Who is interested in Zimbabwe?

[oder473]

14 years of sanctions on Rhodesia and the country was booming, with Zimbabwe its a basket case having white Zimbabweans with the knowledge he refused to use them to get round sanctions, that`s stupidity in any one book mate , as for the future Mugabe has already sold off Zimbabwe`s minerals to the Chinese, like it or not the African had it better when it was Rhodesia Mugabe has finished off Muzarawa, Sitohle,Nkomo and all the other African opposition he was fighting to take power you prat.

[kaffir00]

mugabe is a real kaffir, proper init

[jigaapple23]

How Ironic, kids of Bush & Hitler - Mugabe never killed but we all know clearly of these other culprits shortcomings.

Posting such vitriol and hatred packed in racist SHIT, tantalized to make it sound like "Human Rights".!!(Oh-hh Never mind the millions killed by these two alone).!!

[magaabr]

this video is old but pisses me off, sanctions a licence to kill huh u saying tht england has the power to destroy a nation and theres nothing wrong with tht. so the pple should die coz of one man. ur sitting there in the dark all fed and well but can u walk into a hospital full of pple dying and say what ur saying. u only went to zimbabwe coz u were tired of being sqaushed in tiny back yards while zimbabwe had so much land it felt like it was no ones land

[gordong156]

magaabr,

If you don't like sanctions I am with you, but if you put a nation's suffering down to 'one man' I think you are bound to remain disappointed. Recall that in Iraq, which was also subject to Western sanctions, 2 million Iraqis fled in terror AFTER the execution of Saddam Hussein. 50,000 US troops still occupy that country.

[zuhuraswa]

why talking bull man get a life the land was taken by mugabe f**** off

[bcpret]

magabe took all the land for himself and his cronys you twat . and wat about the genisides by magabes hand. you dont kno wat your talking about you bubble wrapt spoon fed dick

[sumo73]

The Robert Mugabe from the early 1980's is a completely different person to the man he is today. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

It's time for him to have some dignity and step down.

[alanbstard4]

yes I agree, the sanctions have not helped Zimbabwe

[kudanemba]

the native africans are abused by the colonizers.the native africans are abused by their own governments.the anglos and their allies and puppents abuse the native africans.when and with whom shall the abuse stop

[jimiraj]

Of course Mugabes polices had nothing do with anything did it?

[bud123]

Wasn't it 30% of farms owned by whites? Dude you need to find the truth out here must of that was the bollocks Bob told his people. You are a bit of a stuck up twat really arn't you, and I'm guessing by the way you talk you voted labor by an chance?

[tigerone1970]

Actually virtually all commercial farms were owned by rhodesian farmers. Not because they were so good, but because of apartheid and disposession, which continued right up to 1973.

Almost 50% of the country ended up in the hands of 4,500 white farmers. This has now be redistributed to over 320,000 families.

Everyone can now own a 250 ha farm or a 50 ha farm - they used to be 2500 ha (with 500 used to grow tobacco) and Black Zimbabweans owned 2-3 ha per family.

[tomaluta]

Lecture them

[catatonicable]

What bread basket.? basket case more like.

[Hoogveldenaar]

God, this guy is ignorant.

[tsoko74]

Gordong156 - well said !!! You are 100% correct in everything you said ! The trouble is that you are telling idiots who still believe Mugabe is a hero !!! Although they starve and live in horrific poverty - dont waste your time dude - they are thick fools......

[flatlineonfire]

Why are you so concerned about a country that doesn`t even give a fuck about you...Why are you trying to blame your own people for helping this side of the world! 70% of the farms owned is feeding these people but please go ahead and get rid of them so the black man can die faster good one mate, good one! Your big speech is really irrelevant to the real deal in this country!

[steve31bn]

well gordong156 you definately have a warped sense of reality, Hows the Dole qeue these days or have you nothing better to spend your time on??? Go Live in Zimbabwe to get the true facts.....

[tomaluta]

sunclief: colonisation was bad to us

[Sunclief]

You talk a load of fucking shit Gordong156 thre was "NO" apartheid in Rhodesia there never was and if there was it was chosen by the blacks them selves! What bullshit were you taught in your schools?

[Sunclief]

Um you guy's in the UK put Mugabe where he is just like you did to Idi Amin. Also you made a martyre out of him.

