There is shocking lack of accountability everywhere in the region. Birds of a feather flock together. South African voters should take note and ensure their leaders are accountable, before theybecome more and more like their allies in Harare.

Knowing how corrupt Bob is he must be waving a few notes under someones eyes in South Africa

It is ok if the aid will help the country but knowing Zanu PF they would pretend as though its coming from their own pockets, poor souls. But knowing the majority of the beneficiaries implements will end up being sold at Mbare Musika. Madinga anenge asina mari manje.

The Government of South Africa knows that its struggle---the LAND QUESTION---is Zimbabwe's.

Moreover, Zimbabwe has taken concrete steps towards the resolution of the land question: take it by FORCE from the thieving 'rhodies' who stole it AB INITIO from the Africans.

It is quite obvious that South African has done nothing about the land question. And, when she does, she will have to face the archaic attitudes of the REACTION in the neo-imperial West.

Look, Cdr. Mugabe may die tomorrow; the land question will not die with him---sorry, 'rhodies'.

Moreover, the Zimbabwean problem is only tangentially related to the formal, easily manipulable 'principles' of 'democracy'.

We view 'democracy' as a FALSIFIABLE THEORY OF INTERSUBJECTIVE INTERACTION; A FACT, IT AIN'T, IN OUR VIEW. Acccordingly, dogmatic appeals to 'democractic principles' reveals the theoretical ignorance of the dogmatists in London and Washington.

Hence, the issue is not about democracy at all.

No, No, and No again: it is all about THE LAND AND NOTHING ELSE BESIDES.

Cdr. Mugabe hit them where it really hurts: zone land.

AND THE LAND WILL NEVER, NEVER, NEVER A ZILLION TIMES REVERT.

Merry Christmas from OPERATION LAND TENURE IN THE CITY OF LAND MATTERS, HARARE.

Jabbajaw....."Zimbabwe has taken concrete steps towards the resolution of the land question: take it by FORCE from the thieving 'rhodies' who stole it AB INITIO from the Africans"....Idiot, where did the Rhodies take it when they stole it? Who got rich? where did the money come from that built the infrastructure of hospitals,schools, cities with cleanwater and power,employment and opportunities for all that was in such good shape when it was democratically handed over to all people of Zimbabwe.Who stole that eh?

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I am not a Rhodesian and none of my family have ever been Rhodesians The good people of the world care for the good Zimbabweans not for any gain from Zimbabwe, but we are all disgusted at what mugabe and regime have done to there own. mugabe and regime are the lowest and foulest leaders Africa has ever known! They care nothing at all for there people and have destroyed the best country in Africa for there own greed! I hope mugabe and regime die the most foul death possible and even then it is not just desserts for them!

Taking the land back - is the most important thing ever done by any african leader. Unfortunately there are others who want the same land and will do anything. Note well anything.

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I left "Ian Smith's Rhodesia" 30 years ago. As far as I am concerned, Bob the Tsotsi is worse than Cecil Rhodes. I look forward to the day Bob, his generals, the CID chief, police chief and all of his murderous thugs are in chains in front of a judge, in The Hague. Is there anything lower than that which kills it's own ?

How can you tell this thread is being run by a Zanu. Zanus love to accuse others of their own crimes.

Zanu-PF is much more racist than the Rhodies ever were. Whites in Zimbabwe have no rights, even if they arrived after independence to buy farms.

Perhaps it is not all about racism, though. Mugabe hates everyone in the world, even his own countrymen. Zanu-PF has committed far more crimes against humanity against their own people than the Rhodies ever did. The biggest betrayal of the liberation struggle is making the people of Zimbabwe wish they were back in Rhodesia. They were much better off then. They had some rights, food and healthcare. They even had education.

I wonder how much of the 300,000,000 rand will left after it's all been sold on the black market to line Zanu pockets. Zanu will steal anything they have contrrol of. This is why the country has gone to hell in a hand basket.

