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I've just returned from Johannesburg
where we released our report on *** terror
in Mugabe's Zimbabwe,
proving beyond the shadow of a doubt
that the man has committed crimes against humanity
by unleashing a campaign of *** violence
against women in Zimbabwe
solely because they supported the opposition party.
The evidence we've accumulated is frankly incontrovertible.
But the question is:
How do you get rid of that egomaniacal tyrant?
Most people think
it's up to President Zuma of South Africa.
If Zuma was prepared to condemn Mugabe publicly,
if Zuma reduced the trade relationship,
if Zuma closed the borders,
if he was able to rally the other members
of the Southern African Development Community
to a collective condemnation,
then we would rid this planet of that rabid president.
Most South Africans, you know,
know everything there is to know
about Zimbabwe.
After all, Zimbabwe has been destabilizing
the southern part of the continent
for a good long time.
And believe it or not,
there are now 3 million Zimbabwean refugees
in South Africa,
leading to episodic moments of xenophobic violence.
But it's more than that.
South Africans understand.
More than most people understand what happens
when you unleash *** violence.
They know it leads to transmission
of the AIDS virus.
They know that you destroy the women through the ***.
And then they have the nightmare
of living with AIDS.
South Africa has been known
as the *** capital of the world,
and it has the highest number of people living with AIDS
in the world.
Naturally then,
they think what's going on in Zimbabwe
is the ultimate atrocity.
Robert Mugabe has become the modern incarnation
of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:
***, torture, *** and AIDS.
Zuma can bring him down.
President Zuma has already reversed
his predecessor's policies on *** and AIDS.
Maybe he can reverse his predecessor's policies
on Zimbabwe.
And if he doesn't,
then he is guilty of sustaining
Mugabe's madness.
Zuma becomes complicit.
I'm Stephen Lewis.
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