ZIMBABWE: HICHILEMA BLUNDERS AGAIN
Mr Hakainde Hichilema’s willingness to be an enabler of the imperialist agenda against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Republic of Zimbabwe is shameful.
Two days ago, the US government sanctioned several Zimbabwean individuals, including President Mnangagwa and First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa.
But in a never seen before diplomatic blunder and amateurism, Mr Hichilema took to Twitter praising the US for its action on Zimbabwe.
“Pleased to see @POTUS President Biden terminate the #Zimbabwe Sanctions Program. This is further evidence that Pres. Biden listens to his African partners. We hope this is an opportunity for a new direction for Zimbabwe and regional engagement,” stated Mr Hichilema in his tweet.
Biden listens to his African partners (like Mr Hichilema) to impose sanctions on President Mnangagwa!
How can a leader expose his intellectual and ideological bankruptcy and diplomatic bias in such a manner? How can a leader be so insensitive to his fellow Head of State in a neighbouring county? What type of human being is Mr Hichilema? What propels his heart, his personality, and his abilities to make decisions, especially about fellow human beings? What has President Mnangagwa and Zimbabwe done to him?
It’s unfortunate that Mr Hichilema has continued to bring shame on Zambia through his embarrassing puppetry attempts to impress his Western masters.
Beyond his tagging along with imperial powers and colonisers in supporting Israel’s genocide on innocent Palestinians, Mr Hichilema is going as far as openly supporting an imperialist agenda and propaganda against fellow African or regional leaders. What a shame? What an awful way to go about diplomatic relations between brotherly nations? This has never happened within SADC in a long time.
In fact, this is a geopolitical taboo, which was a no-go area even for those who have reincarnated into Mr Hichilema in serving Western interests, such as Malawi’s Kamuzu Banda and Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko.
As if that is not enough, Mr Hichilema, in his zeal to show his puppet masters how deep he was licking imperial boots, forgot to read properly and understand the context of the situation on sanctions against Zimbabwe. Yet he unashamedly rushed to parade his ignorance online over a matter he totally had no clue about or historical perspective.
But even if it were true that the sanctions had indeed been lifted, Mr Hichilema’s gratitude to Mr Biden and the US is shameful and too colonial, given that the sanctions are illegal, cruel and unjust, and have been used by the imperialists to inflict pain and suffering on innocent Zimbabweans all because they seek to keep African countries under the servitude of Western interests.
So rather than thank the US, we expected Mr Hichilema to condemn the sanctions and speak for African dignity and freedom, even though that would be expecting too much from Mr Hichilema, who has already shown clearly that his interest is to serve the Western interests with shameless loyalty, even if it means playing a clown for them, like he did this week on the sanctions against President Mnangagwa and Zimbabwe.
Zambia, twasebana!
Mayibuye iAfrica!
Fred M’membe
President of the Socialist Party
Mr Membe; you didn’t bother to read because your brain is so bitter about HH. He praised USA for removing some sanctions and urged Biden to remove all sanctions..period! You re pregnant with bitterness and very soon you will collapse! How were you born….legs first or what. No normal human being hates like that ….
When you have a president who makes impulsive decisions and statements. This is where it always ends. Why not just keep shut.
Mmembe should learn to first gather facts before commenting on any issues. The USA has in effect removed sanctions on Zimbabwe under a policy of don’t punish all citizens for the sins of afew individuals. This the SANCTIONS have been removed on the country. However 11 individuals who include the President and his Vice president and their connected businesses are still under sanctions. This is the correct position. It’s wrong for Mmembe to name HH in unsavoury manner based on his ill informed position. Sanctions on Zimbabwe have now been lifted.
The new sanctions against Zimbabwe by USA and it’s president, if Hichilema has taken time to read them, they have outlined as : rampant corruption by the Zimbabwean president and his top officials, rampant arrests of opposition and civic leaders, abrogation of the Zimbabwean constitution, lack of freedom of expression by citizens, opposition leaders and parties are blocked from holding rallies, use of security forces to silence opposition, civic leaders and individuals! Critically looked at, all these things are happening in Zambia under Hichilema’s rule! So opposition should come together and present their case to the American ambassador to Zambia, so that Zambia does not sink into level of Zimbabwe’s economic woes due to dictatorship. It’s save Zambia now , not tomorrow!!