Robb - Instablogs
Nov 5 2009
According to the definition of Wikipedia, “a civil war is a war between factions of citizens of one country (such as in the English Civil War), or else a dispute between two nations that were created out of one formerly-united...
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Nov 4 2009
Mugabe has ruled (?) Zimbabwe for almost thirty years and he considers himself the ‘elder statesman’ of Africa. He believes that he is untouchable and should be deified for what he has done for the Zimbabwean people. If we were to believe...
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Nov 3 2009
So the Southern African Development Conference (SADC) has decided to hold a summit in Maputu on Zimbabwe on Thursday>. Aren’t we getting a little bit sick of this? Whenever the situation in Zimbabwe becomes too much for the politicians in the...
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Nov 2 2009
I read this morning that Mugabe has reverted to type and labelled the MDC as an ‘untrustworthy’ partner in the power-sharing government. “We must no longer trust those who pretend to be in the inclusive government and have jumped in and out...
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Oct 30 2009
Arrogance - “overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors” Ignorance - “the lack of knowledge or education” Mugabe is a very well educated man - but he is arrogant to the point of it being sickening. He has...
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Oct 29 2009
So Mugabe is showing his true colours again… It’s almost a daily occurrence - but it doesn’t change his attitude, or his intent to sell his lies to the free world. The Zimbabwe government issued an invitation to Manfred Nowak who specialises in...
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Oct 28 2009
Speaking with a friend on the telephone the other night, we discussed just how difficult it is to maintain a stand against Mugabe’s brutish rule in Zimbabwe – and we also agreed that whilst we may be divorced physically from events on the ground, at...
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Oct 26 2009
Simple question. Simple answer. NO! Today there was an article in the press which reported that the country’s high court might issue a warrant of arrest for security chiefs - army commander Lieutenant-General Philip Sibanda and the police...
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Oct 23 2009
ZANU PF comes in all shapes and sizes. There are a variety of different bodies that masquerade as one thing, but are, in reality, ZANU PF institutions, bodies and organs. Yesterday, I wrote about a ‘lobby group’ that was threatening to have...
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Oct 22 2009
Mugabe and his cohorts do not know when it is time to stop anything. Not that long ago there was the huge furore about Nestle buying milk in huge quantities from Gushungo Dairy - a farm that had been forcibly taken over by pro-Mugabe zealots and has...
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