Well thats to be expected. Why does Zimbabwe need to get out the begging bowl? When Mugabe took over Zimbabwe it didnt need a begging bowl. So much for the racist apartheid regime of Ian Smith. Even when Zimbabwe had FULL sanctions on it as Rhodesia it still had petrol, a health care system and the country ran well. By our actions we admit we failed as a nation. Ian Smith must be laughing in his grave for he was right. We truely dont know how to govern our country. I also note that our brothers over the borders have plenty to say in support of Mugabe but when it comes to putting their money where it fits it is far short of their support for Mugabe. But thats Africa big words, big plans, but little action and little work.

Investments will surely be flowing in again after criminal Mugabe takes the back seat in the GNU. otherwise, it would be very hard for Tsvangirai to convince donors to contribute in the absence of proper mechanisms to ensure money is spent judiciously.

Had Mugabe be a "patriot" and "a hero", he would have stepped down a long time ago in the higher interest of the nation.

Who said this tyrant devil Mugabe was either a hero or a patriot?

He loves Dollars and power. He will continue to kill, maim and rape just to retain his Dollars and illegitimate power!

All what needs to be done is that all the stolen billions in the ZanuPooF coffers need to be siezed by the state, all that cash could rebuild the country about 5 times over.

This whole article is so stupid and foolish. You really expect Zimbabwe within months to raise one billion? Are you out of your mind? This is very typical of people who have joined an industry of always going to the most hyperbolic things to write about Zimbabwe. Majority of US Zimbabweans do not believe that money will be raised so soon. But aha...Jonathan Muleya and SW radio feel everything has to be done now?? You must be crazy. There is hope in Zimbabwe, given the $400 million raised so far. Most of us think this will be in increments. The GNU is still having problems, and it is expected that more money will come in only when thinks start to move in the right direction. Some of you who wish Zimbabwe would fail are beginning to panic and have started overblowing expectations in Zimbabwe. It is also a miracle that Fellow Africans have raised money for Zimbabwe. It is wonderful, because we know they care. That is progress, not hyped up false expectations, entirely based on false assumption. IGIVE THIS ARTICLE AN "F" FOR TALKING RUBBISH!!!

Wonder what $400 million in southern african credits look like? Probably a lot like those $billions in vouchers that uncle bob is passing around to the green bombers and the army. Im sure that these credits would be good for things like the farm inputs that the Zanuobos sold over the border; buying back hundreds of millions of foreign aid with imaginary money sounds like a wonderful plan. The boyz could just go over the border and turn it back into real cash. This would even prop up the imaginary farm credits which would lead to a huge imaginary farm suplus which could be sold again!! Bob could boast that he is the leader in imaginary credits economics. I dont see a real nobel prize here, but, who needs the nordics and their carbon credits anyway!

Dear Readers , There is a climate in America and the financial world that secretly has been

"cooking the books" while they rob us. For example most financial information that is

reported only focuses on "The Budget ". A Budget is the amount of money we would

need to run our household on a specific time schedule (e.g. weekly budget, monthly

budget, yearly budget ).

When they tell us they have a "Budget Deficit ", they are actually saying they don't have

enough money for the specific period the Budget is supposed to cover. There is a more

complete financial picture that many of us are kept from seeing. This picture is called "

THE COMPREHENSIVE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT ".

People like WALTER BURIEN & ALEX JONES exposed the schemes that have been

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[God Bless You Readers To Want To Know And Seek To Know The Truth]

[This inspiring poem was featuring in the movie “Coach Carter ”]

Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate, Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure. It Is Our Light , Not Our Darkness That Most Frightens Us.

We Ask Ourselves, Who Am I To Be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented, And Fabulous ?

Actually Who Are We Not To Be ? You Are A Child Of God.

Your Playing Small Doesn’t Serve The World.

There Is Nothing Enlightened About Shrinking So That Other People Won’t Feel Insecure Around You.

We Are All Meant To Shine, As Children Do.

We Were Born To Make Manifest The Glory Of God That Is Within Us.

It’s Not Just In Some Of Us; It’s In Everyone.

And When We Let Our Own Light Shine We Unconsciously Give Other People Permission To Do The Same.

And As We Are Liberated From Our Own Fear, Our Presence Automatically Liberates Others

- Marianne Williamson -

[NOTE – BEING AFRAID AND REFUSING TO GET INVOLVED WON’T STOP US FROM DYING. BUT BEING AFRAID CAN PREVENT US FROM LIVING]

(Nkosi Sikeleli Africa )

God bless Africa May her glory be lifted high Hear our petitions .

