tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82716423361300013532024-03-05T12:40:49.417+02:00ZIMDAILYNEWS!!!ADDITIONAL NEWS ABOUT ZIM!!ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-3030322454187258622010-02-25T13:27:00.000+02:002010-02-25T13:29:37.459+02:00"THE CORRUPT ROLE OF NGOs, DONORS AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE ZIMBABWEAN CRISIS!" by PAUL RUMEMA CHIMHOSWAThe Corrupt Role of NGOs, Donors and Civil Society in the Zimbabwean Crisis <br /><br /><br />(Trading The Soul of The Change Movement for Pieces of Silver) <br /> <br /><br /><br />By Paul Rumema Chimhosva <br /> <br /><br /><br />3 February 2009 <br /> <br /><br /><br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br /><br /><br />The Franklin Pierce Law Center in its IP Mall: Traditional Knowledge publications define Civil Society as follows: <br /><br /><br />“Civil society refers to the arena of uncoerced collective action around shared interests, purposes and values. In theory, its institutional forms are distinct from those of the state, family and market, though in practice, the boundaries between state, civil society, family and market are often complex, blurred and negotiated. Civil society commonly embraces a diversity of spaces, actors and institutional forms, varying in their degree of formality, autonomy and power. Civil societies are often populated by organisations such as registered charities, development non-governmental organisations, community groups, women's organisations, faith-based organisations, professional associations, trades unions, self-help groups, social movements, business associations, coalitions and advocacy group.” <br /><br /><br />The same publications also define the concept of a non-governmental organisation as follows: <br /><br /><br />“A non-profit making, voluntary, service-oriented/development oriented organization, either for the benefit of members (a grassroots organization) or of other members of the population (an agency). (World Bank). A non-profit group or association organized outside of institutionalized political structures to realize particular social objectives such as environmental protection or serve particular constituencies (such as indigenous peoples). NGO activities range from research, information distribution, training, local organization, and community service to legal advocacy, lobbying for legislative change, and civil disobedience. NGO's range in size from small groups within a particular community to huge membership groups with a national or international scope. [UNEP]”<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />It is important to define what exactly is civil society and what is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) is so that the following analysis of the interaction between the political organisations in Zimbabwe and these formations can be truly unraveled. It is important to note also that the MDC is a political formation which now finds itself in government and with the real possibility of being the governing party in the not too distant future, if their own predictions are to be believed. <br /><br /><br />Zimbabwe as a nation has just (30 years) come out of one of the most protracted wars of independence the earth has ever seen. I use the word just very deliberately as it is now some 70 years after the holocaust and the Jewish people are still tracking down and punishing their oppressors something that black Africans have long been discouraged by various forms of persuasion including corrupt payments to existing and emerging African leadership. Estimates vary from 30000 to 50000 people who died during the liberation struggle. The population of Zimbabwe holds its sovereignty so dearly, close to its heart, that it is disheartening that a Robert Mugabe or a Tsvangirai uses national sovereignty as a political football. The donor community has used civil society and NGOs in Zimbabwe for a variety of purposes all of which serve interests other than those of Zimbabweans. <br /><br /><br />The operative words in the definitions of civil society and NGOs are voluntary, service- oriented, development, shared interest and values, and most importantly non-profit. These organisations can take the form of grassroot organisations with members being the focus of value migration from donors to the intended beneficiaries (the ordinary citizens). <br /><br /><br />OBJECTIVES OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND NGOs in ZIMBABWE <br /> <br /><br /><br />The strategic objectives of civil society and NGOs in an effort to transmit value to the down-trodden population of Zimbabwe should embrace advocacy for constitutional reform and organizing peaceful resistance to repression and other forms of restriction of individual and societal liberties. The quest for a new people driven constitution in Zimbabwe is central to this objective. The freedom to choose a leadership that is responsive to the people’s needs should be a fundamental objective of civil society and NGO backed revolutionary crusade. The crafting of a national vision and value system coupled to a people driven transformational agenda should be the focus of not only the change movement by of all donors, civil society and NGOs. The rule of law is not only achieved whilst in government but it is also demonstrated during the period of the struggle for people’s power. Therefore it is common cause that civil society should demand of its components total transparency and accountability both in actions and in the distribution of resources. Zanu PF and Robert Mugabe have failed the people of Zimbabwe mainly because there were no democratic structures to hold them accountable to the people of Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean parliament has always been a rubber stamp for Zanu PF and its president, there was never any debate apart from eulogising Mugabe as the second Christ. The objective therefore should be to foster a culture of constructive dissent. There should be a culture of transparency in the lead up to the inevitable change from the Mugabe regime. Civil society and NGOs should demand of those who seek to rule Zimbabwe in the near future to embrace the culture of accountability and transparency. <br /><br /><br />In the light of the above discussion an attempt will now be made to highlight some of the failures of civil society and NGOs and why they should now be discouraged to further undermine the struggle of the Zimbabwean people. <br /><br /><br />INDIVIDUAL ENRICHMENT <br /> <br /><br /><br />The donor community has accepted the classic definitions of civil society and NGOs and applied it to Zimbabwe as if Zimbabwe was a normal society. The concept of voluntarism does not exist in the context of the chaotic Zimbabwean socio-economic environment. Most entrepreneurial and sharp academic brains in Zimbabwe could not find employment in the public sector or the non-existent private sector. The only available foreign currency based entrepreneurial activity was the NGO and Civil Society sector. Instead of being a voluntary service oriented non-profit sector this sector graduated into a huge profit based industry whose source of competitive advantage was the speed at which the organisations could wood wink unsuspecting western donors into parting with their taxpayers’ funds. The end result has been the betrayal of the reason why civil society and NGOs exist, which is to garner socio-politico-economic value on behalf of an oppressed people. <br /><br /><br />There is not one leader in the change movement whose individual net worth has not dramatically improved since the escalation of the Zimbabwean crisis with the formation of the MDC in 1999. Granted, Zanu PF has been looting state coffers and development aid for the past 30 years. It cannot be said to be right that corruption is justifiable as long as it is not done by Mugabe. Civil society, the donor community and NGOs need to realize that very little of what they have donated have reached the people of Zimbabwe. The leaders of opposition parties have their children at private schools and universities abroad on the very same resources made to facilitate the struggle of the Zimbabwean people. Leaders in the so-called unity government who have never been gainfully employed in their lives now boast luxury German sedans and a multitude of luxurious suburban houses. These so-called leaders have holiday houses in places like Cape Town and other exotic places around the globe. People based in Zimbabwe, selling out on the people’s struggle, have set themselves businesses in Botswana and South Africa. So- called human rights campaigners on behalf of Zimbabwe, like Eleanor Sisulu of South Africa, have enriched themselves no end. It is a real shame that people who do not understand the struggle of the Zimbabwean people have gone out and got monetary resources on behalf of Zimbabweans and have enriched themselves to obscene levels. <br /><br /><br />The MDC and the democratic change forces in Zimbabwe got AU$15million from the Australian government, US$5million and 30million British pounds in 2008 to contest the Zimbabwe general elections. These are public figures that Howard, Bush and Blair gloated about as funds necessary to facilitate the demise of the Mugabe regime. In late<br /><br />2009 Tsvangirai failed to settle a hotel lunch bill in Masvingo. Printers and others support services for campaign support for the MDC were paid late. Simba Makoni abused party vehicles, fuel and funds using them for personal gain. The west has donated a vast<br /><br />amount of money to the constitution making process where the leaders of that process are pocketing copious amounts of money. The Zimbabwean crisis has long lost its value as the epitomy of the struggle for freedom of the oppressed masses of Zimbabwe but a very vibrant self-enrichment programme for donor sharks based in Zimbabwe, US, South Africa, Botswana, Canada, New Zealand and other countries. <br /><br /><br />Individuals who cannot provide any meaningful contribution to humanity have found themselves a very lucrative pastime: crying crocodile tears on behalf of the people of Zimbabwe and getting paid for it. A simple audit of estates of the individuals who lead all these mushrooming Zimbabwe crisis NGOs should show the donors how much of their investments actually reach the people of Zimbabwe. A huge chunk of their donations are destined for the pockets of the few and not the people. One would like to be introduced to any poor NGO functionary involved with the Zimbabwean crisis. <br /><br /><br />BREEDING A GENERATION OF BRAIN DEAD WESTERN FUNCTIONARIES <br /> <br /><br /><br />Whilst civil society and NGOs, together with the donors, think they are getting rid of the rot Mugabe has visited upon Zimbabwe they need to be aware that they have started breeding a far more corrupt culture in the ranks of the change movement. Money is changing hands midnight and no auditing of the movement’s accounts is done. This culture is going to be transferred into the Zimbabwean fiscus. Already elements of that are beginning to emerge with the introduction of corrupt language like “takiya kiya – we have made a plan” or “nhasi haulume – you are not eating” from the Finance Minister on serious matters of national resources distribution. This comes from the culture that civil society and NGOs is inculcating into the Zimbabwean political leadership. The culture that’s says: you do not have to account for anything to anyone. I am deeply disappointed with the complicity with which donors dish out resources in the name of the common Zimbabwean and then fail to hold people accountable for those resources. <br /><br /><br />It can be argued that auditing of the movement’s account may open up the movement to Zanu PF propaganda tactics, but how do you let the people know what you have done with the resources meant for them? What effective programme has the MDC done for the people of Zimbabwe except using the people to access power for personal benefit? The whole issue about the outstanding issues is about jobs for pals and nothing to do with the real change mandate. The change movement mandate was very simple: get a new people driven constitution, get free and fair elections and implement a democratic transformational agenda to have a better life for the ordinary Zimbabwean. These issues are not even on the outstanding issues list; they are there by inference if at all. <br /><br /><br />The preceding argument against transparency is not convincing. The more plausible explanation is that these NGOS and civil society are well aware that there is misuse of resources by the change movement functionaries. This is kept low as leverage to later champion an agenda that keeps Zimbabwe in check in case the Zimbabwean people would want to keep issues such as land distribution and economic liberation on the agenda. These issues cannot be a success in Zimbabwe in case Africa catches a fire, a revolutionary fire. The idea then is to lure the current leadership into the evil web of corruption and blackmail presenting Zimbabwe with a mirage of progressive democratic leadership yet the manufacturing process of a brain dead crop of compromised leadership is well and truly underway. It cannot be that civil society, NGOs and donors are not<br /><br />aware of the abuse of donor funds by leaders of the change movement. Clearly this is an investment whose return is the ability to produce a malleable and docile leadership amenable to compromising the revolutionary transformational change agenda necessary for a democratic and prosperous Zimbabwe. No organisation will wantonly throw resources at a process from which it does not gain. The Zimbabwean nation must rise to the realization that a political dummy is being sold to the nation. <br /><br /><br />PART OF THE NON-DEMOCRATIC HISTORY OF ZIMBABWE <br /> <br /><br /><br />Donor nations and organisations that participate in the nurturing of this corrupt leadership should bear in mind that they are entrenching themselves deeply in the annals of Zimbabwean history as farmers of corruption and non-democratic tendencies. Their inability to report people who abuse the resources meant for the Zimbabwean people has meant that the name of Zimbabweans has been fraudulently abused for the benefit of a few. There are people who, and organisations which, will not be able to survive should Zimbabweans have a stable and prosperous nation. Where will organisations like Crisis Coalition of Zimbabwe and the flamboyant Eleanor Sisulu be if Zimbabweans are at peace? The same people could not hold Morgan Tsvangirai to account as he is seen, in the NGO community and civil society, as a source of donor funds. The only survival strategy that these organisations know of is that of remaining in Tsvangirai good books. It is common knowledge that once Tsvangirai or the MDC labels an organisation or individual Zanu PF, political extinction becomes but a reality. This is the reason why the dictatorship tendencies evident in the MDC today are a foretaste of what’s to come should it be a reality that indeed the MDC is in power. <br /> <br /><br /><br />CONCLUSION <br /> <br /><br /><br />That Mugabe and his regime should be removed is common cause. What should never be a consideration for Zimbabwe is to allow evil of the same or even worse magnitude, as what has been experienced in the last 30 years, to take root again. Civil society, non-governmental organisations and the donor community have let themselves and Zimbabwe down. These parties will forever be seen as having prolonged the suffering of Zimbabweans and having been facilitators of a succession plan for a dictatorship; they are breeding as sizeable pool of corrupt, inconsiderate, incompetent, affluent and insensitive successors to Robert Mugabe.ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-83342030976656163602009-04-09T12:42:00.000+03:002009-04-09T12:43:38.716+03:00OPEN LETTER TO THE THEN PRES G W BUSH!!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6AsNHkuLKWn5L6ycIWfs_dhOGgSmYnO4sGF40kfT_9FT0f-2_rxqonPGNAmhOfPHN8CeVf6riaG1hRpRjnMRH-gLzWxVvALb4-5wdneABGEp3xZsVmO-U48q3QCF1qWeYq_AdlITxEKEY/s1600-h/george_bush_press_conference.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 344px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6AsNHkuLKWn5L6ycIWfs_dhOGgSmYnO4sGF40kfT_9FT0f-2_rxqonPGNAmhOfPHN8CeVf6riaG1hRpRjnMRH-gLzWxVvALb4-5wdneABGEp3xZsVmO-U48q3QCF1qWeYq_AdlITxEKEY/s400/george_bush_press_conference.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321201711002218274" /></a><br /><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV> <P class=style12 align=left><A href="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/bush27.5007.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.zimdaily.com/news/bush27.5007.html</A> <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>also posted at <A href="http://bobchargesheet.blogspot.com/2008/05/open-letter-to-pres-g-w-bush-from-rev.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://bobchargesheet.blogspot.com/2008/05/open-letter-to-pres-g-w-bush-from-rev.html</A> <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>and <A href="http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=500&Itemid=26" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=500&Itemid=26</A> <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>My name is Rev Mufaro Stig Hove. I am a Zimbabwean citizen by descent and I am also a South African Citizen by birth. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>My father, a Shona from Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) married my mother (a Zulu from Natal) in January, 1956 and I was born at Dundee, Natal, RSA in October, 1956. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>They went to Rhodesia in 1958 and I grew up there to manhood. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>I have decided to live in South Africa since 2006 and have formally taken up my South African Citizenship because I could no longer live freely in Zimbabwe, the country I have so loved and have grown up in from the said 1958 to the said 2006. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>I have written a lot about the true situation in my beloved land and the very reason why I decided to write was so that all those who want to know the truth can read for themselves and get it from the proverbial "horse's mouth." <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>I run a conglomerate of blogs and the Index one being <A href="http://www.zimfinalpush.blogspot.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>www.zimfinalpush.blogspot.com<IMG height=1 src="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/thoko27.5006_clip_image001.gif" width=1 border=0></A> . <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>For obvious reasons, I have never set foot on Zimbabwean soil since I left in August, 2006.<BR>With the type of free blogging I do, I would never see the sun 24 hours or less of setting my foot on Zimbabwean soil. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left><STRONG><U><FONT size=5>MY APPEAL, YOUR EXCELLENCY!</FONT></U></STRONG> <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>Your Excellency, Robert Gabriel Mugabe is a very evil, arrogant and cunning character. I will follow my knowledge and interaction with him from as far back as 1973. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>I will provide links to articles that I (and a few others) have written and which were picked up and re-published on various other sites and a simple "google-search" of my names or the titles of my submissions can reveal the extent of my "influence". <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>The purpose of this, my humble letter to you, Your Excellency, is to dispel and correct a lot of propaganda items that certain well-placed persons like Mr Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki (State President of the Republic of South Africa) may desperately try to ventilate. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>I have been presently motivated by news that he is understood to have written a four-page letter to Yourself, Your Excellency. Although we are not aware of the full contents of the said letter, we understand he castigated you using numerous exclamation marks for he what he calls your "meddling" in Zimbabwe's affairs. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>Allow me to give you the full story of the Zimbabwean affairs in question, Your Excellency!I wrote an Open Letter to Mr Robert Gabriel Mugabe ( who has illegitimately presided over Zimbabwe's for the past seven years) and I asked him to explain the deaths in mysterious (mainly) car accidents of numerous of Zimbabwe's cream of heroes. <P class=style12 align=left><BR>The said letter can be found at <A href="http://dearmrrobertmugabe.blogspot.com/2006/11/is-robert-mugabe-master-assassin.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://dearmrrobertmugabe.blogspot.com/2006/11/is-robert-mugabe-master-assassin.html<IMG height=1 src="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/thoko27.5006_clip_image001_0000.gif" width=1 border=0></A> under the title "IS ROBERT MUGABE THE MASTER-ASSASSIN?" <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>As a very dedicated ZANU-PF cadre up till 2003, I was aware of these assassinations and I ask Mr Robert Mugabe to respond to that letter for the benefit of the whole world. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>I was Secretary of ZANU-PF at District level and we wrecked havoc and killed ZAPU members in Kadoma during the dark days of "GUKURAHUNDI" and I've written extensively on these evil activities and my perspective of how these things happened and I invite you, Your Excellency, to read my submission, "The Thoughts and Memories of a Former ZANU-PF Cadre" and the posting thereof is available at <A href="http://zimfinalpush1.blogspot.com/2007/03/memories-and-thoughts-of-former-zanu-pf.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://zimfinalpush1.blogspot.com/2007/03/memories-and-thoughts-of-former-zanu-pf.html<IMG height=1 src="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/thoko27.5006_clip_image001_0001.gif" width=1 border=0></A> <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>It is well known that on the 16th of June, 1984 the small farming and mining town of Kadoma (formerly Gatooma) was subjected to ZANU-PF mob-rule which left a trail of burnt houses, destroyed and-of looted furniture and dead and unburied bodies on innocent PF-ZAPU members. I recalled the events of that day that submission. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>A fellow activist, Joseph Tanonoka Whande wrote a very revealing article on why Mr Robert Mugabe can never retire even if he wanted to. I posted this submission at <A href="http://chinja.blogspot.com/2007/08/mugabe-cannot-retire-even-if-he-wants.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://chinja.blogspot.com/2007/08/mugabe-cannot-retire-even-if-he-wants.html<IMG height=1 src="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/thoko27.5006_clip_image001_0002.gif" width=1 border=0></A> It is important to look at these issues when we reflect on the situation prevailing at the moment in the beloved, bleeding country of Zimbabwe. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>Although he is a dubious character, Professor Jonathan Moyo also wrote a very intelligent analysis of the dangers we face as a Nation as Mr Robert Mugabe precariously clings to power at a shameful age of 84. I posted this article at <A href="http://zimfinalpush2.blogspot.com/2007/06/death-of-robert-mugabethe-tragedy-ahead.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://zimfinalpush2.blogspot.com/2007/06/death-of-robert-mugabethe-tragedy-ahead.html<IMG height=1 src="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/thoko27.5006_clip_image001_0003.gif" width=1 border=0></A> . I re-named the submission "THE DEATH OF ROBERT MUGABE, THE TRAGEDY AHEAD" by Prof Jonathan Moyo. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>I also wrote a submission along the same lines and I entitled it "IS THE NATION OF ZIMBABWE READY FOR THE EARTHLY DEPARTURE OF ITS 'FATHER'?" (<A href="http://zimfinalpush8.blogspot.com/2007/12/is-nation-of-zimbabwe-ready-for-earthly.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://zimfinalpush8.blogspot.com/2007/12/is-nation-of-zimbabwe-ready-for-earthly.html<IMG height=1 src="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/thoko27.5006_clip_image001_0004.gif" width=1 border=0></A> ) Your Excellency we are afraid! We are terrified of the aftermath of Mr Robert Mugabe's death. Those that follow him are more afraid than those of us who left him. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>I wrote a very detailed submission on how WE RIGGED ELECTIONS in Zimbabwe. I wrote as one that participated in the evil processes and not as a visiting journalist. I can give an Interview on the things that I wrote in that submission. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>(<A href="http://zimgossiper.blogspot.com/2007/04/full-submission-on-rigging-of-zim.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://zimgossiper.blogspot.com/2007/04/full-submission-on-rigging-of-zim.html<IMG height=1 src="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/thoko27.5006_clip_image001_0005.gif" width=1 border=0></A> ) <BR>I wrote extensively on President Thabo Mbeki's strange dealings as far the Zimbabwean crisis is concerned. One was "THABO MBEKI'S PROVERBIAL LONG ROPE" <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>(<A href="http://dearmrthabombeki.blogspot.com/2007/07/thabo-mbeki-s-proverbial-long-rope.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://dearmrthabombeki.blogspot.com/2007/07/thabo-mbeki-s-proverbial-long-rope.html<IMG height=1 src="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/thoko27.5006_clip_image001_0006.gif" width=1 border=0></A> ) and the other more detailed analysis is "WHY THE SADC/MBEKI INITIATIVE CANNOT AND WILL NOT SOLVE ZIMBABWE'S PROBLEMS!" <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>(<A href="http://zimfinalpush8.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-sadcmbeki-initiative-cannot-and.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://zimfinalpush8.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-sadcmbeki-initiative-cannot-and.html<IMG height=1 src="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/thoko27.5006_clip_image001_0007.gif" width=1 border=0></A>) I wrote from the heart, Your Excellency, and I cannot add anything to what I wrote. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>A very respected Media person and Torch-bearer who has suffered untold hardships because of his commitment to Democracy for Zimbabwe ( and indeed for the whole of Africa and beyond): Mr Trevor Ncube who makes it possible for Zimbabweans and the world to get the true and fuller picture of the situation prevailing in Zimbabwe wrote a very lengthy article on the choices facing Mr Robert Mugabe. I posted this article at <A href="http://radicalzim.blogspot.com/2007/03/violent-or-peaceful-exit-for-robert_27.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://radicalzim.blogspot.com/2007/03/violent-or-peaceful-exit-for-robert_27.html<IMG height=1 src="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/thoko27.5006_clip_image001_0008.gif" width=1 border=0></A> . I need not add anything to that submission. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>Last but not least, Your Excellency, there are numerous voices from the grave. Dr Joshua M N Nkomo who was the founder of the Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe died a broken man. He left us his own perception of events as they unfolded in the 80s. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>He wrote a Letter to the then Prime Minister Robert Gabriel Mugabe and it is self-explanatory. I posted it together with numerous other articles relevant to the dark era of the so-called "GUKURAHUNDI". (<A href="http://gukurahundi.blogspot.com/2007/04/full-letter-from-dr-j-m-n-nkomo-to.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://gukurahundi.blogspot.com/2007/04/full-letter-from-dr-j-m-n-nkomo-to.html<IMG height=1 src="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/thoko27.5006_clip_image001_0009.gif" width=1 border=0></A> ) <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>Your Excellency let me not belabour you with information. Robert Gabriel Mugabe is a despicable crook and gangster who deserves neither Mercy nor Diplomacy. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>He must be removed swiftly and even violently to save the sinking, suffering nation! Please under no circumstances should you be side-tracked by the likes of President Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki. The issue is not about land: the majority of the so-called redistributed land went to a few ZANU-PF "heavyweights" and Mugabe's sisters' children. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>The issue is not about black pride: Mugabe is hiding an evil murderer who wrecked havoc in Ethiopia and brutally took the life of HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAILLE SELLASE (RAS TAFARI). Mugabe deserves no honourable place in History. Whoever would bring him down to size would be the Hero all of us are looking for! <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>PLEASE ASSIST THE DEMOCRATIC FORCES TO GET INTO POWER AND SORT OUT THE MESS LEFT BY THE DEFEATED FAILED ZANU-PF MAFIA REGIME. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>I thank you for your time to attend to, this my humble letter. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>Yours faithfully, <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left>Rev Mufaro Stig Hove. <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left><A href="http://uk.mc280.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=revmshove@gmail.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:revmshove@gmail.com">revmshove@gmail.com</A> <P class=style12 align=left> <P class=style12 align=left><A href="http://www.zimfinalpush.blogspot.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>www.zimfinalpush.blogspot.com<IMG height=1 src="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/thoko27.5006_clip_image001_0010.gif" width=1 border=0></A> <BR><SPAN class=style1><BR><SPAN class=style2>The following comments are owned by whomever posted them. 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Obscene, tribalistic, racist, vulgar comments will be deleted. </SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN class=style1>(HTML Codes not allowed)</SPAN><BR><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">This is a joke</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Guys I think they should jus stop telling us the inflation figures because its pointless.The second highest inflation figure in the world is on 40%.Now look at the gap.Even Idi Amin only managed to get Uganda's inflation to 200% after expelling Asians from his country.Mugabe please nguva yakwana.Yu are jus making us a laughing stock to the whole world.I recently told a friend of mine in Australia who thought the inflation in Zim was around 1000% and I told him it was 200 000% which he didn't believe because he thought it was a joke.Now how do I tell him its now 1,7m%.mugabe do us all a favour shuzura pliz.</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Trevor Mapara , London UK </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 01:00 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Money Printing Machine</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">CBZ Holdings Limited's group structure is in Asset Management, Properties, insurance and securities. WHERE IS THE relationship between THE bank and the industrial sector? ZIMBABWE IS A DEVELOPING COUNTRY THAT CAN NOT AFFORD THIS INSANITY.</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Shumba , Kariba, Zim </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 02:16 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">MDC SPLIT CONSEQUENCES</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">We can blame, Mbeki, we can blame sadc, we can blame uk...usa, we can blame zanu...junta, we can blame zec. BUT the really problem causer is MDC split.</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>, </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 02:40 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">who said there is no crisis in zimbabwe ?</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">thabo mbeki said there is no crisis in zimbabwe - he also said there was no such thing as AIDS/HIV - well thabo my boy - you are the second cleverest person in africa ( after robert g M of course ) - with buffoons like this around africa it looks like the basket case continent will continue !</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>parks mukadota , windhoek namibia </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 03:07 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Mutambara arrested</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Arrested for critcising Tyrant Robert Mugabe. As a day goes past they get even more desperate. "Zimbabweans are the enemy, while the rule of law is just a con" - thats whats in a mind of a tyrant. Everyday i pray GOD send him to hospital...</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Brownsugar , Chigwell </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 06:21 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">The Zimbabwe economy</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Did you know that the Zimbabwean economy is politically driven? A month b4 the stolen elections the rate shot up to about 450 to the pound. Two weeks later MDC had a rally with a massive turnout. This caught hopes of many investors & others with Zim interest then two days later the rate fell from 450 to 280. If you remember this then you know MDC runs the town... Everyday i pray GOD send Robert Mugabe to hospital.