I do not think that Mohau Pheko realizes that if her version of facts have become distorted so severely, to the point where the opposite of what she believes, is really the truth, then one must ask what iniquity dwells in her heart to bend the truth into reversal ! It seems that her hidden disdain and hatred for people of cultures foreign to her own seems to be the cause. Hatred is invariably always the reason why a person becomes so deluded. I wonder if she also realizes that this is defined as naked racism ! She has got to change her mind to see that people of other race groups are not always ill-intentioned. Eventually this can lead to full on paranoia and madness if left unchecked.

How can anyone blame 355,000% inflation and 80% unemployment on foreign governments that have little or no trade w/ Zimbabwe to begin with? How much trade did the U.S. have w/ Ian Smith's Rhodesia? How much trade is there now? The U.S. cares nothing about the value of trade w/ Zimbabwe because they have never had significant trade with Zimbabwe or Rhodesia to begin with! It more a matter of people being freely able to choose their government that reflects their collective will as a nation, ZANU-PF may have been good at fighting against Ian Smith, but have been an utter failure at providing for the well-being of all Zimbabweans.

The "sanctions" all the ZANU-PF parrots like to complain about are targeted against specific individuals in the Mugabe government! How can these "sanctions" against a few political animals cripple an entire nations economy? If sanctions against a select few individuals can create this kind of economic turmoil, then what does that say about the distribution of wealth and economic opportunity while under the rule of ZANU-PF despite the "redistribution" of white-owned farms in 2000? Hasn't ZANU-PF/Mugabe had a QUARTER OF A CENTURY to correct the unequal distribution of wealth?

Great Britain and the U.S. have had negligible economic relations w/ Zimbabwe since 1980! How is it that southern Africa's most vibrant economy at that time has since crumbled to nothing? Do not blame the West, for they were never economic engines for Zimbabwe in the first place. Blaming the West for the ineffective policies of indigenous African governments is a tired and worn out excuse for national liberation movements that took over power and p***ed away their opportunities.

After 28 years in power, you would think ZANU-PF/Mugabe would have something positive to show for it. Instead, they have driven the best educated, most capitalistic people in Africa to poverty, self-imposed exile and desperation.

Why is it that some people are unable to understand that, given the chance, the people of Zimbabwe would choose to try a different path not under the "guidance"/exploitation of the ZANU-PF/Mugabe machine? Once one wins the opportunity to govern, national liberation movements need to understand they have to provide tangible benefits to the people they govern. Violence, coercion and intimidation will eventually turn the people that supported national liberation against it - even the Russians and Chinese have learned this!