Why doesn't the media do a story about who runs the MDC? It's the former white colonialists whose sole purpose is to ensure they never lose their stolen power. These elections were meant to be a soft coup. The whites, who own 90% of the wealth, engieneerd the economic downturn in order to deliver their puppet a victory. The media has disgraced itself with blatantly false and biased coverage. If you really care about Democracy start by exposing who runs the MDC. It's time for the truth!

I think you'll find the answer is Morgan T. Who is Zimbabwean. And makes his own decisions. As for delivering an econonomic downturn, why dont you also blame China and South Africa for this? They also declined to lend money to Zimbabwe. OR do you think they are puppets of the west also? I think you need to stop reading Herald lies and start looking at why countries like China refused to lend money to Zimbabwe. Sometimes the fault is within.

The MDC is a political party, as is ZANU-PF? Who 'runs' ZANU-PF?

Definition I have of a political party is an organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns.

However, what I see now in Zimbabwe is a rush towards the single-party system which is usually equated with dictatorships and tyranny.

Why must it always be put on the backs of white colonialists after all this time. That was then. This is now. Face it!

The people of Zimbabwe run the MDC.Check out the March election results.Stop living in the past.We stood up for what we believed in and that is the right to express ourselves freely.When was the last time Mugabe lost a presidential or parliamentary election?Change is a must.

I'm not sure which peace advocates you are talking about. Certainly not U.N. peacekeepers. Even if they could ensure a Mugabe-free Zimbabwe, they would be hated in short order becuase peacekeepers just can't flick a switch and bring enviable western wealth to everyone right now.

It took several decades to turn parched earth into the bread basket of Africa. It took Mugabe only a few years to utterly and completely destroy the farms. It will take a long while before people with the knowledge, the investment capital and the desire to farm in the region trust ANY government that includes the ZANU-PF enough to return.

Zimbabwe is merely experiencing what Ayn Rand foretold in her novel “Atlas Shrugged” to totalitarian regimes that try to force people to think “correctly” and act for the “good of the many”. And you voted it on yourselves. Too bad you couldn’t just read the lesson and learn the lesson without having to LIVE the lesson.

U.S. President George W. Bush loves Morgan Tsvangirai.

Mr l Butler...or any of your mugabe apologisists.what are your thoughts on james mcGee?? he is vocal about the brutality of mugabe in no uncertain terms. he is american yes...but also black. could it be the fact that he is a black american that you have all pretended he does not have a view on mugabe and the horrors of zanupf he comments often about?? I bet you if he was a white american there would have been a hue and cry for his forced repatriation back to american and so on and so on and how is a bush spy etc etc. he has truly got your tongue hasnt he?? poor sods.

So what Mr four names? If George Bush loves Mr Tsvangirai it's because he sees good qualities in him. Are you jealous because you have none to speak about?

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Let us focus.Is it colonial UK vs Mugabe's insatiable ego?Or is it Mr Tsvangirai's democracy for all and economic prosperity for the nation vs Mugabe's repressive and heartles regime?From being a respected freedom fighter and reducing himself to being the African Saddam,Mugabe's brain cells are dying faster than a rabbit gets f****d.

Can we get back to the FACTS of 80% unemployment, 1,000,000% inflation and 30% of the population of Zimbabwe living outside it's borders?

ZANU-PF/Mugabe has "achieved", in the words of Nelson Mandela, "A tragic failure of leadership"! Does anyone want to argue the wisdom of Nelson Mandela? Phiri? Kuba? Anyone? Does anyone doubt that Mr. Mandela would have been happy/ectstatic to inherit South Africa in the state that Mr. Mugabe found Zimbabwe in 19080?

A country once the breadbasket of Africa, a net-exporter relegated to a net-importer of foodstuffs, a country where a secrecy of the ballot-box no longer applies, a country where freedom of conscience no longer applies. What can ZANU-PF/Mugabe fear from a free election when they have so nobly served the people of Zimbabwe under their stewardship?

ZANU-PF/Mugabe has only delivered independence from white-rule, nothing else! It is one thing to lead a laberation, it is quite another to govern for the benefit of all liberated persons. ZANU-PF/Mugabe has failed in that and, to them, the PEOPLE of Zimbabwe, have had the temerity to renounce them!

Sadly, we are far from the end-game. Mugabe cannot rule Zimbabwe now with the MDC in control of parliament. His only option is too disband parliament, for which the people of Zimbabwe, and the world, will call him to account.

The game is being played into "injury-time", but even if Mugabe prevails in the travesty that is the "run-off" he will be unable to govern, and the MDC dominated parliament will continually "nip at the heels" of the ZANU-PF/Mugabe establishment until they are rendered feeble.

A change is going to come, just not within the timeframe we all hoped an prayed it would come within! The FACTS do not support the continuation of the current regime!