</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Kenlove32 , Chigwell </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 06:29 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">RICH POOR MAN</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">I FEEL SORRY FOR THIS RICH POOR MAN. HIS NAME IS GONO. 1 700 000%? I AM NOT AN ECNOMONIST BUT I COULD HAVE DONE BETTER. MANJE IF BOB WIN THE FIGURE WILL BE 9 999 999 999 999 999%! SO PLEASE GO TAKE BY FREE ADVICE: STOP SUPPORTING THE CHINOTIMBA, JOC, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY MUGABE. AKUBAIRA ZANHI NDEWAKO.</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>JONGWE , JHB </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 07:50 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Chiwenga's Son studying at Hartpury College, UK</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Chiwenga's son is studying at Hartpury, Gloucester. There are nearly 10 children of the illegal Zimbabwe Government Officers at Hartpury. Numbers for Hartpury College are: 01452 702 132, 01452 700 283 (+44-1452 from out of UK). You can also send your concerns to the UK Border Agency at: 02920 924 657, 0208 760 2077, 0208 750 2446 and 0208 603 5409. Mudenge's son recently finished at the same college using a fake name. They all come through Watershed College in Marondera.</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Chiwenga's Girlfriend , Mandara </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 09:20 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Kwa Mutoko neku Mudzi</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Takavabika and talk to them today they will tell you. Even those with Children in USA, Canada, UK, Dubai China or where ever will tell you kuti mwanangu tiri kunovhotera upenyu come June 27. We are going to claim back more than half of that vote that T-Boy stole from 'our people' in these areas.</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Kenneth Mamvura , </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 09:53 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Mamvura</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Pamhhhataaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Ndini , SA </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 10:13 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px"><I>I Love ZimDaily</I></DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">WESTERNERS This is your chance now he is now in your hands Bob its good time you arrest him for human rights violation there in Rome please help us he must not come back for the run off .Please help us thats the only chance teach that dog a lesson and send him where he belongs "The Hague". Britain and America don't let us down . Posted By Zanu and Mugabe Enemy , Zimbabwe : Jun 2 2008 09:23 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>, </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 10:21 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Mamvura imbwa</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Wabika nyama kwete mweya yavo nepfungwa will still vote MDC madhongi achikuma uri chii iwe Mamvura muroyi zvake paari uchasvotwa dzangu hama dziri kuti ndezvako come june 27 they will express their will uchida usingadi madhodhi anonhuwa </DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Mamvura imbwa , UK ugondidiiko </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 10:28 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Bobo</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">imbwa yaBOBO inonzi Mamvura</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Chongwe , </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 10:45 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">What Economy?</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Zimbabwe no longer has an economy. Gono is printing money to use it as a mop for foreign currency in the parallel market. Whenever Mugabe and Grace have to travel, the Zim Dollar always falls massively, suggesting that a major player is flooding the market with printed worthless zim currency. Gono, what are you doing? You do not even have a doctorate on academic merit but yours was given to you. Do not let it go to your head as that will only kill zimbabwe</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Sweet MDC-T , South Africa </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 12:25 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">ARREST GONO PLEASE</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">People like Gono should be arrested, period. He is now busy looting Zimbabwe on behalf of Bob and stuffing the money in foreign accounts. Ko pashaiwawo here aenda ku Rome kunodzingirira Bob? Anoend kuRome kumeeting yemaPresidents iye achisiri President.</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>New Zimbo , Malawi </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 01:53 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Check your voter status on www.zimvoter.com</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">The election on 27 June 2008 is historical. We can get a new breath of fresh air if more people vote for change. Most people do not know whether they are registered to vote and which constituency and ward they are registered to vote. I for one did not know whether I was a registered voter until I checked a few days before march 29. I did not register but my name was on the voter's roll . They ( ZEC) said when I took my ID that's when I was automatically registered. Please check your and frineds , relatives voter registration status. I have made it easy by setting up an online voter registration database where people can search by ID number and those who can't remember their ID number can search by using their name and date of birth. The folks in the diaspora can also check on behalf of their relatives back home who do not have access to the internet or are victims of the slow browsing speeds here in zimbabwe. This is the best gift zimbabweans abroad can help folks at home. So if you are in the diaspora next time you call home ask them if they know where they can vote. Offer to do a search for them and then text them their voting details. You can find the voters roll online on www.zimvoter.com and or www.africaelectioncenter.com . If you are in the diaspora just cehck if you are appearing on the voter's roll and we can later do a survey to establish how many votes were lost by denying the diaspora to vote. Go now on www.zimvoter.com or www.africaelectioncenter.com Every vote counts on Friday june 27 2008. 25 days to go. </DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>shumbayenzara , Binga metropolitan center </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 02:19 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">mamvura , i realy want to meet you in a free zim</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">one person im craving to meet in a post mugabe zimbabwe is this mamvura . i want him to tell me how he managed to get admission to college in the states , the guy is not intouch with reality and he is still living in the past, i realy want to meet him so i can tell him what year we are in .</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>lovemore mazivisa , london. uk </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 03:23 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">lovemore u a kid</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Shut up Lovemore , give me yr contact number if you are a man .</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>kenneth mamvura , </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 03:43 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">kenneth mamvura</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Foolish dog, if you are man enough, give me your own phone number, bastard!</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Mbuya Rennie , Ballantyne Park, Harare </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 04:32 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Huh?</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">What's all this "His Excellency" crap? In democracies, you call people by their first name. In this case, it's George W. In democracies, his excellency is everone or no one. EVERYBODY is equal, except in Africa where some politicians think they are more important than the electorate - NOT SO !! It's time we Africans got to understand this. Once we do, we will soon learn not to put up with the crap these policians dish up to us. </DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Viva Democracy....... , .... is is coming to Zimbabwe </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 05:19 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Kenneth Mamvura be SERIOUS!</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Shame on you Mamvura, your mental acumen just shows how low it is, actually below par and far lower than a primary one child's. When others are discussing about Zim inflation , how it has risen to 1.7m % all you talk about is beating up , torturing and killing pple to get votes for mugabe. Honestly what part of your brain, if you have got any do you use! You have no clue of the economic status of the country all you talk and brag about are your uncivilized deeds, shame on you. Even if you kill all members of the opposition party, you still have one Enemy that you can't beat, torture, maim or murder, ZIM'S COLLAPSED ECONOMY! that is your number one enemy and needs taken care of ASAP, regardless of what you, mugabe, gono and others as shallow as you may take! Think about it! </DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Nyarai , Scotland </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 06:05 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Kenneth Mamvura!</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Please tell me this mamvura idiot is not at college in USA. I am so disappointed if he is, what is he doing there? how can he achieve anything with his shallow head! what's happening with education these days? Educated pple are supposed to critically analyse events but this mamvura dude is just the opposite, he lacks everything that make human beings even my chihuahua is far clever than this mamvura dude, Shame!</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Cool , Zim Bindura </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 07:26 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">mamvura ehure phona</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Iwe mazimvura ehure phona nmber dzangu idzo 07982484045 ..........................................Oscar</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Oscar , </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 09:22 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Mamvura is Hired</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">I believe Mamvura's motive is very clear. The man intends to polute our minds. Slowly its dawning on him that people who visit this site are not as stupid as he thought. The worst thing about ZANU PF is that these people dont learn from the past. March 29 handed a defeat to Robert Mugabe, instead of them doing a good job about analysing what led to his defeat, you find they are going about unleashing violence in the rural areas! Poor ZANU PF! Cant you realizing that you shooting yourselves in the foot? Violence no longer works with Zimbabweans. They are fed up with the illegal govt. Look how much did they invest in the election but they lost all the same? Kenneth is hired! I would like to show him the staff i am made of on June 27. I will vote his boss out.</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Ripples , Harare </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 09:38 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Manvura e sewage</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Manvura e sewage, We all know that your mum is a bitch thats why you are pro Zanu and Mugabe, but uchamama after june 27 we will sort out all the trash in your head easy if you are in the U.S.A manvura e sewage........ i m COMING FOR YOUR HEAD</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Parry , WOLVES </SPAN>: Jun 2 2008 11:35 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Viva Democracy....... , .... is is coming to Zimbabwe : Jun 2 2008 05:19 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">I don't care a hoot whether Presidents are "His Excellency" or not! Whatever they are, we need normal, simple human beings! One doesn't cease to be just a normal, human being just because they hold an Office called "President." That's what craps like Bob and Thabo fail to realise. Hope Morgan will continue to be his simple self! </DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Rev Mufaro Stig Hove , ZIMFINALPUSH, AZANIA/RSA </SPAN>: Jun 3 2008 06:34 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Dell vindicated</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">So Dell was right when he estimated that inflation will rise to 1.5million%. http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/powell47.16577.html. Why do we Africans become so predictable in the negative?</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Dingizulu Masuku , Joburg, RSA </SPAN>: Jun 3 2008 08:42 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">mdc bandits</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">BANDITS that are unleashing terror on the people in their desire to get to power at all costs should be stopped. They cannot be allowed to accomplish their programme of walking over dead bodies of innocent women and children and the elderly on their way up the echelons of power. So far several people have been killed while others have been maimed while property worth trillions of dollars has also been destroyed by marauding gangs of political thugs some armed with rifles. Elsewhere in this issue we carry a disturbing story of two ruling party officials who were shot and killed in cold blood in Mutoko by a gang of suspected MDC-T activists who have turned themselves into first class terrorists. Two other people including a headman were fired at but the culprits missed them by a whisker. According to police spokesman Chief Superintendent Oliver Mandipaka, the deceased were yesterday identified as ZanuPF Nyamukapa Ward secretary for publicity Cde Nancy Chidzidzi (53) and party activist Cde Taurai Chihuri (51). </DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>kenneth mamvura , </SPAN>: Jun 3 2008 09:13 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">MAMVURA</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Koo Tonderai Ndira, Shepherd Jani and many others vakanoonekwa na McGee kumahospitals varikutaura kuti vakarohwa neZanu unotii navo? You are a Zanu Bandit yourself or even worse.Asshole yamai vako. Pfutseki, ZIDHODHI</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>??? , jhb , S.A </SPAN>: Jun 3 2008 11:08 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">How Would MDC possess Weapons in Zimbabwe</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Kenneth Mamvura fools like you deserve to be thoroughly whipped on their arses.Can you imagine what would happen to an MDC supporter or sympathiser found with a gun? The security is so tight in Zimbabwe such that even having been smuggled it is very impossible for any MDC member to be in possession of a gun.So the Zanu-PF members you are talking about were shot by members of their own party. Zanu-PF used this trick before in order to cripple Zapu.The dissidents in Matabeleland who were said to be from Zapu were never Zapu at all.If they were Zapu why did they kill people who were Zapu stalwarts?That is proof that they were Zanu-PF mercenaries.Today Zanu-PF is re-employing the same tactic again.It is a futile exercise and will not win them any extra vote,</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Sydney Malunga , KoNtuthu </SPAN>: Jun 3 2008 12:51 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">MAMVURA!!!</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">ZANU-PF is the dirtiest Organization that has ever existed since man came upon this world. Never believe ZANU stuff. Now they say MDC is doing the violence! Surely if MDC was doing the violence, they would have been in power 6 years ago! Mamvura (if you are serious), you are despicably demented! I WILL NOT USE VULGAR!</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Rev Mufaro Stig Hove , ZIMFINALPUSH, RSA/AZANIA </SPAN>: Jun 3 2008 01:03 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Give Mamvura a Break.</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Of cause I do not support the sentiments posted by Mamvura because they are clearly irresponsible especially at this eleventh hour. He might have had 2 intentions in saying what he did. The first may have been to stir up the dicussion by being openly controversial while the second may have been to asses our political maturity as Zimbabweans. Real democracy which we are hoping for after the 27th respects freedom of speech where noone is percecuted or threatened for saying how they feel and where torturers are brought to justice through the courts and the rule of law prevails. Imbopafungayi ipapo!</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>R Makaza , Essex </SPAN>: Jun 3 2008 01:15 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">car sticker</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">imbwa yaMugabe inonzi Mamvura</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Liberal Democrats , of Zimbabwe </SPAN>: Jun 3 2008 03:35 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">who said what?</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">As long as Mugabe and his cronies are alive they will do everything to throw spanners on Tsvangirai's political engine in a bid to block him from ascending to power. There shall be many recounts, runoffs, reruns, dead silence on election results and business as usual. The choice therefore is: let us forget about Mbeki and let us go on to also hold our machine guns, ponto final. This Tyrant declared war on his own people long time ago. Munhu tora gidi uzvi tonge there goes Mbuya Nehanda na Kaguvi's advice or kugara munyika hunge muno rugare. "Grab ur guns and rule yourself" Armed Vs the unARMED. FACE IT - HOW MANY MORE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE ALL BECAUSE OF ONE PERSONS POWER HUNGER, WAKE UP!</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Brownsugar , Chigwell </SPAN>: Jun 3 2008 03:36 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">black market rate ZW$ 3.24 billion = one US dollar</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">black market rate ZW$ 3.24 billion = one US dollar or ZW$ 6.35 billion per one british pound. please note the important word is BILLION and not million. fellow diasporans, do not be fooled by gono and the crooked rserve bank of zimbabwe, ensure you get the correct rate for your hard earned foreign money. the free market rate is the only true rate & soon gono & mugabe will realise that they cannot beat the markets - like the price of green mielies on the streets - if there are a lot of mielies the price comes down & if there are few the price goes up - simple - economics is not one of mugabe or gone's strong points - change is very near </DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>prof milton obote , kampala uganda </SPAN>: Jun 5 2008 12:08 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Rev Hove !</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Is Rev your Pastoral title or its you first name from birth. I wonder what type of flock you head.Instead of using such platforms as these to preach the Word of God and stand up for Jesus.You are busy showing faith in Bush, a simple human being, probably not even born again. You want Bush to change the situation in Zimbabwe in his capacity as who.You think he is Bigger than God.There is nothing Biblical about your article, it looks like you are not proud to be associated with Christ but with George Bush. I can tell you you are the type of Rev who are misleading God people. You were the district secretary of ZANU PF during the Gukurahundi era, so you have a case to answer too and to me you dont even sound born again at all. You probably quit ZANU after they never gave you a piece of land they promised you.MDC should never allow people like you from ZANU to join their party, coz you caused a lot of suffering to people.I have a lot of relatives who were killed during the gukurahundi time, because of people who supported it like you.YOu admitting you were part of it should be evidence enough to try you.After admitting , will the lost lives come back ? If MDC pardons people like you who did such evil deeds willingly , then Mugabe should be pardoned too. We don't want your articles on this site again.You open old wounds and remind people of the pain they went through due to your deeds. Whats so special about being born of SA Zulu mother.No one one has ever written an article and introduced themselves by telling us their mother and father 's origins, whats the significance of that ? Stay in SA and leave true Zimbabweans alone, one day we will be free because we trust in God.You wont even be able to vote. I feel pity for the flock you are leading.</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Ken , Harare ,Zimbabwe </SPAN>: Jun 5 2008 01:25 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Rev</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Everyone has a role to play in liberating Zimbabwe, and I would like to remind you of yours, its a spiritual role.Don't play other people 's roles .You saw what happened to your colleuge Bishop Pius Ncube ?Concetrate on your calling, and use spiritual influence in solving the Zim crisis, otherwise your articles dont show confidence in you spiritual belief, which you happen to teach your congregation every Sunday.Are you a Rev to earn a living or to stand for Jesus like Ken said ?You flocks 's house is burning in Zimbabwe, and you decided to run away.What a sherpard ?</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Ranga , Machipisa, Zimbabwe </SPAN>: Jun 5 2008 01:52 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px"><I>I Love ZimDaily</I></DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px"></DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>, </SPAN>: Jun 5 2008 06:06 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">MY TWO FLOCK MEMBERS!!!</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">The very reason why Robert Matibili is behaving like a "bull in a China Shop" in Zimbabwe today is because of such misguided views like the ones just above. Being a Christian does not mean being docile. I will not say too many words. You Ken of Harare and Ranga of Machipisa are part of my flock. Its true I will not vote: but its because of desperate crooks who are afraid of a free vote for ALL citizens of Zimbabwe. Even those without dual citizenships cannot vote if they happen to be outside the country. Matibili (Mugabe) fears they will uproot him. So what's the story about my being not able to vote? Also Id I had not left Zim would I be able to say freely what I'm saying now? Please grow up! If you are part of the ZANU gravy train.....enjoy it quietly and quickly while it lasts. SO CONCENTRATE ON YOUR VIOLENCE IN THE DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO PROP UP A DEMENTED CROOK LIKE ROBERT MATIBILI. About me accounting for what we did as ZANU-PF in the 80s, I'm available to anyone. I'm not hidden like the others like yourselves. GOD HAVE MERCY ON US ALL! Reverend Mufaro Stig Hove www.zimfinalpush.blogspot.com </DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Rev Mufaro Stig Hove , ZIMFINALPUSH AZANIA/RSA!!! </SPAN>: Jun 5 2008 06:07 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">Mamvura</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">Mamvura uri satani ,the devil leaves in you?Do you have brains,what do you use when you are thinkin ,magaro?The time <I>****</I> is ticking its only a matter of time ,you will regreat the day you were born.Pamberi napresident Tsvangirai </DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Bhona Mugabe Mwana vehure Grace naMakamba , State House Zimbabwe </SPAN>: Jun 5 2008 11:42 AM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">mamvura</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">I THINK PEOPLE LIKE MAMVURA SHOULD BE IGNORED COMPLETELY THEY DONT HAVE ANYTHING POSITIVE TO SAY.THE ONLY GOOD THING IS THAT HE IS HIV POSITIVE.ARI KUKOSORA ZVAKAIPA</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>BRIAN KANHUKARO , HARARE ,ZIMBABWE </SPAN>: Jun 7 2008 10:17 PM</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 10px"></DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #dfdfdf; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; COLOR: #990000; PADDING-TOP: 3px">US Republicans, MDC-T alike in media deception!!</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 8px">STELLA Orakwue writes eloquently in the May 2008 issue of New African magazine "It is a pity!": "Do you think that if 'Mugabe', had got the money, the financial credits that Zimbabwe needed, that Zimbabwe's economic situation would not be utterly different, and that 'the people' would not have given him the vast majority he deserved? . . . It is a pity that the people who voted against President Mugabe have no ability to remember the servitude they existed in prior to the last eight years . . . Is it too hard without the white man? Without the Westerner in charge of your resources, your money, looking after you behind the scenes?" US Congressman Robert Wexler is demanding that White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan must testify under oath before House Judiciary Committee concerning devastating revelations made in his new book on the Bush Administration's deliberate efforts to mislead the American people into the Iraq War. In his book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," McClellan writes that Bush manipulated public opinion through a "political propaganda campaign" to justify going to war in Iraq. Public officials, whether pro-Anglo MDC-T or pro-Zanu-PF, should be held responsible for any actions that could lead to civil war, social disruption, and or additional economic sanctions. Sanctions are designed specifically to destroy the financial infrastructure of a country. For years MDC-T has media slandered the people of Zimbabwe with the most savage, filthy, and disgusting language, and disinformation ever written by an African. This is reminiscent of the American systematic dismemberment of a political candidate and a scorched earth strategy. After reading 'What happened' it appears Morgan Tsvangirai and MDC-T are imitating the George Herbert Walker Bush's 1988 campaign against Michael Dukakis: On page 68 McClellan writes "Instead, they developed a calculated strategy to go negative that had little to do with building their candidate up and everything to do with tearing their opponent down." "The campaign was by most objective accounts full of distortions, misrepresentations, and zero-sum politics, accusing Dukakis of everything from embracing furloughs for dangerous criminals to disliking the pledge of allegiance (the innuendo being that he was unpatriotic).' Tsvangirai is using all the American political personality deceptions and media spinmiesterism found common among American politicians; fooling a majority. A recent photo of Tsvangirai crying at a funeral is a typical public relations photo-shoot. It is no different from US presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton's tear jerk response at Press time claiming she's being attacked. World media is finally recognising and stating in their Press comments how she, like Tsvangirai, is waiting for a dreadful event for her to become president. MDC-T's relentless attack and permanent Press campaign against President Mugabe personally can be likened to Bush and the Republican Party's media spinmiesterisation that White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan regretfully participated in. "Media outlets should denote more resources to fact-checking ideas and information provided by political campaigns, politicians in office, or special interest organisations. When a candidate bends the truth, reporters shouldn't hesitate to point that out. When a television commercial uses, emotional appeals, distorted imagery, or misleading selective facts to promote a particular point of view, news organisations should expose those tactics, even if it means braving the fury of an offended advertiser. The do's and don'ts of the Media Spinmiesters and the journalistic stage they set are well defined in former White House Press secretary Scott McClellan's book "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception" making visibly clear MDC-T's "permanent campaign": Do not discuss any economic and trade issues, never discuss economic sanctions, never discuss direct investment for agricultural and educational institutions. Never discuss with Zimbabwe citizens the ways and means that white Rhodesians became owners of the best preserved land in Zimbabwe. Do not discuss the slaughter of millions of Zimbabweans who died in the wars and forced labour mines and plantations. The wars that matched African spears against European cannons and machine guns are crimes against humanity and never to be mentioned. Never discuss how the British wrote and signed their own land ownership papers and leases in Zimbabwe? Do not discuss how Zimbabwe's farmers ended up in South Africa nurturing a neighbours' land and neglecting their own farm land; is it a result of sanctions? If yes, illegally imposed sanctions should be the Press media's target for investigation. MDC-T's hired political media spinmiesters always direct the topic of discussions and comments to suffering and death issues, the American boogey man, the "evil" president and the "corrupt" Zanu-PF and ZEC fear and scare tactics. Do not define the New Zimbabwe in specifics. Propaganda media spinmiesters discourage intellectual debates and promote distrust among political opponents by making the opposition the enemy. Emphasise tribal, political, or religious differences. The media spinmiesters will make Zimbabwean nationalism, self-determination, and independence an unknown and unachievable factor by constant media <I>****</I>ardment of government failures. Media spinmiesters never report success events or achievements. Should President Mugabe and Zanu-PF have responded to MDC-T like the Clintons? "By 1992, Clinton and his political advisors felt they had learned the lessons of the 1988 campaign: answer every attack; counter misrepresentations and distortions of one's record by using the same tactics against the opponent; play by the same rules the opposition plays by, but do it better. …the Clinton political machine became famous for its aggressive push back tactics, its subtle and not so subtle intimidation of reporters, its mastery of spin, and its rapid response to charges." "It was recorded in The Quest for the Presidency by Peter and John Matthews Goodman, the systematic dismemberment of Michael Dukakis" based on a "scorched-earth strategy." When illegally imposed sanctions began to deteriorate the success of the educational institutions from grade schools to the Universities in Zimbabwe; did MDC-T call a truce at any cost to avoid the near collapse of its educational institutions? The essenciality of any society begins in the home; it ends in the schools and learning centres that later evolve into scientific research and development laboratories of entrepreneurship. What is the cost of sanctions? Answer: a generation of students and citizens denied the social benefits and fruition of their scholarship. By MDC-T's demonisation of their head of state and its ruling political party they actually demeaned every Zimbabwean. If American laws are applied to Zimbabwe's present state of affairs charges of sedition, treason, and subversive activities would easily be applied to MDC-T top officials and their media spinmiesters. Zimbabwe is more of a "Democracy" than America. MDC-T officials are allowed to advocate, solicit, and join foreign forces in their attempt to "remove" the President and government from existence. This behaviour will never be tolerated in America, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the European Union. The support of foreign illegally imposed sanctions is a criminal act. Media Spinmiester "Tendai Biti, secretary general of the MDC, said Sadc must 'play the midwifery role' in easing President Mugabe from power in the aftermath of the March 29 election. Mugabe placed second to opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in that vote but has vowed to win a runoff." "If diplomacy fails, the next thing is a war," Biti said after a news conference here. "It's not an option to us, but one day some [person] is going to say, 'This is the only solution.' Sadc must act now before rivers of dead people start to flow, as they did in Rwanda." Writer MacDonald Dzirutwe writes "The MDC insists Tsvangirai won outright the first time." "We decided to participate in the run-off to give the people of Zimbabwe a second chance to kick out the dictatorship. We have now declared a zero vote for Robert Mugabe," Khupe told supporters on Sunday. "We need to give Mugabe a final blow. On June 27 we will be having a Zanu-PF funeral. We are going to make sure we bury them so that they will not resurrect again." "The MDC has alleged electoral fraud in the March election, and Khupe said verification of results in next month's vote should be open to the media and observers and recorded on camera "so that Zanu-PF will not cheat." Well, MDC-T, in America if the President of the US, the Commander in Chief, is found to have deliberately deceived the American public for the purpose of going to war in Iraq and Afghanistan the president will be impeached and face federal charges for deceiving the US. You MDC-T have made explosive statements that ought to be answered and verified to the world public with actual facts. However, if the statements by MDC-T are to be taken at face value one can conclude the MDC, led by Tsvangirai is at war with the Government and people of Zimbabwe. I hope I am wrong. The seat of authority must always be respected even if it is a dictatorship or a family ruled monarchy. The respect you show today for the seat of authority will be the respect given to you if or when your time arrives for change. US gangsters or mobsters aka the Cosa Nostra have a rule of law in their Commission or Board of Directors: it states that whichever (member) calls for the removal of the chairman from his seat of authority cannot then be the chairman himself after the removal. In Japan it is said that one cannot be charged with treason if the foreign collaboration be determined to be in the best interest of the country. Sanctions have irreparable effects. There is a vast difference in being elected to a position of authority and the demand for the removal of a commander in chief from his or her position of authority. The demand places you in legal jeopardy particularly with non-members. "During electoral campaigns, reporters should work harder to pin the candidates down on policy specifics rather than accepting generalisations and rhetorical flair." God Bless All the People of Zimbabwe to solve their own crisis. </DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; BACKGROUND: #272a2f; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; COLOR: #ff9933; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Posted By <SPAN class=anon-comment-author>Lloyd Whitefield Butler, Jr , USA!!! </SPAN>: Jun 10 2008 09:18 AM</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV><STRONG> <DIV align=left> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=271 align=center bgColor=#ffffff border=0> <TBODY> <TR vAlign=center bgColor=#000400> <TD bgColor=#ffffff height=187> <DIV align=center><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV></TD></TR> <TR vAlign=top> <TD class=smalldark vAlign=center bgColor=#ffffff height=131></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></STRONG></DIV></td></tr></table><br>ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-47468666769600509082008-01-24T04:01:00.000+02:002008-11-07T06:55:01.909+02:00"Mbeki should admit he has failed" Rose Maindiseka<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHF4Bo-b3ppYAvBRVNsL_y59X5O6siVMDFrWVABde2pm7thmvVEwmk9Xf1w-YlrEQpa1QxVchfiE3zxWnxFXKkuNPjBwPTe4UiNhahc2AOjkuVaqF3x1Jxg_ancgSv9Vn2m59KodLLT8G6/s1600-h/mbeki+thinking.