What kind of President and leader encourages lawlessness? Was encouraging mobs to rise up and invade farms really the most responsible way to go about recovering farmland? Does the gutting of all farm infrastructure really help the people of Zimbabwe have three square meals a day?

Does the collapse of the underpinnings of the Zimbabwean economy really help the people of Zimbabwe survive?

Does forcing shop owners to sell goods for less than they cost to acquire help keep the shelves full?

Is it helpfull to take over every sector of the economy that is performing adequately and stealing everything until there are no more corners of the economy to steal?

Is Zanu-PF legally allowed to take as much money from the governement as they need for any partisan purpose? Have Gideon Gono's actions been constitutional?

Why has Mugabe's illegal and unconstitutional election runoff been allowed to stand? Should the ZRP apply the law in a partisan manner and arrest victims that come to file a complaint and keep them in inhumane conditions? Should anyone in Zanu-PF be allowed to commit any crime with impunity? Should election challenges be delayed until after the next election?

Should women and children and old people be allowed to die horrible deaths simply because they don't support a corrupt regime?

In Jallohlaw's world, the answer to all these questions is yes. What colour is the sky in your world, Jallohlaw? I expect it is burning red.

Zanu-PF has encouraged the break down in law and order because they don't believe in it and it helps them maintain the terror in their country which keeps them in power.

I hope for the best for the people of Zimbabwe in the coming year. I know they won't forget which neighbours helped their abuser and which neighbours helped the people. Shame on you South Africa for turning your back on the people of Zimbabwe after the world helped free South Africa. Mbeki has been such an ally of Mugabe's that I think he should face charges in the Hague as well. He has insisted on taking the lead all along but has only blocked any kind of action to help the people of Zimbabwe. SADC is now a laughing stock around the world for being a club for dictators. I hope that the G7 will take note and shut down all development funding to Southern Africa. This money just ends up in the pockets of corrupt politicians anyway.

Zanu-PF types will likely label me a racist and a colonist for daring to tell it like it is. They find it hard to believe that I don't want to invade Zimbabwe. Nobody want s to take Zimbabwe, we just want to free it. It's all about sovereignty. The people of Zimbabwe have had their sovereignty stolen by a gang of thugs for long enough.

A pack of strategically packaged lies.

Cheers from the City of Truth, HARARE.

Once again, J-hollow answers a post with name-calling, he never actually gets around to disputing the actual FACTS when it comes to Zimbabwe, does he, he just goes on spouting his invective or hatred to any poster who accuses ZANU-PF/Mugabe of malfeasance..........

J-hollow - like the other defenders of the ZANU-PF/Mugabe regime cannot actually explain the factual shortcomings of the government of ZANU-PF/Mugabe! If anyone posts here suggesting a new era or "different path" in Zimbabwe (according to people like J-hollow), we must be "Rhoadies" or otherwise racist.........

Now once again J-hollow (for your posts are as empty as your intellect): Answer all of us how the "reign" of ZANU-PF/Mugabe has been good for Zimbabwe!

FACT: Life expectancy in Zimbabwe is lower now under the "stewardship" of ZANU-PF than it was under the racist regime of Ian Smith!

FACT: Schools are now closed, no children in ZImbabwe are being properly educated. Under the racist regime of Iam Smith, the schools remained open! Even Comrade Bob was able to continue his studies while in prison!

FACT: Zimbabwe is suffering from an epidemic of cholera, which is an easily treatable disease throughout the rest of the world - what is ZANU-PF/Mugabe's excuse? Didn't Comrade Bob say "We have arrested cholera in Zimbabwe"? If only ZANU-PF "arrested cholera as well as he "arrested" his political opponents......

FACT: Under the racist regime of Ian Smith, Hospitals were open and provided treatment to ALL Zimbabweans! FACT: Zimbabwe is suffering under unimagineable inflation! Inflation runs so rampant that bank's computers cannot keep up with it! Didn't "Comrade" Gono lop off 9 or 10 zeroes of the national currency only several months ago? So, logically, doesn't Zimbabwe's current currency represent "18" zeroes? Yet "Comrade" Gono continues to print money?

