Wel, well, well, Mr. Mugabe may allow food aid from U.N. How gracious of the man. There are an estimated 5 million Zimbabweans who are on the brink of starvation and this guy wants no conditions? There should only be one condition with this food. Leave Office! This guy is rediculous. He along with Castro and others are a major blemish for the West. Nothing confirms the notion that the West only intervenes in human rights issues when their is a strategic need more than Zimbabwe. No communism, no need to intervene.
Farmers are forced from their land, murdered while the authorities turn a blind eye. Millions face starvation while other wait in line for two days to buy gasoline and the best the West can come up with is the Zimbabwe Democracy Act and suspending Zimbabwe's membership in the Commonwealth of Nations. When have these measures ever hurt anyone except those that they were designed to help? Let us not forget the very useless travel ban imposed by the European Union. What is this supposed to do?
This guy needs to go. His list of enemies include the US, EU, Commonwealth, Pius Ncube, Desmond Tutu, Amnesty International and decent people everywhere. Even former supporter Kenneth Kaunda has now joined the list of those who oppose him. This is where South Africa needs to step up and remove this guy from office. As the economic leader in the region I believe that they have a moral obligation to help the people of Zimbabwe.
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Right on. SA needs to step up and be the leader of Africa, as Mbeki assumes they are. They can depose this idiot. The Zambians are on the ball, by the way. When I was there 2 years ago we ran into a few white farmers from Zimbabwe who were given land by the Zambian government - and they bring farming techniques with them. Zambia is now producing food while Zimbabwe is starving. The exact opposite was true 20 years ago!
Oh, on that trip 2 years ago, we flew from Nairobi to Lilongwe via Harare. Here is an entry from the journal I kept:
"On the runway in Harare I saw an odd demonstration of complex human behavior. A young white Zimbabwean got on the plane, and wanted to take the window seat in front of me because that’s what his ticket said. A young black man was already sitting in that seat since Nairobi, and would not move. Neither man would budge despite the fact that there were many open seats. Was this about a seat, or was this about centuries of “colonialism,” racism, and Mugabe’s “land redistribution? An entire cultural struggle, right there in front of me."
Zambia's president Kenneth Kaunda was a major supporter of Mugabe's in his struggle against Ian Smith's government in Rhodesia in the seventies. He has recently voiced his opposition to Mugabe.
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