“How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and birds have perished.” Jeremiah 12: 4
The national suicide of Zimbabwe continues as the land spirals downward into lawlessness and savagery. Most of the wildlife has been senselessly slaughtered by blood-thirsty mobs of ZANU-PF’s ‘war veterans’ and youth militia. Vast herds of elephant and the endangered Black Rhino, cheetah, leopard and antelope have been snared, speared, shot or blown up.
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Despite massive irregularities and intimidation, the overwhelming majority of Zimbabweans have voted against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF ruling party. Although the state-controlled media (The Zimbabwean Broadcasting Corporation – ZBC - and the Herald Newspaper) openly campaigned for Mugabe, vilifying the opposition and granting extravagant TV airtime and newspaper coverage to ZANU-PF propaganda, the two main cities in Zimbabwe, Harare and Bulawayo, have overwhelmingly voted against the ZANU-PF government.
Irregularities There was no voter education and voters rolls were not made accessible to the opposition. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) was run by senior leaders of the Marxist ZANU-PF. Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) raided opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) offices and hotel rooms. Observers, and even parliamentary candidates, were detained. Many MDC candidates, officials and independent observers were threatened, beaten and even murdered. Robert Mugabe’s Marxist regime has unleashed a new wave of slaughter against wildlife in Zimbabwe. Conservationists who have been struggling to rehabilitate the wildlife after the devastation caused by Mugabe’s chaotic farm invasions are reeling under new threats. The farm invasions mobilised party militants to invade and loot 5,000 White owned farms. This also included mobs of thousands storming into game reserves, both private and state, to slaughter huge herds of animals and deliberately set fire to vast areas and forests just to drive the animals towards their traps and guns.
What everyone dreaded, though didn’t believe was possible, has happened—Mugabe has managed to steal the election. How he did it is by an unbelievable and blatant demonstration of utter contempt for anything that is just or fair. The nation as a whole is still in a state of shock and utter disbelief.
Church umbrella bodies in Zimbabwe have rejected the results. The EU, Britain and the Commonwealth have rejected the result, as has the USA. South Africa has kind of accepted them at the time of writing which is a massive disappointment as it is really only South Africa that can put the necessary pressure on Mugabe to make him comply with even the most rudimentary aspects of justice. The South African President has yet to announce his own personal views on the issue. Should he continue with the immoral support for Mugabe that is leaking out of his government at this time, then it will be clear that his great ambition is actually not an "African Renaissance" but a "Renaissance of Oppression"—ironic, but true. “A good man is kind to his animals, but the wicked are cruel to theirs.” Proverbs 12:10
Most of the wildlife and vast numbers of domestic animals have been senselessly slaughtered by bloodthirsty mobs of Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF “war veterans” and youth militia in Zimbabwe. Vast herds of elephant and endangered Black Rhino, cheetah, leopard and antelope have been snared, speared, shot or blown up in game reserves in that troubled land. “The violence you have done … will overwhelm you, and your destruction of animals will terrify you.” Habakkuk2:17 “The epicenter of hell is Britain, and the Queen or King in power at the moment is the Devil.”
This comprehensive indictment summarises the message of the vitriolic new book produced by the Zimbabwe government in its all-out determination to win the parliamentary elections due on March 31 st. This “election” is already so extensively rigged that it is impossible that Mugabe’s party (ZANU-PF) will fail to “win”. The army has been put in charge, and it is plainly in the past that the Opposition will not be allowed to take power even if it wins the ballot. It is hardly surprising the new Secretary of State of the United States, Condeleeza Rice, should have pronounced Zimbabwe “one of the last outposts of tyranny”. To mark the 40 th Anniversary of Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence (on Thursday 11 November 1965), Frontline Fellowship hosted a Pray for Zimbabwe Rally in the Pinelands Town Hall, Cape Town. Friends of the mission were invited to a supper beforehand, where historic film clips of Rhodesia were screened.
The Pray for Zimbabwe Rally was opened with devotions by Rev. Stephen Smyth (ex BSAP). He emphasised the brevity of life, the certainty of death, and the absolute priority of repenting of our sins and returning in faith to Christ for salvation. Rev. Smyth also noted the extraordinary high percentage of people that he knew from Rhodesia who were serving in the ministry today. A large number of Rhodesians are serving with distinction in many areas of life, and many can date their spiritual conversion to the crisis and war in Rhodesia. Vladimir Lenin declared: “To tell the truth is a petty bourgeois habit, but to lie and lie convincingly is a sign of superior intelligence!” Lenin also said: “Treaties are like pie crusts – made to be broken!”
Dealing with DeceiversIt is an unquestionable historical fact that Marxists are deceivers and tyrants. How can one make agreements with people for whom lying is an art form and treaties are “worthless pieces of paper!” to again quote Lenin. This week I had a disturbing phone call from a Dutch Missionary. She was part of a group of seven international mission workers who had been burdened for Zimbabwe.
Early in the year, I had been invited to speak at a Discipleship Training School. Later, a group of seven missionaries who were burdened for Zimbabwe came to Livingstone House to receive Gospel literature in the Shona and Ndebele languages for Zimbabwe, and a briefing on the situation there. 40 years ago, on Thursday, 11 November 1965, at the most solemn moment of Armistice Day, the 11 th hour, Ian Douglas Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, signed Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.
This act of defiance, which came after many months of negotiations and fruitless discussions with the British Foreign Office, resulted in a most extraordinary explosion of diplomatic activity, international outrage, economic sanctions and motions of condemnation from the British Commonwealth, the Organisation of African Unity, the United Nations, the Soviet Union, and even from the US State Department. Incredibly, Rhodesia was labeled: “A threat to world peace!” This from nations engaged in nuclear arms races and invasion of other lands! |
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