FACT: You have begun to characterize the actions of ZANU-PF/Mugabe on these boards as "WE" (just like TAK did). Once again, I thank you for "outing" yourself as a ZANU-PF troll on this board. I did not have to do it, you have done it yourself!

Again, I would ask the rest of us here that look forward to a future Zimbabwe without cretins like J-hollow to ignore posters like him - he is clearly a CIO or JOC troll on this board!

For the rest of us - I am not a supporter of either faction of MDC. I am not a Zimbabwean, and I have never been to Zimbabwe! I have no ancestors here in the U.S. who ever held or profited by slavery (my family came to the U.S. in the 1890's). I hold NO investments related to financial dealings in Zimbabwe and have instructed my broker to make sure my investments do not include a Zimbabwean-exposed company - as ALL of my family has instructed their brokers!

I have "no dog in this hunt" meaning I am simply an uninterested American who sees injustice for what it is! Don't even try the "Iraq" argument with me because I opposed the war to begin with AND there have been fewer deaths in Iraq under occupation then there were under Saddam Hussein's regime (see mass graves!)! Just like as was the case with the end of apartheid, concerned citizens the world over can (and should!) denounce injustice wherever it rears it's ugly head. Simply because we oppose the brutal regime of ZANU-PF/Mugabe does NOT make us racists, colonizers or "Rhoadies"!

ZANU-PF/Mugabe is an organzation (NOT a Government) that took it's mantle as a liberation party and turned it into a yoke for ALL Zimbabweans to labor under. The truth of the matter is in the FACTS J-hollow, not that you ever come close to using FACTS in your posts!

I argue that the future of Zimbabwe requires a government that actually improves the daily lives of ALL Zimbabweans - even those who have sworn allegience to and profited by the government of ZANU-PF/Mugabe! Unlike the daily yelps from the Herald about the "government doing this" and the "government doing that", what have they actually DONE to improve the lives of the people of Zimbabwe? Answer? NOTHING!

People like J-hollow fill their posts with invective and seek to denounce their opponents as "Rhoadies" and racists. I am neither, I will not allow these boards to be cluttered with hate and ignorance. When I post, I post FACTS!

J-hollow does neither of these things. He never posts about the "great" accomplishments of the "great fighter" (small G, small F) because ZANU-PF/Mugabe has actually accomplished nothing great. They did not "liberate" Zimbabwe - PF-ZAPU had something to do with that! Aside from that, they have presided over a decline in living standards, life expectancy, education and healthcare - what sort of bill of indictment do you need to reach people like J-hollow?

The FACTS are J-hollow: 85% Unemployment; 231 MILLION per cent inflation (unofficially it is "quadrillions"); 30% of the population has left the country; Schools are closed for lack of instructors AND lack of clean drinkng water; Hospitals are closed for lack of supplies & wages; the Police arrest people and then deny they have arrested them - then, when they are confronted with that lie, they then make up another.

J-hollow: You did not respond in your post to a single accusation I made in my post as an indictment of ZANU-PF/Mugabe's "stewardship" of Zimbabwe in the post-liberation era.

Your supposedly "superior intellect" is perhaps confused when confronted with FACTS? You make up words as if your English correspondence course required you to make up words for a vocabulary test! I don't need a spelling or grammar lessons from an imbicile like you!

I deal with FACTS! I have never seen one of your posts ever attempt to defend the actual FACTUAL record of ZANU-PF/Mugabe because you can't!

Let's hope, that when the final blow falls, you will either be out of the country (as I suspect you already are) or you will be shown true mercy, as befits Zimbabwe, by not putting your back against the wall with Comrade Bob himself!

