Offices Raided Following Zimbabwe Elections

Zimbabwe's main opposition party says current President Robert Mugabe has 'unleashed a war' in his bid to stay in office. They say some of their offices were raided on Thursday. (April 4)

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[nathanbilly]

Why don't the UN act now?

No oil is why

[YrHen]

Must admit,saffronix, the shrimp comment was rather an unfortunate choice. For most of the time "Another shitty day in paradise" usually applies here. The whole continent is riddled with endemic corruption, which makes even the simplest task an ordeal. Having spent many years training local staff to learn new tasks, only to find they were deemed to be from the wrong tribe, these bright people go nowhere, as does progress. Zimbabwe has shot itself in both feet by removing farmers from the land.

[southbobby]

LONG LIVE THE GREAT MUGABE!

[saffronix]

Post#5/YrHen:

Your words: "Go put another shrimp on the Bar B!" indicate an assumption of my life in Australia. You know nothing about me, simply because you really have nothing to go on except the text you see here.

If I were enjoying a "shrimp on the Bar B" kind of life, I'm unlikely to be worrying about such things as some far away place called "Zimbabwe" which (one would suppose) doesn't affect me at all.

And I need to stop right there for now.  Back to the grindstone time for me.

[saffronix]

Post#4/YrHen:

I applaud your passion for Zimbabwe. However, like too many of us with the same passion, we lack a clear eyed view of situations. Passion without information. True views must come with honesty in information, and if I am indulging in "lovely research" it may be because I have no other choice. Quite honestly, I AM able to decipher and percolate from much of the mixed quality information I encounter.

Being "beaten up for voting the wrong way"? Who would want that?

[YrHen]

Nice to see someone else from the Planet Zog saffronix! Suggest you now get off your backside and come to Africa and put it all right! You would last about 10 mins before it all became too much for you! Nice to sit and watch videos which give you all your information without actually living in the environment. How terribly constructive for you, and all that lovely research without the reality!.How would you like to be beaten up for voting the wrong way! Go put another shrimp on the Bar B!

[saffronix]

Post#3: As I say, search for and watch "Apartheid Did Not Die" by honest journalist John Pilger; you will be able to almost perfectly map the essence of that report to the situation in Zimbabwe today.

YouTube and the Internet are amazingly constructive facilities to gather information from which we can launch sensible actions. But the volume of mis-informed noise on the Net just overwhelms the true and practical voices that should be heard. Let's research first, THEN post comments.

[saffronix]

Search for and watch "Apartheid Did Not Die" by honest journalist John Pilger; you will be able to almost perfectly map the essence of that report to the situation in Zimbabwe today.

[saffronix]

Nelson Mandela as we see him--a saintly man--is a mirage of the Media. He is NOT a saint, he is no more than you or I. Another such person from the files of history was one Mr. Ghandi, praised and honored for being nice and non-violent. Philosophers are good to learn about in Philosophy class; they are not good for running countries. And for all their philosophizing, they are manipulable. AND bribable. Mandela is a nit-wit who let the chance for S.A. to be good place for all pass him by.

[saffronix]

Post#2: A lot of Zimbabweans believe opposition figure Morgan Tsvangirai will bring about prosperity. The trouble is, he's the choice of the multi-nationals, who are almost certainly funding him. He's not well-educated--which is exactly what the multi-nationals want. They want a man who'll do as he's told, NOT a man who'll think before he acts. So, as callously dictatorial as Mugabe seems, there IS more than a grain of truth in his assertion that the big powers want to install a puppet.

[saffronix]

Post#1: Associated Press, and all these "reputable" media companies miss the point completely. And I think they do it deliberately because they can't be THAT stupid. When Zimbabwe became independent, the old system held on, even though it was the very system that the war was to over-throw. Indeed things became EASIER for the multinationals under a Dictator (Mugabe) than under a "Whites-only democracy". Search & see "Apartheid Did Not Die" on YouTube. It's exactly what happened to Zimbabwe.