Omukulu OJ
Long time no see, Look when I get writings that make my head spin I
sometimes love to refer them to you. In my arguments with my friends like
Edward Pojim I have stated that Africas problem is not poor leadership but
the decisions made on our continent are made by foreigners. Whether we elect
or we dont elect does not matter for the results are already set up in our
absence. And those decisions really matter and end up affecting all of us.
Due to the weakness of Robert Mugabe, when he went after the land
redistribution, he left the whites to live in Zimbabwe. Among those that he
left is Eddie Cross who is an MP of the opposition under Tsivangirai. Yes he
is in opposition of Mugabes government although they are a part of the
government. The MP trolled into Uganda few days ago, and I need all of us
to take a breath, let us not be hyped but read his report on Uganda and what
he saw. Friends it does not matter what we say in forums it does not matter
what we decide, what this man states affects you and me way more than what
your vote states. And why? Because right now you all as Ugandans are fucked,
the report he is going to write about Uganda to the world bank, to IMF to
the UN to you name it will directly affect you. And this is how great the MP
saw Uganda he is about to immigrate to the Pearl Of Africa. What we need in
our continent is not yet good leadership but stopping whites to decide our
future. OJ be very worried on how MP Eddie Cross sells the Museveni
achievements in our country. Do you also realize that he went to Uganda and
Rwanda and he refused to reach DRC where 8 million people have died to
finance that entire cabal he was in? Imagine if 8 million whites had died,
his writing would have changed. And that is the value whites put into
blacks. May President Iddi Amin rest in peace indeed.
OJ this mans writing is the only reason I need Museveni out of power for
every crappy thing he has done in Uganda is to liberate whites, and so here
we are.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Hope for Africa
Living in a near failed State like Zimbabwe and watching the news about the
rest of Africa, its easy to be pessimistic about the continent. But I have
recently spent time in Namibia, Kenya and Uganda. Last week I was on a
Parliamentary trip to Kampala, the Capital of Uganda, which lasted 5 days. I
must say that we were impressed with Kampala its a City of 5 million
people, about 80 kilometers across, a major City by any standard. Uganda has
had its share of the African disease bad government, corruption and
human and legal rights abuse; the expulsion of the Asian business community
and the economic collapse that followed, but what we found was unexpected.
The City is clean I seldom saw any litter, certainly none in the City
center, no pot holes and the gardens immaculate I have always judged
communities by their gardens as a community that plants trees and flowers
and mows the lawn, is a stable and progressive community. On a day trip to
Jinga we passed 5 nurseries selling trees and shrubs. The country does not
experience winter and gets two wet seasons a year so it was green and
vibrant. Plant anything and it grows. Our human contacts were no less
impressive, Ugandans are confident in their skins, open and friendly. I
never felt any sense of insecurity even though there was a security clamp
down at the time due to some intelligence about a threat. Every meeting we
attended was on time and well organized, if our driver said he would be at
the hotel to pick us up at 10, he was there with a protocol officer who
could not have been more helpful and facilitating.
In Parliament we observed the Committees at work; we watched a sitting of
the House and heard some debate. It is clear that Parliament is a strong,
independent institution and clearly takes its role as the watchdog of the
people very seriously. We heard senior officials from the Prime Ministers
Office being grilled over unauthorized expenditure a tough no hold barred
session. We watched another committee grill the senior officers from a Rural
Council over a debt of $40 000 that had not been accounted for they were
given a week to produce the culprits and the truth or face serious
consequences. It was a real privilege to be able to see an administration in
Africa working so well and to recognize that this was really Uganda at work
not some foreign consultants or expatriates, but the real thing, all home
grown and indigenous. The staff and Members of Parliament that we met were
charming and confident and well aware of the crucial role they were playing
in their society. I was deeply encouraged and we learned a great deal from
our counterparts about how we might improve our own performance at home in
Zimbabwe.
For those of us who have made Africa our home of choice, these examples of
a functional society that is self-confident and progressive, are important
because we all need hope while we struggle with the present and the past.
Africa is on the move. This year the continental economy will grow faster
than any other, we are at last making some inroads to the poverty of our
people and our institutions are slowly growing in maturity and strength. Of
course there are problems and we saw those the massive informal sector,
run down railways system, large areas of low grade housing and clear
evidence of insecurity of tenure. The school system is mixed half private
and half State and the standards vary a great deal. You really need to be
able to afford private education to equip your children with a decent
education. Health care is also very disparate the poor get a low standard
of care while the rich can get what they want. The economy is dominated by
that of Kenya but regional institutions seem to be working better than here
in southern Africa. The problem of the Big Man persists, Mr. Museveni has
been in power for many decades and while we were there he fired his Prime
Minister for what seemed to us to be very flimsy reasons the real reason
probably being that he was clearly intending to challenge the President in
2016. Power is highly centralized but the State works and there is quite a
lot of new investment which suggests that policies are reasonably investor
friendly.
Next door is Rwanda where once a week the State President goes onto the
street to collect litter, where millions of peasant farmers have been given
secure legal title to their land and are now owners, not occupiers. I looked
at the departure board in Nairobi airport and saw 12 flights to Kigali. The
economy there is booming and there is a new sense of purpose and enterprise.
This was the country that just a few years ago was witnessing the murder by
machete of 80 000 people a day for months. It is all about leadership. When
I flew from Nairobi to Harare three weeks ago there were just 12 passengers
on my flight. On the ground we were the only flight being processed, on the
way into town we used a short road project that was first given to a local
firm for execution at a cost of $80 million for 17 kilometers. When they
failed to fulfill their contract it was taken over by the State agency.
There was no need for the new road; the old one was quite adequate but our
President felt that he wanted a new road to showcase visitors purely an
ego issue.
Our economy is in dire straits, accompanied by company closures and
declining revenues to the State, only six per cent of our population is
working in a formal job, half of them for the government. Our present fiscal
situation is totally unsustainable yet our President insisted on travelling
to New York to strut on the world stage and took over 100 people with him at
a cost of millions. After 34 years there is no understanding of just what is
important and what is counterproductive. Its easy to be discouraged when
you face a situation like that and many in Zimbabwe are desperate about the
situation they find themselves in right now. Uganda and Rwanda show us that
these things pass, that around us Africa is growing up and coming to terms
with its past and dealing with the present very well. Every Zimbabwean needs
to visit these places, if only to see that there is life after all in Africa
and eventually we will also win through.
But winning is not going to be done by foreigners that is our job and
only Zimbabweans can liberate themselves and find a future.
Eddie Cross
29th September 2014
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni
katika machafuko"
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