments by imposing the fictitious West versus Africa conspiracy divide and eNCA’s Nickolaus Bauer contaminated social media with feeds of himself joining a party of Zimbabweans in Hillbrow. Together this deluded inference suggests that it was Robert Mugabe, his dreadful wife, a domestic-violence professional named ...
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