AP:
President Barack Obama sought to bolster Zimbabwe's prime minister Friday while withholding support for his coalition government.SCOTSMAN:
Following a White House meeting, Morgan Tsvangirai said he had a productive visit. Still, he is leaving with only a promise of $73 million in conditional aid, a very small figure compared to the scope of Zimbabwe's problems.
In a joint appearance, Obama made clear he is not persuaded that Tsvangirai can turn the country around in partnership with President Robert Mugabe, who has been accused of human rights abuse, corruption and government mismanagement that has left his country impoverished.
Obama said the aid would not go to the government directly.
"We continue to be concerned about consolidating democracy, human rights, and rule of law, but it will be going directly to the people in Zimbabwe and I think can be of assistance to the prime minister in his efforts," he said.
Obama praised Tsvangirai for bravery and for limited success in reforming the country.
"Overall, in a very difficult circumstance, we've seen progress from the prime minister. We are grateful to him," he said.
A RICH niece of Zimbabwe's prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai, currently on a three-week tour of western countries to beg for aid to kick-start his country's battered economy, has tried to take over a white-owned commercial farm by force.PM TSVANGIRAI AND HIS FAMILY ARE NOT ANY BETTER THAN THE PRESIDENT, MUGABE.
Dr Erikana Chihombori, who owns a lucrative medical practice in the United States and has citizenship there, tried to seize Bertie Cremer's 60-hectare flower farm near Chegutu, 60 miles east of Harare, but the young land invaders she hired withdrew after complaining they were being paid too little.
She insists she has letters from the Zimbabwean government permitting her to expropriate Mr Cremer's De Rus Farm, which has been owned by his family for 81 years. She also says she has a right to the land, and that her takeover will help "correct historical injustices".
THEY ARE NOT MUCH DIFFERENT THAN CHAVEZ.
OR OBAMA HIMSELF.
THEY'RE ALL SOCIALIST SCUM WHO DIFFER ONLY BY DEGREE.
THE FIGHT BETWEEN TSVANGIRAI AND MUGABE IS LIKE A BATTLE BETWEEN TROTSKY AND STALIN. INTERNECINE. ZIMBABWEANS WERE BETTER OFF IN RHODESIA.
ZIMBABWEANS BETTER OFF IN RHODESIA YOU ARE BARKING MAD!!!!
ReplyDeleteu r an effn moron:
ReplyDeleterhodesia was a rich food exporter.
zimbabwe a starving basketcase.
When Ian Smith died in 2007, the Daily Telegraph (London) published an article about the reactions of Zimbabweans to his legacy. Here's the concluding part:
ReplyDelete"For some, at least, Smith will be remembered as a positive force in Zimbabwe’s history.
They draw favourable comparisons between how Smith kept the economy running smoothly in the face of international sanctions during the 13 years of UDI, and the fact that President Mugabe has run the economy into the ground despite facing much more limited sanctions against a small number of ruling party elite.
Former Gweru mayor, hotelier and opposition politician, Patrick Kombayi, said Zimbabweans had much to thank Smith for.
“The roads that we are using today were all built by Smith. All the infrastructure is Smith’s. We never suffered the way we are suffering now because Smith took care of the economy that supported all people and they had enough to eat.
"When he left power the pound was on a par with the Zimbabwean dollar, but President Mugabe has killed all that.”"
Rhodesia was never an apartheid regime. The African population participated in the government, albeit in a limited manner controlled by the white "tribe."
As David Plotz wrote in Slate in 2000:
"Zimbabwe, the "Jewel of Africa," has been ruined during the last decade of Mugabe's misrule. Unemployment runs 50 percent. Inflation has surged to 60 percent. Mugabe is spending $1 million a day to fight a war in the Congo—a nation 1,200 miles away. Zimbabwe has run out of hard currency to pay for gas and cooking oil: Motorists wait all night in gas lines. HIV infects one-quarter of Zimbabweans. No treatment is available. The nation has 500,000 AIDS orphans. Life expectancy has plummeted from 59 to 42 years."
The level of violent repression in the Mugabe era has been greater than it was during the Smith era. Zimbabweans enjoy no more freedom now than they had back then. But they suffer from a socialist regime that is much more corrupt than the Smith government, and from policies that have ruined a once prosperous country. They are literally facing starvation. And all because of the thuggery of incompetents like Mugabe and Tsvangirai.