[stupidjunk978]

What a fucking nerd. Go kill yourself, creepy bastard

[tomaluta]

before british invade zimbabwe..zimb people were free and no starvation....

mugabe is my hero

[kaffirbasher1]

Per capita, Zimbabwe is now the most food aid dependent country in the world. The World Food Programme believes that seven million people are in need of food assistance - somewhere between 65 and 80 percent of the population.Thats what you get when you replace competant white farmers with incompetant Mugabe wanabe farmers.-STARVATION

[Fuckmugabe]

If Zimbabwe has uneducated youth in a couple of years, the West will definitely be blamed in the Zimbabwe media, together with everything else that is wrong in Zimbabwe.

To shift the focus and blame is an old and dirty political trick. The West should never give aid as long as Mugabe is still at the helm. Fuckmugabe

[gravyfunky]

R U racist? If not,and u r truly interested in Zim,please I need to understand your logic & pts of view, if you will indulge me plz.I'm not fightin with u,just need 2 undrstnd:

If I came into your house,& took over everything,& forbade u & ur family 2 cook, & after 100yrs my kids r still there doing the same to ur kids(who by now know nothing about cooking).Then they took their house back,but now suffer cuz they don't know how to cook,plus the stores won't sell...

[gravyfunky]

...them food.Wld u say reclaiming their house is wrong?

[TheNomadicMonad]

Zimbabwe has one of the best educational systems in all of Africa.

[Fuckmugabe]

I think you were meant to say "HAD" the best educational system,under Smith rule.

There are no schools left here !!!

[ivangrozny27]

i agree that mugabe was a good freedom fighter and overthrew a nasty racist regime. whites even prospered for much of the 80s and 90s under ZANU rule but his 'land reforms' in the late 90s were just too blunt and indiscriminate a weapon. perhaps if whites had been fully compensated for , say, 50% of their lands which would then be given to poor black farmers, over a decade or even more, this would've been equitable and a just solution to the problem.

[mchigubu]

ivangrozny27 Thanks 4 educating me on "Whites even prospered under Pres Mugabe's rule in 80s & 90s. Thats an eye opener, & I didn't know it. Mr. Mugabe honored UK's Lancaster Agreement of 1979 & preached RECONCILIATION, which was popular with Whites, not much with poor Blacks who had been disenfranchised for centuries. UK was supposed to pay White farmers, not Mugabe. Blair duped Mugabe, reneged Lancaster Contract, failed to pay White farmers & Mugabe gave part of land to landless Blacks

[Fuckmugabe]

Despite this aversion to maintenance, Mugabe's power is slowly ebbing, mostly because he can't get hold of the cash for his power base.

The redetention on Tuesday of 18 activists accused of a repetitive plot - trying to overthrow Mugabe - was the most serious Zanu-PF breach of the political agreement to date, even if 15 were freed on bail 24 hours later.

[Carolina6587]

Thank you for highlighting the West's hypocrisy towards Zimbabwe's plight.

[kaffirbasher1]

Mugabe, whose disastrous policies destroyed Zimbabwe's economy, retains the executive authority he has enjoyed since independence. He still chairs the cabinet and has the power to declare martial law, and his party retains the key land and justice portfolios. He also heads the security council -- made up of the army, police and secret services -- who orchestrated a bloody reign of terror against opposition supporters that prevented a presidential run-off that MDC Tsvangirai would have won

[kaffirbasher1]

the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) remains a junior partner in the unity government despite winning parliamentary elections last year heavily rigged in favour of Robert Mugabe's Zanu (PF) party

[kaffirbasher1]

Since the unity government was formed in February, Barack Obama's administration, by far the largest donor of humanitarian aid, has refused to lift sanctions or release reconstruction funds until Zimbabwe shows it is serious about upholding human rights, the rule of law and economic freedoms.Mugabe's past history on human rights is "HUGELY QUESTIONABLE"

[kaffirbasher1]

Gordong - you ever been/lived in Zimbabwe ? I bet not judging from youre comments.

[kaffirbasher1]

Mugabe - Pure evil personified

Viva Ian Smith

Viva Morgan

[kaffirbasher1]

Mugabe - the chief plunderer

[kaffirbasher1]

Mugabe - Pure evil personified

Viva Ian Smith

Viva Morgan

[FoxFanMurph]

Gordong, Thank you very much for educating the world that SANCTIONS ON ZIMBABWE are meant to slowly strangle the economy and the poor people of ZIMBABWE! GOD BLESS YOU GORDONG! KEE UP THE GOOD SPIRIT, and keep telling them the TRUTH about the EVIL intentions of SANCTIONS ON ZIMBABWE!