In a battle of ideals, the FACTS always win out - despite the errors in spelling and grammar. The FACTS say that ZANU-PF/Mugabe has FAILED to provide the people of Zimbabwe with it's proper standard of living, Education, healthcare, clean water, rule of law, free press, free elections, etc.. Any aimless rhetorical flourishes you add to the conversation are a mere distraction from the FACT of what ZANU-PF/Mugabe has caused the current Zimbabwe to become!

I argue about FACTS! You just wallow in the mud and muck of name-calling like a pig in mud! In the end, the truth always prevails! Someone like J-hollow always ends up like a Goebbels, a Molotov or Beria, a "Chemical Ali" or "Bagdad Bob", an Erick Honnecker or Nicholas Ceaucesceu! I argue with the truth of facts! All you ever do is call people names! You must be one of those whose backs are truly "up against the wall"!

If you want to argue facts, then let's argue facts! If you want to hide behind fake obscure words accusing your opponents, then you have shown yourself to be the coward we all think you to be!

Salutorious greetings from the cholera-free, schools-are-open, hospitals-are-staffed, we-just-elected-a-black-man-president, currency-is-not-worthless, press-is-free-to-insult-the-Government, inflation-is-only-3-4%, 30% of-our-population-has-not-left-the-country, elections-are-free-and-fair, nation of the United States!

"Total Empowerment!" - how free do you (Zimbabwe) really feel?

J-hollow: How empty do you feel? Answer me with FACTS, not abuse.................

Ecce Homo: the last gasp of the sired losers of Cecil Rhodes.

Pathetic.

WE GOT THE LAND, BABY, AND THERE AIN'T A DAMN THING YOU OR YOUR MASTERS IN THE NEO-IMPERIAL CIRCLES IN THE WEST CAN DO ABOUT IT. NADA, NADA, AND NADA, AGAIN.

FIGHTING WORDS FROM THE CITY OF TAKE NO CRAP FROM RHODIES AND THEIR IMPERIAL MASTERS, HARARE.

It is amusing you just reverse everything! mugabe and regime are having the last grasp!

Empty significative projection.

The cap fits you quite nicely, rhodie.

DUMBEH.

Reflective Rockets from the City of 'rhodie' TERMINATORS, HARARE

Jallohlaw resides not only in an imaginary city of Harare but has imaginary Rhodesian enemies wanting to reclaim a dirt-bag of a country where the sick are taken to hospitals in Scotch carts and when there are lifted in blankets up stairs to the wards as even hospital elevators no longer work, just to die. Who would want that? Those born in 'Rhodesia' are now mid-life to older and who would want to go to a country where the water supply is full of shit and causing untold deaths due to cholera and where the standard of living is so bad that even its citizens are fleeing by the millions. You have the land because it is incapable of running away but if it could, it would have fled too to where it will be nurtured and farmed to produce its best. Whatever farming implements South Africa has given Zimbabwe, whether claimed by Zanu-pf morons or not, will go to rust. Keep your land but do something productive with it as it was intended to do. Why do you think the land is called 'mother earth'? Because it feeds and nourishes its children. All that your land is doing is receiving the dead - people beaten and defeated by disease and a dirty old bat, Mugabe, dripping with the blood of innocent Zimbabweans.

I reiterate: it is all about the land: the land, I say again.

Mister ephemeral, do you know tha the European Imperialists measured their successes on the basis, and that exclusively, on the basis of the African acreage they had STOLEN?

Deny that, and I'll be constrained by historical rationality to call you a historical ignoramus. Accordingly, go ahead and deny my claim. When you do, presto: an ignoramus you will be in modus RES GESTA.

You talk generations? Let us not even go there: the zone of archaic attitudes of 'racial' "superiority and similar hocus pocus in the dickens.

Or, do you still want to slide down there. We will be waiting with our ZANU/PF RHETORICAL BULLETS. And, down, down, deep you'll sink. Lonta.

