Robert Mugabe absolutely hates Roy Bennett. Bennett is a wealthy white farmer who is extremely popular among black people who then voted him in as a member of parliament. Bennett is a strong character who once even punched one of Mugabe’s officials in the mouth in parliament some years ago, which earned him quite a long stint in jail. The black people absolutely love this white farmer and they have held vigils outside his prison cell in the past out of fear that Mugabe wants to kill him.
Whenever Mugabe can, he invents some sort of charge to lay against Bennett. to my knowledge, Bennett has never been involved in terrorism nor any plot to overthrow Mugabe. In fact, I know certain facts, which I would prefer not to disclose in public which ABSOLUTELY CONVINCE ME that Bennett never was, and never will be involved in any plot to oust Mugabe by force. Nevertheless, this does not stop Mugabe from planting and inventing evidence against him.
Mugabe might just be playing a game with Bennett, using Bennett as a pawn to get concessions out of the MDC. But I also do not doubt that Mugabe wouldn’t mind seeing this white man swinging from the end of a rope.
I urge people to do all they can to spread the word of the plight of Bennett, including visiting embassies and sending them emails.
A while back I spoke to an old black Matabele man. As you know Mugabe murdered 30,000 Matabele people in the 1980s. They constantly understate the real figure as 20,000. My friend Robb Ellis, who was there says that in his estimation, 30,000 is probably the more correct figure. I said to the old Matabele man: “One day people must fight Mugabe”. “No,” said the old black man, “we can never do that because Mugabe will kill all the children. He will come and kill the women and the children like he did last time, so we can’t fight him.”
And that, folks, is the bottom line: Robert Mugabe kills black people, white people. He kills men, but he also tortures women and kills children as suits his fancy. This man needs to be sorted out, and his ongoing MONOPOLY of violence and death against whomever he pleases is never going to stop. Whoever faces off with him, will need to arrange for the protection of the women and children or else Mugabe will slaughter them all. Jan]
By MacDonald Dzirutwe
Harare – Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s ally Roy Bennett went on trial accused of terrorism on Monday in a case that has stoked tensions in the unity government of Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF.
Bennett, whom Tsvangirai wants to bring into the government, was arrested in February and charged with illegally possessing arms to commit acts of terrorism, banditry and insurgency, charges that carry a possible death penalty.
The state brought several cases of ammunition and rifles as evidence into the High Court in Harare on Monday.
“This is a very serious matter which must be awarded the amount of seriousness it demands,” Zimbabwe’s Attorney-General Johannes Tomana told the court.
A tense-looking Bennett sat in the dock, at times with his head bowed.
Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says the case is politically motivated and the party briefly boycotted the unity government after Bennett, a white former coffee farmer, was detained in prison following his indictment for trial.
Bennett, the MDC treasurer, has denied the charges and the MDC says the case was designed to stop him from taking office as deputy agriculture minister.
The MDC says Mugabe is frustrating efforts to swear in Bennett, along with other senior MDC officials, as required by a political agreement signed last year between the rival parties.
Mugabe says he does not oppose Bennett becoming a minister but says he should be acquitted by the courts first.
A senior Tsvangirai aide said Mugabe had previously told the former opposition leader that Bennett’s nomination was “provocative”, especially after an often violent land seizure drive that saw white commercial farmers, including Bennett, losing their land.
Tsvangirai said on Sunday his party would stay in the government and challenge Zanu-PF to implement the power-sharing deal.
In 2004 Bennett was sentenced 12 months in jail after he was convicted of assaulting a Zanu-PF minister during a parliamentary debate.
Bennett, a one-time policeman under Ian’s Smith’s white-ruled Rhodesia, returned to Zimbabwe in early 2009, shortly before his arrest, after spending two years in exile in South Africa. – Reuters
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