Hhhmmm mm m...Donald Steinberg ... sound like some one whose own ethnic group is responsible for the on-going wanton slaughter of Palastines ...pregnant mothers, children, old grannies and grandpas, the sick and disabled etc etc palastines ... which is very akin to the many times innocent Jews were subjected to massacres and banishments at the hands of various European powers in the past 2000 years. And yet you have the guts to try to apply the same approach to Zimbabwe. How dare you, sir, make a demand that our President, RMG, should never stand for office again ... on what morals or principles do you base your dastard proposition? You are a racist just like your uncle Adolf Hitler. I am told that actually the Furher had Jewish blood! Admittedly, there has been instances of maladministration and mistakes by the current gvt in Great Zimbabwe, but the main culprit for the suffering of Zimbabweans is the economic sanctions targetted against the various organs of gvt ... namely health, education and communication by the English speaking nations led by the UK, USA, Canada and Australia . I am not an anti-semitic person as l have very long term close friends among Jews. On one hand, you rightly condemn the NAZIs slaughter of the innocent but you hold condemnation of the actions of Zionists in Palastine. Explain!?!

Hhhhmm...AKAPFUNDE...sounds like someone whose own ethnic group is responsible for the ongoing slaughter of MDC supporters...pregnant mothers, children, old grannies, grandpas, the sick and disabled. Beating up of two year olds and murdering another group of thousands of Ndebele. Akapfunde you are quick to say that you are not anti- Semitic - liar.

Believe it or not, l have very nice Jews as friends. "thousands of Ndebeles..." you claim!!! How about the thousands of Shonas murdered in the Entumbani slaughter long before the 5th brigade was sent into stop a UNITA scenario developing in the west of Great Zimbabwe. How about the thousands of Shonas slaughted by Tebele raiders for over fifty years ... the flow of Shona blood led the rebel leader (Musirikadzi) of the people, Tswanas nicknamed Tebele-tebele, to call his Kraal "kwaBulawayo" .... a place of killing and slaughter. It is Shonas who were being slaughted by the Tebele-tebele, as the Mangwato would called their maurading raiders. Dont scratch the past, we all have an axe to grind. I did rather stick to the future but l shall not hestate topoint out a few painful facts. But life goes on.

Akapfunde, you have just proved my point. So who are you to point a finger when you too have such a history?

I thought AK47 would turn into a new leaf with the new year! Alas! He is the same crass, outdated, out of touch, full of hypocrisy, hate and revenge!

I say before appointing a neutral government, the bloodstained Mugabe, at the root of all the ills in Zimbabwe, should be put behind iron bars awaiting trial at the ICC for crimes against his innocent people.

There is no future with Mugabe. He wasted 28 precious years to completely destroy the fabrics of the Zimbawean economy and plunge the people into a cholera ridden country.

Yet lunatics like Jallohlaw, AK47 & gand continue to praise the monster that Mugabe has turned into!

Let's just hope that Mr. Mugabe can last 10 more years with the aid of South Africa and SADC, for that is probably the only way that Zimbabweans won't lose their much coveted resources (land, etc.) that Mr. Mugabe has fought so long and hard to return to them (the West's massive lying machine notwithstanding). By then, hopefully, there will be enough people like Takunya_Ndebvu, Rafil and a few others on this board to continue the fight against the massive resources of the West gained from centuries of the enslavement of Africans and the stealing of their natural resources, something which they seem determined to do for as long as they can find African collaborators to do their bidding.

This is a good article, prescribing a way forward from the current stalemate. So what if the writer has a Jewish sounding name? What a rotten a regressive critique. We need to focus on solutions and not empty rhetoric.

Well you cant argue with that!

For gods sake think about the people who are suffering, those who have died bsce of this cholera epidemic, those children whose parents have been taken from them and are now orphans there seems to be too much biggering going on

Schizo soupist has completely lost it.

For God's sake, it is "God's sake," not, unequivocally, "gods sake." O.K, unlettered soupist Schizo-bipolsr SB from soupified West Africa?

Sense: Fight the sanctions under a cris de guerre imposed by Clinton, the racist from dixie, Jesse Helms, and Biden---imposed under the mendacious proxy of a concern for a democratic dispenstion. Mendacity, encore. The sanctions were imposed to reinstate rhodie 'ownership' of land that rhodies stole from African 'natives.'

NONSENSE: Ths sanctions were imposed because of a dearth of democracy.

Even Satan cannot utter a more glaring lie.

Now, Mrs. Clinton, we have you under our radar; your husband, one of the disgraced 'elders,' is responsible for the suffering of innocent Zimbabwean lives. And, may we remind you that your boss is an African-African, whose father probably lived in 'native lands.'

AGAIN, THE LAND WILL NEVER REVERT.

Cris de resistance from the City of "the land will never revert," Harare.

Hollowjaw, all you ever do is come on here and say that the content of anyone who says anything against Mugabe is nonsense. Yet you have no argument to back up your comments. Its easy to simply come on here and say that peoples comments are nonsense. It takes an intelligent man to come on here and use logic and sensible argument to rebut another persons comments. But you never do it. You just come here and waste peoples time. It really is quite sad, and extremely childish. Nonsense here, nonsense there. No one even cares what you say anymore because you never have anything constructive to say.

And you always go and make yourself look even more stupid by signing if with some childish piece about where you are from. It really is pathetic.

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Hollowjaw, all you ever do is come on here and say that the content of anyone who says anything against Mugabe is nonsense. Yet you have no argument to back up your comments. Its easy to simply come on here and say that peoples comments are nonsense. It takes an intelligent man to come on here and use logic and sensible argument to rebut another persons comments. But you never do it. You just come here and waste peoples time. It really is quite sad, and extremely childish. Nonsense here, nonsense there. No one even cares what you say anymore because you never have anything constructive to say.

And you always go and make yourself look even more stupid by signing if with some childish piece about where you are from. It really is pathetic.

PS Soupist is still not a word! No matter how many times you try and use it!

PS No matter how many times you use the word "soupist" it still is not a word!

haha you would so suck at scrabble!

Dear AllAfrica:

We suspect that you area neutral body only interested in disseminating news. [Probably not]

You have featured many guests who write eloquent opinions AGAINST Zimbabwe.

Surely you can find one who can write eloquently FOR Zimbabwe, can't you? [Or is it your stand that the Zimbabwe natives have no story to tell and they need the foreigner to speak for them?]

Choko,there is plenty of beautiful things to be said about Zimbabwe.The strength and perserverence of her people, the sweat and toil that carved a slice of Africa into a remarkable jewel that would shine like a lighthouse beacon .A lighthouse that would shine a light so bright that all of Africa could find their way.In one word ,one name for example ,LOVE!! many things come to your mind,Your wife, husband, lover,good food ,beer,a walk in the bush,fishing,soul slapping music whatever! One word ZIMBABWE,......cholera,corruption,a sense of loss and much suffering.It's about time Zanu and the like unclenched their fists, and all hold out their hands for the brothers and sisters of all Zimbabwe. If one loves their country why should they destroy it from the inside out.

Perhaps you could do it? Perhaps you could add more comments like the one you made that stated that nearly 1 million children were raped in the UK last year. That would make All Africa even more credible dont you think? You know, with good honest people like yourself... .haha what a joke.