Harare(ZimEye)Relations between Britain and Zimbabwe are strained, and President Robert Mugabe cannot set foot in London because of European Union imposed travel bans; Mr Mugabe blames Britain for retaliation following his seizure of white owned farms, and at a time when her own family members lost farmlands to Mugabe, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth is wishing to visit Zimbabwe.
The British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Ms Deborah Bronnet in a speech yesterday revealed the Queen’s desire to travel to the former British colony:
“2012 is a special year in the United Kingdom. We have the Olympics, followed by the Paralympics. These two coincide with the celebrations of the Queen second Diamond. When I spoke to her last year (The Queen) she had full memories of visiting this country. I could see her love for the country in our conversation connected to my coming here as a representative. She was talking very fondly of Zimbabwe and her intentions to come here traveling around here and seeing people of Zimbabwe,” Bronnet said.
The last time Queen Elizabeth set foot in Zimbabwe was in October, 1991 when Zimbabwe was hosting the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Harare when she lodged at Robert Mugabe’s State House together with the president’s late wife, Sally.
Certainly against all conventions
Huddersfield University lecturer Nkululeko Sibanda told ZimEye of the development:
“It certainly goes against convention and expectation that the Queen will be expressing interest in terms of going to Zimbabwe at this time before the EU has made a decision to lift sanctions and before the Americans have done so but more importantly the EU. However I think what is important people have to understand is that the Queen is not necessarily a representative of the British state as it were; The Queen is a representative of British interest; and British interests can be found in countries that are both friendly and unfriendly to Britain or countries that politicians generally do not like. So from that strategic way of thinking you would see that the Queen would be willing to go to Zimbabwe. And if she does that is certainly to set the button for relations between Britain and Zimbabwe.
“Its certainly not the first time that Britain has had sterling relations with a Southern African country and especially with Robert Mugabe at a time when he is committing human rights abuses. This was the case in the 1980s and the excuse at that time was that Britain maintain relations as to see an end apartheid in South Africa.”
They have an excuse
Mr Sibanda continued saying the Queen will have a good explanation:
“So perhaps the Queen will have a good explanation to why she would be visiting Zimbabwe. I don’t see it happen immediately; I think the Foreign Office will act first by formalising relations first before the Queen can travel. If the foreign office can’t do that, then that may derail the Queen’s move. But the fact that this is being said, puts a lot of gravity to the matter in terms of letting sanctions lapse. And I think the Australians are going to follow suit. And they have an excuse since Morgan Tsvangirai has been traveling around the world campaigning for the lifting of sanctions. So they have an excuse but I must say its certainly not expected both from an academic and a political point of view.
Tears in Mugabe’s eyes
President Robert Mugabe’s close relationship with the Queen has been a major subject of discussion recently with some political commentators claiming she may be the only person able to convince Mugabe of anything.
Mugabe is reported narrating his relationship with the Queen with tears falling from his eyes and in a recent interview he told of their friendship: “And now, to this day, we treasure those moments, and we have nothing against the Royal Family,” he is quoted saying by South African author Heidi Holland.
Good relations until Tony Blair
Zimbabwe, a former British colony, was enjoying good relations with the former colonial power at the time the Queen traveled to Harare and President Robert Mugabe has hinted that problems with Britain began when the labour party’s Tony Blair took the Premiership in the late 1990s. The Conservative party who now hold power are known for their close traditional ties with the monarchy.
Ms Bronnet was guest speaker Friday at an event organised by Harare West legislator and the country’s Women’s Affairs, Gender and Community Development Deputy Minister Jessie Majome to donate 1000 primary school reading books.
The Queen is the longest living monarch after having acceded to the throne in February 1952 on the death of her father George VI.
When her father, the King George VI passed on, the Queen, then princess, was on a honeymoon in another African country, Kenya. Queen Elizabeth’s diamond jubilee this year was marked by several Zimbabwean women who marched exclusively singing in celebration of her. (ZIMBABWE, ZimEye)
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Please allow Omugabe’s comments to remain on here. They are by far the funniest things I have ever read. He must be sitting at home having the biggest laugh about what he is typing because surely no sain man could believe such rubbish.
Damn funny it has made my day.
If she must come, it must be on prezident Mugabe’s terms…
She can only come after the election…just in case they have some wicked ideas…One can never underestimate the depth of the wickedness of these people…Yesterday these colonialists have wiped out the “Indians” in order to steal their lands. Today they have destroyed Lybia for its oil. What has changed then?
They have developed more technology to destroy with more efficiency…
There was a monkey from West Africa who used to becalled the wiseman by the european leaders. They would roll the red carpet for him, showering him with praises. The french are looting his country left, right and center. Oil, woods are being looted and that country doesn’t even produce a match. But he was a wiseman for the europeans…When european leaders shower an African leader with praises, they may signal that they have found a monkey…beware!
abusive racist comments are being allowed here very disgusting to read.why should omugabe’s racist comments allowed here? the comments are typical racist language and do not represent majority zimb.
The person who destroyed this country is Mugabe. How else do you describe the decimation of a currency that was as strong as the pound only in 1980? Imagine what the British would do if their currency disappears.