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHF4Bo-b3ppYAvBRVNsL_y59X5O6siVMDFrWVABde2pm7thmvVEwmk9Xf1w-YlrEQpa1QxVchfiE3zxWnxFXKkuNPjBwPTe4UiNhahc2AOjkuVaqF3x1Jxg_ancgSv9Vn2m59KodLLT8G6/s320/mbeki+thinking.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159043434377367138" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/page443.htm">LINK!!!!</a><br /> <br />Just before the latest collapse of talks between the ruling ZANU PF and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), South African President Thabo Mbeki was characteristically upbeat about the prospects of the two sides signing a final agreement to set the scene for the staging of free and fair elections within the next two months.<br /> <br />Mbeki was reported to have told visiting Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern about a week before flying to Harare last Friday that he was “within days” of getting the two parties to sign a deal to end the crisis in Zimbabwe. Following meetings with President Robert Mugabe and the leaders of the two factions of the MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, Mbeki was equally positive about the progress that was being made.<br /> <br />It, however, emerged soon afterwards that the talks had collapsed because of Mugabe’s refusal to accommodate opposition demands for a new constitution to be in place before the elections and for the polls to be postponed so that any agreed changes to media, security and electoral laws would be enforced to the satisfaction and benefit of all stakeholders well ahead of the electoral process. <br /> <br />Over the years, Mbeki has been in the habit of predicting “breakthroughs” in the Zimbabwean crisis that have never materialized and that in fact have heralded major failures for him as peace broker. Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern is not the first head of state to be given an over-optimistic prognosis on the Zimbabwean crisis during a state visit to South Africa. Four years ago, United States President George Bush was given a similarly rosy impression when Mbeki informed the American leader that a lot was happening behind the scenes and a breakthrough was imminent. Shortly afterwards, then German chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, who visited South Africa in 2004, was told the same story.<br /> <br />Mbeki once publicly gave June, 2004 as the deadline by which he would announce a resolution of the differences between the opposition and Zanu-PF, heralding the end of the political crisis. Needless to say, his predictions came to naught. Not only was the impasse not broken but that year Mbeki washed his hands of the crisis and announced that only the people of Zimbabwe would have to put their heads together to confront their problems. No one, not even South Africa could “import” a solution to Zimbabwe, Mbeki stressed.<br /> <br />However, despite publicly throwing in the towel on this occasion, Mbeki eagerly accepted appointment by the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) in March last year to act as mediator once more. Over the past year of acting as SADC mediator in Zimbabwe , Mbeki has characteristically stuck to the same muddled approach that resulted in spectacular failure during the years when he touted “quiet diplomacy” as the best way to deal with Zimbabwe ’s wily octogenarian president. He continued to raise false hopes and to over-estimate the efficacy of his hands-off skills as a mediator. <br /> <br />In August last year, he gave an upbeat briefing to the SADC summit held in Lusaka about the progress he had made in bringing Zanu-PF and the MDC to the negotiating table. But as is now clear, this latest mission has gone nowhere and there are no prospects for breaking the logjam and bringing relief to the suffering people of Zimbabwe through a negotiated solution. The question to ask is whether Mbeki’s dismal performance stems from poor judgment or sheer lack of concern about the plight of the people of Zimbabwe.<br /> <br />In the past, his defenders have argued that Mbeki’s “quiet diplomacy” was the only approach that was likely to bear fruit as opposed to the West’s hard-line public condemnation of Mugabe and his government. These defenders of Mbeki’s lacklustre performance claimed that adopting a more robust stance on Zimbabwe would merely promote Western prejudices about Africans being unfit or unable to run their own affairs.<br /> <br />But after the many years of non-delivery of results under “quiet diplomacy” and a year of stagnation under the SADC initiative, it is time for Mbeki to do the honourable thing and admit he has not brought enough leadership, goodwill and diplomatic skills to his role as mediator to make a difference. This lack of progress in fact to lends credence to accusations by critics that the South African leader has colluded with the Mugabe government all along.<br /> <br />In the latest exercise, Mbeki who only stirs into action when he is due to brief his SADC counterparts, has demonstrated a propensity for leaning heavily only on the opposition to make concessions without exerting similar pressures on the ruling party to address glaring governance and other shortcomings. Last week, Mugabe gloated that there was no progress in the talks because the opposition was simply not ready for elections and needed an excuse to chicken out.<br /> <br />The opposition is of course not ready for the polls because it has been prevented from holding rallies, to mobilizing support and campaigning freely throughout the country. It has been thwarted at every turn. The two MDC factions do not enjoy access to the official media in which opposition politicians are only featured when they are being attacked or mocked. These unjustified tirades and the subjection of opposition and civic leaders to police brutality are some of the issues on which Mbeki as the mediator should have spoken out. Pointing out the urgent need to end state-sponsored violence, the political persecution of opposition figures and to restore the rule of law does not represent vilification and demonization of Mugabe as Mbeki and other African leaders have dishonestly claimed. <br /> <br />It is no secret that Mbeki and other African leaders within SADC and the African Union are hamstrung by their belief that dealing with their Zimbabwean counterpart more honestly by getting him to face his blunders and abuses would be playing into the hands of Western powers such as the United States and Britain. Despite clear evidence to the contrary, African leaders have continued to attribute all the problems in Zimbabwe today to the fact that the British government reneged on undertakings to finance the land reform programme. <br /> <br />Even granting that this argument may have once been true, it no longer makes sense to use it to explain the dire situation prevailing in Zimbabwe now. The government of President Mugabe decided in 2000 to go it alone on land redistribution and proceeded to violently seize farms from whites. The government now resorts to citing the former colonial power’s failure to keep its promise because the land reform exercise has been an absolute disaster.<br /> <br />It has failed to take off in eight years and chaos and corruption continue to be the order of the day. Foreign powers can surely not be blamed for the violent and disorderly manner in which the matter was handled. They are not responsible for the allocation of prime land to cronies and friends who have failed dismally to utilize the resource resulting in endless food shortages and a disastrous impact on the economy. Mbeki and other African leaders know this but choose to sweep it under the carpet in the name of solidarity.<br /> <br />After a visit to Zimbabwe last year to assess the country’s economic crisis, SADC Executive Secretary, Tomaz Salomao, submitted a report calling for political and legal reforms and an overhaul of the civil service. This report, based the situation on the ground, reflects Zimbabwe’s continual descent into lawlessness, political tyranny and rampant corruption, which cannot, by any stretch of imagination, be the result of Western machinations. But as long as African leaders are blinded by their need to demonstrate solidarity with the Mugabe government in its supposed fight with the West, they will continue to betray the people of Zimbabwe as Mbeki has done over the years<br /> <br /> Mbeki’s opaque dealings with Mugabe have enabled the Zimbabwean leader to buy time and consolidate his dictatorship. Beyond that, the South African leader and SADC should accept that he has failed dismally to deliver as an impartial and honest peace broker. The effect of his involvement has been to prolong the suffering of Zimbabweans and to hasten the disintegration of the economy. Mbeki, who is distracted by his own political problems in South Africa, should now let others have ago.<br /> <br /> It is perhaps time for SADC and the African Union to reconsider a proposal made by Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade two months ago that a panel of African leaders should be constituted to deal with the wily Mugabe. After the latest Mbeki debacle, it is time for African leaders to remove their blinkers and for once, do what is right for the people of Zimbabwe.<br /><br />@#@#@#@#@#@#@#@#@#@#@#@#@#@#@#@#@#@#@<br />On the contrary, Thabo Mbeki has succeeded<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/page447.htm">LINK!!!</a><br /> <br />President Thabo Mbeki has not failed over his mediation in Zimbabwe, suggested in the article yesterday (January 24) by Rose Maindiseka.<br /> <br />This might sound illogical but this is the truth. Mbeki's aim was to achieve something for his god-father President Robert Mugabe and he has succeeded. Mbeki wanted to buy time for Mugabe. He has managed that. He wanted to dupe the progressive world into thinking he was doing something about the Zimbabw crisis. He has achieved that. <br /> <br />He did not want to achieve any real progress and, indeed, no progress has been achieved.<br /> <br />Lucas MbamboZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-26808276825072620472007-11-15T04:26:00.000+02:002008-11-07T06:55:03.762+02:00Panic in Mugabe's bunker: Dictator losing grip???<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_NA20g6KqipnuYx437_GYzKeK0QXhO4yG3ZHRrx3kHhgCcCRdWYAahiKDU2RxfC0_sLpBMPW7EwyPIc7YJlDqKgix695n3am6zVUjONEEtyJfvebA2stuFltfZdPHxwFa-8v3YE9bvaE/s1600-h/zim+today.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_NA20g6KqipnuYx437_GYzKeK0QXhO4yG3ZHRrx3kHhgCcCRdWYAahiKDU2RxfC0_sLpBMPW7EwyPIc7YJlDqKgix695n3am6zVUjONEEtyJfvebA2stuFltfZdPHxwFa-8v3YE9bvaE/s320/zim+today.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133077691648065378" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHCSSCZcAAHqnW0mUo9ePYNWJ64V5DYqV5qPOZqXJuHZ_YQa7YkvXk_xpCS69ltgfEoGKwaassgJVibOSUqggkoUGeplNrBQZNPXT12xr-YK4txqIZwf_JorKcQDdyOOFLAmbDnGlLLTx1/s1600-h/zim+today+2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHCSSCZcAAHqnW0mUo9ePYNWJ64V5DYqV5qPOZqXJuHZ_YQa7YkvXk_xpCS69ltgfEoGKwaassgJVibOSUqggkoUGeplNrBQZNPXT12xr-YK4txqIZwf_JorKcQDdyOOFLAmbDnGlLLTx1/s320/zim+today+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133077081762709330" /></a><br /> The First Post's</EM> <A href="http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=8792">exclusive reports</A> of Robert Mugabe's plots- first to assassinate his critics, including ex-Archbishop Pius Ncube, then to destroy Ncube with charges of sexual misconduct - have enraged Zimbabwe's President. <br /> <br />But publication has caused him temporarily to call off the conspiracies.<br /> <br />Scenes reminiscent of the last days of Hitler were witnessed at a late-night meeting at State House, called by Mugabe on Monday. <br /> <br />The President raved and screamed at his top security men, threatening to sack some of them, including Central Intelligence Organisation boss Happyton Bonyongwe, unless they put a stop to the damaging leaks. <br /> <br /> <br />Bonyongwe confessed to the president that the latest plots against Ncube , which were attempting to link the former Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo with false charges of sodomy, adultery and deliberately spreading Aids, had all fallen apart, thanks to The First Post's reports. Several of those lined up to make accusations against Ncube had already disappeared.<br /> <br /> <br />Mugabe, frothing with rage, screamed at the hapless chief: "Get out of the kitchen if you cannot handle it, Bonyongwe. Since when have you failed to handle your boys? Or maybe you are one of those that think I should leave my job." Then he ordered a visibly shaken Bonyongwe to call off the anti-Ncube campaign for the moment, and instead launch a manhunt to track down the informants who gave information <br />to The First Post - and "deal with them first."<br />The government has been unable to pass off the reports about the Ncube honeytrap and the attempts on his life and reputation as fiction, because The First Post showed documents about the plans, passed to me at great risk by my sources.<br /><br />Mugabe has now ordered that in future there must be no paperwork about such plots, and all briefings must be made strictly by telephone or in person, face to face.<br />The Monday night meeting was at the highest level of government. It included, apart from Bonyongwe, the defence forces commander General Constantine Chiwengwa, the army chief Phillip Sibanda, air force chief Perence Shiri, police commissioner Augustine Chirhuri, and the home and defence ministers, Kembo Mohadi and Sydney Sekeramayi.<br />Significantly absent was Security Minister Didymus Mutasa, who is out of favour because of his involvement with the 'magic diesel' affair.<br /><br />When I spoke to Pius Ncube yesterday I warned him that the hiatus in the attacks on his reputation was only temporary. He told me: "I am not worried. I have said before that I only fear God, and Mugabe is not God. I will continue to fight for a better life in Zimbabwe." <br /><br /><a href=" http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=9517">LINK!!!!!</a>ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-38739300876026669982007-11-02T00:19:00.000+02:002008-11-07T06:55:04.092+02:00Mugabe rejects Mandela's plan!<a href="http://www.thezimbabweindependent.com/viewinfo.cfm?linkid=11&id=11740&siteid=1">LINK!!!!!</a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2RkOdzDT-xoOXO9tmccgJgg-Tg8eQchCrmmTbasxPlqEiqo8BaDnUMa_54oXY2cTH4fh9rmGIQLN4rxmOdeYEwPIAbkhaQyYnqT4qGRMgHRkkEJczNZdsEolJ-XEsrUVuOVluSZa9xpDY/s1600-h/mandela.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2RkOdzDT-xoOXO9tmccgJgg-Tg8eQchCrmmTbasxPlqEiqo8BaDnUMa_54oXY2cTH4fh9rmGIQLN4rxmOdeYEwPIAbkhaQyYnqT4qGRMgHRkkEJczNZdsEolJ-XEsrUVuOVluSZa9xpDY/s320/mandela.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128185902249558258" /></a><br /><br />Dumisani Muleya<br /><br /><br />PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has rejected overtures by former South African president Nelson Mandela and other international statesmen for him to retire ahead of next year’s elections to avoid further deterioration of the economy. <br /><br />Mugabe’s resistance to renewed domestic and international pressure for him to quit before the polls demonstrates his rigid determination to hang onto power at all costs. This seems to have become his main objective despite the worsening crisis and attendant suffering.<br /><br />Impeccable sources said Mugabe has given the brush-off to Mandela and his "Global Elders" team which deals with trouble-spots, snuffing out any hopes of him leaving office before the elections now likely to take place in June. <br /><br />It is understood Mugabe told off former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan, who is part of the Elders group, after he made contact in September to arrange a meeting in Harare to discuss the Zimbabwe crisis, including his sensitive retirement issue.<br /><br />Mugabe and Annan fell out publicly after UN envoy Anna Tibaijuka in 2005 compiled a damning report on government’s Operation Murambatsvina which said the crackdown had displaced at least 700 000 people directly and affected 2,4 million others. Mugabe blocked Annan from coming to Harare to discuss the issue on that occasion. <br /><br />Two months ago Mugabe again blocked Annan from coming to Harare to discuss the Mandela initiative. Annan originally wanted to visit Harare to meet with Mugabe before the crucial Sadc summit in Lusaka. Mugabe stormed out of the meeting after clashing with host President Levy Mwanawasa. <br /><br />Mandela’s Elders initiative is funded by British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, the chairman of the Virgin Group, a vast business empire, and musician and activist Peter Gabriel. <br /><br />Branson, who is worth about US$8 billion and was recently ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in the world, is part of the Elders team. The group includes Mandela, who is the patron, his wife Graça Machel, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the chair. <br /><br />Other members of the group include Annan, Ela Bhatt, prominent Indian lawyer and international labour leader, ex-Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former US president Jimmy Carter, ex-Chinese foreign minister and Peking University professor Li Zhaoxing, former Irish president Mary Robinson, and Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi professor of economics and banker.<br /><br />Mandela, Tutu and Yunus are Nobel Peace Prize winners.<br /><br />Sources in South Africa said Mandela communicated with Mugabe through his advisors in March, indicating to him that he had played his role in the liberation of his people, but it was now time for him to go. It is said Mandela stated he would not like to see Mugabe hounded out of office by his own people and treated like former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet once out of power. Sources said Mandela further noted Mugabe would be better advised to leave sooner rather than later with residual respect and a modicum of dignity. <br /><br />Mandela communicated with Mugabe via their advisors on March 30 after the Zanu PF central committee met in Harare and claimed afterwards that Mugabe was endorsed as the party’s candidate in next year’s presidential election when in fact he had not been. Mugabe was only endorsed last week. It is understood that Mugabe appreciated Mandela’s message, which was supported by South African government officials and ruling ANC leaders, in particular party stalwart and business magnate Tokyo Sexwale, and promised to get back to him. He never did.<br /><br />Realising that Mugabe was not willing to respond, Mandela unleashed the Global Elders to pursue the Mugabe issue and find ways of engaging him. Mandela and Mugabe are perennial rivals in the region and clashed over the DRC intervention in 1998. <br /><br />The Elders met in Johannesburg during Mandela’s 89th birthday on July 18 to discuss hot spots around the world, including the Zimbabwe crisis. They resolved to send Annan to Harare to talk to Mugabe about his retirement plan and also dispatch a team to Darfur to assess the situation. The Elders went to Darfur recently. <br /><br />At the Johnnesburg meeting, close sources said there were different suggestions on how to approach Mugabe on the issue given his notoriously prickly disposition. Carter and other Elders proposed that a team, which included former African presidents, should approach Mugabe and persuade him to go, but Annan said that would not work because Mugabe was bound to reject a ganging up approach. Besides, Annan said the group might end up working at cross-purposes. He then said it would be better to send one person to meet with Mugabe and his name was put forward. Annan agreed. He then tried to arrange a meeting with Mugabe but was snubbed although he did not give up. <br /><br />After discussing the Mugabe issue with the Elders in July, Mandela said that his team must "speak freely and boldly, working both publicly and behind-the-scenes on whatever actions need to be taken". <br /><br />"Together we will work to support courage where there is fear, foster agreement where there is conflict, and inspire hope where there is despair," he said.<br /><br />Former Botswana president Sir Ketumile Masire persuaded ex-Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda to reform in 1990 and helped to end the crisis there. Mugabe himself, Mandela and Masire were in the past involved in efforts to end problems in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia.ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-71543847378313976412007-11-01T00:02:00.000+02:002008-11-07T06:55:04.319+02:00Lucia Matibenga: "Tsvangirai let the people be heard"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbcgAIhDYvRzgGjCZoNjSndft0pBLlvhJhmBF_AyMDcoOBpRE9I8giVZVEBjLeJnejtXMb5__mpV9EHiYnNIXKy5Tg5tGQnJBU8bNMB39Iv175B1Z4RY9En8QIac5aGWjGpzaybUigukpb/s1600-h/tsvangirai+4.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbcgAIhDYvRzgGjCZoNjSndft0pBLlvhJhmBF_AyMDcoOBpRE9I8giVZVEBjLeJnejtXMb5__mpV9EHiYnNIXKy5Tg5tGQnJBU8bNMB39Iv175B1Z4RY9En8QIac5aGWjGpzaybUigukpb/s320/tsvangirai+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127810556467626162" /></a><br /><br /><br />Thursday I November 2007<br /><br /> <br /><br />Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change will hold an emergency meeting on Saturday as the party under Morgan Tsvangirai staggers from crisis to crisis. <br /><br /> <br />Tsvangirai's bodyguards on Tuesday night assaulted two party MP's Amos Chibaya and Emmanuel Chisvuure at party headquarters, while a third Paul Madzore has been threatened. Chisvuure who sustained injuries to his face after complaining at party headquarters that the MDC was contravening its constitution after Tsvangirai disbanded the Women's Assembly, told Voice of America, "I feel that thugs are in control, this is not the first time our party has had these skirmishes." <br /><br />Women leaders have come under particular attack in the MDC - MP Trudy Stevenson was hospitalised after an attack and Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga also an MP moved to an opposing faction of the MDC under Welshman Ncube after being beaten by party thugs. Last Friday the legitimate MDC Women's Assembly head, Lucia Matibenga won a court order against Tsvangirai's move, the court said only the Women's Assembly could dissolve itself. <br /><br />At the weekend the MDC held an illegal secret meeting at a Bulawayo restaurant, attended by less than 100 people and elected MDC funder and beauty salon owner, Theresa Makone as the new Women Assembly head. She is the wife of Ian Makone, MDC director of elections. A woman interviewed by VOA who was present at the election said, "we support Morgan Tsvangirai but Theresa Makone is destroying the party with expensive gifts and money (to the party leadership)." <br /><br />Tsvangirai's thugs also harassed female members of Harare Province before a crisis consultative meeting on Tuesday, at which Tsvangirai wished to get endorsement for his illegal dissolution of the Women's Assembly. Harare Province Women's Chairperson, Rorina Dandajena confirmed that she and other women had been intimidated by the Tsvangirai thugs. <br /><br /> <br />"By the time people get into a meeting they are so nervous of victimisation their level of participation is compromised," responded Matibenga. <br /><br /> <br />The Bulawayo youth assembly which has put its weight behind Matibenga has also been barred from going into the party's provincial offices. <br /><br />Tsvangirai who is faced with a serious rebellion, by MP's, and national party structures is carrying out a purge of the so called, 'ring leaders' before the crucial crisis meeting on Saturday. The meeting is meant to belatedly deliberate on the illegal dissolution of the Women's Assembly. <br /><br />In a hard hitting editorial today on a UK based website, commentator, Obert Madondo said: "Zimbabweans must reclaim the democratic project. The MDC owes them for the many second chances they gave Tsvangirai. The least the MDC can do is liberate us from Tsvangirai. He is unfit to replace Robert Mugabe, let alone rule Zimbabwe." <br /><br />Ends<br /><br />Friends of Lucia Campaign<br /><br /><a href="friendsoflucia@gmail.com">friendsoflucia@gmail.com</a>ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-40596778413464918772007-10-16T08:59:00.000+03:002007-10-17T12:08:59.668+03:00THE MBEKI INITIATIVE: DEBATE FROM HOVE'S SUBMISSION!From brightonmusonza@arim.co.uk <br /><br />Mbeki as a dictator, and all sorts of cynical conniver with one Robert Mugabe is well described by one of his own here: http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=586595<br />I don't know how he would be better for Zimbabwe when his own people feel otherwise! MDC got duped and they have got to leave with it.<br />For me, Mbeki and Mugabe will run a close call race in as far as all bad things about rogue, monstrous African Presidents.<br /><br />@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<br /><br />Peter.Moyo@etv.co.za <br /> <br />The problem is that as much as people call Mbeki a dictator, there is no evidence to the contrary. In which country is he a dictator? South Africa ? Which South Africa ? The one I live in? Don’t believe the hype, especially those written by people with vendettas. South Africa has a functioning constitution as well as ANC which Mbeki even with two thirds majority has never bothered to manipulate or change. He has served his two terms and will be out by 2009 – so tell me, what really makes Mbeki a dictator? Just because he has refused to be used by Zimbabweans who are failing to sit down and agree about how to take the country forward? Or westerners who are still crying about the farms taken back by their rightful owners?<br /><br /><br />@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<br /><br />B MUSONZA:<br /><br />Why do you rush to associate our accusations of Mbeki, the dictator to Westerners, brother Peter. Mbeki is a dictator. Period. Infact the worst thing to have happened to a young South African democracy, and not in the context of the Zimbabwean crisis. If you read the recent figures of the South African economy, you will learn that the country is moving in the wrong direction, but spin and teasing is now the order of the day. Black outs, interest rates, crime, HIV/Aids, corruption, poor housing, poor education in the country's black communities only supplemented by Zimbabwean economic refugees. You name it.<br /> One using State resources to destroy opponents with trumped up charges, one who imprisoning journalists because they dare tell the world that the Health Minister is a drunkard and a thief, one who interferes with the judicial process of his own State prosecution Authority to protect his cronies. A President barred by the Constitution of his country and party to run for a third term but still insists he will defy that.<br />The guy is a failure, and is now responsible for the early break away of the coalition, which is now inevitable.<br />If this is not dictatorial, now we wonder what is.<br /><br />@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<br /><br />P MOYO:<br /><br />I think you are applying too much emotion. An economy that is able to absorb three million Zimbabweans is definitely a sound economy. Check the figures – this economy has grown about 6% year on year since Mbeki took over. Black outs are mainly being caused by a huge demand that a growing economy is experiencing – for e.g, apartheid South Africa never bothered to electrify black South Africa and now the economy has to absorb that – definitely there is need to grow the capacity which is happening as we speak – a new power station is being built – the money is there. As for the interest rates – check your facts right – yes there has been rate hikes basically to curb South Africans’ spending and borrowing power which pushes the inflation up. In an economy where the new black elite – so called black diamonds are now being given opportunities – you definitely will get this simple mathematics – spending is gonna go up and people are going to borrow and lend till they drop. Education has always been an issue, from the time of apartheid where blacks were handed out Bantu education – now you don’t expect such a big country to suddenly have the experts and revolunise their curriculum over night – remember South Africa’s democracy was negotiated unlike in Zimbabwe where we could do what we wanted. <br /> <br />As for the Sunday Times, its only you a few people who think that way. Health records were stolen from a hospital, Sunday Times came out later with the same records – now if you buy or take stolen property, you definitely have to be arrested – that’s the issue – simply as that – the newspapers are the ones complaining about crime day in day out but now if they start stealing themselves, then where are the journalism ethics. <br /> <br />And for your information, Mbeki has never said he will run for the president of South Africa - that is the problem with your information. Mbeki will run for the presidency of ANC for the third time and the ANC constitution allows him to. Now, where are you getting this idea about him running for 3rd term as country’s president? Unless you are deliberately distorting the truth to suit your own ends?<br /> <br />The coalition is as strong as ever. Maybe you didn’t read about the SACP conference resolution which aligns itself with the ANC forever. Ask us, we will tell you about these events <br /> <br />I am not sure where you find the dictatorship in that. As for Pikoli, inorder to avoid a constitutional crisis, you have to inform the country’s leadership when you are about to arrest the police chief. And also the same Pikoli was busy giving international criminals and murderers who have been trafficking drugs worth more than a billion rands and killing businessmen and witnesses – indemnity from prosecution – the same indemnity blacks are not being accorded. This is the same person who gave Mark Thatcher – the main sponsor of the Guinea coup plot a fine. Here in South Africa , except for the white controlled media, everyone is agreed this guy had to go.<br /><br />@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<br /><br />kuthulamatshazi@yahoo.co.uk <br /><br /><br />I am currently pressed by studies and do not think will be writing anything until the December break. But I have to weigh in here. Do we know what a dictator is? In this day and age do we still have people who are talking destructive language instead of building for the sake of the suffering people in Zimbabwe.<br />Musonza some 10 months ago you said ZPF would have disintegrated in the 3months following your statement. Its now 10 months or more. <br />I think as a person who wants to venture into news business you need to adjust yourself and be more realistic and also fight your prejudices. Please take this advice in good spirit. I do not mean it in any bad way.<br /><br />@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<br /><br />Brighton Musonza:<br /><br />Ooooooo now I get it Comrade Peter, in your own words you said, "South Africans can complain all they want – they are even complaining about houses – a grown man wanting the govt to build him a house – plizzzz! While they complain, they forget to study leading to skills shortages and we foreigners then come around, take the jobs, then they start complaining about us taking their jobs".