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Mnangagwa Spokesman: South Africa Too Young To Intervene In Zimbabwe | FULL THREAD
4 September 2020
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“…. wish to be occupied, hegemonized by SADC’s youngest State which is still grappling to overcome its apartheid legacy?..”

By George Charamba| What motivates supposedly national journalism to play such a servile, nay, treacherous, anti-nation role on behalf of foreign powers? Lastly, whence comes this impression that South Africa can intervene in Zimbabwe, assuming there are grounds for such intervention?? On what basis, what might, what capacity, beyond that of solidarity, camaraderie and good-natured concern by a neighbour?? South Africa is the youngest State in our region. It faces myriad problems of a long apartheid. It has no capacity to help any African.

State in Sadc, beyond friendly solidarity. Let that sink into minds of all and sundry. In any event, Zimbabwe, alongside many SADC countries which got their Independence before South Africa, has gone quite some way in resolving its colonial legacy and empowering its people,

…something the ANC govt is grappling to do just now. South Africa is no donor State in SADC. If anything, its long apartheid legacy makes its post-1994 subregional role quite problematic for the rest of Sadc States who know the continued dominance of Afrikaner capital in Sadc …does not benefit the ANC or blacks in Soweto or Khayilisha. That is the sordid truth. South Africa can not intervene militarily in any Sadc country. That lesson was driven home during the Mandela days when it sought to do so in Lesotho. Since that disastrous escapade, South

African diplomacy has been tempered and restrained to function within Sadc structures, as should be!! Just what is the logic & implication of Zimbabweans of insufficient history and national consciousness asking for South African intervention in Zimbabwe outside Sadc structures?

A wish to be occupied, hegemonized by SADC’s youngest State which is still grappling to overcome its apartheid legacy? Is that the erudition which political scientists like Masunungure are supposed to show and share? Or is South Africa being urged to be a pawn of US diplomacy?