[kaffirbasher1]

Mugabe - Pure evil personified

Viva Ian Smith

Viva Morgan

[kaffirbasher1]

Gordong - you ever been/lived in Zimbabwe ? I bet not judging from youre comments.

[kaffirbasher1]

Mugabe - the chief plunderer

[gordong156]

Znaika1 - Fresh thinking on improving business performance will doubtless be well received, given the scale of the current global downturn.

[gordong156]

Znaika1 - I am not surprised that investment is not booming with the looming threat of $500,000 US fines against any business whose investment has been found to benefit a list of businesses and individuals specified by US/UK planners. There are already plenty of obstacles without such looming threats.

But re: your idea that Zimbabwe has 'nothing to sell'. Would mining operations like Anglo Platinum, Rio Tinto Zinc and Metallon not have left Zimbabwe long ago if this were true?

[gordong156]

JoshuaRVincent - The US/UK stance on apartheid in South Africa may tell us something. The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly supported the following draft resolutions between '79 - '84:

33/183M - end military and nuclear collaboration with apartheid SA

34/931 - assist oppressed people of SA and their liberation movement

36/172H - organise international trade union conference re sanctions on SA

39/72G - international action to eliminate apartheid

The US/UK reps vetoed all these. I wonder why

[gordong156]

Znaika1 - The US treasury provides a useful document 'What you need to know about US Sanctions... Zimbabwe'. It also prints lists of Special Designated Individuals and blocked persons. Please see the link under more info top left and look under related articles, page bottom, for details. I think you'll agree that the businesses on this list are of the type investors usually find of significant interest... what do they say about diamonds?

[Znaika1]

There are no sanctions. What you call "sanctions" is the refusal by US banks (e.g. IMF) to give Mugabe any more money. It is by no means "sanctions", it is simply a refusal to finance his corrupt regime! The only real sanctions are against personal effects and businesses owned by about 200 corrupt government officials. And even these sanctions are by US and EU only. The true obstacle for a trade is that there is nothing Zim can offer the world: both its economy and agriculture have collapsed.

[jondobigballs]

Snaika, you and Kaffirbasher1 should get married, you think alike.

We can arrange for you to live on a little Island On lake Kariba and you can call it never-never land.

[Znaika1]

What a wonderful example of effervescent humour. Ha-Ha.

[dav333d]

Gordon, i am pleased to find there are non black people out there that know, and acknowledge the true past of Zimbabwe. I do agree with you, however, the unfortunate truth of the matter is that the hegemonic control the British once mustered, now administered by the US, still commands the attention of the rest of the world. Without the British/US on your side, you are inevitably bound to be vilified.

Poor politics aside, all we can hope for is the social liberation of Zimbabwe's population.

[trigerde]

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else Kwame Nkrumah

Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism. Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africas impoverishment. Kwame Nkrumah

[mchigubu]

Thank You! And the exploitation of Africa's wealth continues, even if it means deaths upon deaths of innocent poor natives! I thank you for using Kwame Nkrumah's citations!

[senthuran1332]

All the more reason to cover Zimbabwe, to keep britan updated on the country that in essence their ancestors destroyed

[gordong156]

Tony Blair's Foreign Policy guru, Robert Cooper, wrote that 'The postmodern world has to start to get used to double standards... we need to revert to the rougher methods of an earlier era - force, pre-emptive attack, deception, whatever is necessary...'

Does following this advice make us a good role model?

[gordong156]

pipandchorm - Your description of sanctions is apt. How inhumane is death by a 'blunt instrument'?

Google 'Ramsey Clark: Report to UN Security Council re: Iraq' to see what an ex-US Attorney General has to say about sanctions.

[bwm5150]

The EU sanctions do not target the general population. They're just travel bans on high ranking officials which include the freezing of their assets. Of course in the present day we can all too easily step on our moral high horse and say colonialism is wrong. However peremptory norms develop over time. Colonialism was not "wrong" in the 19th century. Can we be be retrospective and say our ancestors commited 'crimes'? I mean in 1900 nearly all of the world was colonised by over 30 empires.

[gordong156]

US sanctions threaten to slap a $500,000 penalty on any business trading with 'Special designated nationals and blocked persons' - a list which includes Zimbawean farms, banks, tobacco, diamond, print & publishing, mineral, mining, tourist, iron & steel and transport businesses. Follow the link in info to view the full list page bottom.