<br /> <br />So, you think Mbeki is right in relying on you, cheap foreign labour at the expense of his own people? Poaching other regional country's skilled manpower for that country's foreign multi-national controlled business sector. Regional countries heavily subsidising an arrogant big brother who doesn't bother to invest in social spending because doctors, teachers engineers, and bankers will always come from the poor pals next door, whose infrastructure is collapsing because they have been reduced to feeder nations. Mbeki, enjoying the less social spending to appease the neo liberals and business sector, now connected to the ruling elite.<br /> <br />So, that tells the whole story of ANC as a party high-jacked by neo liberals and abandoned its social responsibilities. <br /> <br />You said (South Africans) they forget to study, leading to skills shortages and we foreigners then come around. You make me laugh. They are not forgetting mate, but the regime has not taken them to the promised land of post apartheid. I thought, governments have responsibilities to shape the attitudes and behaviour of their subjects.<br /> <br />Then on the drunk Health Minister, you said "her Health records were stolen from a hospital, Sunday Times came out later with the same records – now if you buy or take stolen property, you definitely have to be arrested – that’s the issue – simply as that – the newspapers are the ones complaining about crime day in day out but now if they start stealing themselves, then where are the journalism ethics". Of all people, how can a Health Minister get wasted and preach health matters to the nation, whilst knocked down by a couple of beers? <br /> <br />Now Comrade Peter, again you make me laugh..........ok we take that you are our real world example. Recently you had your own troubles with the ZRP cum Zanu PF Militia or vigilante groups in Zimbabwe, when you were caught, "stealing" pictures of our poor Gold/Diamond diggers in Manicaland which you intended to show to South Africans and the world over through your employer, e-tv, and definitely your bosses were going to give you a pat on the back for a well done "investigative", journalism, but the work of your your fellow jurnos doing the same, you call it stealing. But you were moaning and whingeing that your Camera was broken, and the film taken by Zanu PF militias when you were doing "investigative" journalism, breaking the Zimbabwean rogue media laws of a regime you highly praise left, right and centre.<br /> <br />The coalition is as strong as ever. You must be living in another South Africa. COSATU is now having a fit inside and another outsite, and so is SACP, then the Neo Liberals running the show have their agenda, while Mbeki himself runs around between nationalists, and the hangers-on, and sometimes hibernating in the women's league (like what all modern day dictators do). <br /> <br />And you Comrade Kuthula, Zanu PF is in the vegetative stages of decay. Your dream President, Robert Mugabe has forced the issue of re-election because he is now its leadership and at the same time its cell branch. Ask Jabulani Sibanda, the expelled Zanu PF cadre, now the come back kid of all time, and being groomed to be the new face of violence, or Comrade Hunzvi in reincarnation of the farm invasions fame. This is the legacy of Cde Bob!<br /><br />@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<br /><br />Peter Moyo:<br />Which Cosatu and SACP are you talking about? In UK or the US or the one I know is South Africa ? Coz the ones you are talking about are as ANC as ever and are gearing up for the congress. As for the few that you have heard complaining – its normal for any nation during times of choosing a new leader.<br />I am not sure if you think that after 300 years of white domination which made sure that blacks were left behind, you want things to be perfect after only 13 years of democracy. Surely you can’t be serious<br /> <br />As for my arrest in Zim, how was that stealing? How do you equate going into a locker room and stealing health records to filming in Zimbabwe . Unless you are just clutching on straws to make a point you surely can’t be serious. But for the benefit of doubt, yes I went to Zimbabwe, reported illegally – did not steal pictures coz there were no pictures already packaged and locked in a safe – and when I was arrested according to that country’s laws I paid a fine. Simple and straight forward. The main thing I complained about was my subsequent abduction by that country’s secret service or CIO long after I had concluded my trial – if you want I can send you a copy of the show that just won an award for investigative journalism. On the Sunday Times issue, the matter is simple, yes the story was good, it was a scoop but then whether you are a journalist or what, if you receive stolen property, you ought to answer to the law coz this is not a lawless country where people by virtue of being journalists they can go around breaking into people’s property and expect not to be arrested.<br /> <br />As for South Africa ’s education – there are so many universities in South Africa and private colleges – its up to South Africans to take up the initiative and learn. And by the way, it’s been only 13 years since these universities opened up to black people – some are still resisting transformation – so an ordinary South African, after completing matric and tertiary would most probably be less than five years experienced. Also teachers need a big revamp and with the shortage of skills, other countries need to chip in. There are more teachers than Zimbabwe needs even at this moment – and some of them are already working illegally as waitresses in South Africa – so it is in south africa’s right to tap into this under utilized experience – with the same teacher sending the rands back home to feed his/her poor relatives. There is no big brother in that.<br />As for my profession, I remember when I left Standard, I opened opportunities for other younger journalists who could not find a job at the time when I left – so really there was no gap left. Today, I now employ about six Zimbabwean journalists working for my website – Zimgreats.com – something that was impossible when I was still in Zim and I am using Mbeki’s rands to do that. Zimgreats.com is now a registered legal website and newspaper in South Africa which soon will be employing more Zimbabweans in South Africa and back home – again something I could not do back home.<br /> <br />If the Health minister is a drunk – how does that make Mbeki a dictator? And again for your own information – the Sunday Times journalists have not been arrested – it is still just a rumour that they will be arrested. So why is everyone, especially you running into a conclusion? However kana ukadziya moto wembavha…..pedzisa shamwari…<br />@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<br />K Matshazi:<br /><br />Yes, I will accept your position as is, but the problem is that you did not say ZPF would be in the vegetative stages of decay. You said it would be non-existent. But by your own admission you acknowledge that you were wrong and now say that it is in the "vegetative stages of decay".<br /><br />@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<br /><br />B MUSONZA:<br /><br />Comrade Pete, you don't get it, do you? The issue is not about imprisonment of journalists by Mbeki or retreat thereof, but the credibility of our supposed crisis go-between. What we are saying is, there are now so many traits of Mbeki's regime that resembles the road map to a fully fledged dictatorship, and hence this lame duck of a leader has so much admiration of another beleaguered dictator across the Limpopo has tried. Now you find opposition leaders joining anti drugs marches in the streets are arrested, using gender balance to thwart opponents, trumped up charges against perceived challengers.<br /> <br />Our succession problems or rather transition from years of dictatorship, as a nation, are now bogged down in ANC power struggles as Mbeki fight a Labour based COSATU, Zuma backing.<br /> <br />Right now Mbeki is fighting hard or privately conniving with one Robert Mugabe not to acknowledge refugee status of millions of Zimbabweans in South Africa because he knows kuti the UN Refugee Agency would finance their repatriation back to Zimbabwe and oust Zanu PF in an election, or at least make it reasonable for UN intervention in the matters to resolve the crisis. How can a country feel comfortable keeping 3-4 million people of another country? Mozambique had a long brutal war, but I don't think we had so many in our country and even during that war, there were some repatriations going on.<br />@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-21473222507842719232007-10-08T10:19:00.001+03:002008-11-07T06:55:04.677+02:00MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI FROM JERRY SANGO, ZIMBABWE!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL1BQGFOPXLxVb4gKaCU8TDLqqCN21auvO6ZzHbQi_-B1mlpJwseAolxdLZODw0btfeg4JYmfFVQvF5vMhJyOa5qy_Ax5kRfY2wah_xqJdtUEOeDkzAiYaCxJMYj0ThhONX1SMjE0ti-Eb/s1600-h/thabombeki.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL1BQGFOPXLxVb4gKaCU8TDLqqCN21auvO6ZzHbQi_-B1mlpJwseAolxdLZODw0btfeg4JYmfFVQvF5vMhJyOa5qy_Ax5kRfY2wah_xqJdtUEOeDkzAiYaCxJMYj0ThhONX1SMjE0ti-Eb/s320/thabombeki.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118862290079489042" /></a><br /><br />This message was posted as a comment to the Petition below and available at @@@LINK@@@@<br /><br />"South Africa is not a safe place until and when zim is free.South Africa has a role in the crisis in Zimbabwe as shown by their indirect support of events in Zimbabwe.<br /><br />They continue to open arms to the bloody hands of Mugabe and his croonies(BLOOD:1984,1987,2000,2002,2005-6).This is evidenced by their diplomatic stance on Zimbabwe ,Mbeki is fencing Zimbabwe from the International Community ,the African Union and the SADC ,by claiming to offer dialogue,while supporting a false sense of Patriotic nolstalgia ,which deems anything not ZANU PF as unpatriotic.Under the current unstable political conditions in Zim more people will try enter S.A & other regional countries in the region,offering a chance for demonstrations ,if not killings by trying to quell them(closing border posts), hence promoting lack of freedom of movement.<br /><br />They support Zanu PF kids at their universites & kick out the people they lead as evidenced by the Lindela refugee/deportation camp in S.A.It is a cause of concern that ZANU PF fails to address basic needs,which might simply mean killing/stunting the growth/development of the youth& future generation ,as evidenced by the high levels of HIV/AIDS & deteriorating educational standards with no light for financial independence ,with government doing practically nothing about it as evidenced by officials seeing it morally right that they force/rape students into sex UZ, NUST & SOLUSI universities.<br /><br />Furthermore promoting violence among youths by introducing Training Youth Camps ,whose major objective is unclear.So is the need to uphold the rule of law in a country passing an unclear Indigenisation Bill.<br /><br />Please FORWARD my message, MUGABE MUST BE SENT TO THE UN SECURITY CONCIL(S.A blocking these efforts)& SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTEST FOR NEXT`S YEAR ELECTIONS:<br /><br />HE has ceased being presidential material,by any standards.ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-12557641288441754912007-10-03T01:59:00.000+03:002008-11-07T06:55:04.960+02:00"Sanctions: Mugabes red herring!" by Chido Makunike.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYHuPJbi6gNecMMzFWNLGJh4X9QDyuAWQtawW1xls5ZtymgEhyZTf-EijD7iSya6ZxNakmgviBPQh9fwp6m8tJPPefLEpj2xZZT3rMXbdXjsKovhH-gs9c397o_7qysBjCswSYocfBTJqD/s1600-h/chido.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYHuPJbi6gNecMMzFWNLGJh4X9QDyuAWQtawW1xls5ZtymgEhyZTf-EijD7iSya6ZxNakmgviBPQh9fwp6m8tJPPefLEpj2xZZT3rMXbdXjsKovhH-gs9c397o_7qysBjCswSYocfBTJqD/s320/chido.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117080428407462818" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/chido27.16993.html">LINK!!!</a><br /><br /><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><strong></strong></font><strong></strong><div><font color="#0000ff" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"> <font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>By Chido Makunike</strong></font><br> <script language="Javascript"><!-- // *********************************************** // AUTHOR: WWW.CGISCRIPT.NET, LLC // URL: http://www.cgiscript.net // Use the script, just leave this message intact. // Download your FREE CGI/Perl Scripts today! // ( http://www.cgiscript.net/scripts.htm ) // *********************************************** document.write("<b>Last updated: "+document.lastModified+"</b>"); //--> </script><b>Last updated: 10/02/2007 13:25:19</b> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br> </font></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">ROBERT Mugabe's government puts tremendous energy into blaming what it refers to as "illegal sanctions" by Western countries for the Zimbabwean economy being down on its knees, causing untold hardship to the majority of Zimbabweans.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The claim is that international aid, credit and investment have largely dried up on the orders of Western governments, unhappy with change which took prime land away from white farmers.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">When the representatives of the accused countries bother to respond to these charges, it is usually to say that what have been imposed are merely limited "targeted sanctions" against members of the ruling elite. They deny applying any sort of general economic embargo, or seeking to cause "regime change" by trying to instigate popular rebellion over the hardships. They also point to how they continue to contribute humanitarian aid to relieve the suffering of the most vulnerable Zimbabweans, despite the diplomatic impasse.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">It is quite clear that economically, things have completely spiralled out of the control of the government. There is little prospect of any change for the better happening before next year's expected elections, and it is not at all far fetched to imagine things might be much worse by then. Short of improving the situation, therefore, the government finds it convenient and necessary to latch onto sanctions as an explanation for its inability to make living conditions bearable.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The hope is that the electorate will find that classic political explanation ("it is the fault of the Great Enemy") for their economic plight, and the government's seeming helplessness in the face of it, convincing enough to avoid a feared thrashing at the polls after almost 10 years of steep decline. It is not likely to impress a significant number of the voters who have been fed this line as they watched their lives deteriorate dramatically.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">There are several perspectives from which the Mugabe regime's idea to blame sanctions for the economic state of Zimbabwe today is weak.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">One major problem of arguing "your suffering is the fault of our enemies" is to seem to absolve oneself of responsibility. Yet whether or not there are Western sanctions against Zimbabwe in place, declared or undeclared; legal or illegal, it is still the responsibility of a government to reduce or prevent the deprivation of its people, and to put in place conditions for an improvement in their standard of life. Sanctions would certainly make this difficult, but they would just be one more out of many obstacles to success.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The quality of a government can to a large extent be measured by how well and hard it works to work around these sort of obstacles.</font></div> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="236"> <tbody><tr> <td bgcolor="#ffcc99" height="66" width="232"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>"</strong></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="2">You cannot boast endlessly about your "sovereignty," and at the same time whine about how your economy's fate is not within your hands"</font></strong></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000"><strong><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">CHIDO MAKUNIKE</font></strong></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A Zimbabwean voter cannot be expected to accept putting primary responsibility for his economic fortunes on governments in Europe or North America, over that of his own government. He or she would be quite justified to say at election time, "if you find that the sanctions you allege are in place are an insurmountable barrier to doing your job of running the Zimbabwean economy better than this, then I am exercising my right to give another group of people a try." This, of course, is exactly what Mugabe & Co. fear many voters will choose to do.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">But instead of working harder to have them lifted, or to more effectively get around them, the government merely moans louder about the unfairness and "illegality" of those alleged sanctions. This merely entrenches the appearance of complete helplessness and inability to deal with the issue, which is what the average Zimbabwean cares about at the end of the day, regardless of why and how it came about.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Screaming "illegal" sanctions ever louder, as things get worse, suggests the authorities have no coping strategies, and have given up. This is not the kind of image a ruling party that has presided over almost a decade of very dramatic decline can afford to go into an election with.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">You cannot boast endlessly about your "sovereignty," and at the same time whine about how your economy's fate is not within your hands, but in that of your enemies. It must be one or the other. If we are as "sovereign" as Mugabe never tires of reminding us we are, then our economic performance should not depend on what any other countries do or don't do.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">If, by crying "sanctions" every other minute, Mugabe and his regime are admitting that we are a small country whose economic fate cannot be divorced from the international diplomatic standing of its government, then we are not quite as "sovereign" as we imagine. In the latter case, diplomatic action beyond helpless whining is called for, and yet silly bravado is all we see and hear.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A question that is not asked often enough: if our economic calamities are because of sanctions imposed over land reform, why didn't the government foresee and prepare for them? We are often reminded what tough revolutionaries our rulers are. In preparation for the wholesale takeover of farmland, did none of these revolutionaries think for a moment that it would cause a ruckus, and therefore have short, medium and long term plans to prepare for it? Why has the government seemed so surprised by the reaction its actions have received in Western capitals?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The point here is not that they should only have done what the Western countries approved of. It is, instead, that on having decided to go ahead with measures they knew would be disapproved of by economically powerful countries, they should have had a plan in place to deal with the effects of how that disapproval was expressed. Or was the hoped for "plan" to talk one's way out of the disapproval with fiery, populist speeches at the U.N.? What naiveté for self proclaimed revolutionaries!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Then there is the issue of sanctions busting. Nothing would have earned the Mugabe regime the respect of even its detractors more, than having shown particular agility at the "sovereign" ability to get around the claimed sanctions; to keep things working fairly normally despite them. Or to at least show prospects of even slight recovery after an initial dip, which could then have been explained as merely a transitional hiccup as "the revolution" took hold.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">This was especially important to show in the agriculture sector, whose overnight wholesale changes were the genesis for all that has followed since. If the government had been able to say, "yes, we know things are hard, but look at all the successes we are beginning to score in the agricultural sector, whose taking over caused the imposition of sanctions in the first place," people's reactions to it would have been very different from what they are today.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Comparing the American sanctions on Cuba with those said to be in place against Zimbabwe is pathetic, and ill-advised for the Mugabe government. Cuba has achieved notable successes in areas like agriculture and health despite decades of declared, strictly enforced U.S. sanctions.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">They have done this through quite innovative approaches we have not seen our government show in any arena. Cuba's rulers at least give the appearance of being real revolutionaries, living modestly and wanting to be seen to be sharing any hardships with the people.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">In Zimbabwe the rulership takes great pride in showing off just how removed from the general populace they are, as if to goad them. So in Cuba one sees some genuine "solidarity" between the governed and the rulers; whereas in Zimbabwe the rulers delight in emphasising their lordship over the people, "solidarity" being nothing more than a cheap slogan.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">It is a pity our opposition parties are so distracted by so many peripheral things. A more focused opposition could have made mincemeat out of the Mugabe government for its attempt to absolve itself of responsibility for the pathetic state of our country with the weak official excuse of "sanctions."</font></div> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><em>Chido Makunike is a Zimbabwean social and political commentator. He can be contacted on e-mail: chidomakunike@gmail.com</em></font></div><BR><BR><DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV><STRONG> <DIV align=left> <DIV><IMG id=ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_FeatureArticle1_imgLargeImage style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; WIDTH: 218px; HEIGHT: 207px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" src="http://www.zimonline.co.za/clientfiles/articleimages/large/sleeping_boobo.jpg"><BR></DIV> <DIV>Peace and Tranquility???</DIV> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=271 align=center bgColor=#ffffff border=0> <TBODY> <TR vAlign=center bgColor=#000400> <TD bgColor=#ffffff height=187> <DIV align=center><IMG height=204 src="http://www.swradioafrica.com/faces/feet_torture.jpg" width=170></DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG>Peace and Tranquility???</STRONG></DIV></TD></TR> <TR vAlign=top> <TD class=smalldark vAlign=center bgColor=#ffffff height=131></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></STRONG> <DIV><STRONG> Cell in RSA: 0791463039</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV><p>  <hr size=1> Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. <a href="http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTEydmViNG02BF9TAzIxMTQ3MTcxOTAEc2VjA21haWwEc2xrA3RhZ2xpbmU">Try it now</a>.ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-85207687936658300072007-09-28T04:51:00.000+03:002008-11-07T06:55:05.428+02:00HOT DEBATE: "DO ZANU-PF KIDS DESERVE MERCY???"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RIi9sTqYzA8/RvzGG8ZUm0I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/vsYvKvRNAls/s1600-h/mohadi%27s+daughter.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RIi9sTqYzA8/RvzGG8ZUm0I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/vsYvKvRNAls/s320/mohadi%27s+daughter.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115181099379891010" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/117/ARTICLE/2179/2007-09-28.html">LINK!!!!</a> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <h1>Zanu-PF officials descendants do not deserve any sympathy<o:p></o:p></h1> <div class="MsoNormal"><br> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- google_ad_client = "pub-6129381578634803"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; google_ad_format = "468x60_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; google_ad_channel = ""; //--> </script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><o:p></o:p></div> <iframe name="google_ads_frame" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-6129381578634803&dt=1190986806171&lmt=1190986797&prev_fmts=120x90_0ads_al&format=468x60_as&output=html&correlator=1190986803156&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zimdaily.com%2Fnews%2F117%2FARTICLE%2F2179%2F2007-09-28.html%3Fpost&ad_type=text_image&cc=100&ga_vid=934671428.1190986803&ga_sid=1190986803&ga_hid=1176535770&flash=9&u_h=600&u_w=800&u_ah=570&u_aw=800&u_cd=32&u_tz=120&u_his=5&u_java=true&u_nplug=19&u_nmime=59" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="60" scrolling="no" width="468"> </iframe> <div class="MsoNormal">Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:08:00<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.zimdaily.com/authors/?authorID=29">George Chirikure</a> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">The ex-US ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell had earlier on hinted to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Zimbabwe</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s governing/ruling political delinquents about the wrath to come. The additional measures specifically against the despot himself (President Mugabe) and his pillaging troops involve a campaign to send back to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Zimbabwe</st1:place></st1:country-region> their children and other direct dependants.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><br style=""> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br style=""> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></div> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 19.7pt;" align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" width="26"> <tbody><tr style="height: 8.05pt;"> <td style="padding: 0in; background: rgb(239, 239, 239) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; height: 8.05pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style=""><o:p> </o:p></div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 8.5pt;"> <td style="padding: 0in; background: rgb(239, 239, 239) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; height: 8.5pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style=""><o:p> </o:p></div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 8.05pt;"> <td style="padding: 0in; height: 8.05pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style=""><o:p> </o:p></div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 8.5pt;"> <td style="padding: 0in; background: rgb(239, 239, 239) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; height: 8.5pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style=""><o:p> </o:p></div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 8.05pt;"> <td style="padding: 0in; background: rgb(239, 239, 239) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; height: 8.05pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style=""><o:p> </o:p></div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Five months ago I wrote an article advocating for the same mea<st1:personname>sure</st1:personname>s to be instituted by the West and her partners to a wider network of the regime's corrupt diehards. A month or so ago the Australian Government announced similar action targeting 8 children of President Mugabe's top bootlickers studying there. For proponents of such mea<st1:personname>sure</st1:personname>s like me, am definitely saying God's reply takes long to come, but it always finally comes.<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;">I salute and praise the Australian government for its principled position against the dictator, his descendants and everything he stands for. At times it appears as if those of us advocating for these stern mea<st1:personname>sure</st1:personname>s are jealous or lack human morals. Far from the truth, the fact here is that a sibling of a snake is snake. The siblings feed on what their mothers and fathers rob and abuse from helpless and impoverished Zimbabweans. Therefore our human morality starts here.<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Definitely President Mugabe was angered to the bone by the Australian government's resoluteness in dealing with his evilness. He promised to take tougher reciprocal mea<st1:personname>sure</st1:personname>s. He also forgets that he often claims that his violent land reform was a direct punishment against these "imperialists". For <st1:personname>sure</st1:personname> the net effects of such reciprocal mea<st1:personname>sure</st1:personname>s shall be felt in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region><st1:place>Zimbabwe</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region> more than elsewhere. Of course President Matibili is determined to pretend to see things the other way. <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;">For Zimbabweans who want to see consistency in President Mugabe's political ideology and rule, we prefer to see the direct dependents of our rulers, living, working and studying in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region><st1:place>Zimbabwe</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region> where they shall enjoy the good governance and prosperity brought about by their fathers, mothers and grandpas. Furthermore, we shall not bother ourselves if they can work, live and study in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:country-region><st1:place>China</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:country-region><st1:place>Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:country-region><st1:place>North Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:country-region><st1:place>Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region><st1:place>Venezuela</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region>, etc.<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Recently President Mugabe scoffed at Zimbabweans who flee his misrule and prefer to live and work as servants in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region><st1:place>UK</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region> and elsewhere. Ironically he did not scoff at his lieutenants who are equally desperate to have their children and grandchildren study, live and work in the same imperialist states which "harbour ambitions to recolonize" <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region><st1:place>Zimbabwe</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region>. <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;">He also did not mention his great desire to go <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:city><st1:place>Lisbon</st1:place></st1:city></st1:City> in December despite the fact that this Portuguese city is a piece of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:place>Europe</st1:place></st1:place>. Thus, everything is morally right and justifiable when it meets the political ego and desire of Cde Gushungo, no matter how costly it is to his country, people and others. <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;">A good and simple example of ideological consistency was what the Soviets did by erecting the Berlin Wall so as to en<st1:personname>sure</st1:personname> that no East German escapes to the West. However, what President Matibili Mugabe and his clueless Zanu PF thugs are doing by criticizing the West during the day and sending their children and dependents to study, live and work there is disgraceful to begin with and at the worst hypocritical.<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;">President Matibili Mugabe is desperately trying to raise moral issues regarding the expelling of RBZ Governor Gono's 2 children, 1 child of ZRP Commissioner Chihuri and 6 others by the Australian government, but how many Zimbabweans are being chased away every week from SA simply because they are looking for a livelihood. <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;">We have never heard from him condemning the inhuman treatment of thousands of fellow countrymen at Lindela refuge collection centre in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city><st1:place>Johannesburg</st1:place></st1:city></st1:place></st1:City>. The reason we all know because they are presumed to be opposition supporters hence they are less Zimbabwean. As such 8 children of his lieutenants are more Zimbabwean to deserve his protection and sympathy as head of state.<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial;">For <st1:personname>sure</st1:personname> those who seem to have misplaced sentiments bordering on human morality with specific reference to the programme to deport <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region><st1:place>Zimbabwe</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region>'s political delinquents' dependents back home are practicing double standards. President Matibili Mugabe and his bootlickers do not deserve any smallest drop of crocodile tears. We therefore wait kindly to hear more good news coming live from <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:state><st1:place>Washington</st1:place></st1:state></st1:State>, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:city><st1:place>Wellington</st1:place></st1:city></st1:City>, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:city><st1:place>Ottawa</st1:place></st1:city></st1:City> and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city><st1:place>Brussels</st1:place></st1:city></st1:place></st1:City>.