What a difference 6 months make! Recently, there are even rumblings in the Army! At what point will ZANU-PF/Mugabe order the Army against the people and the Army will fail to respond? Will the Army reject ZANU-PF/Mugabe just like Russia's Bolshevik Revolution (that sort of irony would be sweet!)? Will the Army fight the "War Veterans"? Just how can ZANU-PF/Mugabe retain their death grip on power when even PF-ZAPU is deserting them?

Only 6 months ago, we were waiting for the "official" results of the "Election" where MDC-T was said to have won a clear majority from the polling data that was posted outside each polling station. 80% of the population was still unemployed, 30% of the population had left the country, inflation was ONLY one MILLION per cent!

Since the blood bath ZANU-PF/Mugabe calls the June elections, 80% of Zimbabweans are still unemployed, another 10% have left the country and inflation has skyrocketed from ONLY one MILLION per cent to TWO HUNDRED and THIRTY-ONE percent! Oh yes, since May 2008, the health infrastructure has basically imploded, schools have been closed, people are beginning to starve and HALF of Zimbabwe's population is destined to be reliant on foreign food aid by January! In addition to all of this, the public sanitation infrastructure has broken down, the people cannot even get clean water delivered to them, raw sewage runs in the streets or is pumped (untreated) into Harare's fresh water storage! Cholera (a middle-ages type disease that is easily treatable) has exploded onto the scene in Zimbabwe and has claimed over 300 (officially - unofficial estimates are greater than 1000!) lives!

Such is the legacy of ZANU-PF/Mugabe! A country with the best health, education and public infrastructure in all of Africa when ZANU-PF/Mugabe "took" power has been reduced to cowering from their "masters" of ZANU-PF or holding out their hands for food aid to keep from starving.

While Harare and the rest of Zimbabwe burn, Comrade Bob and his ZANU-PF henchmen continue to fiddle and insist that "they" have a mandate to continue to lead Zimbabwe? Only at gunpoint...........

While ZANU-PF/Mugabe is only too happy to crow about the SADC's recommendation that they form an inclusive government w/ MDC-T, they thumb their noses at an SADC Tribunal ruling that their "land redistribution" program is illegal and violates SADC and AU statutes. The police continue to ignore orders from the High Court that MDC-T supporters/prisoners abducted almost a month ago be given a "habeas corpus" hearing. The "Government" of ZANU-PF/Mugabe is clearly in contempt of court, and an arrest warrant should be issued for the Minister of Home Affairs and Comrade Bob himself! No one is above the law - unless you're ZANU-PF and live in Zimbabwe!

Zimbabwe is now a country that has no rule of law except by the barrel of a gun or blade of a machete, that doesn't recognize or heed the rulings of their own courts, that cannot even feed itself, where people vote with their feet and flee the country, where the government cannot educate their children, or even provide medical care to deliver their children, where easily treatable diseases wreak havoc on the population, where people stand in line the entire day to withdraw their own savings from banks, where the currency they are able to withdraw is virtually worthless before they even get home, where the water that comes from their taps (when it comes at all) is poisonous and carries a disease their hospitals cannot even treat, a country where the central bank steals the foreign currency of foreign aid organizations yet still purchases plasma TV's and new cars for judges!

With all of these things going for them, one must ask why Zimbabweans would want change? Why would they want to cast aside the party that "liberated" them from colonial oppression? How ungrateful the people of Zimbabwe must be towards ZANU-PF and Comrade Bob for their efforts to rescue the people of Zimbabwe!

ZANU-PF/Mugabe are living in the same demented daydream that Nicolas Ceaucescu of Romania did. The same daydream of Idi Amin or Haile Selassie. Those who once led the liberation of Zimbabwe have only become the replacement of Ian Smith's repressive, racist regime.

Isn't it ominous that even the armed forces of Zimbabwe are starting to grumble? Didn't Czar Nicholas II lose the support of the Army that caused the October Revolution?

We all now what happened to Ceaucescu, Amin, Selasie and others like them - what does the future hold for Comrade Bob? Will he be immediately excuted by firing squad like Ceaucescu? Will he be held for a period and then executed by firing squad like Nicholas II and his family (even though the Bolsheviks dumped acid on the bodies of Nicholas II and his family to hide their remains)? Or will Comrade Bob escape to Malaysia and his millions?

Pete Townsend of "the Who" penned the words, "meet the new boss - just the same as the old boss".

Comrade Bob claimed, "Total Empowerment"

I have penned, "Total Empowerment" to starve, to be beaten, or raped, or tortured or murdered by ZANU-PF/Mugabe!

"Total Empowerment"!

Sure looks like a civil war coming on. How can the poor man on the street do anything else. Nothing seems to work in Zimbabwe and all the leaders want to do is talk..talk...talk. The leadership in Zimbabwe and South Africa really don't care. Instead of "let them eat cake" they have adopted "let them die." I can only hope the entire region is sanitized by the flames of revolution. Maybe something good would rise out of the ashes. The talky-talk just doesn't cut it...It is sad how badly those countries have wasted their independence.

The situation in now at the most urgent level.The Army will mostlikely overthrow Mugaba.Mugaba should be looking for a point for his exile.No one can govern that country presently simply because of thje level of collapse present.