God bless us, Your children God we ask You to protect our nation Intervene and end all conflicts Protect us, protect our nation, our nation.

From the blue of our heaven, From the depths of our sea, Over our eternal mountain ranges, Where the cliffs give answer.

Sounds the call to come together, And united we shall stand, Let us live and strive for freedom, In South Africa our land.

[Enoch Mankayi Sontonga]

WAKE UP ! STAY UP MY BROTHERS & SISTERS ! BE SELF-SUFFICIENT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.

- Life Is a Game. Have Fun. [ Luke 18:17 / Isaiah 11:6 ]

I too am inspired by the verse and prayer that you have cited. However, I am sorry to say that your first few paragraphs are economic nonsense. The comparison you appear to be reaching for is that of the "profit and loss statement" in contrast to the "balance sheet".

The first is comparable to a government's budget (though usually backward looking rather than forward), the second more akin to the national accounts, the usual measure being growth or otherwise of GDP.

Regrettably, Zimbabwe rates very lowly on either measure. I will not pretend to understand African custom or tradition. However it is a source of amazement to westerners that the people who held the governing and economic reins while Zimbabwe crashed still appear to have some support in Zimbabwe.

The choice for these people in a western country would be to resign in shame, or be forcibly removed. Because of this western tradition, there will be no economic aid to Zimbabwe while the authors of this catastrophe are still in office. No matter what Africans may think or say about this, it is the reality.

Trying to blame others when you are the leader of an organisation is just too childish to warrant a response.

I can see what Bobs going to say, The MDC has let the country down, we won't be able to feed our selves( Lines our back pockets). It is all the fault of the imperialistic west. We want unity according to the gospel of Robert Mugabe and nothing else will do. We the people(ZanuPF terrorists) need to show the world that we are a strong , vibrant and resilliant nation and until there is unity,(Death to the MDC) there will not be any progress(Decimation). This is why the outside world won't deal with the terrorist dictator. Simple solution, Bob must Go. What ever happened to Zimbabwe, that lovely country we once used to know, what ever happened to Zimbabwe, Oh I don't know, but Bob must go.

So Business Day comes with the same report as SW radio. It's clear Zola as long as the monster Mugabe and Zanu are around there will be no progress in Zimbabwe. This stupid GNU doesn't work offcourse. SA most probably wanted rest at the border, at least till the worldcup of soccer is over. That also gives the answer what the perfect moment for an uprising would be against criminal Mugabe. Odinga can tell you where a GNU brought him and his country after Kibaki stole the election. A dead end street is a dead end street no matter how many times the GNU tries to get through with Mugabe at the stirring wheel.

Birds of the same feathers twitter the same call: BUSINESS DUNG and SPECULATIVE SOUTH WEST RUBBISH are parrots of INVADER ideological discourse.

richerson88 the more you write the bigger fool you make of yourself b/c you only make comments of hatred against the West but never say anything based on any facts, so go get a new job b/c this one just makes you look bad as well as the Zanu-PF and Mugabe Loyalists!!!!

afric:

You are so much more concise than I - you sum up the indictment of j-hollow's allegedly superior intellect brilliantly!

I'm glad that there are others who will stand up to the clever (yet obtuse) words and empty rhetoric of a ZANU-PooF/Mugabe apologist like j-hollow!

"Total Empowerment!"

I tend to thinkBillybongoRiechinstien, might just be Bob Mugabe. They have exactly the same traits in life. It's always someone elses fault, never their's. bet Richie has a moustache just like Bob's which is in no shadow of a doubt the same as Hitler's. There again, Hitler was famed for having one testicle and bob had to go one better by not having any, So does RiechandSon speak a load of balls, we all know the answer.

