Zimbabwe accuses Tutu of appeasing white racists
Zimbabwe’s ruling party denounced South African Nobel peace prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu today, accusing him of playing into the hands of white racists.
Didymus Mutasa, a leading Zanu-PF official, described Tutu as “an embittered little man who lost his soul to false gods” in the West such as Tony Blair and George Bush, the state Herald reported Tuesday.
“If he were to put his clerical mind on this and pray to the real God … he would know that the democracy we have in Zimbabwe is second to none as it was secured through precious blood” in the bush war that led to independence from Britain in 1980, Mutasa said.
Tutu on Sunday accused Zimbabwe of abandoning principles of freedoms and justice, making a mockery of African democracy and alienating Western donors.
Mutasa, a ruling party veteran and its secretary for administration, said Western countries vilified Zimbabwe for its “anti-imperialist” stand and African critics of Zimbabwe made their comments “for racist reasons in defence of white racists.”
“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 said.