The agent of devil msqrdng as the queen shld back of our holy land .She wants to cm to inspect the damage her bloody empire did to our resources .stupid bloody queen go to hell and answer for the crimes killing Africans to build london
First the beastly and bigoted brits impose sinful sanctions to HARM AND KILL Africans.
Then the destructive brits want to send their old wicked white w!tch & queen of the British Royal Mafia Crime Family to survey the damage done to Africans?
For centuries, this British Royal Mafia Crime Family has been carrying out unspeakable acts of Crimes Against Africans; sanctions, criminal invasions, mass murders, rapes to produce ‘zebras’, kidnappings, enslavement, sex-enslavement of African females, colonization, sodomizing of Africa’s little boys & DISPLACEMENT of Indigenous African Peoples.
That SOME Africans in this Information Age, can still be deceived by the devilish ‘charm’ of this old wrinkled up british snake, is beyond understanding.
Wake up!
Wake up, Africans!
Can you not feel the beastly british snake trying to swallow you alive?
I could see her love for the country in our conversation connected to my coming here as a representative. She was talking very fondly of Zimbabwe and her intentions to come here traveling around here and seeing people of Zimbabwe,” – its called diplomatic bs…believe it and you will believe anything…hook line and sinker.
Of course the ever-idiotic Bla Miki is out of touch. He is not aware that his murderous boss Mugabe prays the queen. Thgis is the reason why after his 2008 bloody campaign Mugabe said,”we have no quarrel with the royal family…………..
Hativape visa vamuchembere ava. Vakajaidzwa. All applications pass thru my hands. Y nw? So they can ask for diamonds. To hell with the British. We have managed to look after ourselves since time yemasangisheni. Hativade coz havatidewo
Rafigay why should you give a damn to some rum drinking islander when we are refugees and destitutes in our own country
To those who don’t know the Chagossians sorry story, follow this and see the similarities with how they dealt with our country through cheating Lobengula:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oCqqn_uOiY
Idon’t really mind the Queen visiting. Zimbabwe is no longer a colony and so like reconciliation is all that matters now. However, I call upon the straight talking president Mugabe to ask her majesty why in 2012 her government sill sees it normal to hold our fellow African brothers, The Chagossians(Diego Garcia) as refugees in Mauritius while they (UK) uses their stolen country as a colony and US army base. Why are Chagosians being denied the right to self determination while white (British) colonising the Falklands are being given that as the only viable choice.
Eish…. Omugabe you sound like a ready made pile of hot steaming shiit desperately trying to attract the usual blue arrsed shyte loving fly Bla Miki.Is that why you have posted the same thread twice shyte face….are you that desperate Chando Kupisa the oriental midget shagging porn star was a better a better option.
Bla Miki, please continue to help open the eyes of those Africans who continue in their slumber, while the wicked white invaders continue to trick, torment, terrorize & trample them, even by using a thieving & feeble old british w!tch to do so. lol
We know some Africans are deeply asleep when even an old british neo-colonialist w!tch can walk all over them without those Africans noticing a thing wrong.
It’s like mosquitoes biting in the night, and the sleeper ‘feels’ nothing.
The invading white plunderers continue to bite some Africans, and they don’t feel a thing; because the brainwashed minds of these Africans are fast asleep.
Bla Miki, please continue to help open the eyes of those Africans who continue in their slumber, while the wicked white invaders continue to trick, torment, terrorize & trample them, even by using a thieving & feeble old british witch to do so. lol
We know some Africans are deeply asleep when even an old british neo-colonialist witch can walk all over them without those Africans noticing a thing wrong.
It’s like mosquitoes biting in the night, and the sleeper ‘feels’ nothing.
The invading white plunderers continue to bite some Africans, and they don’t feel a thing; because the brainwashed minds of these Africans are fast asleep.
Simba Rashe is correct! Crown Land remains untouched in Zimbabwe to this date.
Old Mugabe would relish a cup of British tea with the queen, it’s on his bucketlist. The fellow is a big admirer, and has openly said it to the obvious disgust of his bootlickers and Nehanda-bones brigade.
Regayi chembere yekuBackASSham palace iwuye, i do believe the week she will be in Zimbabwe, magetsi will be 24/7, water will be running 24/7, roads will be maintained from kariba to beit bridge,police/army personell will be doing their duties accordingly without bribes or abuse of human rights to impress and protect Her MajeASSic, AND Moreover the country`s economy will boom . So u see this old woman is still the ruler of Zimbabwe and everything she touches turns into gold for the benefit of her people the BritiSHIT.
…”the late president’ wife”….LOL I like that line in the story… even though Mugabe is alife. English is at times so fascinating….kikikiki.
Thank you so much Cde Omugabe with your response to this myopic lunatics led by Gay Mukadog together with his gay partner Nkululeko Sibanda. To add more, the flat breasted, hindless and arc shaped backboned old white witch should now prepare to go to hell than coming to Zimbabwe. Hell is where her royality is observed and will be accompanied by an equally frail and staggering puppet mdc party which is to be rejected by the people during elections. Oh God, and the ARV addict Morgodzva Tsvangay will be very happy to welcome her into the devil’s parlour. The queen of witches is not welcome here in Zimbabwe.
