The manner in which the European and British media have reported how cholera is spreading in Zimbabwe not only reveals they enjoy watching a people whom they cannot intimidate and control suffer, but even, more importantly, it is clearly a masquerade by supposedly compassionate human beings who have nothing to do with the problem.

The Zimbabwean Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr David Parirenyatwa, and his staff deserve ultimate praise, not only for their tireless efforts to maintain Zimbabwe’s broken health infrastructure, but for having the courage and integrity to inform the world that the sanctions — and not negligence or bad governance — are the root cause for problems with the country’s health delivery system.

While the cholera problem is tragic and deserves our immediate attention, the British government and its supporters (raila Odinga and Co), obsessed with illegal regime change in Zimbabwe, should be the last ones allowed to pass moral judgment on how President Mugabe and Zanu-PF deal with this matter.

Africans generally deplore what is going on in Zimbabwe. However, students of African history are equally aware that the seed of the crisis in Zimbabwe was planted by the British. Just as they equally know that when it comes to African affairs, the EU, Britain and the US has no credibility. Their sordid record in Rwanda, Kenya, the Congo, Angola and Namibia completely disqualify them to lecture African leaders on what is good for them.

International treaties forbid invasion into a soevereign state which is not at war. So what can anyone on the outside looking in do but stand at the glass door of our sorry home and raise a hand or a voice in soildarity with us? While I stand in accusation of some of the ATANAs that Natasha mentions, I wonder what can really be done for this country by anyone external to it.

The only real solution to this mess has to take the current regime conceding their selfish hegemonic rule over tired and tormented citizens who are fed up with being the the butt of every joke and the lost hope of our continent, Africa. But I very much doubt that this will happen any time soon. And I wonder, “What next for my country?”