So Mugabe is showing his true colours again… It’s almost a daily occurrence - but it doesn’t change his attitude, or his intent to sell his lies to the free world.

The Zimbabwe government issued an invitation to Manfred Nowak who specialises in the investigation of torture and human rights abuses - but when he arrived at the Harare International Airport, he was promptly deported back to South Africa.

“The United Nations says Zimbabwe’s government has cancelled a visit by a UN torture investigator who was to examine alleged attacks on opposition party members.

The UN human rights office says Manfred Nowak was in South Africa on his way to Zimbabwe for a week-long trip that was scheduled to begin Wednesday.

It says the Zimbabwe government cancelled the visit at the last minute, citing talks with southern African leaders over the country’s fragile power-sharing agreement.”

Mugabe will use any excuse to get his own way. They say that the unity government is discussing the way forward with SADC - a body which Mugabe holds in equal disdain.

It was reported yesterday that discussions between Mugabe and the MDC leader, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai ended with the two parties being ‘poles apart’.

However, just how the visit of a UN investigator should impinge on these talks, I cannot fathom. Mugabe would be tied up with talks with SADC and Tsvangirai - and Nowak would have unfettered access to the victims of the allegations.

And therein lies the problem.

Mugabe does not want UN representatives to be speaking to the wrong people, which would then disprove his assertions that the human rights record in Zimbabwe is improving.

The situation with the investigator has mutated since his deportation, as he says that the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) ahould take action against Zimbabwe after his expulsion from the country.

“Zimbabwean officials deported Nowak on Thursday after he was detained by security officials on arrival overnight.

Nowak, the UNHRC’ special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, told reporters after arriving in South Africa that his mission had failed.”

The thing that sickens me, is that the next UN summit will invite Mugabe (who will pitch up with his wife and a huge entourage) - and then the UN will give him the floor to spew his anti-West epithets.

The United Nations are proving to be as powerless as the oppressed population of Zimbabwe in the face of Mugabe’s onslaught.

In real terms, what can the United Nations do about the situation in Zimbabwe?

They could start by stripping Zimbabwe of their membership of that body - and stop inviting him to their summits - and giving him the floor.

If you were to Google “Mugabe UN“, I am sure that you will find example after example of Mugabe being hosted by the UN and then shouting his mouth off at the West for fomenting ‘regime change‘ and wanting the ‘re-colonise Zimbabwe‘, whilst at the same time he will beg for targeted sanction to be lifted.

Except that Mugabe will not call them ‘targeted‘ sanction, but ‘illegal full economic‘ sanctions.

And if the United Nations continues to bow to Mugabe’s presence and his addressing the body with his useless hat speech, then more fool them.

The deportation of an investigator from Zimbabwe proves Mugabe’s insincerity, but Mugabe will count it as a moral victory - and the UN will do very little to rectify the situation.

Mugabe has scored against the United Nations with a spectacular slap in the face.

Robb WJ Ellis
The Bearded Man