Excellent news, her highness is coming to help zanu muppets get psychologically used to the concept of stepping down when they loose the coming elections in a land slide. The pommies know that zanu muppets are like naughty little children who need the Queens intervention to make them feel important and relevent.
Pure speculation which didn’t even come from the queen herself! OMugabe, I think your dementia has worsened over the last couple of months
this Omugabe guy is surely a racist lunatic. Take him seriously at your own peril!
Simba Rashe, the ‘royal farm’? lol
So the criminal invading and beastly and bigoted brits brought farms to Africa when the invaded Africans UNPROVOKED?
The wicked white man INVADED PENNILESS!
So your so-called ‘royal farm’ is some place ….. IN EUROPE!
The white THIEVES own no farm in Africa!
They are criminal INVADERS!
All white people so-called ‘farms’ ARE IN EUROPE!
It is African Ancestral properties!
Every last cubic centimeter of it.
Mr Editor, get your facts right. The Royal Farm was never invaded and remain owned by her Majesty to this date. The Queen is not part of the political fiasco between Harare & London and has categorically distanced herself. Equally, President Mugabe also refused to have her dragged into the mess. I find the article unresearched and misleading.
Comrade Assegai tooth where have you been? Or is it Dr Magoo these days!
Welcome queen we graciousely welcome your lovely example of outstanding humanity and hope to emulate ur gracious highness.
chihera,even the thieving hyena is ‘intelligent’.
Those who claim descent/evolution from beasts may be ‘intelligent’; but even beasts and destructive criminals can be ‘intelligent’.
And the bigoted brits certainly of the beasts and destructive criminals.
Suggesting that the wrinkled up old white witch is ‘intelligent’ is not saying anything.
Like the rain that falls BOTH on the wicked and on the good, so too intelligence can fall to the wicked white witch of the british royal mafia crime family
You can’t say that the queen of the british Royal Crime Family is virtuous; because she walks around with a crown of STOLEN AFRICAN wealth on her haggard head.
Her Majesty is an intelligent woman so if she sees it fit to visit Zimbabwe, this could be a sign that good things are about to happen to our now impoverished country. I would greatly appreciate such a positive move
I thought even our very own old fart and his occult party zanoo puck off, do they not flip flop knobhead? It is very easy to target the obvious enemies we all know and yet we are obvilious of the one who is in our midst. Not to waste your time on this one, we were taken for a ride by this deviod party for the past 32 years. I will give this party the kudos deceptively and atrociously shagging the brains out of mother zimbabwe for the sake of power, no ideology and drive to self determination. When you have professional ministers who run ministries like a career, an OAP leader who thinks we should be reminded now and again how he suffered for this country and a regime that has enriched itself and patronised the arms of state at the expense of the country and all this in 32 years…. now that is the worst kind of deception. At least with the brits we all know their values and ethics but for this primitive party we have surely become worse than a banana republic.
Yes, MTM, you have the beastly and bigoted, lying and DECEPTIVE brits just about right: They think one thing, say another, and turn around and do something completely different.
That’s British! Speak one thing..do another..
Mukadota, a poisonous snake, and other destructive beasts, are ALSO ‘gentle’, but gentle to their own kind.
So too are the beastly ones who claim descent/evolution from beasts may be ‘gentle’ to their own … ALONE!
If you think that CENTURIES OF UNPROVOKED CRIMES AGAINST AFRICANS by the beastly and bigoted Royal Crime Family has been ‘gentle’ on Africans, you let that ‘gentle’ old snake reside in YOUR bosom … IN EUROPE!
Come and take your ex puppet Bob he misses Britain
You will be the first to lick their pale white arrrses slug brain.Why is it then you are so desperate to have sanctions lifted? Obviously you can’t do without supping tea with the gentle old lady, indulging yourselves at Harrods and depositing some of that diamond and chipangano money in those secure swiss accounts. It is a case you need them more than they do.
So Zim leaders are not allowed into their inhospitable european hell hole (no big loss) but this wrinkled up and wicked white witch, of the beastly and bigoted Royal Crime Family, should be allowed to defile African Ancestral lands with a neo-colonialist trip?
The old wrinkled up hag, and queen of the British Royal MAFIA Crime Family, should be barred from ever setting foot in any part of Africa.
The beastly and bigoted british Royal MAFIA Crime Family has the blood of countless Africans on their hands over the centuries.
In addition, this old THIEVING & wicked white witch walks around with crowns of STOLEN AFRICAN WEALTH on her haggard head!
Remain in Europe, old THIEVING white witch!
And SEND STOLEN AFRICAN WEALTH back to Zim instead!
The African Ancestors CANNOT stand the stench of the wicked whites, who have terrorized Africans UNPROVOKED for centuries!
And they need to rest in peace.
This is certainly fodder for the zanoids to chew cud on and later frothing and farting……..watch the space.
HA HA HA LOOK AT THE CARFULLY CHOSEN WORDS FORMER BRITISH COLONY