Repeat after me, if you can: THE AFRICANS GOT THE LAND THE BRITISH IMPERIALISTS STOLE FROM THEIR ANCESTORS.

If you think this is the end, you have another think coming: when the people of South Africa DEMAND THEIR LAND FROM RENTIER 'WHITE' 'OWNERS,' YOU GUYS WILL SEE RED.

Cheers from the City that launched the AFRICAN CENTURY, HARARE.

Having the land and letting it go to waste like it has donesince 2000, is as close as you get to premeditated genocide. If mugabe, regime and followers want land to totally waste i will GIVE, yes give them millions of hectares of desert to call there own, just give the productive land of Zimbabe to people that want to farm properly!

No point in having productive land just to look at! The people or scum that now have the productive farms are doing a great crime to all Zimbabweans and will be hung by the neck in the future for it. The scum that have taken over the farms since 2000 are the worst farmers in the history of the world, that is saying something when it is 2008 and the world now knows how to abide by best farming practices! The scum that have the farms since 2000 do not deserve to have the land or to even call themselves Zimbabweans because they are 100000000000000 times worse than any colonial farmer because they have destroyed everything like little children that lose at cricket!

IT specialist that read this, please trace jallohlaw's IP and location and let everyone know!

jallohlaw, I will be happy to repeat after you that "The Africans got the land the British imperialists stole from their ancestors." The story, however, does not end there. Those" imperialists" loved the land. They nurtured and fertilized it and fed the Africans. Together with the Africans, they developed a well run and fiscally sound Rhodesia. No sooner did they leave, Mugabe and his band of greedy thieving bastards not only stole the land from the Zimbabwean people, but stole their money leaving their country flat broke and did nothing with the land. Now there is untold hunger and disease as the old gnat Mugabe and his Zanu-pf blood suckers are such ignorant stupid fools. There the land sits rainy season after rainy season and the bloody thieves sit on their haunches waiting for the the world to feed the helpless nation. You have the land - so what? What shameless, greedy, lazy ignorant bozos you thieves are.

LIAR: 'WHITES' did not leave; they were bulldozed by POWERFUL zanu/pf fighters, and the same fighters took the land.

The story, dude, begins and ends with the land question.

Cheers from the City of THE LONG MEMORY, HARARE.

jallohlaw "The city of the long memory, Harare" sure has just that - memories of the good old days its people could have sadza thee times a day, have clean drinking water, good hospitals, steaks as big as as ever and other foodstuffs plentiful, hot fresh bread from Lobels, mopane trees laden with macimbis. Man what memories for Harare indeed! Sadly it all changed when a decrepit old greedy buzzard, Mugabe, destroyed it all. How sad.

You obviously don't understand the idiomatic content of the THEMATIZED word string: "LONG MEMORY."

The talk ends here, right now, given your SUN CLEAR ignorance.

Cheers from the City of Erudition, HARARE.

Jallohlaw, your head is full of pumpkin seeds that is why you write crap. You obviously think you are smart and witty but guess what? You stink. Just plain immature.

Silly, twerp of an obliterated 'rhodesia.'

I don't THINK that I am "smart," since the proferred determination of that moribund construct is the racist hocus in the dickens of "IQ,"

One soupist from Sierra Leone, Sylvia Blyden, tried to draw blood with that one. I invite you to visit the Gambian site to view the reflective bones of the arch soupist.

Thereafter, you'd think twice before you essay to trick me into a rhetorical bridge to nowhere: a discourse of intelligence.

Get this into your rhodie 'brain': I DON'T DO METACRITIQUES OF THE REALIZATION OF MY SOUL IN VERBA.

Cheers from the City of Humility in Erudition, HARARE.

Blah blah blah. Whenever I see the Author as Shallowhead I simply pass over it now. No point wasting my time as its always incomprehensible nonsense and never adds anything, and its always the same. Nonsense followed by nonsense followed by nonsense. No doubt his reply to this will be the same... and prove me right...

