Will Zimbabwe's strongman be allowed to stay in office now that he's signed an agreement with the opposition leader?
Comment: Comment: It is very easy to lay the blame on Mugabe when sanctions by the West is killing the innocent? It's the British who are responsible for the economic collapse because they reneged the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement. Be honest and ask yourself, I am addessing to the West, how can you give your seal of approval to undemocratic Saudi Arabia and Chile of Pinochet and are hell bent on ousting Mugabe? D. Takoor, Mauritius
Comment: It is very easy to lay the blame on Mugabe when sanctions by the West is killing the innocent? It's the British who are responsible for the economic collapse because they reneged the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement. Be honest and ask yourself, I am addessing to the West, how can you give your seal of approval to undemocratic Saudi Arabia and Chile of Pinochet and are hell bent on ousting Mugabe?
Comment: Mugabe wont last long in Malaysia
Comment: Mugabe seems to be attempting to set the stage for what he undoubtedly feels will be a righteous exit from power. The fact is that he is already "out of control" in more ways than one and I sense the tension from with in his own ranks. He has raped his country and plunged it to unfathomable depths of poverty and now wishes to just walk away? He is obviously even dumber than he looks and should not under any means be allowed to walk away from the mess he has created. Ist is an all too common pattern...a madman forces his way into power, plunges his country into a deep economic quagmire and then tries to escape his crimes by going into exile when it becomes apparrent that not even his own countrymen want him. This modern day Hitler should not be allowed to leave Zimbabwe and if he does...it should be with a bullet in his brain!
Comment: Mugabe seems to be attempting to set the stage for what he undoubtedly feels will be a righteous exit from power. The fact is that he is already "out of control" in more ways than one and I sense the tension from with in his own ranks. He has raped his country and plunged it to unfathomable depths of poverty and now wishes to just walk away? He is obviously even dumber than he looks and should not under any means be allowed to walk away from the mess he has created. Ist is an all too common pattern...a madman forces his way into power, plunges his country into a deep economic quagmire and then tries to escape his crimes by going into exile when it becomes apparrent that not even his own countrymen want him. This modern day Hitler should not be allowed to leave Zimbabwe and if he does...it should be with a bullet in his brain!
Comment: Total Independence, you have blamed all of the problems in Zimbabwe on the west. You have not taken responsibility for anything. You also seem to be in total denial of the failed economy in Zimbabwe. Blaming the west will not solve anything. Quit playing the blame game and do something other than gripe and moan about others creating your problems.
Comment: yoda60 what you are saying sounds good however in the us we have "poverty pimps" in africa apparently they have anti colonialist pimps the simple reason being there is a profit to be made from it ,a thousand years hence they will still be spewing the same garbage {and extorting foriegn "aid"} and not one iota of difference will you see
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Comment: "Back to Zimbabwe Never never never ..its a dream"
Western Leaders must forget Zimbabwe...Its better to think about the safety of the western economy in South-Africa....sooner or later it will simply Africanize by the future patriotic African Leaders!
Comment: "Back to Zimbabwe Never never never ..its a dream"
Western Leaders must forget Zimbabwe...Its better to think about the safety of the western economy in South-Africa....sooner or later it will simply Africanize by the future patriotic African Leaders!
Comment: As a somewhat serious student of African affairs I do not and cannot accept the notion that thecontinent's present troubles are tracable to policies and documenets dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. This is not to say that the former colonial powers have tainted African independence and held enough land and access to resources so as to render true economic independence virtually impossible. That having been said, I hold African leadership accountable for much of the continent's distresses. Presidents and thier associated national governing institutions have had the where-with-all to render the offending colonial policies mood by legislation or judicial decision. The capitalist West is surely a viper in the tall African grass; but after 40 years of autonomy (if not inddpendence in the fullest sense of the word), the catalogue of government mismanagement and failed domestic policies grows ever thicker and heavier. That Europeans, with superior arms, a disarming religion, did impose themselves and their racist and exploitative regimes upon Mediterranian and Black Africans alike. Such are the facts of history. It is high time, however, to stop laying blame for every African malady at the feet of the colonials. African leaders should make an honest assessment of their successes and their failures and stop blaming all the continent's woes on the colonial past or the neo-colonial present.
Comment: BRITAIN is building a 10-million-pound complex for its embassy in Harare despite the British government's calls for foreign companies operating in Zimbabwe to pull out of the country, The Herald reported on Wednesday.
