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| Mugabe: Zimbabwe is a "laughing stock" |
| 2007-10-11 |
| Michael C. Moynihan In a rare display of honesty, Zimbabwe's dictator Robert Mugabe has acknowledged that his "redistribution" of white-owned farms (which included giving land and equipment to thousands of people who hadn't a clue how to farm) has been a disaster, and that it has turned his country into a "laughing stock." But, according to Mugabe, it's still not his fault. The Telegraph reports: The malnutrition that afflicts millions of Zimbabweans has reduced the country to a "laughing stock", President Robert Mugabe has admitted. Distributing equipment to black farmers resettled on land seized from white owners, he said: "We have become the laughing stock because of hunger. We all need to eat, whether you are Zanu-PF or MDC. Let's unite."Since Mr Mugabe began confiscating farms Zimbabwe has gone from being an agricultural exporter to a country where millions need food aid. He blames supposed Western sabotage for the situation, rather than his own actions. Last year, Jens F. Laurson and George A. Pieler made the moral case for ending foreign aid to African dictatorships. As they point out, Robert Mugabe "takes the cash and blames the West, trashing the human rights of both large landowners and defenseless slumdwellers in Harare." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Word, Besoeker. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-11 14:53 |
| #9 ...it has turned his country into a "laughing stock." If this weren't so despicably evil, it would be funny. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-10-11 13:58 |
| #8 they just havent evolved very far despite being the oldest "civilization" ( I use that word duboiusly), think wild dogs of africa |
| Posted by: uncle tom 2007-10-11 12:06 |
| #7 We will be reading the same reports coming out of Pretoria and J-burg in a few years. Posted by: Shieldwolf 2007-10-11 07:19 Already happening Shieldwolf in Zuid Afrika and neighboring countries. Western MSM just doesn't wish to cover it, it's a "black thing" and not very attractive I'm afraid, the full scale butchery that is. Native governance you know, they need more (not fewer) western dollars to fight.... growing pains, hindered by years (something less than 100 total) of nasty colonial rule, apartheid.... they need TIME, 8 to 10 thousand years at least. We must be patient with these people, even thought they may very well be the oldest "civilization" on the bloody planet. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-10-11 08:27 |
| #6 And what is really sad is that the ANC in South Africa can literally look across the border into Zimbabwe and see what a nightmare the forced "redistribution" of farms has caused - and they still are pushing the same program in SA. We will be reading the same reports coming out of Pretoria and J-burg in a few years. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2007-10-11 07:19 |
| #5 a rare display of honesty Word to that, too. |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-10-11 06:36 |
| #4 We all need to eat — Idi Amin — |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-11 03:04 |
| #3 not the last idiot of Africa Word, Barbara. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2007-10-11 01:11 |
| #2 But not the last idiot of Africa. Too bad.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-10-11 00:20 |
| #1 The last king of Scotland. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-10-11 00:16 |