<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br style=""> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br style=""> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">41 Comments | <b><a href="http://www.zimdaily.com/news/117/ARTICLE/2179/2007-09-28.html?add_comment#comment">Add Your Comment</a> | <a href="http://www.zimdailyforum.com/">Forums</a> | <a href="http://www.myzimspace.com/mychat/chat">Chat </a>| <br> </b><object classid="CLSID:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000" id="DefaultOcxName2" codebase="http://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" height="30" width="350"> <param name="_cx" value="9260"> <param name="_cy" value="794"> <param name="FlashVars" value=""> <param name="Movie" value=""> <param name="Src" value=""> <param name="WMode" value="Window"> <param name="Play" value="-1"> <param name="Loop" value="-1"> <param name="Quality" value="High"> <param name="SAlign" value=""> <param name="Menu" value="-1"> <param name="Base" value=""> <param name="AllowScriptAccess" value=""> <param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"> <param name="DeviceFont" value="0"> <param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"> <param name="BGColor" value=""> <param name="SWRemote" value=""> <param name="MovieData" value=""> <param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"> <param name="Profile" value="0"> <param name="ProfileAddress" value=""> <param name="ProfilePort" value="0"> <param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"> <param name="AllowFullScreen" value="false"> </object><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1027" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" style='width:.75pt; height:.75pt'> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\REVMHO~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.gif" o:href="http://www.zimdaily.com/adverts/adlog.php?bannerid=80&clientid=40&zoneid=0&source=Frontpage&block=0&capping=0&cb=cc6e232342deb6b2e84958e0cc35d28c"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/REVMHO%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.gif" v:shapes="_x0000_i1027" border="0" height="1" width="1"><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br> <b>The following comments are owned by whomever posted them. ZimDaily is not responsible for what they say. Please keep your comments short and sweet. Obscene, tribalistic, racist, vulgar comments will be deleted. Simple HTML is allowed for basic text editing. </b></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Just and Fairness</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">I do not think that what happened to those children of the ZANU-PF leaders is fair on them. It is in breach of their Human Rights, that is the right to education etc. Yes of cause many people including myself, we are angry about their fathers' political adventures, but that does not mean that all those children support their fathers' policies and are getting their fees paid by the government, some of them might be even supporting MDC. It is also important to note that if people continue to encourage such actions by western countries, let them in future not cry fowl when such policies will be taken on to their children that can be an MDC govt. WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Proud to be Zimbabwean , <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region></span> : Sep 28 2007 01:37 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">GEORGE CHIRIKURE</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">YOU MUST BE A BLINKING IDIOT .AT a time when everyone els is bracing for hope after the agreement between MDC and ZANU PF you are still spewing hate.Where is your social responsibility in nation building</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Tonderai , Muzarabani <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Zimbabwe</st1:place></st1:country-region></span> : Sep 28 2007 01:38 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Back to your OLD STUPID SELF.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">After being sobered by harsh attacks from your ludcrous readership on this site and writing what looked like a remotely balanced article on CAB 18 YOU ARE NOW BACK TO YOUR TRADEMARK STUPIDITY. Well, do you pose to listen to yourself when you refer to the West as the "powers" especially in the context of them fighting for your cause against a fellow blackman. Your harlotous mother should have known better than hiding the truth from the Chirikures. Tava kuzotaura chokwadi manje. </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Wenjere , zimheartland</span> : Sep 28 2007 01:55 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">The League of Zimbabwe Democrats is getting ready to start a campaign of faxing pro-democracy literature to government fax machines throughout the country. We need fax numbers of government officials/departments etc etc. please email to zimbabwedemocrats@comcast.net</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">LZD , Secret Hide away in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Harare</st1:place></st1:City></span> : Sep 28 2007 03:09 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">MaCIO</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">Imi maCIO vana Proud, Wenjere na Tonderai munofunga kuti asingazivi kuti muri maCIO imbwa dzaMugabe ndiyani. Chamufira, mafuza evanhu! George is very correct, this issue of taking back these spoilt kids to Zimland is that they realize they are just like any other Zimbabweans whom their fathers have inflicted suffering upon, liable to the effects of their fathers' misdeeds. Zvarwadzaka because mava kukwenywa. Gore rino muchati baba nemuridzo.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Ordinary <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">ZImbo</st1:City> , <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region></st1:place></span> : Sep 28 2007 03:45 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Yowe</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">Twuvana twaGono twurikuziti Proud,Tonderai etc. Tworikushaya hope kujaira nguva dzekuAustralia. Vatai haikona kunyora zvisina basa. Thanks George for the nice spirit</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Matinji , <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Hre</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Zimbabwe</st1:country-region></st1:place></span> : Sep 28 2007 04:00 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Thanks George</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">yebo good article goerge - We are free of the Gono bitches in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Melbourne</st1:place></st1:City> now may the good work continue</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">mike pashata , oz</span> : Sep 28 2007 04:25 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Iye Abigero wacho kushat</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">Ungati chipoko abigero Mohadi wacho iyo meke up kunge afambwa ne buttefly kumeso. Ngavadzokere kumusha vanoona moto kusina makeup imbwa dzevanhu. Uyu arikizviti Proud naTonderai muri matatya evanhu nhunzvatunzva ngadzidzokere kumusha kuno kuuye <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">hama</st1:place></st1:City> dzedu dzirikushaiwa mavhiza.Wangu muvhunnzo ndewekuti vanodei kuno kumusha kunana baba vavo kunovava here? Mari ndooyakadai kuvawandira saka ngavadhipotwe vanomhanya nema 4x4 ana baba vavo tsvuuramuromo dzevanhu.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Mai Tee , NZ</span> : Sep 28 2007 05:13 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Abigero Mohadi</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">Kana nebra haana zamhu kudonha kunge akayamwisa vana ten. Kuhura muchinyanya ana Abigero imbwa yemunhu endai kumusha uku munofa neAids mharapatsetse nzwinzwi tsvuuramuromo. </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">memory , NZ</span> : Sep 28 2007 05:18 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">I PITY ZIMBOS</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">Wen people learn to separate emotions from politics then zimbabwe will be a better place.I do not support the move to deport these kids,its a matter of a woman scorned thats making people want to see these kids brough back home.It is a clear case of human rights abuse and if we feel kuti we different from Matibili then how come we still think like him.We need to look at the bigger picture how is sending these children back home going to change the situation in zimabwe,you think briningin these kids back will change the hearts of the fathers who steal from us,God forbid they become worse.Lets use logic people this thang zimdaily is advocating for is nonsense and i think they should focus on more pressing issues,i do hope they do have the legal knowledge about the articles they write and about how they want people`s infomation published on the internet.Zimdaily as one or ur frequent visitors dont get too overzealous..coz mutemo wakaoma,especially since muri in the west already.This is not a threat but friendly advice</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">SORUSHENI , STATES</span> : Sep 28 2007 05:49 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">sorusheni</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">what you have effectivley said is a threaty and i say to you GET LOST.iF A MAN LIKE oJ SIMPSON CAN BE LABELLED by Jay leno as a murderer but he was proved innocent in na court of law- then freedom of speech iriko baba.. OJ cant sue. and zimdaily has done much less than that. so if you want to give advice friendly or otherwise ipa kuhure rako - get lost</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">mike pashata , oz</span> : Sep 28 2007 06:03 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">stupid pashata</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">It is however the rate of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Zimbabwe</st1:place></st1:country-region> dollar to the major currencies that puts the crisis into perspective. If you need Z$930 000 to buy a single pound, what this means is that if the Central Bank had not removed 3 zeroes from the currency, the actual rate is close to a billion Zimbabwe dollars to the UK pound. The price control measures government tried to impose on the business community have backfired miserably and caused the extreme shortage of essential items. </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">kemob , oz</span> : Sep 28 2007 06:17 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">no title</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">Please we in the Diaspora must hit back at ZANu-PF in every way no matter how small or big! VIVA ZIMDAILY! Thank you! Rev Mufaro Stig Hove. www.zimfinalpush.blogspot.com </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">ZIMFINALPUSH , AZANIA/RSA</span> : Sep 28 2007 06:18 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">anaSORUSHEN</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">Washaya nyaya here iwe Sorushen? Maemotions aunotaura ndeye vanhu varirwadziwa saka rega emotions dzibude kuti vanhu vaexpresse zviri mumoyo yavo pane kuti vagare negodo stress inouraya mfesi saka maemotions ngaabude kuti therapy iite.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Orivha wekuAmerika , <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Louisville</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">KY</st1:State> <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place></span> : Sep 28 2007 06:51 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">iwe sorusheni</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">unongoti kushata haikona asi unodanana neone of the kids varikutaurwa nezvawo.hindava uchitaura zvekaora kudaro vana ava ngavamame chete jus like madhara acho achamama chete uri kustates hausikuona nhamo iri muno irikukonzerwa nemadhara aya.zimdaily ndinoitenda necourage yayaita viva fairdeal.pfutseki mhani sorushen urihuku chaiyo iwe usataura madhodhi akadaro mhani kurawo iwe.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">the man , zimhell</span> : Sep 28 2007 07:18 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Tonderai</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">You must live on another planet, don't be fooled by those bullshyte talks, they are a waste of fcuken time. ZANU PF has never had the nation's interests at heart and why would they start now? All they are trying to do is 'legitimise' the carnage they are going to unleash in the coming months. Please save the drama for your mama and go and preach somewhere else. The only nation building ZANU PF can do is to step down en-masse.....failing that it'll be the same shyte different day.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Fcuk Zanu! , <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Caracas</st1:place></st1:City></span> : Sep 28 2007 07:19 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Harrildon (Harry) Chiririwa</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">Get him deported from <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cape Town</st1:place></st1:City>. He is a serious CIO official purporting to be a PhD student in Chemistry at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cape Town</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. His father was a senior CIO officer responsible for massacres in Matebeleland during Gukurahundi. Harry was a CIO officer from the time he was at NUST and got the whole SRC expelled. His brother was sent to the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> as an Intelligence Attache for CIO. Harry is a serious bitch , he buys prostitutes beer in Mowbray, Mzoli, Gugulethu and Kheyelisha using taxpayers money. He bought a bar called Lobantu in Mowbray, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cape Town</st1:place></st1:City> using taxpayers money.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Marshall "the weatherman" , <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cape Town</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, SA</span> : Sep 28 2007 08:13 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">casanova</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">zvarwadzaka , yes ngava dzoke timame tese kana nesu tanga tinadzo nzvimbo iko ku aussie asi takatadza kuenda nekuti baba vavo vakatinyima mari, asi vana vavo wer staying in condos even the australian working class cound not afford to stay in so much hypocrisy for once very loud men who claimed he "is a turnaround guru" zanu yamunyaradza manje hatichamuona mamapepa nemuna first achiita mainspection emabearer cheque....kuti zii kunge asipo where are your policies now ??????</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">dhewa , <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">harare</st1:place></st1:City></span> : Sep 28 2007 08:21 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">its not about the kids only</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">the isssue is about FEAR, fear that should it sufficiently sour enough tinomanyepi kuenda kuexile kunodya our begotten gains and of course kuti mari dzavo dzavanoisa mumaforeign bank accounts information sooner or later will be released for public consumption and the realisation that they have been exposed and lost face and yet all this time they thought they well hidden.As for sorusheni and company munoshamisa kwazvo am sure hamugoni kana nyaya dzepabonde nekuti munosiirira zvakawanda muchiti zvidikiki kumbe ndozvinotoita kuti zvigutse wanike vakadzi venyu vatotunda muhope.KUBIKA usavi uchisiya twacho tunochachirisa hapana anodya akazeya pasi pemumango, saka ndati ZANU NGAITIRWE zvese kuti itunde. </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">mai misodzi , sakubva netara</span> : Sep 28 2007 09:10 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Offended</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">Can someone there pls remove these jumping things from this website. (bottles of cooking oil ,flour etc)</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Chenzara VS <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Chematama</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">MT</st1:State></st1:place> , Sanctions Hazvisi Mkoba 4</span> : Sep 28 2007 09:23 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">SORUSHENI</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">What sorusheni can you give me when I have 3 children sleeping hungry everyday because there is no water, no electricity, there is nothing to buy in the shops, my hefty salary is Z$3.8m, I need Z$6.5m for transport, my sister wawakamitisa ukatiza needs my support, no teachers in schools, fees Z$45m per term. Do not talk about emotions which you have no clue about, people in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Zimbabwe</st1:place></st1:country-region> are just too tolerant.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Togarepi,Wangu , Masvingo,Zim</span> : Sep 28 2007 09:29 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Shameful Zimbabweans</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">You people have been overtaken by events. You are no longer the proud nation which used to exude unparrelled selr importance over other nations. You used to call other people with such derogatory names like Nyasalande, Senas, Bwidis , Chawas. Now you are calling your president Matibili , which smells Malawian. Why all of a sudden is there a Malawian connection? My herdboy is a former headmaster of a Zimbabwean high school and I am very happy to have the Zimbabwean on my payroll. God how things change!!!!!</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Johnson Achimwene Zhuwawo , Brandari (Blyntire) , <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malawi</st1:place></st1:country-region></span> : Sep 28 2007 09:38 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Offended</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">Thanks for removing them. Tanzwa ne njonjo,nemakeve, mafuta aciita toyi, toyi pawebsite. Imwi!!!!</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Chenzara VS <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Chematama</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">MT</st1:State></st1:place> , Sanctions Hazvisi Mkoba 4</span> : Sep 28 2007 09:46 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">mugabe un</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1sc_r89qj68"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1sc_r89qj68" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425"></object>Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">, gandanga</span> : Sep 28 2007 09:56 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">where are you</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">where are all those morons and their descedants who voted ZANU in 1980. You used to insult us who did not support ZANU. Now you are behaving as if you did not play a role in this this. You are all as guilty as Matibili and all ZANU leaders, you put them and you also do not deserve sympathy.May 27 generations of your decendants be cursed by God almighty for bringing this suffering.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Idlozi Svikiro , Matibili</span> : Sep 28 2007 09:58 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">first 3 posts</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">the first 3 posts are from one person. look at pattern of writing, capital letters in mid sentences. the aim of the writer was to try and get pple to think kuti there are many pple against the fair deal campaign - which is not the fact. i support it 100 percent. 99.9 percent pple do :) pamwe <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">harare</st1:place></st1:City> hospital inga rhinovhetwawo tozorapirwa ikoko tose nana pride</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Mandivenga , </span>: Sep 28 2007 10:06 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Support fair deal</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">I support fair deal but I think it should be extended to include all those who supported ZANU from 1963 and all their descendants who have fled the country. If I remember well in 1983 to 1985 when I was in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Harare</st1:place></st1:City>, I was treated like a dissident by these Mugabe zealots not by Mugabe. Now they claim not to like this man. In their tribalistic, dirty minds I was a dissident because i supported ZAPU. Now they think they are better than Mugabe while it is their actions that created this monster, you applauded every time when he made snide comments about ZAPU and <st1:place w:st="on">Matabeleland</st1:place>. You are all as guilty as ZANU. In Mabelreign people used to look at us funny when we spoke in Ndebele, to them we were dissidents because we did not like ZANU and Mugabe. Fair deal should be fair and include all these people, if you cant include them then leave the children of ZANU leaders alone. At least their fathers are openly snakes, not yours who are hiding their guilt by blaming others. A person should learn to take responsibilty for their actions</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Idlozi Svikiro , Matibili Bosso</span> : Sep 28 2007 10:29 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">IDLOZI SVIKIRO! GROW UP!</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">IDLOZI SVIKIRO IS A LUNATIC! Where are the records kept of all who supported ZANU-PF from 1963? Perhaps you are 8 years old! Do know the complexity of ZANU history? Many Opposition leaders Patrick Kombayi were once Senior ZANU Leaders! M S Hove...Rev. www.zimfinalpush.blogspot.com </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">M S Hove...Rev. , <st1:place w:st="on">AZANIA</st1:place>!</span> : Sep 28 2007 11:00 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">MS HOVE THATS WHAT I SAID</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">I said if you dont have the records for everyone then to be fair we need to to leave these children alone. We cannot punish half of the equation. For information I was 20 in 1963.Leave the children alone <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">havana</st1:place></st1:City> mosva. Are you afraid to confront the fathers or the honourable Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe the fisrt democratically elected leader of the independent <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">republic</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Zimbabwe</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Idlozi svikoro , </span>: Sep 28 2007 11:41 AM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Idzozi</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">We wont leave them alone! If you are not happy with the campaign GET LOST. We wont leave them alone (Full Stop)</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Rombe , <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Harare</st1:place></st1:City></span> : Sep 28 2007 12:00 PM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">SVIKIRO...</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">Like I also said, the people at home trust us in the Diaspora to do whatever we can! No side-shows from the likes of the so-called SVIKIRO! www.zimfinalpush.blogspot.com </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">M S Hove...Rev. , <st1:place w:st="on">AZANIA</st1:place>!</span> : Sep 28 2007 12:05 PM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">idlozi sviroko</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">I have read lunatic posts on here but you are beyond help. The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> fully supported Osama Bin Laden, his Mujahedeen and the Taliban against the Soviet invation during the 1979 - 1989 Afghan war. Now that the <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region> is bombing these same groups in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region> and anyone who supports them, do you also expect them to bomb the pentagon and all those <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> symbols of power????? kana wadhinhiwa nekuti <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">hama</st1:place></st1:City> dzako dza depotwa ridza mhere, urimhata.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Wenjere , Wenjere</span> : Sep 28 2007 12:10 PM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Svikiro reduzvi</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">Asi unosvikigwa? Who are you trying to defend who would be more important than some of us who have already been deported, uri duzvi sezita rako. The flood gates are already open, some of us are already back in Zim and we expect all that other stupid sons and daughters of brainless ministers to be thrown out too.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Passion Gono , <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Harare</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Zimbabwe</st1:country-region></st1:place></span> : Sep 28 2007 12:21 PM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Fair deal not fair</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">if you are fair why list people like Nqo Lesabe who left <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Zimbabwe</st1:place></st1:country-region> in 1986 running away from Gukurahundi. His only crime is that his mother later joined ZANU. Use your brains not emotions.Rev. I read your story about what you did for ZANU, you want to be like Saul who turned to Paul in the bible.Lingani thuka kodwa ngibhala iqiniso. Nditukeyi but munosiva kuti ndirikunyora chokwadi.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">idlozi svikiro , </span>: Sep 28 2007 12:57 PM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Idlozi</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">We dont care about what you say. Fair Deal continues whether you like it or not. Please stop making noise for us and Leave us and Fair Deal alone</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">Gaigusu , SA</span> : Sep 28 2007 01:14 PM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">SVIKIRO</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">MUDHIDHI UNE MAPUNDU SEWEHUKU, URI TRIBALIST YOU HATE SHONAS MUSATANYOKO MACHENDE ARI PAHUMA.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">YGVFV , SADJFCD</span> : Sep 28 2007 01:31 PM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">YGVFV , SADJFCD</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">if I hated shonas then I would hate my mother from Buhera, chief Nyashanu area, Mhofu yemukomo, Shava (thats my mother). Read my input, being Zapu and speaking Ndebele does not make you Ndebele. Why then insult me?</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">idlozi svikiro , Odzi</span> : Sep 28 2007 01:53 PM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">ITS FAIR</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">THOSE SYMPATHISING A BENEFICIARIES WHO A NOT DIRECTLY BUT LINKED TO THE ZANU PF THEY ALSO NEED TO BE DEPORTED.IF THE EDUCATIN SYSTEM Z CONDUCIVE FOR ALL THE ORDINARY ZIMBABWEANS WATS SPECIAL ABT THESE KID? WERE THEY NOT BORN IN ZIM?THEY SHLD COME BACK THIS WII FORCE THEIR PARENTS TO REGARD THE EDUCATION SYSTEM AS WORTHY REVIEWING N MYK IT CONDUS FOR EVERYONEIVE</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">STUDENT , <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">ZIMBABWE</st1:place></st1:country-region></span> : Sep 28 2007 01:53 PM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Idlozi Svikiro</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">I write on my accord! I give Interviews to BBC and anybody else on my accord! My bottom line is to let those living now and in the future the chance to know what really happened in Zim from before 1980. The reason is not so that imbeciles like you can then use it against me! How can we woo ZANU people to a Democratic Dispensation if we will then harrass them using the information they will release? Without using any vulgar...please GROW UP! www.zimfinalpush.blogspot.com </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">M S Hove...Rev. , <st1:place w:st="on">AZANIA</st1:place>!</span> : Sep 28 2007 01:54 PM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">SVIKIRO</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">SVIKIRO HANDIDI KUKUTUKA ASI REGA NDINGOTI UNOTAURA ZVEKUPENGA</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">STUDENT , ZIM</span> : Sep 28 2007 01:59 PM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(223, 223, 223) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Rev. do not insult others</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: white;">In Idlozi Svikiros arguments he never called anyone a lunatic or imbecile. You are supposed to be a respectable person but you are using unbecoming language. It shows the traces of ZANU intolerance. Let us show Idlozi Svikiro the way, right now he is showing us the way.You are correct, we need to know what happened during those dark days, people should come forward and say something. I WAS BROUGHT UP AS AN OUTCAST IN TSHOLOTSHO BECAUSE MY MOTHER WAS RAPED BY GUKURAHUNDI AND CONCIEVED ME, I WAS CALLED NAMES. DO YOU THINK I WILL EVER KNOW WHO MY FATHER IS.THIS IS EATING ME, I WAS BORN IN 13 JULY 1985. ANY GUKURAHUNDI WHO OPERATED IN TSHOLOTSHO IN 1984 PLEASE COME FORWARD. </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(39, 42, 47) none repeat scroll 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);">Posted By <span class="anon-comment-author">SIMAYEDWA , Stellenbosch, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cape Town</st1:place></st1:City></span> : Sep 28 2007 02:34 PM</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <BR><BR><div> </div><p>  <hr size=1> For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit <a href="http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html">Yahoo! For Good</a> this month.ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-67412009408492088592007-09-26T09:35:00.000+03:002007-09-26T09:36:41.157+03:00The Pharisees of our politics!!<a href="http://www.swradioafrica.com/pages/pharisees250907.htm"> LINK!!!</a><br /><br />Zim Standard<br /><br />Sundayview by Tamuka Charles Chirimambowa<br /><br />23 September, 2007 <br /><br />THE recent political developments regarding Constitutional Amendment 18 compel me to contribute to the debates that have arisen within civil society and the country in general. Key to my contribution is to implore ourselves to ponder on the role of civil society and the political parties in finding a solution to the Zimbabwe crisis.<br /><br />There seems to be some misinformed and fundamentalist innuendos particularly within civil society in Zimbabwe. The accession by the MDC formations to Amendment 18 is seen as a betrayal, and some have even further vowed to server ties with the opposition.<br /><br />Let me hasten to say such actions are unfortunate and cocoon ourselves in grand delusions of self piousness. There seems to be a tendency of increasing culture of political Pharisees, who preach right and walk left in the evening. Such behaviour reminds me of an old fable of the grasshopper which my grandmother used to tell me about, which I termed the grasshopper syndrome. It would react vigorously whenever you touch it and in the process break its hind legs yet it would need them for take off to fly and the result has always been it gets stuck and becomes vulnerable to prey.<br /><br />There seems to be lack of appreciation of the SADC initiative within our civil society movement. There is a great distinction between civil society and political parties. Whilst political parties can enter into alliances with civil society organisations, the two entities will never be the same and always pursue the same agendas. One thing that has to be acknowledged by civil society as so far done by all political parties is that we have a major crisis and as such we can't have the burn-the-house-to-kill-the-snake mentality. The accession by the MDC in tandem with promoting the SADC led dialogue is to create conducive and confidence building measures to the inroads made so far.<br /><br />It should be noted that even Zanu PF has agreed to discuss and possibly reform contentious issues such as the Public Order Security Act, Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, and governance issues.<br /><br />In this case most of the people who have become critics of this process have failed to appreciate that any process that tries to unlock our deadlock and encourage negotiations, has to be promoted. This does not mean that this route has no political risks, and at the same time is sacrosanct to the MDC and can therefore not be abandoned if it fails to deliver. More so, there is a deliberate mischief of the reductionism syndrome that because there is still violence then agreeing to the amendment is betrayal.<br /><br />What people are failing to note is that these talks are actually meant to deal with that violence and there is nowhere the MDC has claimed that Zimbabwe's problems are over. Therefore there is need for us to begin to engage within the framework of the SADC initiative as finally agreed to by Zanu PF and the MDC. It seems we are also failing to recognize that Zanu PF all along has been saying there was no crisis in Zimbabwe. The positive step in this case is that there is that recognition and they have agreed to play ball. Reducing everything to Robert Mugabe or Zanu PF misses the essence of the talks.