Chief executive of leading construction group Murray and Roberts, Brian Bruce, recently revealed that his company was contracted nearly 18 months ago to build the complex just outside Harare's central business district.
???It is a completely new facility from scratch, costing 10 million British pounds. Work began about 18 months ago and is pretty close to completion," Bruce said.
Comment: The Memorandum of Understanding signed between Zanu-PF and the two MDC formations on the July 21 has been received as an act of assiduity on the part of the political leadership of Zimbabwe on the one hand and also as an exercise shrouded in dubiety on the other.
The MoU comes at a time when many of our people are beset by intolerance and the polarity that has become synonymous with the political landscape of Zimbabwe in the last nine years. It is an MoU between a ruling party that has become synonymous with liberation and the doctrine of sovereignty and an opposition that has become synonymous with neo-liberalism and the doctrine of liberties and human rights.
In the eyes of the mainstream African public opinion, it is an agreement between a revolutionary liberation movement and a somewhat insidiously pro-Western opposition movement. Yet in the mainstream Western public opinion this is an agreement between a perceived dictatorship and an assumed pro-democracy movement.
Some radicals in Zanu-PF will view this development as an unwary compromise with reactionaries bent on reversing the gains of the hard won independence of Zimbabwe while the radicals in the MDC will maintain that the memorandum is an inadvertent trap of their leadership by a seasoned political party capable of derailing the route and destiny of their party.
Comment: This is why Western interference must be fought like an intruding snake. There is simply no room for Western input into this process. It is not welcome, however noble or intended.
Comment: Britain builds US$10 embassy complex in Zim as it urges companies to pull out
Comment: The West is very hypocritical when it comes to Africa, Western Governments only interfere with African leaders who oppose their Corporate interests in their respective countries. Why is it that no Western leader is criticizing Omar Bongo of Gabon who has been in power for 40 years????? He is giving them Gabon's oil. the West should stay out of Africa's affair because they pick and choose who to condemn base on that President's policies towards them; they could care less about the citizens.
Comment: valadezaj what the four letter word is wrong with you? You racist!
Comment: valadezaj, what the %^*& (four letter word) is wrong with you? You racist!
Comment: I can't believe he will ever relinquish power voluntarily. Notice that he signed an agreement to hold talks. It's probably a stalling tactic on his part.
Comment: Its because the Western World failed to cause a civil war which they wanted by create, by making the country ungovernable and unsafe and cause an uprising. Mugabe has always wanted the change of the constitution since 2000, but the west blocked it by creating MDC, for the Zimbabwean Constitution was the one created at the Lancanster House in 1979, no wonder the Zimbabwean Government insist no outside interference.
Comment: Can Black rule survive on the continent?
Comment: And people here (in the US) want a black president? No thanks.
Comment: And people here want a black president? No thanks.
Comment: This junk reporter has been a liar.
Comment: @Total Independence
Your comments are astounding! You have obviously received the government you deserve to have, assuming that you are in fact a Zimbabwean actually living in Zimbabawe. Piuty about all the other Zimbabweans, White as well as Matabele, who suffered under the Mugabe regime and paid in blood for your nirvana.
Comment: Please get the facts right, four whites died in Zimbabwe, but the story behind their death is not related to politics and nothing to do with the land issue. People should know the facts first instead of moving on emotions which are being stirred up by the media. There is a white farmer who shot a farmer worker on an Ostrich farm for playing the wrong music for the Ostriches, so when the other workers heard about it took matters into their hands. The full story is better than a snapshot.
Comment: Tragically, abuse knows no ethnic or tribal affiliations. Zimbabweans of every tripe have paid dearly for the regime's machinations. Well before the advent of the current madmen, one can point to tragedies perpetrated by those who now claim the high road. but where does that take us? Absolutely nowhere. we have all been victimized and we need to begin to imagine regimes that enhance the human condition in Zimbabwe and elsewhere. Claiming victimhood for one group or another ignores the perilous paths that have brought us to where we are. As long as we think via the 'we-they/us-them' lenses, we fall prey to the same mistakes we condemn in others.
Comment: Read about the famous speech by William Lynch of 1712, then you might understand the concept that has been used on Africa for all these centuries. After that people look up the speech made also by Thomas Jefferson to complete the seeds of distrust which were sown back then to keep the Africa sub-servant even gained independence.The Laws which were past to stop Africans from pumping water from rivers, through The Water Rights Laws of 1600. Its not that Africans want to carry water on their heads its a system which was designed. What are we talking about. Africa wake up from this slumber. Its the system, not about a flag and national athems, its much more that that. Mugabe can go out of Office, and we are now talking about Neo-Colonialism and Globalization.