Mugabe is a eunuch who was castrated by Ian Smith that is why he is subjecting Zimbabweans through this never before known human suffering. Him and Mbeki are sadistic old eunuchs.

Please take your pornographic trash to the West, where women---your mother and my mother---are made objects of 'sex'.

WE AFRICANS RESPECT OUR MOTHERS.

Additionally, this false story, even in its BLAZING falsehood shows that rhodies led by smithie, the military blunderer, was a BARBARIAN, N'EST PAS, mons. rhodie?

CHEERS FROM THE CITY OF TERMINATORS OF THE BARBARIC HABITUS, HARARE

I'd rather have the porn of the west that the number of rapes there are in Zimbabwe. You say "WE AFRICANS RESPECT OUR MOTHERS", but why are so many raped by cowards?

Like BOB u murdered thousnds of Ndebeles , kicked whites off their farms and gave them to the elite of his party and goes yelling at foreign heads of states who dare speak against him - respect others and u will be respected -too late!!!These foreign heads of states should close all the zimbabwe embassies abroad until this man apologises

A fine example of PanAfricanism at it's best.

The South Africans obviously thought that as McGarbage is a black African then he couldn't possibly use the food for his own ends and of course as a man of his word and naturally being black and African he would act with honour and use the aid for it's intended purpose because as we know, no self respecting black african would cause his own people to suffer, after all it's just white people who do that. Being black does not automatically qualify one to be canonised a Saint.

Tragic, Ironic, and for those of us with only the blackest sense of humour hilariously funny. If one didn't laugh at these people, one would undoubtedly weep.

Mugabe does what the hell he wants, and when he wants. And unfortunately he still has his pal Mbeki calling the shots for South Africa. Mbeki is the troublemaker amongst this South African lot. Get rid Mbeki and things might improve in the unity demands.

Next you'll be asking for the "death of God" (Nietzsche) to get back the LAND.

Man, it really got to these 'rhodies' the day the armed MIGHT of African militants seized by FORCE OF ARMS in broad daylight THE LAND THAT CECIL RHODES AND BRITISH IMPERIALISM STOLE FROM THE AFRICANS, as Fela would put it "long, long, long tem ago."

REFLECTIVE ROCKETS FROM THE CITY OF THE CRITIQUE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, HARARE.

hahaha, yes you attacked them like a paper tiger!

You need a history lesson.

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The South African Govt has done the right thing,since the puppet tsvangirai has decided with advice from his masters in the west (Uk, USA) to hold the country to ransom and disregard the SADC;s solution to form a unity Govt, the only thing a reasonable African Govt would do is sidestep him and go on to find ways to release the effects of the illegal and criminal sanctions imposed by the thieving west that,s brought the entire country to a halt.We think tsvangirai is not for the interest of ordinary Zimbabwean, if so he would have long ago signed to help bring the country back from it,s present state, he is a sellout and a shame to himself and every reasonable thinking African that know,s where we are coming from.The South African act should be copied continent wide and thereby obliterate the effects of these illegal and criminal sanctions imposed by criminals from thieving and racist Govts hellbent on stealing Africa,s God given heritage.We are better prepared now than before and if some idiotic threads in here are to be believed, why fight over a worthless and useless Zimbabwe? they(idiots) should come up with answers to that question.The notable progressive African writers that post in here and other notable fighters of the African cause, keep up the fight, we support your views and can,t be swayed by liars and thieves who,ll stop at nothing to rob us clean as their ancestors have been doing and as they wish to continue, message is, we,ll stop you this time.South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, we are waiting,push out these thieves and racists that are making life hell for you, you,ll readily get our support.More importantly, never ever forget what the ancestors went through in the hands of criminal aliens that invaded African long ago and stole and continue to steal her wealth.Happy and more prosperous new year to all the erudite African writers and as well as the Africans who,s views are not read here but who share the same feelings of hatred for thieves masquerading as saviours,evil masquerading as good.Before we were caught unawares, this time we wait for you with our eyes wide open.