<br /><br />Besides, there is a failure to recognize that Zanu PF has a two thirds majority in both houses that can allow it to change the Constitution. Thus the argument of going to bed with Zanu PF is rather more than grandstanding populism.<br /><br />There is a need within civil society to begin to forward substantive issues to be considered for debate within these talks. However, it seems civil society is ignorant of its responsibility and assumes that Rome was built in a day. I firmly believe what the MDC has done is part of the many steps that various Zimbabweans may take on the journey to our liberation from dictatorship. Henceforth, the debate should focus more on the agenda of these talks, rather than labelling each other as sell- outs.<br /><br />Just as food for thought both the National Constitutional Assembly and Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition recently changed constitutions to keep certain dynasties. This reminds us of Jesus' words to the Pharisees that let he who has not sinned pick the first stone to strike the woman adulterer. Not saying that the MDC has sinned, but the point being that let us stop this self vindictiveness.<br /><br />If civil society organisations feel that the MDC and Zanu PF should not negotiate then they should not try to impose their will on these parties. I think my colleagues in these movements fail to understand rudimentary processes of conflict resolution. There is no way we can say we won't negotiate with Zanu PF, when they are occupying organs of the State. That is not realistic at all even in a utopian world, and as such our energies need to be synergized getting the best out of all opportunities present to liberate us from serfdom.<br /><br />What is fundamental for us as Zimbabweans is to make sure that we do not sleep on our laurels as we did in 1987. There is strong conscious need to guard against a deal that would lead to the two parties agreeing to form another gravy train as happened between Zanu PF and PF Zapu.<br /><br />The role of the SADC mediation is not to install any leader or political party, but to create an environment that is free and fair. It is my humble opinion that within the framework of parliament there is hope to achieve what we have been searching for. The argument that Mugabe is cunning can't stop negotiations but serve as a call to be alert in our dealings with the regime.<br /><br />Participation or giving a chance to the SADC initiative should not be an end but one of the means to an end. It is my contention that attempts to demonise the MDC leadership by some civic leaders are unfortunate and self serving. They are not at all representative of the people, and it would be foolhardy for them to assume that their interests are the people. There is a danger of some civic organizations and leaders becoming irrelevant and out of touch with reality.<br /><br />Let us explore all alternatives before us and if it fails we leave it, and move on. The ahistoric interpretation of the 1987 Unity Accord will not take us anywhere.ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-88933517124726067502007-09-20T09:11:00.000+03:002008-11-07T06:55:05.839+02:00OPEN LETTER TO THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, MR GORDON BROWN!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCdwPWT25kgn4wIMcSQJF1ahHzqz__fub0jtEUEVuQvr8OX2IKaQEErjWvtYAu35IcuDODN9ODulgjYAYz4eS9dqbFUGborkH74f4c5KKiot6vYRBnaYRse41OLqC70vOe8c0kF3-PE2rh/s1600-h/Gordon+Brown.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCdwPWT25kgn4wIMcSQJF1ahHzqz__fub0jtEUEVuQvr8OX2IKaQEErjWvtYAu35IcuDODN9ODulgjYAYz4eS9dqbFUGborkH74f4c5KKiot6vYRBnaYRse41OLqC70vOe8c0kF3-PE2rh/s320/Gordon+Brown.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112299282398221618" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.zimonline.co.za/Article.aspx?ArticleId=2013">LINK!!!!!!</a><br /><br /> Back up rhetoric with actions, Gordon <br /><br /> Friday 14 September 2007 <br /> <br /> <br /> By Tanonoka Joseph Whande <br /><br />GABORONE - Hello Mr Gordon Brown. <br /><br />Your Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, is quoted as saying that if Zimbabwe’s notorious President Robert Mugabe attends the Portugal summit, you will not attend. <br /><br />This is just unbelievable, Gordon. Now I know how the Israelites felt when they received manna from heaven. Say, did John Howard of Australia whisper something to you? I mean, this is really neat and all. <br /><br />I hope you have told British Airways and those overpaid security people, who were counting on overnight expenses, to unpack. Mugabe should not and must not be seen or allowed to mingle with ‘world leaders’. <br /><br />Let him have his time with the uninspiring African presidents who continue to applaud him every time he makes those wayward remarks. <br /><br />Apart from ‘diplomacy’, a word African presidents grossly misunderstand, African presidents lack compassion and accountability, Gordon. <br /><br />They have their muzzles so deep into the feeding trough that they, unlike you, don’t feel the pain inflicted on fellow Africans. <br /><br />And I challenge any one of them, just one in all of Africa, to state publicly their revulsion at the unnecessary suffering in Zimbabwe. <br /><br />Let me hear only one African president express disgust at Mugabe for killing and abusing defenceless people. African presidents want to blend with other world leaders while they ignore the vile they collectively allow to take place at home. <br /><br />And, Gordon, I have seen them dressed up in tuxedos, looking like penguins in the desert, as you shower them with food, laughter and wine at ‘state functions.’ <br /><br />Oh, my friend, you are just as much to blame. <br /><br />No more state functions for these men. South Africa, Zambia, Botswana and Mozambique know about state sanctioned violence in Zimbabwe. <br /><br />They know exactly the type of torture and abuse of civilians taking place in Zimbabwe and yet they don’t seem to care. <br /><br />You see, Gordon, we are one people who have turned against ourselves. We can only blame you and your ‘friends’ in Europe and America for supporting such inhuman, cruel and insensitive leaders. <br /><br />Even the serenity of the church is no longer sacred under Mugabe. We can no longer freely preach or attend church services as the language in the Bible flies in the face of Mugabe’s intentions. <br /><br />He, you will recall, blasphemously accepted the accolade of ‘son of God’ and he rewarded the blasphemer with a cabinet post. Look across Africa and see what your ‘European Union’ did to Africa. <br /><br />When you partitioned Africa, you were adversaries in Europe. Today, Africa is fragmented and Europe is united. But you now wine and dine African presidents while they abuse their people. <br /><br />However, I applaud you for declaring that you will not go to Portugal for that meeting if Mugabe is there. But you have to go further. <br /><br />SADC leaders, who fervently support Mugabe, will be there. Hit the deceitful executives with sanctions too. We cannot send our children to school, Gordon. <br /><br />We cannot eat because we cannot find the food, the jobs or even the money. <br /><br />Zimbabwe’s educational system, once the world’s pride, has evaporated as the gluttonous imbeciles feast on state coffers, reducing the education of our children to a senseless, expensive, unaffordable and unproductive exercise. <br /><br />The University of Zimbabwe is now a ghost edifice. Even students themselves shun it, with only a quarter of those ‘admitted’ showing up this year. <br /><br />We need not talk about health delivery, for there is none anymore. Gordon, if you and your elite group are going to meet so as to discuss about diamonds from Botswana, gold from South Africa, cocoa from Ghana, oil from Nigeria, cashew nuts from Mozambique . . . and you forget about the people, then you might just as well stay at home. <br /><br />When you meet, sit down and talk about human rights in all African countries. <br /><br />But if you boycott the Portugal summit, you will be sending a message to Mugabe, to the African presidents and to fellow European Union members that you can back up your words with action, just like the Australians. <br /><br />Please, don’t shame us by being ‘talked into it.’ On my part, I feel totally embarrassed that all African leaders tolerate the abuse of African people by African presidents. <br /><br />I have yet to hear a single African president opposing or criticising the mayhem in Zimbabwe. I feel doubly mortified that the deliverance and emancipation of the African people from the clutches of their African dictators are being championed by foreigners like you and John Howard. <br /><br />I love my Africa, Gordon, and your African stooges are messing up our continent. Australia is backing up its rhetoric with action, Gordon. <br /><br />As a parent myself, I find the deportation of young Zimbabwean students from Australia unfortunate. But it should make those children think why such a thing has happened to them. That is very important. <br /><br />It should show them that they are benefiting from blooded opportunities. Do what the Australians did and send our citizens back to their parents. <br /><br />Meanwhile, listen to the silence of African presidents. None of them will take a stand and defend their principles because people like you, Gordon, are subsidising their recalcitrant behaviour. <br /><br />The travel sanctions on Mugabe and his cohorts are working; please tighten the screws and make sure that Mugabe finds no loopholes to sneak into the EU. He is a master at that. <br /><br />But, Gordon, I do not understand why you should punish Mugabe alone. <br /><br />Your efforts are being undermined by African presidents, especially those who share a common border with Zimbabwe. They are supporting human rights violations. <br /><br />They are supporting, in whatever way, the killing of innocent people in Zimbabwe. I am compelled to warn you to look out for a notorious African president who only visits the drinking wells when all of Africa is asleep. <br /><br />He doesn’t go there to quench his thirst but he always takes toilet paper with him. This man has always succeeded in influencing other so-called leaders into behaving illogically. <br /><br />Be a man and carry out your threat, Gordon. African dictators will not stay away because they are not paying for the junket. After all, they are coming there for shopping but, most importantly, they are coming there to ask for money. <br /><br />Let them stay away. African presidents continue to support state sanctioned abuse, human rights violations, electoral fraud and murders in Zimbabwe. If the Portuguese insist on having Mugabe, don’t worry about them. <br /><br />They have always like that. They were the poorest, most useless and stingiest of all colonisers. Oh, sorry, Zimbabwe will never be a British colony again. <br /><br />It is already a Chinese colony. <br /><br />* Tanonoka Joseph Whande is a Botswana-based Zimbabwean writer.ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-73966318099074129562007-09-18T01:08:00.000+03:002007-09-18T13:10:28.061+03:00ITS UP TO AFRICA TO SEEK HELP (ABOUT ZIM!)<a href="http://thethunderdragon.blogspot.com/2007/09/its-up-to-africa-to-ask-for-help-over.html">LINK!!!!</a><br /><br /><br /><DIV class=blog-posts> <H2 class=date-header>16 September 2007</H2> <DIV class="post uncustomized-post-template"><A name=5796821750617449708></A> <H3 class=post-title><A href="http://thethunderdragon.blogspot.com/2007/09/its-up-to-africa-to-ask-for-help-over.html">It's Up To Africa To Ask For Help Over Zimbabwe</A> </H3> <DIV class=post-header-line-1></DIV> <DIV class=post-body> <div><A onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c315/c_ris/blog/zimbabweisdying.jpg"><IMG style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c315/c_ris/blog/zimbabweisdying.jpg" border=0></A>The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, <A href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2170244,00.html"><FONT color=#0066cc>writes in the Guardian</FONT></A> about how "saving Zimbabwe is not colonialism, [but] Britain's duty":<BR> <DIV id=quote><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 85%"><FONT size=2>In one of his last actions as Prime Minister, Tony Blair visited Africa to defend his 'thoroughly interventionist' foreign policy towards the continent. At the end of his trip, at a press conference with South African President Thabo Mbeki, the Prime Minister admitted that when it came to the issue of Zimbabwe, only local pressure would do the job. 'An African solution,' he said, 'is needed to this African problem.'<BR>Yet... Zimbabwe cannot any more be seen as an African problem needing an African solution - it is a humanitarian disaster....<BR>The time has come for Mr Brown, who has already shown himself to be an African interventionist through his work at the UN in favour of the people of Darfur, finally to slay the ghosts of Britain's colonialist past by thoroughly revising foreign policy towards Zimbabwe and to lead the way in co-ordinating an international response.<BR>The time for 'African solutions' alone is now over...(</FONT><A href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2170244,00.html"><FONT color=#0066cc size=2>The Guardian</FONT></A><FONT size=2>)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>Yes, Zimbabwe needs international intervention - but it is up to Africa to invite us in. Until they accept that Mugabe is "the worst kind of racist dictator" and has "enacted an awful Orwellian vision", there is nothing that can be done. As it is, Brown's <A href="http://thethunderdragon.blogspot.com/2007/09/praise-for-gordo.html"><FONT color=#0066cc>refusal</FONT></A> to even potentially have a "Straw moment" with Mugabe has led to African nations refusing to go to a summit, so how much worse a reaction would be received if he - or any other non-African nation - suggests direct intervention?<BR><BR>In this article, Sentamu has a weird argument with regards to colonialism, using it as a basis of both intervening and not intervening in Zimbabwe. He says that "saving Zimbabwe is not colonialism, [but] Britain's duty", that "the time has come for Mr Brown... to slay the ghosts of Britain's colonialist past by thoroughly revising foreign policy towards Zimbabwe and to lead the way in co-ordinating an international response" and also that "Britain needs to escape from its colonial guilt when it comes to Zimbabwe." All of these cannot be true. I don't think that Britain's colonialist history is <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">anything</SPAN> to be ashamed of or to feel guilty for. To start with, it happened in a different time and culture, and we were by no means the worst perpetrators of the bad aspects. If anything, we should feel more guilty for <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">ending</SPAN> colonialism in much of Africa when we did than for doing it in the first place.<BR><BR>When it comes down to it, I think that <A href="http://thethunderdragon.blogspot.com/search/label/Zimbabwe"><FONT color=#378add>we do need into intervene in Zimbabwe</FONT></A>, but in the current political climate, we can't until Africa - or at least much of Africa - asks for us to do so. Whilst they stand beside Mugabe and his dying Zimbabwe, there is nothing that the rest of the world can do. Zimbabwe may not be a problem that Africa alone can fix, but no-one else can do anything to help until Africa asks for it.<BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 78%"><FONT size=1>Source: </FONT><A href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2170244,00.html"><FONT color=#0066cc size=1>The Guardian</FONT></A></SPAN> <div></div> <DIV style="CLEAR: both"></DIV></DIV> <DIV class=post-footer> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><SPAN class=post-author>Posted by ThunderDragon </SPAN><SPAN class=post-timestamp>@ <A class=timestamp-link title="permanent link" href="http://thethunderdragon.blogspot.com/2007/09/its-up-to-africa-to-ask-for-help-over.html"><FONT color=#378add>9:05 PM</FONT></A> </SPAN><SPAN class=post-comment-link></SPAN><SPAN class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"></SPAN><SPAN class=post-icons><SPAN class=item-action><A title="Email Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=29988730&postID=5796821750617449708"><FONT color=#0066cc><SPAN class=email-post-icon> </SPAN> </FONT></A></SPAN><SPAN class="item-control blog-admin pid-862751185"><A title="Edit Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=29988730&postID=5796821750617449708"><FONT color=#0066cc><SPAN class=quick-edit-icon> </SPAN> </FONT></A></SPAN></SPAN></div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><SPAN class=post-labels>Labels: <A href="http://thethunderdragon.blogspot.com/search/label/Africa" rel=tag><FONT color=#0066cc>Africa</FONT></A>, <A href="http://thethunderdragon.blogspot.com/search/label/Foreign%20Policy" rel=tag><FONT color=#0066cc>Foreign Policy</FONT></A>, <A href="http://thethunderdragon.blogspot.com/search/label/Zimbabwe" rel=tag><FONT color=#378add>Zimbabwe</FONT></A> </SPAN></div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"></div></DIV></DIV> <DIV class=comments id=comments><A name=comments></A> <H4>1 comments: </H4> <DL id=comments-block> <DT class=comment-author id=comment-4788972352419139276><A name=comment-4788972352419139276></A><A href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842" rel=nofollow><FONT color=#0066cc>ZIMPATRIOT!</FONT></A> said... <DD class=comment-body> <div>8 years of Blogging and Analysing!<BR><BR>The common man suffers and waits.....<BR><BR>Rev M S Hove.....<BR><BR>www.zimfinalpush.blogspot.com</div> <DD class=comment-footer><SPAN class=comment-timestamp><A title="comment permalink" href="http://thethunderdragon.blogspot.com/2007/09/its-up-to-africa-to-ask-for-help-over.html#comment-4788972352419139276"><FONT color=#378add>9/17/2007 12:03 PM </FONT></A><SPAN class="item-control blog-admin pid-716813912"><A title="Delete Comment" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=29988730&postID=4788972352419139276"><FONT color=#000000><SPAN class=delete-comment-icon> </SPAN> </FONT></A></SPAN></SPAN></DD></DL> <div class=comment-footer><A onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;' href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29988730&postID=5796821750617449708&isPopup=true"><FONT color=#378add>Post a Comment</FONT></A> </div> <DIV id=backlinks-container> <DIV id=Blog1_backlinks-container><A name=links></A> <H4></H4> <div class=comment-footer><A class=comment-link id=Blog1_backlinks-create-link href="" target=_blank></A></div></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR><div> </div><p>  <hr size=1> Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. <a href="http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTEydmViNG02BF9TAzIxMTQ3MTcxOTAEc2VjA21haWwEc2xrA3RhZ2xpbmU">Try it now</a>.ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-21912086869354867812007-09-12T09:33:00.001+03:002008-11-07T06:55:05.879+02:00Only political solution for Zimbabwe crisis!!!<a href="http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/inflation162.16906.html">LINK!!!!</a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilgq3NMLH_bnJ0mx5kv2kFRNd_147RUpqPJB8MvvFegFoYJNuUeiY-mejzV94QBeCGUIPk2jmcE-FKFQitv7uEAm_kWdVai5tY5YsQaUx99es-MmQUMVjODpW-kR95kP_8nIBdcX-dNvr_/s1600-h/zim+flag"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilgq3NMLH_bnJ0mx5kv2kFRNd_147RUpqPJB8MvvFegFoYJNuUeiY-mejzV94QBeCGUIPk2jmcE-FKFQitv7uEAm_kWdVai5tY5YsQaUx99es-MmQUMVjODpW-kR95kP_8nIBdcX-dNvr_/s320/zim+flag" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109203770845365074" /></a><br /><H5><STRONG><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=4></FONT></STRONG> </H5> <DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Algerian" size=2><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#0000ff size=1><STRONG><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000 size=2>By Tendai Biti</FONT></STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Algerian" size=2><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#0000ff size=1><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> <DIV><BR> <SCRIPT language=Javascript><!-- // *********************************************** // AUTHOR: WWW.CGISCRIPT.NET, LLC // URL: http://www.cgiscript.net // Use the script, just leave this message intact. // Download your FREE CGI/Perl Scripts today! // ( http://www.cgiscript.net/scripts.htm ) // *********************************************** document.write("<b>Last updated: "+document.lastModified+"</b>"); //--> </SCRIPT> <B>Last updated: 09/11/2007 23:30:18</B> </DIV> <DIV></STRONG></FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=1><BR></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>POOR Sam Mumbengegwi! Some men are gifted enough to hide their mediocrity or at least to hide the mediocrity of their work. But alas, the talentless Minister of Finance possesses neither attribute. <BR><BR>The supplementary budget presented on September 6, 2007, is an indictment not just on the person of Mumbengegwi but on the regime in Harare.<BR><BR></DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> <SCRIPT type=text/javascript><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3811101359216804"; google_ad_width = 200; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "200x90_0ads_al"; google_ad_channel = ""; //--></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type=text/javascript> </SCRIPT> </FONT></FONT> <DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>That the supplementary budget can exceed the original budget presented in December 2006 by 800 percent betrays a fundamental lack of elementary understanding of the nuts and bolts of economics. But even more importantly, it exposes the fact that the regime has no control over this failing economy and worse still, that they do not care. <BR><BR>The very appointment of Mumbengegwi as a replacement of the affable and whisky-loving Hebert Murerwa is a reflection that Robert Mugabe does not give a hoot about basic economic housekeeping fundamentals such as budget balancing and macro-economic stability. <BR><BR>A number of critical issues arise with this supplementary budget. The first is that as a supplementary budget, it is not located in any policy or ideological framework. The budget is a major fiscal tool that should be grounded in some major policy framework. <BR><BR>The existing fiscal planning tool that this regime is nominally bound by is the National Economic Develeopment Priority Programme (NEDPP) launched by minister Rugare Gumbo in March 2006. The budget therefore should have been a complementary tool for the objectives and roadmap designed in the NEDPP. Sadly, the supplementary budget is not anchored on this. Instead, it is a hotch-potch of contradictory and self-defeating policy tools. <BR><BR>Stripped to its bare bones, the supplementary budget betrays the contradiction in the Zanu PF state between on one hand, the need to be loyal to basic economic fundamentals and on the other, the power retention agenda in which State resources will be spent without reason, logic or limit purely for the purposes of maintaining and reproducing power. <BR><BR>Thus, whilst the Minister implicitly acknowledges the catalpetic effect that a huge budget deficit has on inflation and fiscal discipline, he nevertheless succumbs to the power retention agenda by producing a supplementary budget that is loyal to this cause and this cause only. <BR><BR>One finds that the amounts allocated to the President's Office (which houses the notorious Central Intelligence Organisation), the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Home Affair, is a staggering $12,662 trillion, which is 33 percent of the supplementary budget. If one adds the traditional government slush fund, the unallocated reserve under the Ministry of Finance vote, of $2,4 trillion , then in fact the amount being allocated to the securocrats, who are at the helm of this Vampire State, is 43 percent of the supplementary budget.<BR><BR>The net effect of the expansionary fiscal deliquency is that there will be a major increase in the stockpile of domestic debt from $8,1 trillion to at least $16 trillion, in our view. <BR><BR>Furthermore, whilst a huge budget deficit does not necessarily have to be destructive, ours is, given that more than 70 percent of that budget consists of consumptive recurrent expenditure in the form of interest payments and wages. To the extent that the budget deficit and the debt are financed by domestic borrowings, the government has yet to engineer negative interest rates with the consequent debilitating effect on savings.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>What it means right now is that Zimbabwe is experiencing negative net savings of -5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Without savings being at least 30 percent of GDP, there is no way this regime, or any other government for that matter, can resolve the supply side of the economy through use of domestic resources. What it means therefore is that Mugabe's policies have made this country more dependent on foreign inflows for the recovery of our economy. <BR><BR>Put simply, the regime that has made sovereignty its national mantra has stolen the economic sovereignty of this country. <BR><BR>A key question to be asked is how will this government finance this supplementary budget? In answering this question, one must recognise the minister's admission that of the cumulative revenue of $3,4 trillion collected up to June 2007, 30,3 percent came from Value Added Tax (VAT).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>But since 18 June 2007, when the government embarked on its crackdown on prices, or Ginyanomics as we called it, the receipts from VAT have shrunk by more than 80 percent as a result of that ill-advised adventure.<BR><BR>The situation is going to get worse in view of the enactment, through Presidential Powers, of the new price control regulations SI 159A/2007. <BR><BR>However, one does not need to be a rocket scientist to understand that the regime has set itself up for further printing of money. With all the disastrous consequences associated with this treasonous act, the act of printing money has unashamedly been glorified to the status of a revolutionary achievement! <BR><BR>Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono, defending the same in the latest edition of the banal NewAfrican magazine, states as follows:<BR><BR>"Only the bull-fighter knows what goes on in the ring ..We are guided by conviction and not convention, and where convention meets conviction, well and good. What drives us is the belief that we are doing the correct thing .." <BR><BR>That is Zanu PF economics for you!<BR><BR>Moreover, the fact that the supplementary budget is presented without disclosing the estimated revenue is quite clearly dangerous and unacceptable. In any case, it is an implicit breach of the provisions of section 103 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, which requires full disclosure of both the revenue and expenditure components in an Appropriation Bill. <BR><BR>A further glaring contradiction of the budget statement is the devaluation of the Zimbabwe dollar by 12 000 percent. As we have argued before, any devaluation done that is disconnected to an overall supply side strategy engendered by a comprehensive fiscal and monetary policy, is meaningless. It will simply exacerbate the crisis. The same is true of this devaluation. <BR><BR>Firstly, it is unrealistic given that the parallel market rate of the Zimbabwe dollar is $250 000 to the US dollar. There is no chance therefore that the latest move will have any meaningful effect towards stimulation of exports. All it will do is to add further distortions on the exchange rate matrix. <BR><BR>The same is true of the move to increase the minimum tax threshold to $4 million. Given that the Poverty Datum Line is $8,5 million, $4 million becomes an insult. Moreover, another pertinent question is whether there is still a significant number of people in formal employment.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>The supplementary budget fails to acknowledge the quasi-fiscal activities that have become a favourite pastime at the RBZ, which quasi-fiscal activities have never been scrutinized by Parliament. <BR><BR>In the 2006 financial year, the amount of money spent by the RBZ in quasi-fiscal activities was $370, 9 billion, which was at par with the national budget presented by Hebert Murerwa, who then paid a price for the full disclosure of those activities by being fired. <BR><BR>Quite clearly, the out-of-depth Mumbengegwi has neither the courage nor reason to demanding full disclosure from the RBZ. The point being made is that the national debt and the budget deficit in real terms are much higher than what has so far been disclosed. <BR><BR>Furthermore, it means that the push on inflation and the further impoverishment of the ordinary Zimbabwean will increase. Put simply, we are in a rut! <BR><BR>One cannot run an economy on the basis of throwing lots or consulting sangomas. At least under Simba Makoni, there was an element of comprehension of rudimentary economics, but unfortunately the economics of failure has been replaced by unpredictable sangomanomics.<BR><BR>Clearly, the task at hand is beyond the chubby and overfed fellows at number 80 Samora Machel Avenue in Harare and at Munhumutapa building in the same street. As we have argued before, only a political solution, predicated on a new, people driven Constitution and free and fair elections in Zimbabwe, is a starting point to the resolution of the multi-faceted Zimbabwean crisis.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Otherwise this house has fallen!<BR><BR><EM>Hon Tendai Biti, MP is MDC Secretary General of the MDC faction led by Morgan Tsvangirai</EM></FONT><BR></DIV><BR><BR><DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV><STRONG> <DIV align=left> <DIV><IMG id=ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_FeatureArticle1_imgLargeImage style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; WIDTH: 218px; HEIGHT: 207px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" src="http://www.zimonline.co.za/clientfiles/articleimages/large/sleeping_boobo.jpg"><BR></DIV> <DIV>Peace and Tranquility???</DIV> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=271 align=center bgColor=#ffffff border=0> <TBODY> <TR vAlign=center bgColor=#000400> <TD bgColor=#ffffff height=187> <DIV align=center><IMG height=204 src="http://www.swradioafrica.com/faces/feet_torture.jpg" width=170></DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG>Peace and Tranquility???</STRONG></DIV></TD></TR> <TR vAlign=top> <TD class=smalldark vAlign=center bgColor=#ffffff height=131></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></STRONG> <DIV><STRONG> Cell in RSA: 0791463039</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV><p> ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-54812204004415080312007-09-10T09:39:00.000+03:002007-09-10T09:41:10.400+03:00Zimbabwe refugees keep hope alive in South African church of refuge!!!<a href="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ikUgLa2dK0shtXhldIvQgojIUU4Q">LINK!!!!</a><br /><br />JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — Frightened, desperate and pregnant, Shylet Chakanetsa, 18, paid a truck driver to smuggle her from Zimbabwe to South Africa.<br /><br />She and three other young women were hidden in a trailer as the truck entered South Africa through the northern Beitbridge border post.<br /><br />"I was scared the police were going to catch us and we would have to go home again and start over," the quiet young woman said in an interview.<br /><br />"Lots of guys are coming that way. Some say they can come through the fence. We didn't want to go that way. Some say there are cases of people being raped. We were scared so we just had to pay," she said, a hand gently stroking her baby girl wrapped in a bright yellow blanket next to her.<br /><br />Massive inflation, food and fuel shortages and a crackdown on political opposition to President Robert Mugabe's regime have sent Zimbabweans fleeing by the thousands, leading to mounting concerns that the region will be swamped with destitute refugees.<br /><br />Recently, Zambian immigration authorities reported that the number of Zimbabweans crossing into Zambia at the southern border city of Livingstone had risen from 60 to 1,000 people a day, and that they feared the influx threatened security.<br /><br />While there are few reliable figures on the number of economic migrants crossing through South Africa's borders, estimates consistently refer to three million Zimbabweans living in South Africa.<br /><br />Some, like Chakanetsa, pay truck drivers to smuggle them in. Others cross legally, then let their visas expire. A few go first to Botswana or Mozambique, then cross more porous borders into South Africa from there.<br /><br />Most choose to leave Zimbabwe by crossing the crocodile-infested Limpopo River and entering through holes in the poorly patrolled border fence, often paying exorbitant fees to guides.<br /><br />Recently farmers on the border were accused of waging a vigilante campaign against the illegal immigrants, accusing them of theft and of scaring foreign tourists from game lodges along the border.<br /><br />Chakanetsa says she paid the driver 100,000 Zimbabwe dollars, which is about 40 U.S. cents and buys three loaves of bread or a cup of coffee at Harare airport.<br /><br />She and her friends were dropped about 560 kilometres from the border in Germiston, east of Johannesburg in January. From there they took a taxi to downtown Johannesburg and found the Central Methodist Church, where she was reunited with the father of her child.