Oh dear, Shame. What doesnt my comrade brother Bob understand? Where have my brothers all been in the last 30 years? listening to how poorly the WEST treated and blamed Bob? How they want to take over Zimbabwe again. How the West has divided up Africa for themselves? etc etc.. As an African I am insulted that Biti even tried to go and ask for money. When Bob threw my family out of Zimbabwe no one aided me nor my family. I had to get off my black bum and work. I succeeded. It took hard work. That is foreign to Mugabe. When you have thirty years of stealing from the coffers of the land, thirty years of dipping your hands into other peoples hard earned money like my fathers pension, dont try to send a messenger even if he is from the MDC to beg for more money. sometimes I am ashamed to be a Zimbabean. The whole of the country needs to get off its bum like i did and work. Not sit and wait from handouts from the same people we called "names" a few months ago. Black men are supposed to have the motivation to do it the African way so brothers get on with it. We, who live outside want to see you work as hard as we have done. You may even make up for the fact we had to do it in foreign lands without the luxury of being on home "turff." Better still let Biti send messenger boy Bob with an apology to London so they can forgive him for the massacres of the 5th Brigade. Then at the same time Messenger boy Bob can ask for more money. Someone may even give Bob sixpence. Or better still let messenger boy Bob go to SADC and the AU and get some money from them. We have learnt that talk is CHEAP, Bob has done a lot of bad talking, blaming the West for his own failure. Better still Biti should volunteer Bob for the Hague for war crimes. UNTIL zimbabwe has sorted out ZANUPF there will be little assistance. Wake up MDC, and tell the rest of my brothers there, it is time for Bob to go.

Sadly, working will do no good as long as the ZANU-PF can simply steal everything you produce at gun point, and burn it to keep their rivals from getting anything out of it, and often burn anyone stupid enough to keep working, too. It's easier to destroy than create, and the individuals that form the ZANU-PF have their own internal rivalries that serve to keep them acting like crabs trapped in a bucket; every time one of them realizes that they need to do more than just destroy everything, and starts trying to build anything that would pull Zimbabwe out of the bucket, the other ZANU-PF crabs just yank him back down, and destroy whatever he's built for good measure, on the grounds that "building infrastructure is something rhodie-loving traitors do."

Jeffjedi 06, I applaud you for your hard work and struggles in whatever foreign land you reside. Your story reminds me so much of my loving and wonderful brother also a Zimbabwean, born of a Shona father and a Ndebele mother, that my parents helped put him through university and ultimately through many years of medical school. He worked SO hard. Today he is reaping the rewards of that hard work. He is a brilliant and wonderful doctor now married to a Zambian born nurse born in Kitwe of a Zambian father and a Malawian mother. So you see I am SO fortunate to have three sets of parents; my own parents, my Zimbabwean parents and my Zambian parents - all here and well settled. It is through my Zimbabwean parents that I have learned to speak Sindebele fluently but the spelling is what I find difficult. I know a little Nyanja but I find Shona langusge more difficult. Both my own parents are doctors too and have been all over doing a lot of good and of course speak a good number of African languages and others. So brother, do not lose heart. All will be well in your country in the end.

Zazu, I appreciate your calling ZANU PF thugs "terrorists"! Indeed, they are reinforcing criminal Mugabe's terror rule.

What a good lesson to Mugabe that the US$ 400 million will just be credit lines to companies to revamp their productions. Beware, companies owned by Mugabe and his thugs may also benefit and the danger is that they will never revamp production. They will rather buy raw materials to only redirect them to buyers in other countries and thus pocket the money.

Vigilance should be the order of the day for Tsvangirai since criminal Mugabe can go to any length to enrich himself on the back of the suffering masses! We all remember how he feasted with an 85 kg cake for his 85th birthday when his subjects had to go without any meal!

Who calls Mugabe a patriot? A hero?

Is it not time for Zimbos to start writing their own version of their history?

Prem it will go down in the annuls of history that Bob the destroyer wrecked a decent country.

HOW DISGRACEFUL A ONCE THRIVING COUNTRY GONE DOWN THE ZAMBEZI RIVERNO CURRENCY, KWACHAS TO THE NORTH,NO PROPER CURRENCY- MOZAMBICAN CURRENCY TO THE EAST, PULAS, RANDS AND US$ SOMEONE SHOULD BURY THEIR HEAD IN THE SEWER

N/A, What is disgraceful when Zimbabwe gets $400 million credit line from fellow African states? Your hyperbolic comments are total nonsense. Great Britain was almost broke in 1971 and it borrowed money from the IMF....Ohhhhh how disgraceful UK was a former colonialist with vast stolen loot from Africa.....To me what you are say is just foolish anti Zimbabwe GNU. But who the hell are you to stop people from Zimbabwe moving ahead with GNU? You just a small potato head..I think it is a mistake on my part to even respond to a clown like you!!! The whole USA has been running on Vadoo economics....Ohhhhhh first world countries are running their countries like banana republic...borrowing money with no intentions or repaying? .Results, massive bank failures and unemployment....But they are just first world countries they can do what ever the want....What kind of nonsense is that. You are just a Bitter Rhodesia, who in living on UK welfare...GET OUT of the way for the GNU..Even if you don't..you are a small man and can easily be ignored!!!