I'm afraid this might be a pretext to offload the lethal cargo, facilitating annihilation of the Zimbabwean population by a mad regime. The generality of the Zimbabwean population are obviously preparing for the suffering and deaths soon to come. Someone in Angola please just make sure they do not offload these instruments of torture and murder.

What goods for Angola could have been on board that ship if its original destination was South Africa? I don't believe a word of this story.

Mindpower, you are right there is something wrong with this story. All of a sudden, Angola also has goods aboard the ship. The main point I want to make is there is plenty of media distortions in Southern Africa. The biggest liars are Anglo white minorities in the region. Reading stories in white anglo papers in the region, you would think the world has ended in Southern Africa. There is just too many hyperbolic articles. Most of it reflect Briton propaganda. The UK feels that there are still a colonial power for southern africa. I'm regularly invited to speak on white anglo minority racists by pan-african movements in the region. I'm surprised at the ignorance of my fellow africans about white minority agendas. Most of it, if not all, is not good for Africa. Mugabe may be our black dictator, but he knows one or two things about how to go after a white anglo, when he smells a bad rat!

Phiri - welcome the real world of the media - whether it's state owned or private, there are distortions, omissions and sensationalism. But if you happened to follow the news reports more closely, one of the first reports on this ship, while it was outside Durban, was that it had cargo for Angola AS WELL. And give me a break about being all-knowing on the state of mind of the white (it's mostly NON-anglo) minority in southern africa - take the time to speak to a number of us and realise that we're 'hysterical' as we see creeping corruption taint our previously highly professional public services, as the lights go off - daily, as the roads fall into potholes, as we lose our jobs, as our homes are burgled - again, as a gun is held to head for our car, as we are kicked off land we have legally owned for generations just to see it be wasted by some black big-wig. Finally our heart breaks when that final decision to buy a one-way ticket to the very foreign lands of Europe or the USA because it's either go there or have a total breakdown (or death) trying to stay in the land we love, that our great-great-great grandparents were born in. Most of us may be white, but we're not European. Finally you may discover that we're not stupid - we know there is no chance or future for a return of white minority rule. Just why does Africa have to self destruct? It's perverse because it only plays into the hands of that small white racist minority within our minority that sit back all smug at us and say 'we told you so'.

Hey whitey, you never owned the land - you STOLE IT.

Many white farmers paid the black Zim government for land AFTER independence and had it STOLEN from them. But a closed minded guy like you would only see that as justice. Shame.

Phiri you're like some old preacher who sees the devil behind every bush. Pity you can't see that the whites who are left in Africa are there because they want to be part of it, not dominate it.

Fascinating too that you can't see how Africa is being sold off to the Chinese. I hope you can speak Mandarin, you'll need it to talk to your future colonial masters.

Well, its really surprising to hear so much noise about a ship carrying arms for the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, being flushed all over by UK and USA, even the likes of Mwanawasa its even a shame to the BLACK African president for after being attacked from the left, right & center by the same people during his previous elections he has decided to discard his fellow blacks and go European. He thinks these white guys will ever take him as a normal AFRICAN deep in their hearts, instead they will know him as a willing sellout who cannot be trusted. Those arms are meant to defend Zimbabwean and not Zambian territory and hence Levy should keep out. Zimbabwe can only be defended militarily by ZDF and not Zambians so Zim has right to arm its soldiers and not via Levy. Levy remember SADC protocols do not supersede Zimbabwean CONSTITUTION and SOVEREIGNTY, please be advised not to overplay your chairmanship of this regional grouping.Viva Zimbabwe DEFENCE FORCES and their professionalism.