"May God bless Tutu's lost soul..."

international | politics / elections | other press Tuesday February 08, 2005 14:40 by unretireable

Clashes in southern Africa in run up to elections in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwean politicians are joining in the years' religious style weirdness, which has naturally followed on from the end of 2004 "renewed interest in the spirit" front covers of the global corporate media magazines with renewd interest in what the Roman Pontiff called "the message of baby Jesus in the stable".

Well now the global media zeitgeist has turned to-

"Lost Souls" & what we ought do about them.

South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu told the South African and international media that Zimbabwe was "making a mockery of African democracy" by antagonising Western countries while the leader of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa’s main opposition party, Mr Tony Leon, made known his intentions to visit the country on "a fact-finding mission".

Tutu made his remarks ahead of this weekend’s Group of Seven (G7) meeting of the seven richest nations, which will be held on Saturday

"We have a responsibility. People should see that we really do care about things like freedom, justice . . . the basic freedoms for which we fought. We have to say places like Zimbabwe make almost a mockery of our saying that we are committed to these things and makes it difficult for those who are our friends,’’ Tutu was quoted as saying.

Reacting to these remarks, Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration Cde Didymus Mutasa said it was clear that Tutu was a vassal of imperialism.

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu should be really mindful that worse ‘democracies’ exist in Africa than in Zimbabwe. If he were to put his clerical mind on this, and pray to the real God and not to his false gods — (British Prime Minister) Tony Blair and United States President) George Bush — he would know that the democracy we have in Zimbabwe is second to none as it was secured through precious blood. It was not given, but was fought for by the indigenous people who were subjected to white minority rule similar to that which was in South Africa for hundreds of years.’’

Cde Mutasa said such comments from a sellout bishop like Tutu were not surprising as the "embittered little man" used to pray for apartheid South Africa in the same way he continues to pray for white minority interests today.

As for Tutu’s claims that Zimbabwe is a "huge blot on the record" of the world’s poorest continent since its anti-imperialist stance is preventing Africa from securing more aid from rich countries, Cde Mutasa said: "Those African countries that are in need of aid from the rich Western countries should continue doing so. As Zimbabweans, we will seek help from our friends in the East.’’

He added that God should bless Tutu’s lost soul.

read it all at the links-

Zimbabwe-
http://www.zimbabweherald.com/index.php?id=40481&pubdate=2005-02-08

South Africa the Sunday Indo interview-
http://www.sundayindependent.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=1043&fArticleId=2399972