The article is very articulate. I have always said that there is no problem with what Mugabe did. Any Zimbabwean who says Mugabe is wrong is just unfair. If you happen to meet a Zimbabwean ask him/her about "kuma reserve". The guys were relocated to mountains with nowhere to cultivate. I saw it with my own eyes while in Zim. Since then I have never liked the mzungu. Tony Blair and Bush sabotaged the Zimbabwe economy as a revenge to the loss of land. As africans if we dont have people like Mugabe then we will end up like the Red Indians or that other race in Australia; Abre you can tell us.
They are saying Mugabe is a dictator forgeting that when they were at our stage in their development they had dictators in their countries. You cant develop with democracy or this animal called 'market liberalisation'. All the policies made by IMF are tested in Africa and why should we keep on pursuing policies which are failing our people. IMF is against agricultural subsidy but look at what it has done to our food security situation the moment it was pursued. At the same time rich countries are practicing heavy susbsidy to their farmers. Why are they restricting us? its because they want to see (testing) if it can really work.
When Clinton went to africa he said Rwanda, Uganda and Botswana were the models of democracy in Africa. Was it true? not at all. It is because at the time US was using Uganda and Rwanda to invade DRC for minerals.
For me I feel Africa was better place to live when the Soviet Union was there. We dont have any country at the moment to check these two monsters.
Those were the days of colonisation when fake treaties were made in the name of developing africa and its monkies.A typical central African history authenticated by a whiteman.
The question is.....can we work on our own as Africa? Mugabe tried to lead the way and has paid it dearly.We need to rise up in unison and fight this war against IMF,USA,UK and ofcourse western domination through foreign NGOs.We need to demonstrate in reality and tell these white folks that we are equal that africa can move on its own, only and only if Bush and Blair concertrate on their own domestic policies and problems.Our goverments should realise that africa is not a dumping place for western leftovers,that we dont need cheap and uneducated volunteers to teach in our schools.They should be taught in reality that Africa has what it is called raw materials that need to be processed in Africa,our gonmt should start finding ways of doing this than begging for our own money which we deposit into IMF.
Lastly Zimbabwe should have known what to do as soon as they got their independence,they were stupid to have left those long nosed creatures to continue owning land even after independence.Mugabe was bought by the same white when he went to attend a Lancaster agreement about the land ownership change,he found dollars in his UK account deposited by the white farmers association of Zimbabwe.He will really live to regret and pay for the rest of his life as Africa pays in mourning.
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