In the letter written by ex President Thabo Mbeki to the ANC after he was fired as President he listed Robert Mugabe – who pretends to be the legitimate President of Zimbabwe – as one of the heroes he has had the honour to interact with. Can one tell the quality of a person by [...]
Posts under ‘Zimbabwe’
Racist yes, but not because Mugabe is “President”
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an advert for Peach Mobile depicting “President” Robert Mugabe as a caged gorilla. The advert shows Mugabe’s face superimposed on a gorilla’s body. He sits in a cage at the “Zim Zoo” wearing pink sunglasses and holding a sign that says “Keep me in”. Then a [...]
This is Zimbabwe today
A chilling eye witness account about Zanu-PF “electioneering” published in the London Times:
Last weekend we had a big pungwe – a political indoctrination meeting – on the farm. It was after Mugabe had come to our little town of Chegutu, southwest of Harare, and addressed the crowd with threats of “war”. A pungwe starts when [...]
God better hurry up then….
From the Mail & Guardian online:
President Robert Mugabe said on Friday that “only God” could remove him from office, as Zimbabwe’s opposition considered pulling out of next week’s run-off election amid escalating violence.
“The MDC will never be allowed to rule this country — never, ever,” Mugabe told local business people in Zimbabwe’s second city, Bulawayo, [...]
Mapping pre-election violence in Zimbabwe
The people at the This is Zimbabwe Blog links to a chilling map of the pre-election violence in Zimbabwe. So much for free and fair elections in that country.
On the President’s budget vote
President Thabo Mbeki struck me as a lonely and forlorn figure this week in Parliament as he delivered his budget vote speech. I attended the proceedings in Parliament on Wednesday with a group of American students and it was striking how desultory and isolated the President appeared. Even when Sandra Botha, leader of the opposition [...]
Zimabwe: where even the SABC is “subversive”
More proof that anything remotely resembling a free and fair election in Zimbabwe is not possible. From the This is Zimbabwe website:
The Zimbabwean government has announced the beginning of yet another operation designed to oppress the people of Zimbabwe.
Under Operation Dzikisai Madhishi (Operation pull down your satellite dish) the regime is forcing Zimbabweans to pull [...]
Zimbabwe is a police state – where is SADC
Zimbabwe is a mess. It is also a police state pretending to plan to have free and fair elections. Our wise leader continues to pretend this is going to be possible. I can therefore only concur with the following statement of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria.
The Centre for Human Rights, [...]
On immigrants, refugees and those camps
There seems to have been some talk about setting up refugee camps for those people displaced by the xenophobic violence around the country. This has been rejected by the government because it argues that it has a duty in terms of the Constitution and International law to integrate refugees and not to lock them up [...]
Zimbabwe: Why Mbeki is all carrot and no stick
A reader ask quite correctly what else President Thabo Mbeki could have done to make a difference to the Zimbabwean crisis. Supporters of the President (Khosi, you there?) and even staff I have spoken to who work in the President’s office have argued quite forcefully that it would not have helped for President Mbeki to [...]