Comment: Tragically, abuse knows no ethnic or tribal affiliations. Zimbabweans of every tripe have paid dearly for the regime's machinations. Well before the advent of the current madmen, one can point to tragedies perpetrated by those who now claim the high road. but where does that take us? Absolutely nowhere. we have all been victimized and we need to begin to imagine regimes that enhance the human condition in Zimbabwe and elsewhere. Claiming victimhood for one group or another ignores the perilous paths that have brought us to where we are. As long as we think via the 'we-they/us-them' lenses, we fall prey to the same mistakes we condemn in others.
Comment: The most balanced country in Africa is Zimbabwe. The best trained , best educated and well discplined army in Africa is in Zimbabwe. However comes out of the negotiations is what the people of Zimbabwe will accept. The Western Media are actually twenty months behind the events that are taking place in Zimbabwe. What the West have to remember is that for twenty years Zanu-Pf fought a war to liberate the country and on a daily basis were being targetted for assassination, so they know who is who around the world. These guys are not ignorant and foolish, most of these guys were Professors at Harvard and all the top US, UK Universities. So when the Western Leaders want to negotiate with these guys, you need to know the Law, taught the Law, Business, Politics and Economics to be able to convince them. Its like a student telling the Professor the answer is not right, when the book was written by that Professor. In 1950 some of these guys were completing their Masters Degrees. So we not dealing with composition writing uneducated African, those days of trickery are gone. The new Africans wont sign before reading for Africa today is poor because our forefathers were tricked, no more.
Comment: Zimbabwe is the very worst example of black rule on the African continent. Mugabe is a sick racist despot who would prefer that black people starve than whites continue farming on land that they brought under cultivation more than a century ago.
Comment: Economic Handicaps which are beyond the control of any Governemnt can not be solely blamed on Mugabe. Joseph L.Graves, Public Office Law 1705, Trading Laws of 1686, 1619 Segregration Policy that socially excluded Blacks from any forms of business, holding office, from trading is what is being used under the disguise of Sanctions. We now know, that is why Zimbabwe Mugabe is a problem, because he was able to dismentle most of these systems, that is why in Africa, most of the business are ran by the Zimbabweans for the benefit of Africans. Europe and the US are wealth not because of their innovativeness or creativity, but merely because of exploitation and self protection when it comes to its own market. WTO has asked that the subsidies be removed by all, African Governments were forced by the Bretton Wood Institutions to stop and liberalise their economies, whilst the Americans enjoyed dumping policies in these countries, the reverse is true. Zimbabwe is the oonly African Country that told the Bretton Wood Institutions to pack and go, because of the problems and the suffering the policies were creating for the citizens of the country. Those are the facts, but hey, the G8 want to play the saviour, right.
Comment: Why is the British Embassy building a new embassy worth a £10 million, which is nearing completion today, why?
Comment: the Army Junta is a creation of the media. As the Minister of Defense runs that ministry and from that there are so many retired army generals. So when the media talks about the Junat running the everything in Zimbabwe is fiction. The American Force bases in Botswana are more real than that the economy of Zimbabwe has collapsed. The chance of that happening are Zero, the US and UK economy might even or have actually collapsed, but the truth will never be said.
Comment: The Generals, who are they? There is nothing as being reported by the westernmedia of the Junta ruling in Zimbabwe. This Special Agro Cheque is not money for circulation, but its payment for the tobacco farmers, so its like the west want to protray distater, confusion and a completely broken down economy. That is far from the truth.
Comment: If that is far from the truth, then what is the truth? What has the Zimbabwean economy achieved since Mugabe took power? Is there anything in the country now that is in a better condition than it was in Rhodesia?
Comment: When will the west assume it's criminal role in having placed the butcher Mugabe in power? The work of Henry Kissinger was absolutely vital in the ruin of what was once a beautiful bread-basket. Do you not have the courage to admit your role? Is cowardice, not merely stupidity, another of your traits?
Comment: When will the west assume it's criminal role in having placed the butcher Mugabe in power? The work of Henry Kissinger was absolutely vital in the ruin of what was once a beautiful bread-basket. Do you not have the courage to admit your role? Is cowardice, not merely stupidity, another of your traits?
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