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And just like that, Zimbabwe has slipped from the headlines to ‘other stories of interest’ and within a few days I expect it to no longer feature as a story of any interest at all.
Until about six months’ time when someone will remember that the...
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It was all over the television news channels, and all over the internet yesterday and today. Tsvangirai, Mugabe and Mutambara have signed the Memorandum of Understanding.
Big deal!
No. It isn’t. This was all about elbow room, and, as I wrote on my...
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Following the amazing comments to this morning’s posting, I have kindly been given permission by my very good friend Duane Udd in the USA to publish his poem inspired by the three word phrase from Grace in the Phillipines...
My huge thanks to...
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In the discussion following the publishing of my editorial “The Domino Effect”, one commenter came up with the three word phrase “catalyst for cataclysm”. I forwarded the phrase to a friend who writes poetry about Zimbabwe, and I will be sure to...
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The blood may not have stopped flowing, but Mugabe has achieved his primary objective – that being his remaining in power. The fact that his remaining top of the tree has been done with his normal oppression and political bullying should not surprise...
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I have written many times in the past few months about actual events on the ground in Zimbabwe, and I have watched for the past 10 years (whilst I have been living in the United Kingdom) the situation in that country decline to levels below our simple...
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The governments of the world failed to institute any sanctions against the Mugabe regime. And, in typical Mugabe fashion, he had to have someone else fight his battles. He went back to his roots and the motion was vetoed by the long-established...
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I have often stated that for Mugabe to have made Zimbabwe a success, he needed to have changed nothing. But when he came to power in 1980, whilst on the outside he was benevolent and happy with a ‘recovery period’ following the Rhodesian bush war...
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As many of you know, I write about events in Zimbabwe every day on my respective pages, and some days I am astonished at the basic cruelty that happens in that country, and other days I breathe a sigh of relief because so little has happened.
Even...
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There is word on the internet that Mugabe will not negotiate with Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change until and unless they accept his ‘victory’ in the second round of the Presidential election held on 27th June this year.
This...
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