Timed to coincide with Mugabe's 85th birthday party a grim report on the cholera epidemic: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...cholera-mugabe The attached short newsreel does not appear to work.
davidbfpo
Cholera or party?
Timed to coincide with Mugabe's 85th birthday party a grim report on the cholera epidemic: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...cholera-mugabe The attached short newsreel does not appear to work.
davidbfpo
David,Originally Posted by davidbfpo
I am not one who calls for divine intervention but in Mugabe's case as well as all his entourage divine food poisoning would have been divine.
Tom
Wasteland
This one is a tough read and it really hits at the heart of the white farmer's reality--that regardless of government, Zimbabwe's farmers face expulsion in its harshest terms, at great cost to them and ultimately the country of Zimbabwe. This is a tragedy all around and one only becoming more tragic. Zimbabwe--once a bread basket--has become a wasteland.
Tom
Robert Mugabe's thugs chanted: 'We will eat your children'
As militants attack his home with burning tyres and drive workers from his land, one of the last white farmers in Zimbabwe feels betrayed by the new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai
The invaders came at 11pm. Fifteen of them — singing, chanting and crashing metal objects together by our windows. “Out, out,” they shouted as they surrounded our farm — they certainly wanted us out. They broke into the house and dragged burning tyres through the front door. They invaded the hallway and occupied the courtyard. The flames leapt into the thatch as they pulled the tyres under it, but it did not catch alight.
This was last Tuesday. I called the police but then the invaders took the phone away. Their leader, who calls himself “Landmine”, was armed with a rifle. They pushed us around and raised sticks and said that we must leave. They beat my tonga drum so hard that the cowhide skin broke.
Black and white suffer
On a Zimbabwe related emailing it appears that the new joint government has failed to restrain the thugs, nor have the joint military ops centres been dissolved - where the "robber barons" sit. There are so few white Zimbabwean farmers left, The thugs also attack non-white farmers when directed.
One link, if you want commentary is: www.sokwanele.com/zigwatch.
Now when will President Zuma say, or do something?
davidbfpo
From the archives ....
30 years to the day - interesting lead.
Mugabe plans attacks?
Two items on the BBC: MDC minister says assassin lists being prepared: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8090641.stm and the violence still happening: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8077533.stm
I wonder how President Zuma views such developments?
davidbfpo
Army has a diamond mine
No real surprise: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8120931.stm
There has been some reporting in the UK, on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's visit, which has had a mixed reception - notably being shouted down in Southwark Cathedral by exiles who called upon to return.
davidbfpo
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