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Tsvangirai tells exiles to come home
[Mail and Globe] Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai called on Zimbabweans living in Britain to "come home" and help in the country's redevelopment, the Daily Telegraph said on Saturday.
| Does he mean the white Zimbabweans? The ones who were stripped of their property by the "government" of "President" Robert Mugabe? Why on earth would they want to do such a thing? |
Most of the white farmers stripped of their land in Zimbabwe ended up either in Zambia or Mozambique. The governments there recognized that having smart, hard-working farmers was a plus, not a minus, so they gave the farmers land grants and citizenship/residency. Plus their new citizens are teaching other farmers how to improve their operations.
Most of the black Zimbabweans who fled went either to South Africa or to Britain, depending on their passports. They'll eventually come back when the government isn't of a mind to kill them and theirs anymore, but it's all tribal, so good luck with that one. |
Tsvangirai, who is in Britain on a tour of Europe and the United States to woo financial support, said the country had achieved a lot since his Movement for Democratic Change entered a unity government with long-ruling President Robert Mugabe four months ago.
| Prime Minister Tsvangirai is the one who lost a wife and a child in separate, but equally suspicious, car accidents in recent months, right? |
He urged the estimated one million Zimbabweans living in Britain to help rebuild his country. "The government needs these professionals," he was quoted in the paper as saying.
"And we also need whatever savings they made to help economic development.
It is time to come home."
| The conclusion does not follow from the previous two true statements. |
Tsvangirai also called on the international community to support Zimbabwe through financial aid. "We need support if we are to avoid sliding back to where we were," he said. "I am telling these leaders that I need to re-establish Zimbabwe's relations with the outside world -- we must be part of the community of nations again and not a pariah state."
He pointed to inflation having been brought down
| Really? By how much? If orders of magnitude are not part of the answer, it really isn't meaningful for the purpose of this discussion. |
and the re-opening of schools and hospitals.
| Have the reopened schools and hospitals been properly staffed and equipped, the staff and bills paid regularly at no more than monthly intervals? |
Posted by: Fred 2009-06-21 |
