tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6900460698887397063.post3793431567766750687..comments2023-11-02T11:56:00.047+00:00Comments on issues over matters: MUGABE’S BLAME GAMEAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02444385043826528068noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6900460698887397063.post-23358683232646243982008-05-01T12:19:00.000+01:002008-05-01T12:19:00.000+01:00Hello! I am a blog reader from the Philippines. Yo...Hello! I am a blog reader from the Philippines. You have a very nice blog. It is worth visiting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6900460698887397063.post-43888808951958135652008-04-27T22:36:00.000+01:002008-04-27T22:36:00.000+01:00Gershom, In the case of Zimbabwe, I thought democr...Gershom, <BR/><BR/><I>In the case of Zimbabwe, I thought democracy was about competing ideologies and that Mugabe's ideology has failed the people and they want to try a different, in this case the MDC, ideology.</I><BR/><BR/>But we are completely familiar with the MDC's 'ideology'. Free markets, neoliberalism, crony capitalism, they have all failed. <BR/> <BR/>In South America, people have turned away from the IMF prescriptions, the idea of letting markets have their feast of 'creative destruction' (really a takeover of natural resources and parastatals by western corporations), for the benefit of a small economic elite. If anything attests to the ideology of 'free markets', it is the fact that any country that is still democratic, votes into office anyone on the left. Even communist Daniel Ortega was re-elected, after a decade of Washington backed 'regime change' through the Contras. <BR/><BR/>Why would we help visit a second Frederick Chiluba on the people of Zimbabwe? <BR/><BR/>I would much rather see the inevitable handover of power happen within ZANU-PF. There are plenty of highly capable people in it's ranks, Gideon Gono and Jonathan Moyo come immediately to mind. <BR/><BR/>The handover from the old generation to the new one is inevitable, hopefully, without the country of Zimbabwe going through and extremely costly 'neoliberal' phase. <BR/><BR/>Also, there is the question of how humanitarian a politician would be, who came to power on the back of sanctions that made his people's lifes miserable. And who has called for more sanctions, and even foreign invasion. <BR/><BR/>How are these people going to reform the police force, for instance, when even cabinet members like David Coltart served in the BSAP?MrKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12801241362245253006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6900460698887397063.post-85582187403293486252008-04-26T06:46:00.000+01:002008-04-26T06:46:00.000+01:00MrK, that is an interesting site. In the case of Z...MrK, that is an interesting site. <BR/>In the case of Zimbabwe, I thought democracy was about competing ideologies and that Mugabe's ideology has failed the people and they want to try a different, in this case the MDC, ideology.<BR/>If leaders are going to resist change through the ballot, then we could as well kiss good bye to the much preached about democracy and stick to the feudal and monarchic system of pre-colonial Africa.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02444385043826528068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6900460698887397063.post-76360210460948035662008-04-25T22:52:00.000+01:002008-04-25T22:52:00.000+01:00On life in the 'Protected Villages' of Smith's Rho...On life in the <A HREF="http://www.psywar.org/rhodesia.php" REL="nofollow">'Protected Villages'</A> of Smith's Rhodesia: <BR/><BR/>" Dr. Watt has his own opinion of the protective villages:<BR/><BR/>Then came the protected villages. The whites, to this day, believe the government propaganda, that the people were given brick houses with running water, schools and clinics. In reality, the government provided nothing except the fence and transport. People were dropped on the dirt inside the fence in the coldest time of year (August, 1974) without so much as a stick or a piece of string with which to build a shelter. <B>For the first month, there was continuous wailing as funerals took place, mainly of the elderly, disabled and newborn, who died of exposure. </B>"<BR/><BR/>You know, those sound like death camps to me. That is how Shark's Bay in Namibia worked when it was under German operation from 1904 to 1907 - in fact, Germany's first death camp of the 20th century.MrKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12801241362245253006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6900460698887397063.post-12016852163524099652008-04-25T22:46:00.000+01:002008-04-25T22:46:00.000+01:00Mwanawasa may have his faults, but the kudos he an...<I>Mwanawasa may have his faults, but the kudos he and other progressive delegations earned for his conduct at the Lusaka summit explains why MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai wanted him to take over the role of mediator in Zimbabwe from Mbeki.</I><BR/><BR/>What Tsvangirai counted on was that Mwanawasa was weaker than Thabo Mbeki, and could be bullied into seeing everything the MDC/UK/Rhodesian way. <BR/><BR/><I>In fact, it is just right that Tsvangirai should be talking about prosecuting some of the rogues like Chinamasa for human rights violations during their stint in government.</I><BR/><BR/>But then he would have to start prosecuting his own cabinet, including David Coltart, for the crimes they committed as members of the Rhodesian armed forces.<BR/><BR/>It always amazes me that Ian Smith was never prosecuted and was allowed to die in peace, when he had the blood of 30,000 Zimbabweans on his hands.MrKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12801241362245253006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6900460698887397063.post-42441591650293713552008-04-25T22:40:00.000+01:002008-04-25T22:40:00.000+01:00Interesting website on Psychological Warfare in Rh...Interesting website on Psychological Warfare in Rhodesia. And of course eerily similar to the entire MDC strategy, that if they are elected to office, sanctions will be lifted. <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.psywar.org/rhodesia.php" REL="nofollow">http://www.psywar.org/rhodesia.php</A>MrKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12801241362245253006noreply@blogger.com