British Expand Zimbabwe Destabilization into South Africa

April 9, 2008 (LPAC)--The British targeting of Zimbabwe has now expanded into South Africa, and South African President Thabo Mbeki is under attack.

Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa's ruling African National Congress came out denouncing Zimbabawe, after having met with Morgan Tsvangirai, the Presidential candidate of of the British backed Movement for Democratic Change, who was in South Africa. He makes these comments at a time when Mbeki is attending the first African Indian summit in New Delhi and just after Mbeki was in London where the British pressured him directly to abandon Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.

Following Zuma's statement, Zwelinzima Vavi, the head of Cosatu, the South African trade union federation, directly attacked Mbeki.

Vavi made the comments after meeting with Wellington Chibebe, general secretary of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, which is the core group of the MDC. Vavi, himself has been an outspoken critic of the ZANU-PF and Mbeki's policy of support.

Zuma criticism represents a considerable shift in his own position. Earlier year, while speaking at the World Economic forum, in Davos Switzerland, he criticized both the policy of the European Union and the U.S. government for interfering in Zimbabwe's internal affairs. One of his primary backers, a key link to British economic interests, is Tokyo Sexwale, an ANC bigwig and now a billionaire who has business connections with the British Anglo-American Mining and other British interests at the highest level, including Lord Charles Powell, a key link in the BAE scandal.

Meanwhile as head of Cosatu, Vavi is close to Cosatu
founder Cyril Ramaphosa who has left the trade union movement to become billionaire businessman with direct links with Anglo-American. Both Sexwale and Ramphosa were investigated by South African authorities for conspiring to overthrow Mbeki several years ago.