These soldiers who should be defending the country have agreed to be used by Mugabe to brutalize the population during elections and demonstrations. Noone can demonstarte in ZW because of fear of the lawless treatment from police and soldiers.in defence of Mugabe. It is good that they now reap where they sowed. Sow oppression and lawlessness, the same comes back to bite you and your families. We are in this together and people must be allowed to express their free will. Adductions must stop. For Mbeki, I have never seen a mediator that biased from the beginning. I have also never seen a mediator so much desliked by one party but still insisting on meditiing. Mbeki you have been rejected. You failed in ANC. You were fired as RSA president. MDC, the majority party, has fired you. You failed to get international elders in the country, millions are dying under your mediation from willful neglect by Zanu PF. The Cholera epidemic spread to the threaten the whole region. For firing you, you are manufacturing cholera in ZImbabwe and unleashing it on South Africans and the region. This in effect is the net result of your action - you might not be aware of it. Very strong suggestion for the sake of Zimbabweans still alive and for the region's sake, recuse yourself now and let more impartial mediator finish this process.

This is definitely the mark of Mugabe's era. Mugabe is not the God of Zimbabwe. He should not think he is the life president. He has to step down and pave way for the new government. We certainly do not want to hear of war in Zim. Mugabe is unless, irrelevant and out of touch with the welfare of Zimbabweans and Africa at large. SADC countries, squeeze him out of his seat if he remains stubborn!!!

Boy, the REACTION from the neo-imperial West is at it again; this time recruiting a fifth column within the Armed Forces of Zimbabwe as its gang of elders, only armed. All for nothing, of course: in a few days, the Warrior and the loyal peop0le of Zimbabwe, true patriots, these, will deal with these two by four degenerates. Watch!

As the Great Fighter would put it: the degenerates will go hang, and hang they will, should it be determined that they are AGENTS of the neo-imperial western reaction, the archaic remnant of the days when Africans said "Yes Boss" to you know who.

Kindest Felicitations. Glory to the Great Warrior!

why dont you tell us more about this 5th column that you keep referring too. Only you mention it, so please explain yourself for the betterment of others... or like the rest of your posts would you rather just post things with the purpose to confuse?

Respectfully, I shall stay my rhetorical hand, for in my neck of the woods, it is Sunday, a holy day for those Africans who say they are Christians.

This, this, I say, however, must ROCK NOW:

Dude, I cannot respond to a text---YOURS---WHOSE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS make it almost impossible FOR ME to hang any sense to the same.

Now, is that "confusing" 'nuf for you, homey?

Hope, it sinks you into the depths of reflective confusion, DOMBOLO, while it sheds the piercing rays of Englightement on those who, similar to God's Lamb, are humble.

My Sermon on the Mount, you suppose?

Glory to the Great Fighter in Harare, the hammer of fifth columnists, African vel non!

Does anyone else think this guy belongs in the loony bin? If you cant understand why I wrote, then you need to go back to year 2 English class. It really wasnt that difficult. Clearly this 5th column nonsense is just some made up BS that you like to include in your posts to confuse people further. Why do you waste peoples time like this? You clearly know nothing about whats going on in zimbabwe.

Apparently, only YOU do. Learn to read closely, dude: I implied, to be sure, sub-rosa, urbanely, of course, that your syntactical and semantical CONTROL of the structures of the English Language inhibits comprehension of your prose.

Let the facts speak for themselves; invariably, they don't, but in this case, they DO. The text to which I am now responding is pregnant with syntactical and semantical faux pas that it is barely comprehensible.

I don't have the time to deal with writers of bad prose: good writing evidences a good mind and a good body, taut with muscle.

Coming from you, monsieur, the word "nonsense", yes, the lexeme "nonsense" does not faze me. When you stammer "nonsense," I know I have hit a nerve, and that gives me a groove. Dig it?

Lastly, whenever, a writer says "clearly," I know he or she does not know what he or she is talking about. If something is clear, it need not be said that it is "clear." The clarity would be PERSPICUOUS, which means evident clarity that does not need the incense of "clearly."

I advise that you first master the grammatical structure of the English Language. Second, hone in rhetorical discursive tropes. Third, think rigorously.

Use Cdr. Mugabe as a model: a great thinker, not to mention fighter of fifth columnists.

A luta continua!

In my opinion, I never read worse prose in my life. You just can't write, dude. Fortunately, hopefully, there is still time to do that, assuming you have the will to learn, to sample Nitzsche.

Forget about your wrongheaded views about Cdr. Mugabe for two weeks, and learn how to write.

Good luck on a task most worthy.

jallohlaw proves what crack cocaine does to the users mind!

Can someone please tell me why we are being allowed to suffer this way? Why is it that no one will stand up to the main man?

These Zim soldiers deserve to suffer. But I caution Zimbabweans against thinking that these 'Mugabe worshiping people' have now turned against their leader. I smell a rat. The three major political parties agreed on the constitutional amendment bill number 19 in South last week and the soldiers rampage immediately after that. The MDC should not be fooled by the reaction of these 'Mugabe men and women'. They are making a stand against the Inclusive Government. They want ZANU (PF) and Mugabe to govern alone. Why do I say this? Beside rampaging and attacking bank officials; the soldiers also attacked parallel market traders, confiscating foreign currency and goods; they beat up innocent people in the streets etc. Ony a hardened fool can assume they are acting against Mugabe. I am beginning to think Mugabe has asked the soldiers to make the country ungovernable so that the envisaged inclusive government will never have a chance to ascend to power.