Hans Fabricius a "boer Judge" - Robert Mugabe

At the official opening of a summit of SADC liberation movements in Harare, on Friday, President Robert Mugabe racially attacked Gauteng North High Court Judge Hans Fabricus, calling him a "boer Judge". Mugabe was reacting to a recent judgment by Fabricus ordering South African authorities to investigate Zimbabwean officials accused of involvement in torture and other crimes against humanity.

According to the Zanu-PF supporting Herald newspaper (see here) Mugabe challenged the summit -attended by representatives from Zanu-PF, the ANC, Angola's MPLA, Mozambique's Frelimo, Tanzania's Chama Chamapinduzi and Namibia's SWAPO - to denounce the ruling in a resolution. The newspaper reported Mugabe's remarks as follows:

"In this context, it is important to remember that this Harare meeting takes place after the recent ruling by one Boer Judge Hans Fabricius in the North Gauteng High Court in South Africa calling on authorities in that country to probe alleged atrocities in Zimbabwe, arrest and prosecute alleged offenders under the International Criminal Court of which South Africa is a party and Zimbabwe is not.

Needless to say, we take umbrage at these residual Rhodesian and Apartheid forces that are finding space in our midst, to use our courts in a manner that seeks to mollify their defeat at the hands of our liberation struggles and reverse the gains that we have attained for our collective peoples. That judgment, like those outrageous ones of the Sadc Tribunal which has now been dissolved, constitutes a direct assault on our sovereignty by shameless forces afflicted by racist nostalgia.

... I wish to urge our colleagues in the ANC of South Africa to see this for what it is and apply every means at their disposal to ensure that such machinations are not in the end, allowed to negatively affect our cordial relations."

According to News Day ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe, who was attending the summit, dismissed this call. "The ANC does not ignore the rule of law, so we respect the ruling made in the High Court," the newspaper quoted him as saying.

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Mugabe Lift your hats for Mantashe. This does not happen very often. by Pieter on June 11 2012, 08:48 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

Fasttrack to ICC please! Warrant of arrest? by Brett on June 11 2012, 08:56 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

"Boer Judge" So, uncle Bob sounds rather desperate. He, of the intransigent mindset, must have realised by now that he will have to cling to power at all costs or face the justices of the ICC. His knee jerk reaction in vilifying the judge is to be expected. by James Bell on June 11 2012, 09:24 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

Don't expect much Nothing will come of this. Of course Mantashe publicly supported the High-Court, that's just politics, but don't for one minute think that the ANC will ever allow Mugabe to face true justice. Remember, the ANC is currently waging a war on the independent . .more judiciary in SA, and when they win that war you can expect this kind of thing to come to a screeching halt. More of the same as one dictatorial criminal organisation protects the interests of another. . .less by Miksa668 on June 11 2012, 09:57 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

You've got the spelling wrong The judge's surname is Fabricius. by Pieter Schoombee on June 11 2012, 10:41 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

Fabricus? The fabricator of anti-African jurispudence by "residual Rhodesian and Apartheid forces". The ICC is an instrument of western imperialism and fast losing legitimacy around the world, not even the USA is a member of this biased institution. "The . .more International Criminal Court has not investigated even a single Western leader for gross human rights violations, despite their atrocious actions in Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and recently Libya." ANC . .less by Veja on June 11 2012, 11:14 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

@ all Sorry, slip of the finger. Roman... by John Logan on June 11 2012, 14:13 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

SA-has-been-warned..... .....by MUGABE, thus - "... I wish to urge our colleagues in the ANCpf of South Africa to see this for what it is & apply every means at their disposal to ensure that such machinations are not in the end, allowed to negatively affect our . .more cordial relations." The regional DON has spoken clearly at a gathering of the lesser (including SA) regional Dons in his own capital. They have been gathered together for a talking to & will disperse with a clear agenda on their "list of objectives". As a very senior civil servant commented after a meeting addressed by Mugabe in the early 1980's when asked what he thought of the MUGABE address.... "I think that the writing is writ clear upon the wall.... and if we are wise, we had better READ IT". And those were the days of subtlety, nuance & double meanings flowing from the lips of RGM. Thirty years on, the message is the same, the subtlety absent, the top liberation rottweiler still ruling the pack. Chikurubi-Proof+Witness p.s. Gwede's apparant stance & words are no different to Bob's back in the 80's. I wouldn't gamble my pension pot on it (if I had one) ! . .less by John Austin on June 11 2012, 15:29 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

Mugabe Right he is a white Boer ,and you are a black dictating criminal who kills his own people. by Petrus on June 11 2012, 17:55 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

Mugabe jou poepol loop vrek in jou eie land bloody bastard you come here with that racist tendencies, vrtsek! bastard! by . on June 11 2012, 21:57 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

Mugabe I cannot wait to pass a dump on this guys grave. A disgrace to the African continent, his family and his people. A bitter mad old man who got proved wrong on so many counts and somehow thinks people still listen to him - really delusional to say the . .more least. Really embarrassing now days to have a Mugabe surname - his ancestors are turning in there graves with shock and horror. I would not read into his statements when they come from a person who has probably won the A****** of Africa award for about 12 straight years. . .less by THE BROWN MAN on June 12 2012, 12:23 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

McApe Bobby McApe eats drinks and smokes , but lends his bum to other blokes ..... by Green Room on June 17 2012, 15:28 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

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