“How can someone seriously think about investing in a presidential candidate who is 88 years old?” asked Biti.
Zimbabweans do not want Mugabe as president not because he is 88 years old but because he is a corrupt and ruthless tyrant. In 2008 Zimbabweans risked limb and life - over 500 lost their lives for God’s sake - to elect Tsvangirai and MDC hoping that would Mugabe’s reign of terror. Sadly Tsvangirai and his lot stupidly allowed Mugabe back into power to form the GNU which has proved to be totally dysfunctional.
“Mugabe needs a reality check. I don’t think there has been a reality check. Someone should give Zanu PF a little voice to say you are gone, you are history, your time is up,” Biti said. Not only Zanu PF but MDC too must go. The whole GNU should go!
Zimbabweans have had a totally ineffective government for the last three years - unemployment remains unacceptably high and there is still lawlessness in the land - of course they want to have elections yesterday. The only reason Zimbabweans do not want elections held today or in the near future is because of the spectre of political violence that hangs over them. Tsvangirai not only allowed Mugabe and Zanu PF back into office but, for the last three years, they have done nothing to put an end to the political violence and madness.
Tsvangirai and MDC constitute the ruling party even within the GNU but have nothing to show for it!
Tsvangirai is a “flawed and indecisive character” said US Ambassador Chris Dell and there lays the root cause of why MDC has been so ineffective. Mugabe will continue to plague our lives only because we have a flawed leader to challenge him! The reality check for Zimbabwe is how longer are we going to pretend Tsvangirai is a competent leader?
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Cathy Buckle (S W Radio Africa) writes: “On a recent journey through what used to be a very productive farming area, my eyes were peeled. Farm after farm for more than thirty kilometres was largely deserted. Fences gone, houses stripped, roofs removed, window and door frames gone and even brick walls being dismantled.”
It is very sad indeed that the green fields of Zimbabwe's once prosperous farms are now fallow whilst millions of our people go hungry. The key to Zimbabwe's economic recovery is totally dependent on the recovery of the agricultural sector - the power house of Zimbabwe's economy.
Last week Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Finance Minister Tendai Biti and good knows who else - the usual high powered Zimbabwean delegation at the usual great expense - were in South Africa to “woo new foreign investors”. We have all we need to get the national economy growing by 15 to 20% ease. If we made good use of what we have, increased productivity from the pathetic 20% or less, Zimbabwe will be a prosperous nation.
How sad and tragic that the country should be so neglected.
You are right Zimbabweans are fairly well educated but what good is that if one does not have common sense. I consider the continued support of a flawed and blundering leader like Tsvangirai folly that defies common sense. This is not the first time Zimbabweans have done this; for the first 10 to 15 years after independence Zimbabweans gave their blind allegiance to Mugabe, a corrupt and ruthless tyrant. Common sense would dictate that one should learn from their past mistakes but when one has no common sense then, of course, they do not learn. Zimbabweans are making the same mistakes over and over again. It is nauseating to see a whole nation behaving like lemmings!
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What Mugabe was doing in Zimbabwe is not indigenization it was looting pure and simple. Mugabe too away farms from 4 000 white farms and gave most of it less than 400 Zanu PF loyalists. And worse still, the looters are doing nothing with this prime resource! But he could not say that, of course.
Those who keep calling Mugabe's looting indigenization are guilty of serious misrepresentation!
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