@ Fungayi
"I am quacking in my boots about Scotland Yard. Ke ke ke-e-e-eh! Seka zvako mwana waDzvinyangoma." Well your arrogance is matched only by that of Mugabe himself. Even I can make an intelligent guess of your real name; if it is not George Shire then Shire would know who you are.
You have seen Tsvangirai and we all know just how incompetent he has turned out to be. You will be very mistaken to assume the next leader of Zimbabwe will be just as incompetent.
So 3 000 to 4 000 is the official Zanu PF figure of those murdered during Gukurahundi? Well, we are making progress here; for years the party denied anyone was ever killed. Of course I condemn the killing of the tourists but I hope you are not trying to justify the murder of 4 000 (probably the right number for those whose bodies were dumped in Antelope Mine Shifts alone) innocent and defenceless civilians as revenge for the murdered tourists!
I take is Zanu PF accepts that 500 were murdered during the presidential run-off in 2008. There was not a single tourist or anyone else killed before then; so the record stands that these were ruthless murders to deny the voters a free vote!
So a Zimbabwe Minister forecasted a “higher” economic growth for Zimbabwe. But these are all relative terms; higher, higher than what? Zimbabwe has registered the highest shrinking economy in the world year on year from 2000 to 2008. Why that happened we all know but will not go into it now. So if the agricultural sector was back into full production again, mining and all the other sectors the same and aid from the international community was flowing again and all these were being used for the good of the nation not a select few; there is no reason why Zimbabwe’s economic growth should not be 25% plus! And not the misery 8% the Minister and you are so excited about!
Last year the US government poured US$20 million and SA R50 million in direct aid to Zimbabwe’s farming sector. Still the “remote control” farmers failed to produce enough just to feed the nation. Before Zimbabwean farmers produced enough to feed the nation and earned the nation billions in exports and they had no direct or indirect subsidies! Next seasons food production will fall if the country’s new farmers are not paid millions again in subsidies! The fact of the matter is Zimbabwe is being held to ransom by Mugabe and his cronies. This is the worst case of double dipping: these greedy individuals cashed in when they looted the farms and they now cash in again by being paid cash to work the land. No nation in its right senses can allow such nonsense.
Mugabe has said again and again that there will be “no going back” on the land redistribution. Well so be it. Well land is a very valuable national resource comparable to a bundle of cash. With money in the bank, one is expected to pay tax on the interested earned if not on the principle sum too. There will be tax on land owned in future! Yes you can keep all the five farms plus, who cares if some of the farms are registered in the name of family, old relatives or cats and dogs keep them and you can grow weeds and nothing else; AS LONG AS YOU PAY ALL THE LAND TAX!
A simple solution: no more farming subsidies to these farm owners, they must pay land tax – that will sort out the real men from the boys. Are you were laughing, and for how much longer!
@ Fungayi
“Those who are in SA are there exactly due to SANCTIONS!” you say.
Zimbabwe’s economic melt down was not caused by sanctions but by decades of economic mismanagement and rampant corruption. The Zimbabweans who were able to leave the country have left, the exodus continues, to escape the economic hardships and political repression. Of course there are hypocrites like you Fungayi, who continue to sing the praises of the brutal dictatorship but have sent their children to be educated outside Zimbabwe, mainly in the West, and in your case to live there too. How many know Mugabe loyalists now live in the West, Fungayi?
A few weeks ago the British Government deported a woman after turning down her asylum application because she had taken part in a farm invasion when she was back in Zimbabwe. How ironic that she, small fish, was deported when hundred if not thousands of the, big fish who own the farms, are allowed to stay.
You Fungayi – of course that is not your real name – you have a farm back in Zimbabwe. You did not kick out the white farmer and his workers yourself but had some small fish do the dirty work for you. Did you have burnout the black workers’ huts or even have one or two killed? People like you have benefited from the dictatorship and the sanctions should net you too!
“Busi Ngubeni I do not need to get paid to state the truth about my country,” you claim. You have been paid in other ways. As for the truth; you have been painting Mugabe as a democratically elected and caring leader. What nonsense; a ruthless murderer a caring democrat!?
You have to be real naïve if you think Scotland Yard do not know who you are.
@Dora Makute
Dictators thrive on the stupidity of people like you.
Mugabe took the white owned farms cause massive disruption to the country’s economy and causing the economic melt down which has resulted in mass unemployment and suffering. Mugabe insists the farms were redistribution to “landless black peasants”. Peasants my a***#! Since when did peasant own four or more farms each extending hundreds acres! Mugabe and his cronies are looting the nation’s key resources all in the name of punishing the white and you buy it. You hatred of whites is so intense it has blinded you completely.
What about the outrageous human rights violations? Mugabe has denied ordinary Zimbabweans a meaningful say in the governance of the country; he murdered over 20 000 in the mid 1980s to establish the de facto one-party dictatorship and in the three months in April to June 2008 murdered over 500 to force people to vote for him. What has that to do with the West “destabilising” Zimbabwe?
Of course you could be defending Mugabe because you are one of the cronies who have received a share of the loot. But even then, you must have relatives who have been caught up in this madness and must know by now that this dictatorship is doomed! When that happens; the dictator and all his cronies will face justice and they will not only lose their loot but many will lose their heads too! Dora, what will you lose?
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