<br /><br />Bishop Paul Verryn's church, tucked next to the High Court in the heart of the city, has become a centre of refuge for more than 1,000 Zimbabweans.<br /><br />As the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe deepens, some 20 to 30 Zimbabweans make their way to the church every day. Most are men, but an increasing number are women and unaccompanied children. Like Chakanetsa, they all have tales of worsening hardships that force them to flee in search of work and a chance to help their families survive.<br /><br />Chakanetsa's mother is a widowed nurse who was battling to look after her daughter and three-year-old son. "It was getting tougher everyday. Working back home is useless. The money is useless," she says.<br /><br />Home is now a tiny patch of space in the crowded vestry, wide enough for a mattress of folded blankets and a few belongings. Chakanetsa shares the wood-panelled room with seven other mothers and their young children. "The church is trying their best to help us. If it wasn't for them I would probably be on the streets," she says.<br /><br />Chakanetsa, who is hoping to find a job as a domestic worker, has not had any luck yet. She occasionally makes 30 rand a day (US$4.21) distributing flyers on the rough streets of Johannesburg.<br /><br />"The first question they (employers) ask is if we are from Zimbabwe, then they turn their backs on us," she said.<br /><br />At night the four-storey building with its warren of rooms is a sea of sleeping bodies, head-to-toe on the stairs, corridors, in doorways. Everywhere, except the pews, are exhausted people wrapped in whatever they can find to ward off the winter cold seeping up through the hard tiled floor.<br /><br />But by day the floors are swept clean and bundles of possessions are secured to railings, waiting the return of their owners while a ground floor hall operates as a soup kitchen and meeting place.<br /><br />In front of a television playing music videos, those who have not been able to secure work for the day mingle, playing with a card deck that pokes fun at Mugabe and his cronies - similar to the famous Saddam Hussein pack.<br /><br />Upstairs a group of sick men huddle around a heater waiting for the volunteer doctor. Around the corner students are waiting their turn on four laptop computers in the light and airy education centre.<br /><br />With a large number of teachers in the building and a variety of skills, the first rule of staying in the church is that residents must be involved in education - either teaching others or studying further.<br /><br />"That's where the professionals have got themselves organized and it's gaining more momentum. They are determined that nobody is going to slip through the net," says Verryn, sitting in his third-floor office, a queue of people waiting outside to see him.<br /><br />A veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, Verryn says the increasing number of Zimbabweans on the streets of Johannesburg is a problem that can no longer be ignored.<br /><br />Verryn is involved in the registration of each person who comes to his church - about 3,500 people in the last 18 months.<br /><br />"If we don't do this there is a danger that they will become a nobody," he says.<br /><br />Other rules include: no smoking, drinking or fighting and no sex in the building for single residents. Residents are also expected to attend the church service every night.<br /><br />The refugees have organized themselves into a variety of committees governing life in the centre.<br /><br />"It was their initiative. People think we've got a bunch of stupid thugs in this place but we really have a fairly sophisticated community," Verryn says.<br /><br />The residents each contribute five rand (about 70 cents) a week to pay for cleaners and fund two nurse's aides. There is a lift operator to ensure the aging elevator does not get overcrowded and soon someone will be employed to watch over the toilets.<br /><br />"Conflict managers" are posted on each floor, but there are complaints of thieving as well as fighting and there have been two alcohol-related deaths.<br /><br />Verryn says the conflict is minimal, given the stress inherent in "about 1,000 people living on each others' toes, with their feet in one another's soup.<br /><br />To let off steam, there is netball, ballroom dancing, karate and book and chess clubs.<br /><br />The refugees have called their organization Ray of Hope Ministries.<br /><br />"Here is not a prison but a place of hope," says chairman Godfrey Charamba, who left Zimbabwe in 2004. The 30-year-old lay preacher, temporary teacher, and truck driver works as a security guard.<br /><br />Ahead of the evening church service, Charamba is going to fetch someone from Johannesburg's central train and bus station, where many arriving Zimbabweans spend a few nights before being directed to the church.<br /><br />News of the church has reached Zimbabwe, so some, like Chakanetsa, head straight for it when they arrive. Others turn up robbed of everything after roughing it on the streets.<br /><br />Neither Verryn nor Charamba like to entertain much discussion of how many more people the church can accommodate.<br /><br />"As a church we will never get full," says Charamba. "We have no choice. We can't close the doors for people. Where do they go? Only the house of God can they go to."ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-42472145867935460782007-09-05T07:55:00.001+03:002008-11-07T06:55:06.195+02:00CHIHURI VERBALLY ABUSES PRES TSVANGIRAI!<a href="http://newzimbabwe.com/pages/aussies10.16877.html">LINK!!!!!!</a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5JJ5O_DB-m0mRF66iBPlx_yLeNpiwBMSsPS5M1UIFJaRX0DHExBntjSwLp1T3QXc0jtAbYNOV46K_-gg_heG6YTk3SUvBStk8qIa1oDy7Veurc60TC1TZVd3wIz1-HOQ0x35hYDTAT8ui/s1600-h/chihuriaugustine.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5JJ5O_DB-m0mRF66iBPlx_yLeNpiwBMSsPS5M1UIFJaRX0DHExBntjSwLp1T3QXc0jtAbYNOV46K_-gg_heG6YTk3SUvBStk8qIa1oDy7Veurc60TC1TZVd3wIz1-HOQ0x35hYDTAT8ui/s320/chihuriaugustine.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106580180789477682" /></a><br />ZIMBABWE'S Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri went ballistic and verbally abused opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai at the Harare International Airport Tuesday after the Australian government deported his son and seven other students linked to Zanu PF officials.<br /><br />Tsvangirai, the leader of a faction of the splintered Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), had just arrived from Australia where he held talks with senior government officials and Prime Minister John Howard.<br /><br />Chihuri was in a large group of cabinet ministers, journalists and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) agents awaiting the arrival of the South African Airways afternoon flight from Johannesburg.<br /><br />Coincidentally, Tsvangirai was on the same plane with Chihuri's son, Sylvester, who had been studying in Australia.<br /><br />Sources said Chihuri verbally abused and mocked Tsvangirai, accusing him of having achieved his goal of pressuring the Aussies to deport Zanu PF officials' children studying in that country.<br /><br />"Ndozvawaida Tsvangirai. Waita zvako ufunge. Chifara nekuti zvawaida zvaitika. Iwe ndiwe unekodzero yekuti wako mwana agare kuAustralia vedu vachidzingwa (This is what you wanted, Tsvangirai. Thank you very much. Your wish has been granted. You can be happy now because only your son is privileged to study in Australia while mine is deported)," a journalist at the airport captured Chihuri as saying Tsvangirai, who was harassed by state media journalists who waited outside the plane and later followed him to immigration and eventually the baggage collection section, remained calm, journalists said.<br /> <br />Also on the plane was the son of Rural Housing and Amenities Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa.<br /> <br />The veteran politician was among the group of people who were at the airport at the time of Chihuri's confrontation with Tsvangirai.<br /> <br />Last month the Federal Government of Australia announced it would revoke student visas for eight children of senior members of President Robert Mugabe's regime.<br />Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer announced the measure as part of a strengthening of sanctions against Zimbabwe.<br /> <br />Downer revealed: "I have also initiated steps to reject the student visa applications of a further two adult children who are children of a senior Mugabe regime figure.<br />"For privacy reasons, the names of the individuals subject to the measures I have outlined will not be released. These new measures will now also prevent these individuals from giving their families the kind of education their policies have denied the ordinary people of Zimbabwe."<br /> <br />Zanu PF officials' known children who were in Australia include Sylvester Chihuri, Tendai<br />Nguni, son of Sylvester Nguni the Minister of Economic Planning; Kudzai Muchena, son of Olivia Muchena the Minister for Science and Technology; and Thelma Chombo, the daughter of Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo.<br /> <br />The others were Taona Karimanzira, the son of Harare Provincial Governor David Karimanzira and Emmerson Mnangagwa Jnr, the son of Emmerson Mnangagwa. Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono's twin daughters Pride and Praise and his son Passion were also ordered out.<br /> <br />The deportations have stoked political tensions, with government officials accusing Tsvangirai of triggering the deportations.<br /> <br />State media this week questioned how Tsvangirai was paying for his children said to be studying in Australia, accusing him of hypocrisy.<br /> <br />The Chronicle newspaper, a government mouthpiece, claimed Tsvangirai had been berated for his hypocrisy "by some Australian academics and students who attended the meetings he addressed".<br /> <br />The paper quoted a "scathing intellectual" as dismissing Tsvangirai as a "huge bore who lacks charisma, content and is purely driven by the West."<br /> <br />"Morgan is so worryingly unthinking and a political dunderhead with no clue of what he will do in the unlikely event that he wins next year's elections," a Melisa Welsh, said to be an undergraduate humanities student at the University of New South Wales, was quoted as saying.<br /> <br />"It does not surprise us that he does not want to see some Zimbabwean students learning in Australia; his conduct is typical of unlearned loudmouths," she added.ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-74835676318516982482007-08-27T13:51:00.001+03:002007-08-27T13:51:51.736+03:00REV MUFARO S HOVE'S COMMENTS ON MBEKI AND SADC'S POSITION ON THE ZIMBABWE CRISIS!Well, Mr Thabo Mbeki, The State President of South Africa has issued a lengthy statement <A href="http://dearmrthabombeki.blogspot.com/2007/08/letter-from-pres-mbeki-reffering-to.html"><FONT color=#cc0000>(LINK)</FONT></A> where he has shown the whole world where he and SADC stand as far as the Zimbabwean Crisis is concerned.<BR><BR>Firstly, that the Elections were heavily rigged <A href="http://zimgossiper.blogspot.com/2007/04/full-submission-on-rigging-of-zim.html"><FONT color=#2d8930>LINK!!!</FONT></A> is not an issue at all!<BR><BR>Secondly, that thousands of MDC members were physically assasulted and hundreds others murdered by State Agents <A href="http://tsvangirai.blogspot.com/2007/04/full-story-of-mdc.html"><FONT color=#cc0000>LINK!!!</FONT></A> is similarly not an issue at all! Refer also <A href="http://chinja.blogspot.com/2006/10/happy-birthday-mdc.html"><FONT color=#cc0000>LINK!!!</FONT></A><BR><BR>Thirdly, the fact that Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF were discarded by the Electorate BEFORE (NB BEFORE) the Infamous Land Invasions is not a material matter at all to Mbeki and SADC!<BR><BR>Fourthly, the fact that Mr Mugabe has presided over the very ZANU-PF for over 27 years without allowing the very ZANU-PF a chance to elect or re-elect him by the democratic Secret Ballot is completely irrelevant to Mr Thabo Mbeki and the various SADC "Excellencies."<BR><BR>Fifthly, the fact that Mugabe was clearly rejected by the Electorate in the controversial 2002 Presidential Election is not part of substance as far as Thabo Mbeki and SADC are concerned!<BR><BR>Knowing Mr Mugabe as we do, he would have excitedly gone through Tsvangirai's Election Petitions without any delay if he was sure he had won them by any margin!<BR><BR>His only statement at the moment is: "That Election Petition is 'frivolous' and 'vexatious'." What exactly does that mean???<BR><BR>We who were part of the rigging machinery know why and how those Elections were rigged!<BR><BR>I, Rev Mufaro Stig Hove, can give a delailed report of how WE (repeat) WE rigged those Elections.<BR><BR>This brings us to the question of the way forward as far as the Zimbabwean crisis is concerned.<BR><BR>Of major concern is for the "Opposition Forces" to clearly define themselves.<BR><BR>1. What exactly is it that they are opposing? Is it Robert Mugabe as a person meaning therefore that he must go at all costs regardless of the hurdles that continue to mount including the clear message from Thabo Mbeki and SADC? Please make that absolutely clear so that we who have vowed to support the Democratic Forces can see how we can go forward in support.<BR><BR>2.Can there be some National Vision which accommodates ZANU-PF and Robert Mugabe? I, personally, know that Robert Mugabe's very survival depends on his remaining in that Office (even illegitimately as he is doing at the moment.)<BR><BR>So he has intelligently intertwined his fate with that of millions to completely confuse the original issues.<BR><BR>Some of us need to hear what the general position of the Democratic Forces is.<BR><BR>The whole nation is on its knees!<BR><BR>I shouldn't describe the situation on the ground because any serious person knows that there is no economy to talk about in Zimbabwe at the moment!<BR><BR>The talk by President Mwanawasa that the problems of Zimbabwe are being exaggerated must be swiftly dismissed as coming from a timid lunatic who cannot stand his ground on his earlier statement that Zimbabwe was a sinking Titanic!<BR><BR>Mbeki's hope that SADC on its own can rescue Zimbabwe is irresponsible rubbish!<BR><BR>Even mighty South Africa can never close all outside doors and depend on its SADC neighbours only! Mbeki thinks their position as SADC is the only "Revolutionary and African" position and all others are mere "sell-outs" etc.<BR><BR>The heavy challenge on the shoulders of the Decratic Forces is to clearly and swiftly dissociate themselves from that dangerous perpective.<BR><BR>Of course its said 'Politics is a dirty game' but don't relax when powerful leaders join the despicably evil Robert Mugabe in propagating that stinking propaganda.<BR><BR>The tragedy of the Democratic Forces is that they do not seek the help of serious patriots to assist in the "clearing of the air" as far as their position is concerned. <BR><BR>The Democratic Forces have continued doing a pilgrimage to a clear crook like Thabo Mbeki!<BR><BR>What does Mbeki not know about the evils of Robert Mugabe? Refer to my article "Thabo Mbeki's proverbisal long rope!"<A href="http://dearmrthabombeki.blogspot.com/2007/07/thabo-mbeki-s-proverbial-long-rope.html"><FONT color=#cc0000> LINK!!!</FONT></A><BR><BR>Mbeki wants us to believe that South Africa will not play the "big brother" yet he completely ignores the cries of the very Zimbabweans when they describes issues that are not related to the land issue!<BR><BR>When did Zimbabweans complain about Mugabe encouraging "corruption" among his "chosen few"?<BR><BR>Please kindly read my APPEAL TO ALL JOURNALISTS AND WRITERS! <A href="http://radicalzim.blogspot.com/2007/08/appeal-to-all-journalists-and-writers.html"><FONT color=#cc0000>LINK!</FONT></A>.<BR><BR>I swear by the Living God that if Mugabe gets the proverbial "last laugh", Tsvangirai etc will spend their lives in exile until that 83 year old demagogue passes away!<BR><BR>But the consolation is that there is no serious investor that can take any investment to Zimbabwe while Mugabe is anywhere near corridors of power!<BR><BR>Thabo Mbeki is a depicable crook if he wants us to think that there is an investor (except himself) who can take anything to Zimbabwe even if Mugabe won a "free and fair" Election next year.<BR><BR>Even if Tsvangirai went round seeking the world to support the new Mugabe Regime (if there is one in 2008), no sane investor would go to Zimbabwe with anything.<BR><BR>The real tragedy of Zimbabwe is that Robert Mugabe will cling to power at all costs and all black leaders will have to support him or else risk being labelled "sell-outs."<BR><BR>So Thabo and company think, they will label us "sell-outs" and it will stick?<BR><BR>No, you are mentally unwell Thabo son of Govan, if you think sending "millions of rands" to Mugabe is a permanent solution to the Zim crisis.<BR><BR>You will stand by Robert Mugabe through "thick and thin", that's your decision!<BR><BR>But you will go down in History as having blundered using tax-payer's funds to prop up a despicably evil dictator we, the humble people of Zimbabwe were trying at all costs to remove.<BR><BR>Do you honestly think that I, Rev Mufaro Stig Hove, a black man would refuse 3000 heactres of free prepared land and a farmhouse etc.?<BR><BR>Would I refuse to be part of ZANU-PF and get all the benefits eg businesses seized from white owners etc.?<BR><BR>So am I "sell-out" because I say Mugabe has assassinated all his contemporaries since before Independence? <BR><BR>Am I a "sell-out" because I say Mugabe, Munangagwa etc got unfair benefit from the mineral resources in the DRC?<BR><BR>Am I a "sell-out" because I say Mugabe is a dictator who has nver allowed even a simple secret ballot even in the private Politburo Meetings?<BR><BR>Mr Mbeki do you not know or you do not want to know?<BR><BR>Even if the Economy of Zimbabwe were returned to a "zero" inflation and there was prosperity such that there is a 100% employment etc., the truth is that Robert Mugabe is still an evil Devil that must go (and you Mr Thabo Mbeki know it very well as well.)<BR><BR>WHO ARE YOU FOOLING? <BR><BR>WHO IS FOOLING-A WHO???<BR><BR>TIME WILL TELL!<BR><BR>Lets keep in touch CDE President.<BR><BR>Yours in the true struggle for a Free Zimbabwe, <BR><BR>Mufaro Stig Hove.....Rev.<BR><BR>(mufarostig@yahoo.co.uk)<BR><BR>Cell: 0791463039 RSA.<BR><BR><BR><DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV><STRONG> <DIV align=left> <DIV><IMG id=ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_FeatureArticle1_imgLargeImage style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; WIDTH: 218px; HEIGHT: 207px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" src="http://www.zimonline.co.za/clientfiles/articleimages/large/sleeping_boobo.jpg"><BR></DIV> <DIV>Peace and Tranquility???</DIV> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=271 align=center bgColor=#ffffff border=0> <TBODY> <TR vAlign=center bgColor=#000400> <TD bgColor=#ffffff height=187> <DIV align=center><IMG height=204 src="http://www.swradioafrica.com/faces/feet_torture.jpg" width=170></DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG>Peace and Tranquility???</STRONG></DIV></TD></TR> <TR vAlign=top> <TD class=smalldark vAlign=center bgColor=#ffffff height=131></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></STRONG> <DIV><STRONG> Cell in RSA: 0791463039</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV><p>  <hr size=1> For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit <a href="http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html">Yahoo! For Good</a> this month. ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-72094173087312194452007-08-15T08:50:00.000+03:002007-08-15T08:53:53.214+03:00MDC in danger of missing the freedom train!!<strong>By Nixon Mao Nyikadzino<br /><br /><br />Last updated: 08/14/2007 18:45:45<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/opinion281.16802.html">LINK!!!</a><br /> <br />I HAVE read with interest the postulations made by Lloyd Msipa about setting a new agenda for Zimbabwe.<br /><br />No-one would deny that such a new beginning is now or never. The only question we should ask ourselves is: how do we set the new agenda and for who?<br /><br />For me the question is not about Morgan Tsvangirai's failures only, but the failure of the opposition as a bloc. It is regrettable that both MDC factions have tended to seek comfort in newly created terminology such as MDC formations while forgetting that whatever they are called, the fact still remains that the unity that once lit the hearts of many suffering Zimbabweans is no more and the culprits are the leaders of the MDC.<br /><br />They individually and variously opted for self glory more than national interest. They paddled on personalising the struggle and making decisions on behalf of the people whose negative effects are predictably so fatal that even a grade one pupil would not dare make.<br /><br />I disagree with Lloyd's argument that Tsvangirai is the only person or leader who has outlived his usefulness in the struggle for democracy. For me, both the MDCs have betrayed the people and they know it. The current wave of insults being exchanged is a clear testimony of how the opposition has stooped so low as to regard public platforms as a launch pad for attacking each other instead of concentrating on bread and butter issues.<br /><br />Witness how they draw comfort from being identified in such terminology as “main MDC”, “main wing”, “smaller faction”, “Tsvangirai MDC”, “Mutambara MDC” as if any of that nonsense will end Mugabe’s misrule. What has opposition politics become? A place of employment for the unemployed and unemployable?<br /><br />The problem with Zimbabwean politics is that it centred on political parties only and hence the personalisation of power by leaders of the opposition. It is this personalisation that brings about idolisation and monopolisation of power – which is exactly what we seek to escape from.<br /><br />The current wave of personalised attacks clearly point to a failed opposition that needs alienation. By alienating them, we give them enough space to remove the speck in their eyes and begin to see the reality on the ground -- that personal egos no longer have space in Zimbabwe and that people need deliverance from evil. And now!<br /><br />The MDC must be made to begin to see that neither of them can walk alone. Zimbabweans must show their bravery and begin to have the guts to castigate the MDC left, right and centre for the benefit of many. Civic society and other brave Zimbabweans can bring about democracy in Zimbabwe.<br /><br />How can both factions claim that they will continue the Thabo Mbeki mediation as a united front when they have failed to unite back home? Charity begins at home. Such political sentimentalism chastises them and reflects how they are both playing with people's minds, and lives.<br /><br />It is an assumed belief that they have monopoly over us and hence they hold the only key to our salvation. But the truth is no one has monopoly over liberating a country from dictatorship. Only the people enjoy that monopoly, and the MDC is fast expending the people’s goodwill.<br /><br />By beginning actions that alienate the MDC, and yet people oriented, we can begin to see the emergence of a unified progressive force in Zimbabwe. My prediction is that if the MDC is alienated, then one day they will wake up from their slumber and realise that the train is already getting to its final destination without them, and hence the need to join others and not the other way round.<br /><br />Both the MDC factions are wrong and they must be castigated for continuously letting down the people. At the beginning of 2007, both factions pledged to work together and to deliver the people of Zimbabwe from dictatorship. Eight months down the line, nothing has happened except the deepening crisis.<br /><br />By the end of 2007, we shall judge them, and like what they said, if they fail to do something positive, then we should throw them into the dustbins of history and proclaim the emergence of a people's movement not based on personalities but on a new agenda and national interest.<br /><br />As sure as the sun will rise and set tomorrow, the people shall govern!</strong>ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-38381667308399729402007-07-26T15:29:00.000+03:002007-07-26T15:33:50.725+03:00A United States of Africa is a useless dream by Tanonoka Hwande!<strong>A United States of Africa is a useless dream</strong><br /><br /><strong>Tuesday 17 July 2007<br /></strong><a href="http://www.zimonline.co.za/Article.aspx?ArticleId=1696#"></a><br /><strong>By Tanonoka Joseph Whande </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><a href="http://www.zimonline.co.za/Article.aspx?ArticleId=1696"><strong>LINK!!!</strong></a><br /><br /><strong>GABORONE - Muammar Gaddafi is an angry man. He is impatient and frustrated. He cannot understand why Africans are so slow in accepting a United States of Africa. </strong><br /><strong><br />Gaddafi hopes to be both midwife and father to a predictably stillborn fantasy. I sympathise. </strong><br /><strong><br />Gaddafi denounced the African Union as an ineffective and useless organization. For once, I agree with him. But he can go hang!</strong><br /><strong><br />There is so much talk, mainly from Gaddafi himself, about establishing a ‘United States of Africa’ and Gaddafi dreams of leading such a ‘state.’ </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>It was Kwame Nkrumah’s dream too. </strong><br /><strong><br />But that was when Africa was inhabited by humble, complying Africans. Not anymore. </strong><br /><strong><br />If the champions of a proposed unitary African state are the seasoned and proven dictators of the likes of Muammar Gaddafi, please stop the world because I want to get off. And I am not the only one.</strong><br /><strong><br />I will tell you something here and now. There is no way I would accept Gaddafi as leader. Actually, I feel sorry for the Libyans who continue to suffer under his despotic rule just as much as some Libyans feel sorry for us suffering under Robert ‘Pol Pot’ Mugabe. </strong><br /><strong><br />Some people are just not made out to be leaders. And, have you noticed, it’s always the dictators who want to champion people’s ‘freedom.’ </strong><br /><strong><br />Before we can talk about this subject, let us, please, take note of paramount issues that need to be taken into consideration. There is just too much work that needs to be done before we can talk about a unitary African state. </strong><br /><strong><br />To begin with, who are the leaders we would put forward to lead such a unitary state? Do we have an African who can look at Africa without seeing borders? We don’t need pretenders like Kofi Annan, people who are bent on pleasing certain sectors at the expense of others. </strong><br /><strong><br />Second, we have to work on a constitution that does not take anything away from the people. Freedom of worship, for example, is not negotiable.</strong><br /><strong><br />Third, African nations themselves are heavily polarised internally. There is tribal discontent as some ruling leaders put their tribes above others. There is tribal strife and inequality in many countries like Ethiopia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and others. </strong><br /><strong><br />Would Botswana’s Basarwa have elevated status in a United States of Africa? And the pygmies? Would they enjoy equal status with the rest? </strong><br /><strong><br />In Sudan, Bashir allows black people to be enslaved by light-skinned Arabs, what will black people elsewhere think?</strong><br /><strong><br />What will Africa’s continental government do about supposedly small internal conflicts in individual nation states (Basarwa in Botswana, Caprivians in Namibia, the Shangaani and the San in Zimbabwe, etc)? </strong><br /><strong><br />What will we do about western Morocco, which the Polisario Front already calls the Saharawi Arab Republic? How can we unite when we are embroiled in border disputes? </strong><br /><strong><br />How does a fragmented nation become part of a whole? </strong><br /><strong><br />In addition to tribal loyalties, African nations were polarised during colonial times so much that we now mostly dwell on our differences and not our similarities.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong> How much influence will petrol dollars have on poorer African countries? </strong><br /><strong><br />Where will equality come from? Or, maybe, first, we might need to define what an ‘African’ is. You will be surprised to find that there is no such thing, in real terms, except “a person from Africa, especially a black person.” </strong><br /><strong><br />Consider, too, that the name Africa is itself not even ‘African’. Africa or Africana “refers more or is connected more to especially southern Africa.” </strong><br /><strong><br />Semantics, yes, but still, there appears to be nothing we all have in common except residing on the same continent. And that’s not enough. But I wonder, if Gaddafi and Mubarak are Africans, am I an African too? </strong><br /><strong><br />But it’s not a question of geography. Being African means more than being on the same continent with someone.<br /><br /> It is a way of life. </strong><br /></strong><strong><br />Morocco spends more time pursuing membership in the European Union than worrying about the African Union although it is also a member of the Arab League. May I please call such indecisiveness ‘bilateral prostitution’? </strong><br /><strong><br />I do admit, though, that the African Union, like Gaddafi says, is a sterile group meant to cover up for the excesses of African despots like Gaddafi himself. He is frustrated that Africans don’t want to cede authority to him. </strong><br /><strong><br />And Mr Kuffuor has my sympathies because the African Union he leads has nothing to do with ‘African’ unity or welfare of Africans. Before Africa and its ‘Africans’ start thinking about a unitary state, they should first identify themselves and clear the dense political forests in every African country.</strong><br /><strong><br />They should first remove local political cobwebs that interfere with the running of even villages. I am a pitch black African and, owing to the colour of my skin, am a potential slave for Bashir, Mubarak and Gaddafi. </strong><br /><strong><br />The Arabs assisted the whites and took part in the slave trade. Oh, this has nothing to do with reconciliation. If it has, why is it that the victims are always the ones expected to reach out and reconcile? </strong><br /><strong><br />Okay, then. Let us start with southern Africa. Let’s start with SADC. Who would we vote for to lead the southern part of the continent or Africa itself? Mbeki? Don’t laugh, this is not a comedy. </strong><br /><strong><br />Mugabe? God have mercy! Mogae? Why? Dos Santos? Dos who? Levy Mwanawasa? Hifikepunye Pohamba? Bingu Mutharika, King Mswati? Stop shaking your heads so vigorously. </strong><br /><strong><br />These ‘leaders’ are all we have. All of them, except one, are very uninspiring, I know, and it is a mystery why they are leaders of their respective nations.<br />Move further up north then and you find murderers and slave traders. There is Museveni, the lackadaisical Kibaki, the charlatan Yar’Adua and many hardly democratic leaders. </strong><br /><strong><br />Is Africa’s best in Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Mali, Equatorial Guinea or Tanzania? For goodness sake, where are African leaders? Don’t be fooled. Africa’s fortunes will not improve by uniting. </strong><br /><strong><br />Why should we unite anyway? And under what banner? I want to keep my identity. My religion will be under threat too, given a particular religion’s propensity for intolerance. </strong><br /><strong><br />We are different and all we can do is support each other’s cause, if need be. I am not going to unite with slave traders or with those Arabs and Indians who find racism even in religion. </strong><br /><strong><br />There is absolutely no way that would find me looking at Qaddafi as Africa’s leader. Gaddafi should stop abusing money from national coffers to promote his idea. Even if the idea were to mature, he would not be the leader. </strong><br /><strong><br />He is never going to rule Africa the continent. Gaddafi, like Morocco, should channel his energies to Europe and the League of Arab states, taking Israel in between. A united states of Africa is not going to be a child of Africa’s dictators, especially dictators like Qaddafi who are in the forefront. </strong><br /><strong><br />It is all very well to be united. But it is not mandatory to be united with people who do not share your vision. </strong><br /><strong><br />What does Gaddafi wish for Botswana? In Zimbabwe, he took some of our land and farms in exchange for petrol. Botswana must make sure your elephants remain here. </strong><br /><strong><br />I fear that our intention to unite is being hi-jacked by ill-meaning peoples who have no allegiance either to us or to our continent. When we unite, we give up part of our objectives in acknowledgment of our colleagues.<br /><br />It has to do with faith. Unity is compromise and when we compromise, none of us get what we wanted in the first place. Our wishes are replaced with trust, hope and promises. </strong><br /></strong><strong><br />I now hear about unity, as in a ‘United States of Africa.’ Unity does not mean stupidity on the part of black Africans.<br /><br />*Tanonoka Joseph Whande is a Botswana-based Zimbabwean writer.<br /> </strong><br /></strong>ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-82947510820170553762007-07-08T11:19:00.001+03:002007-07-08T11:19:07.292+03:00"A REVOLUTION THAT HAS LOST ITS WAY!" Crisford Chogugudza.