Mugabe must get real and wake up

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe must get real and wake up because he will find himself on a lonely journey if he decides to quit the United Nations and, worse still, such a journey would precipitate the collapse of his government sooner than he could dream of.

Japanese writer Ken Yamamoto says most of what is happening today in Zimbabwe is funded by the UN and its agencies, including health, education and social welfare.

“So, true to form, Mugabe’s rants are all form and no beer; all sizzle and no steak!”

Mugabe has threatened to pull out of the world body if it does not reform its security council which comprises only five members- the United States of America, Britain, France, Russia and China- and has called on other nations, especially African countries, to rally behind him.

Africa, with its 54 nations is not represented.

Yamamoto said there were four major reasons why Mugabe’s threat would not happen.

“Mugabe wants to be recognized as a man with a cause, but an esoteric cause unfortunately. He wants to play the role of that swashbuckling pan-Africanist – the only remaining one carrying the torch of a bygone generation. Which is why he is always ridiculing younger leaders of having lost the ideals of yesteryear leaders. He seems bewildered that a younger generation of African leaders have a very different vision from his. This is why he is reported to have labeled them cowards,” he wrote for NewZimbabwe.Com.

“He mistakes this for cowardice, and fails to see than the younger generation of African leaders have a more transformational vision anchored on the view that in a globalized world, taking the podium at the UN General Assembly is not an opportunity to pontificate, but a chance to play your cards right on the global chessboard. That is realpolitik (for the unfamiliar – this means politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations)……”

“Any splinter, were it to happen (which it won’t) would ruin Zimbabwe and worsen Mugabe’s trouble at home. Zimbabwe is technically insolvent. The books cannot balance and Mugabe’s government is living from hand to mouth – which is why his presence at the UNGA just to make a mere speech is inconsistent with that of a man whose country’s dire financial circumstances requires radical and extreme level of financial prudence…..

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