The saddest thing about this absurd article, for the most part factually inaccurate and historically illiterate, is that it exploits the genuine grievance many Africans righteously feel for their treatment over decades at the hands of an inequitable 'global' market. Can Mugabe - and such ridiculous mouthpieces as this 'George Shire', a.k.a. presumably some semi-literate hack in the department of propaganda, a.k.a. the herald newspaper - not understand that by employing the rhetoric of economic emancipation for black Africa in pursuit of their own morally bankrupt and historically ruinous politics of survival they merely make the struggle for economic fairness throughout Africa, and most clearly in their own benighted Zimbabwe, that much more difficult?

And Mugabe's regime is better for the poor than the colonialists were? I've been actively oppose to IMF style global polices for 35 years. I materially supported the Revolution in Zimbabwe,but Mugabe is a monster.I oppose him for exactly the same reasons i oppose colonialism,neocolonialism,neoliberalism etc.He cares only for his own advantage not for the common good.