<TABLE width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=0 width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD class=headline2 style="BORDER-BOTTOM: silver solid"><STRONG>A revolution that has lost its way </STRONG></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><SPAN class=maincontent> <DIV align=justify><EM><STRONG>By Crisford Chogugudza </STRONG></EM></DIV><FONT face="Nimrod MT"> <DIV align=justify><STRONG></STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>THE Zimbabwean political puzzle is one of the most intriguing in contemporary African politics today. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>What started in earnest as a liberation project for disenfranchised and brutalised people has turned into one of the most demonic tyrannical nightmares in recent memory. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>In 1980, when Zimbabwe obtained its independence from Britain, there was a lot of hope that the country would prosper and become one of Africa's leading economic jewels. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>This was never going to materialise courtesy of the self-proclaimed Marxist Robert Mugabe and his ultra-loyalists. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>The fallen heroes of Zimbabwe, including Joshua Nkomo, Herbert Chitepo, Eddison Zvobgo, Ndabaningi Sithole, Josiah Tongogara, Jason Moyo, Lookout Masuku and Nikita Mangena, to name a few, must be wondering what has happened to the struggle they dedicated their selfless efforts to. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>If a leadership is incapable of feeding and valuing the lives of its own people irrespective of political affiliation, then it does not deserve to represent the people. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>The fast-deteriorating socio-economic status of Zimbabweans at home today is clear testimony that the revolution is coming to an end. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Today in Zimbabwe marks the beginning of the end of an era for Zanu PF and its opportunistic mantra on land reform. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>The big question is: will Zanu PF fall without a fight and at what cost?</STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Ten to 15 years following Independence in Zimbabwe, Mugabe suddenly changed political course and intensified his rhetoric to the West against the background of fast-deteriorating grassroots support as a consequence of years of economic malaise and political mess. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Cronyism, corruption, suppression of the media and civil liberties became the order of the day. The rule of law became a luxury that the Zanu PF party and government could not afford. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>The emotive land issue suddenly became Mugabe's trump card against the opposition and the gullible peasants. His opportunistic hijacking of the land issue cannot be justified but nevertheless, he has used it as an effective political tool to reinvent himself and galvanise his dwindling support. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>It is only in Zimbabwe the world over where ironically the octogenarian leadership thinks they have the capacity to extricate the people from deep-rooted poverty.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>While the majority of Zimbabweans support land reform, not many support the chaotic land reform of the Zanu PF type which has brought more suffering than solutions. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>The major beneficiaries of this chaotic land reform are Zanu PF bigwigs, their closest associates and zealots of the <I>kongonya/nhora</I> dance fame. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Today many Zimbabweans are suffering in a country that once had a tremendous economic potential to outstage all other African countries in the sub-Saharan region outside South Africa. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Some analysts have said that the revival of Zimbabwe's economy will not be conceivable as long as Mugabe and Zanu PF are allowed to impose their will on powerless Zimbabweans. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>The international community including multilateral finance institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation and the Africa Development Bank will not support any economy that is run in a mafia style where the inflation rate has reached the stratosphere. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>History has taught us that economic performance and the standard of life in general have improved in those African countries that are in transition from ultra-nationalist dictatorships to reformist liberal democracies.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>The opposition which once had a huge potential to change the political landscape in Zimbabwe is gradually fading into political oblivion. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>The leaders of the fractious opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party need to get their act together, repackage themselves and fight elections as a united front. There is no substitute for unity or coalition in next year's elections. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>It appears there are miscalculated perceptions from the mainstream MDC (Tsvangirai) faction that it can go it alone. But the perceived Zanu PF demise may not work to its favour as the faction needs 30-40% support from the MDC (Mutambara) camp to have an effect on Zanu PF, let alone win elections. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Arthur Mutambara appears to have compromised his candidature to allow Morgan Tsvangirai to be the sole opposition presidential candidate under the banner of a united opposition for the sake of freedom in Zimbabwe. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Mutambara's extra-ordinary gesture of tolerance, flexibility and humility can only be found in great men who put country first before individual as did Joshua Nkomo in 1987.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Many who attended the Save Zimbabwe campaign rally in Dunstable, UK, recently were surprised that Mutambara did not address them alongside Tsvangirai although he was in the United Kingdom at the same time. What a sad story. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>The story of perpetual opposition failure to dislodge Kenya's strongman Daniel arap Moi in the 1990s should not be forgotten.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>It is a fact that the current state of the economy will be a major factor in galvanising a formidable Tsvangirai/Mutambara political onslaught which is the best strategy for confronting Mugabe and Zanu PF at next year's elections. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>The people of Zimbabwe will have a clear choice between starvation and humiliation under the moribund Zanu PF regime as opposed to hope, revival and prosperity under a rebranded, united MDC opposition effort. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Under the current economic dispensation, I do not see how Zanu PF can win any free and fair election in Zimbabwe. They will be lucky to get 30% of the vote share but of course Zimbabweans know what the old man is capable of doing: manipulation of elections in his favour.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Some have asked about Mugabe's position after freedom. The people of Zimbabwe must decide what to do with him. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>There is no denying that the beleaguered leader was instrumental in bringing Independence and was the power behind a lot of social successes in Zimbabwe, including improved education where the literacy rate is the highest in Africa at 90,7%. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>The old man needs to bargain for his future immunity in return for voluntarily relinquishing power sooner. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>It is widely assumed that Mugabe would want to go if he is assured of amnesty from prosecution for crimes against humanity. If this is true, a deal of some sort may need to be struck between Mugabe and the fractured political opposition in Zimbabwe towards that direction. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>It appears Mugabe cannot realise that he has outlived his sell-by-date and that the people no longer have any faith in him. He has become the greatest liability in Zimbabwean politics today.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Ironically, the man has become very powerful and getting rid of him is no mean business. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>It is worrying that removing him through democratic means (elections) has not worked because he manipulates the election machinery to his advantage every time. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>He has politicised and militarised virtually all social institutions and an election victory against him needs changes of seismic proportions to succeed. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Removing him by military means is not an option either, let alone a viable option looking at the mess that was created in Iraq, and in any case the generality of the African leaders and their peaceful people would oppose this. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>The only option remaining now for Mugabe's ouster is to negotiate with him and his most influential southern neighbour and ally, South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, that is if 2008 elections fail to achieve that objective.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Most importantly, if the West is prepared to build bridges with Libya, Iran, North Korea and Syria, I see no reason why they cannot do the same with Zimbabwe strongman Mugabe.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Any efforts to negotiate with Mugabe should be based on the principle of liberating a community in perpetual fear and without hope. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's policy on Zimbabwe was a disaster of grotesque proportions and unfortunately most Western leaders concurred with Blair's failed foreign policy and this created a stalemate on peace overtures in Zimbabwe.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Hopefully, new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will adopt a better, more focused, realistic and effective foreign policy on Zimbabwe. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>It is not clear whether the current Mbeki-brokered talks between Zanu PF and the MDC will yield any significant results enough to change the course of the succession debate at State House. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>The danger of not engaging Mugabe now is that more people in Zimbabwe will starve and die as there is no hope of him relinquishing power like Blair without excessive pressure. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>In the absence of new political initiatives to negotiate a political settlement to bring sanity and a semblance of socio-economic normality, Zimbabweans will have to wait until Mugabe falls dead before there can be any real change in Zimbabwe.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=justify><STRONG>Zimbabwe is at a critical period of a once promising revolution that has dismally failed a whole generation of our people.</STRONG></DIV></FONT><FONT face="Zapf Dingbats"> <DIV align=justify></FONT><FONT face="Nimrod MT"><STRONG>* Crisford Chogugudza is a Zimbabwean writing from the UK.</STRONG></DIV></FONT></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR><DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV><STRONG> <DIV align=left> <DIV><IMG id=ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_FeatureArticle1_imgLargeImage style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; WIDTH: 218px; HEIGHT: 207px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" src="http://www.zimonline.co.za/clientfiles/articleimages/large/sleeping_boobo.jpg"><BR></DIV> <DIV>Peace and Tranquility???</DIV> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=271 align=center bgColor=#ffffff border=0> <TBODY> <TR vAlign=center bgColor=#000400> <TD bgColor=#ffffff height=187> <DIV align=center><IMG height=204 src="http://www.swradioafrica.com/faces/feet_torture.jpg" width=170></DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG>Peace and Tranquility???</STRONG></DIV></TD></TR> <TR vAlign=top> <TD class=smalldark vAlign=center bgColor=#ffffff height=131></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></STRONG> <DIV><STRONG> Cell in RSA: 0791463039</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV><p>  <hr size=1> Yahoo! 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Don't settle for less, <a href="http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html">sign up for your free account today</a>.ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-58426588931381321832007-07-08T10:38:00.001+03:002007-07-08T10:40:35.949+03:00ZIMBABWE HAS FINALLY COLLAPSED!<table fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"><tbody><tr><td class="ArticleHead" colspan="2"><strong>Zimbabwe Collapses<!--head0--></strong></td></tr><tr><td class="Byline"><!--byline1--><strong>Sunday Times Foreign Desk<!--byline0--></strong></td><td class="Published" align="right"><strong><span class="PublishedHead">Published:</span><!--date1--><span class="PublishedDate">Jul 08, 2007</span><!--date0--></strong></td></tr><tr><td class="ArticleHead" colspan="2"><strong><hr class="ArticleLine" width="100%" size="1"><a href="http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/article.aspx?ID=511096">LINK!!!!!</a></strong></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="200" align="right" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="200" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="ArticleImg"><strong><img src="http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/thumbnail.aspx?type=mm&id=24534" width="200" border="0" /><br /></strong><span class="imgdesc"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td><div id="divRelatedLinks"><strong></strong></div></td></tr></tbody></table><li type="square"><strong>Shop owners arrested as Mugabe unleashes new wave of terror<!--blurb0--> </strong><div></div><div><strong><!--par1--></strong></div><li type="square"><strong>Marauding police gangs profiteer from price controls<!--par0--> </strong><div></div><div><strong><!--par1--></strong></div><li type="square"><strong>State hardliners threaten to nationalise businessesZimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has ordered the dreaded war veterans, youth militia and Zanu-PF Women's League to help enforce price cuts and stem the country's descent into chaos.<!--par0--> </strong><div></div><div><!--par1--><strong>As Zimbabwe faced complete meltdown, state radio summoned the brutal militias to Zanu-PF headquarters so they could provide back-up for police and secret agents. <!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>Mugabe's order to businesses to cut the price of goods by 50% triggered mass stampedes, panic buying and near-riots by Zimbabweans.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>Economists and political observers are now warning that fuel, the price of which was cut in half on Friday, will run out by midweek and that there will be major food shortages by Friday. <!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>In his desperate clinging to power, Mugabe threatened businesses with nationalisation if they did not comply with his price cut. More than 200 businessmen, including company directors, were arrested for price violations.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>A Harare hardware store owner, who asked not to be identified, told how police forced him to reduce the price of cement from Z1.3-million to Z150000 a bag before buying up all 800 bags , according to Zimbabwesituation.com.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>Other stores reported similar incidents.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>Yesterday in Harare there was chaos in most shops and fast-food outlets as people scrambled to buy food.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>"I have been here since morning trying to buy food for my family. There is nothing in the shops and the children are crying from hunger at home," Kelvin Gara said. "I think we are heading for disaster."<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>Economists and political analysts are saying that Zimbabwe in economic and political free- fall for seven years has finally reached the end of the road.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>John Robertson, an economist, told The Times of London: "This is going to be a very short honeymoon. There will be no fuel to be had anywhere in the country by the middle of next week. That will bring an end to all business activity. A shutdown of the entire country is coming. In a week's time, people are going to be struggling to find food."<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>Mugabe's former spokesman, Jonathan Moyo, said the Harare regime was now facing the political exit doors. He said Mugabe might be consumed by spontaneous mass protests triggered by the economic implosion or defeated in next year's critical elections. <!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>"By taking this approach, Mugabe is confirming to all and sundry that his regime has come to the end of the road," Moyo said. <!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>"He is now unable to govern without resorting to misplaced revolutionary and political heroics, preposterous propaganda and Gestapo tactics. But this won't work."<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>Even a prominent political analyst who is part of the Zanu-PF intelligentsia, Dr Ibbo Mandaza, predicted that Mugabe would be forced out of office by September by the economic crisis.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><strong><!--par1--><!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>Most people, except the rich who import food, are no longer able to have breakfast because there is no bread, sugar, tea, milk, butter, cereal and other basic foodstuffs to be bought.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><strong><!--par1--><!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>Reuters reported that South African-owned Edgars stores, the country's leading clothing retailer, halved its prices yesterday. There were stampedes at Edgars stores after the news was announced.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><strong><!--par1--><!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>The price cuts were announced after the prices of many goods tripled within a week.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate was last reported to be 4500% in May, but many economists believe the figure is about 10000%. Official statistics are no longer released.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>The Zimbabwean government on Friday rushed through a law legalising the price cuts after lawyers challenged its actions.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>Addressing Zanu-PF supporters on Friday, Mugabe insisted the policy was not illegal because "people are starving" due to price escalations. He warned that his government would seize factories that stop production and run them. <!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>Mugabe also told meetings of Zanu-PF's central committee on Friday and National Consultative Assembly yesterday that the price cuts were designed to deal with businesses that wanted to topple his regime through economic pressure.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>He said price hikes were calculated to ensure he was defeated in next year's elections. <!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>But Zanu-PF is not united on the issue. While hardliners said to be in the majority are in favour of the move and want it extended so that they can nationalise private businesses, others, including Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono, have condemned it as suicidal.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>The South African government, which has maintained a policy of quiet diplomacy on Zimbabwe, refused to comment on the deteriorating situation yesterday.<!--par0--></strong></div><div><!--par1--><strong>But South Africa's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad acknowledged on Thursday that South Africa was "concerned that the economic situation is not in the interest of the people of Zimbabwe".<!--par0--></strong></div></li><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-77369472291009156392007-07-06T16:50:00.000+03:002007-07-06T16:58:38.123+03:00W.O.Z.A. WRITE "OPEN LETTER" TO PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI!!!<div class="widget Text" id="Text3"><div class="widget-content"><strong><a href="http://wozazimbabwe.org/">LINK TO W.O.Z.A. WEBSITE</a></strong></div><div class="widget-content"> </div><div class="widget-content"><a href="http://wozazimbabwe.org/?p=131"><strong><span style="color:#f2984c;">Open Letter to President Thabo Mbeki</span></strong></a> <blockquote><strong></strong></blockquote><strong>June 25, 2007 </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>Posted by admin </strong><blockquote></blockquote><a href="http://wozazimbabwe.org/?p=131#comments"><strong><span style="color:#f2984c;">No Responses</span></strong></a><strong> </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>His Excellency Mr M W Makalima</strong> <blockquote></blockquote><strong>The Ambassador</strong> <blockquote></blockquote><strong>The South African Embassy</strong> <blockquote></blockquote><strong>HARARE </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>Your Excellency, </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>Talking about TALKS WOZA/MOZA's view ten steps to a new Zimbabwe. </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>WOZA has been reading and hearing about 'the talks' and wish to express our views about these. We ask that you kindly relay this letter to President Thabo Mbeki. </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>Women and men of WOZA have initiated a non-violent campaign with the aim of mobilising Zimbabweans to demand social justice from their leaders. Our mandate is to hold leaders accountable and mobilise people to demand leaders who will deliver all aspects of social justice and a genuinely people-driven constitution. We will not vote in an election without the latter. </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>As we deliver this letter, Zimbabweans are living in a state of fear and uncertainty. They suffer discrimination in all its forms and are unable to earn a living. Levels of poverty are high; unemployment is at 82% and inflation at four figures. Non-existent service delivery also makes life difficult. Access to education, housing and other basic needs is now only for the rich. </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>The HIV/AIDS pandemic, which has created thousands of orphans and child-headed households, is a social catastrophe compounded by a failed healthcare system and little or no access to ARVs. Further loss of valuable human resources is happening due to people leaving the country in large numbers. People have been unsuccessful at holding their government accountable due to a raft of repressive laws and shrinking freedom of expression/media space. Corruption at all levels of government and the politicisation of all aspects of society has led to chaos and disorganization in every sector. </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>We believe that only including politicians in the SADC initiative will perpetuate the problem rather than deliver a solution. We have an alternate view, which we drew up after consulting widely with our membership, and have attached it below '10 Steps to a New Zimbabwe'. </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>We would like to know what mandate South Africa has from SADC? What do Presidents Mbeki and Kikwete wish to achieve by this mediation? We are hopeful that they wish to bring about a new government AND assist this new government to bring about meaningful political, economic and social reform. We wish to suggest that for the South African government to establish itself as a genuine mediator, it would need to secure the cooperation of the present Zimbabwean government. They must be persuaded to allow a transitional process to go ahead without interference; this will obviously mean that they have to step down from office. </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>WOZA leaders and members commit to working hand in hand with any political or civic leaders who will honour the wishes of the Zimbabwean people and deliver social justice. By our peaceful presence outside your embassy gates, we demonstrate to you that we will continue to exert nonviolent pressure for them to step down by exposing the injustices they have brought down on the heads of their citizens. Please help us to birth a new Zimbabwe where Zimbabweans can enjoy equality and live with dignity. </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>We also attach our vision document, a resolution made after an eleven-month, nationwide consultation process. During 2006, over 284 meetings, consulting almost 10,000 rural and urban people on social justice were conducted. </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>The people spoke clearly about what they want in a new Zimbabwe and their contributions are contained in the People's Charter attached below. We ask that you read it knowing that it contains the dreams and desires of a heartbroken nation. </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>With respect, </strong><blockquote></blockquote><strong>Members and supporters of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) and Men of Zimbabwe Arise (MOZA).</strong> </div><div class="clear"></div><span class="widget-item-control"><span class="item-control blog-admin"><a class="quickedit" title="Edit" onclick="'return" href="http://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=35796153&widgetType=Text&widgetId=Text3&action=editWidget" target="configText3"><span style="color:#f2984c;"><span class="quick-edit-icon"> </span> </span></a></span></span><div class="clear"><span style="color:#f2984c;"></span></div></div><div class="widget LinkList" id="LinkList24"> </div><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong><div align="left"><img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_FeatureArticle1_imgLargeImage" style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; WIDTH: 218px; HEIGHT: 207px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" src="http://www.zimonline.co.za/clientfiles/articleimages/large/sleeping_boobo.jpg" /><br /><br />Peace and Tranquility???<br /><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="271" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0"><tbody><tr valign="center" bgcolor="#000400"><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="187"><div align="center"><img height="204" src="http://www.swradioafrica.com/faces/feet_torture.jpg" width="170" /></div><div align="center"><strong>Peace and Tranquility???</strong></div></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="smalldark" valign="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" height="131"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></strong><strong> Cell in RSA: 0791463039</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><p><hr size="1"><br />Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. <a href="http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTEydmViNG02BF9TAzIxMTQ3MTcxOTAEc2VjA21haWwEc2xrA3RhZ2xpbmU">Try it now</a>.ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271642336130001353.post-18035961091200363972007-06-25T14:15:00.001+03:002007-06-25T14:18:55.178+03:00BRIGADIER ARMSTRONG GUNDA ASSASSINATED!!<div class="ver12"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div class="ver12"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong><a href="http://www.dzimba.com/index.php/2007/06/25/mystery-death-of-brigadier/">LINK!!!!</a></strong></span></div><div class="ver12"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong></strong></span> </div><div class="ver12"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong>A top-ranking Zimbabwean Army officer died yesterday when a train smashed into his car on a crossing in the town of <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 /><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Marondera</st1:place></st1:city>, capital of Mashonaland East. Sources immediately hinted that he had been assassinated by military intelligence because of his alleged involvement with the recent attempted coup.</strong></span></div><div class="ver12"><?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /><o:p></o:p><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong> </strong></span></div><div class="ver12ind"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong>He was Brigadier Armstrong Gunda, Commander of One Brigade, stationed in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Bulawayo</st1:place></st1:city>, and reckoned to be number four in the army hierarchy. At one time he was head of the Presidential Guard, reporting personally to Mugabe.</strong></span></div><div class="ver12ind"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong> </strong></span></div><div class="ver12ind"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong>A member of his family told me yesterday: "He had hinted to me that he and other senior officers had been questioned about the coup. He was apparently suspected of talking to the leaders of the MD</strong></span></div><div class="ver12ind"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong> </strong></span></div><div class="ver12"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong>He was anxious and afraid, and said he thought he was being followed." </strong></span></div><div class="ver12"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong> </strong></span></div><div class="ver12ind"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong>A highly placed source in the Zimbabwe National Army said he was sure it was an assassination. "He was killed because of what he was doing in Mashonaland East," the source told me. "He should have been with his unit in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Bulawayo</st1:place></st1:city>."</strong></span></div><div class="ver12ind"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong> </strong></span></div><div class="ver12ind"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong>It remains a mystery why Gunda, who was found in the wreck of his top-of-the-range Toyota IMV, was in Mashonaland. The area is the home of the rich and powerful retired General Solomon Mujuru, husband of vice-president Joyce Mujuru, and now a known opponent of Robert Mugabe. </strong></span></div><div class="ver12ind"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong> </strong></span></div><div class="ver12"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong>Mujuru himself has come under suspicion of being associated with the attempted coup. Some sources say he is technically under house arrest, but is so powerful he ignores all restrictions, and security forces can only follow him and report his movements. </strong></span></div><div class="ver12"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong> </strong></span></div><div class="ver12ind"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong>If the rumours about Gunda's death are correct it is evidence that President Mugabe's regime is growing increasingly unstable, as he continues to lose support amongst the very people he could previously trust. </strong></span></div><div class="ver12ind"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong> </strong></span></div><div class="ver12ind"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong>Assassination by road accident is not unknown in this part of the world. In 2001 Defence Minister Moven Mahachi died after being implicated in another coup plot, when his Landrover was in a mysterious collision in the town of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Nyanga</st1:place></st1:city>. First Post</strong></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"></span><div><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong><img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_FeatureArticle1_imgLargeImage" style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; WIDTH: 218px; HEIGHT: 207px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" src="http://www.zimonline.co.za/clientfiles/articleimages/large/sleeping_boobo.jpg" /><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong>Peace and Tranquility???</strong></span></div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="271" align="center" bg border="0" style="color:#ffffff;"><tbody><tr valign="center" bg style="color:#000400;"><td bg height="187" style="color:#ffffff;"><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong><img height="204" src="http://www.swradioafrica.com/faces/feet_torture.jpg" width="170" /></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong>Peace and Tranquility???</strong></span></div></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="smalldark" valign="center" bg height="131" style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong></strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong> Cell in RSA: 0791463039</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><p><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"></span></p>ZIMPATRIOT!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17475293109675532842noreply@blogger.com0