Rafil, you are wasting so much energy dodging imaginary bullets from "imperialists." This constant cry about the West imposing sanctions is getting tiresome for how many times can it be explained to you that the sanctions are on Mugabe and some of his affiliates ONLY. Where do all your basic essentials that Zimbabwe cannot manufacture or grow come from? The West? You have open trading with South Africa and ALL surrounding African countries with no restrictions. In other words you are free to sell or buy as much goods as you want from these African neighbours - no sanctions, no nothing - so where do you come off blaming the West for Zimbabwe's collapse? MUGABE has stolen your country's money that is why you are dying from cholera because he cannot supply you with the means to purify your water, that is why he cannot pay the country's electrical bill, and that is why he cannot afford to import enough food to feed the nation. Whatever foreign exchange he does not steal, he uses to lick the boots of those other Zanu-pf murderers who keep him in power.

kjrs, why waste so much energy lying to the world to not see the reason Zimbabawe is in the state it,s now in.Before he took the land your criminal and racist ancestors forcibly took from the natives, all was fine and smooth running, it takes only a fool to not see the signs on the wall and you assume all African will believe your hogwash of a story,by now you should know that on a level playing field you people of western extract are not better intellectually,we know you better now and previously never really knew your sorth.If according to you it,s through Mugabe,s corruption that Zimbabwe is on it,s knees, where has he lodged all that money?I bet you know where the money is,in your offshore banks where you keep all stolen monies from Africa and other parts of the world.Your race should be ashamed of their actions against the world.Unfortunately,Africans were the last to really know you people,most of you were born racist,greedy, and so proud you don,t even know where you are coming from.

Rafil, you obviously go about life with huge blinkers. Now firstly think for a moment on your statement that "All was just smooth running" in your country before the arrival of the white man. What was your population then? What is your population now? What were your daily needs? You cannot compare the living conditions then and now. All you needed to do to travel was hop on a donkey or simply use Zim-foot. You wore skins of animals for clothing and lived in huts made of sticks with mud in between, mud on the floor sometimes smeared over with cows' manure for carpeting and thatch for roofing. Perfect for those days. Today you need a whole lot of different things to survive, a whole different life style, and that is where Mugabe and Zanu-pf come in and this is where you need to really remove those blinkers. Look at your own life-style and all your needs today. You need MONEY to survive. You need a car and not a donkey for transportation. Need I say more? There is no question of Mugabe stealing and misappropriating Zimbabwean money and that is why the banks have seen it necessary to freeze it as part of Mugabe's personal sanctions. You cannot blame banks for holding Zimbabwe's money stolen by Mugabe. Banks accept everyone's money and they don't ask you at the door if your deposit is stolen. Thefts only come to light when the law is alerted or when heads of government behave like lunatics such as Mugabe, requiring nations to impose personal sanctions on them. Which banks? Ask Mugabe. The land issue is another point. Why do you think it was that as soon as as those white farmers were evicted from the farms there was no food in your country and yet those very same farms remained and never moved an inch. Well I will again quote you "it takes only a fool to not see the signs on the wall" that Mugabe has no brains. He greedily snatched those farms to keep as trophies. Why did he not first teach the masses how to farm and then share them equitably among the people? Zimbabwe is not his and it does not belong to a mad dog. It belongs to the people. To conclude, there are NO sanctions on Zimbabwe. Please tell me any African country that has denied to trade with her because there are sanctions on her. NONE because there are NONE. Because Zimbabwe has no money - it has no buying power and no one in their right mind will give her credit because Mugabe's fingers are too long. As for the intellect, it is not a matter of race. It all depends on how we use it. You it seems, are not using yours and if you go through life with an inferiority complex, succumbing to Mugabe's brainwashing, always looking back and not forward, you will never amount to anything useful for your country. Slogans and rhetoric without discernment will only get you to your front door.