[chigudo]

the sanctions are aimed at mugabe and zanu pf not the ordinary zimbabweans

[blankeman81]

Intresting , a lot of the Zimbabwe people is curently in South-Africa Iligaly ....working for half the pay ......SAD SAD SAD SAD

[Shardomsback]

Dictators don't care, I like what your're saying.

[ourearthhome]

Gordon, as usual you have put your finger on the festering sore of the usurpation of the earth by those who claim to own it and the God given right to charge the rest of us for access to our own planet. Certainly Mugabe is not someone you invite home for tea but he is a light weight compared to the monsters who have engaged in centuries of land and natural resource usurpation the world over. The current collapse of the entire world economy is a bit of pay back triggered by land speculation.

[charrudeboy]

the economy was screwed there long before any sanctions were introduced.

the bread basket which you speak of has become infertile and barren, please ask why this has happened and how you can rectify it so you can feed the people who are suffering greatly

people cant change history but we can change the present

i know bush is a turd but i scarily agree with him that tyranny is present in modern day zimbabwe

[gordong156]

Cholera and malnutrition appeared in Iraq only after the West fell out of love with Saddam. Beforehand, Rumsfeld and Co were happy to supply him with the wherewithall to fight Iran and gas Kurds.

[charrudeboy]

With destroyed utilities it does not suprise me that cholera would manifest in Iraq. I feel saddened by the whole state of affairs. Saddam was once america's ally and unfortunatly became it's enemy by scarily easy reichstag fire esque manipulation.

Please beleive me when I say I in no way condone that war. I feel sad that you liken it to the current state in Zimbabwe but I can see your point. I just cant agree with it

[charrudeboy]

i beg you sir

go to zimbabwe and see how messed up the country is, speak to the matebele people about how their cattle were culled as soon as mugabe's rival tribe, the shona, came into power

go speak to the people, all they want is maybe power, food and clean water

look at the massacres mugabe has commited,

[gordong156]

The first coalition bombs of the 2003 invasion of Iraq destroyed precisely those infrastructure services you identify as being most important to civilians. What can we learn from this?

[charrudeboy]

I beleive that what I think to be an illegal attack in Iraq was a mistake on a massive scale. The invasion was not sanctioned by the UN and the current occupation is not

doing anybody any favours except a few oil traders.

In relation to Zimbabwe the people are without power most of the time, unable to feed themselves or have any amenities people in the UK take for granted. i.e clean water, healthcare, security and a right to vote without being beaten.

[gordong156]

Pipandchorm - Our commentators lament that suffering in Zimbabwe has reached 'Auschwitz proportions' (The Times, 6 Dec). But we could, for example, end cholera in Zimbabwe by supplying the basic chemicals required for water purification. Only sanctions prevent us doing the right thing. Is there no contradiction here?

[smmeegal]

Nice vid. Of course UK,US etc has a major hand in destroying other countries economies, they are bullies in the playground.Yeah let's starve and generally screw up millions of people so big white man can have it all for himself. Has anyone ever seen US and UK foreign policies and sanctions ever actually help these countries? All we see is tyranny and the systematic destruction of peoples all over at the hands of the politically 'powerful' few. That is part of their plan after all.

[anarchodolly]

superb irony there man! lol...

i've been wondering what the motivations were behind the press barrage against mugabe for a long while now, but i've never gotten round to looking into it properly. i suspect there's some parallels with hugo chavez in venezuala. challenge the stranglehold of the rich and you can expect a little bad press. :P

[OutofCecilRhodesAnus]

God help the people of Zimbabwe when the MDC (puppets) get into power since they follow the puppet masters instructions by calling and for santions and showing a disregard to suffering to their own country men while still having the freedom to live well and conspire with their coroprate sponsors.

[MireilleT]

Hypocrisy is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty - Raisa Gorbachev

[Larkinchance]

I did enjoy you video and i agree that the real 19th and 20th century of Euro-African history is shameful. it this new century it is still the continent of exploitation without regard to the population. Go to Google Earth and on the South eastern delta you will see several hi-rez sectors where you can clearly see Cheveron's oil spills some on them as much 15square miles in area spoiling the land for local survival

[AtheistRagdoll]

I always look forward to your videos sir.

[tylenolisland]

yea its a sick fucking world and only time will tell how it ends