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Zimbabwe: Businesses Propping Up Mugabe Next On EU Sanctions List
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SW Radio Africa (London)
18 July 2008
Posted to the web 18 July 2008
Tichaona Sibanda
Businesses that are helping to prop up Robert Mugabe's regime will be included in a new sanctions list being drawn by the European Union, according to reports from Brussels.
The majority of business people who back Mugabe's regime have control over high profile companies in the country. A number of them enjoy monopolies in industries like agriculture, construction, mining, textiles, manufacturing, retail and banking.
Hebson Makuvise, the MDC chief representative in the UK, said the same people denounce Western countries and their leaders during the day, 'but hop onto a plane by night to visit the same countries.'
Makuvise said during his brief visit to the EU in Brussels recently, all talk was about the sham elections and how the regime has overseen the destruction of the country, through greed.
He said when he left Brussels, the EU were still working on the list, based on information supplied by their embassies in Harare. The EU currently targets more than 130 individuals with visa bans and an asset freeze. The EU intends to add around 40 people to that list, some from the security apparatus of the regime, identified as being involved in the election crackdown, plus the business figures helping prop it up.
There are reports that five companies could also be hit and it would be the first time that business people and companies in the country had been targeted by EU visa bans and asset freeze.
Meanwhile reports from Maputo, Mozambique say authorities in that country are considering setting up temporary refugee screening centres for thousands of Zimbabweans who have fled across into its territory.
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Goncalves Sengo, the head of the national refugee assistance institution, said transit centres would be set up for screening purposes. Details of the asylum seekers would be taken to see if their claims fit with international refugee statutes, said Sengo. The number of Zimbabweans who have fled into Mozambique is not officially documented, but there has been a steady rise of immigrants fleeing political persecution.
The businesses backing Mugabe are, in most cases, owned by Europeans or Americans who are in tune with the facts and reality in Zimbabwe. BY throwing their support on Mugabe, these western business owners are showing the world that they believe not only that Mugabe is not criminally rasist as US, Britain and some members of the EU are trying to potray him but that he genuinly loves his country and he is doing the best to make the citizens of Zimbabwe work and live together as brothers and sisters irrespective of the colour of skin or religion as... [Read Full Text]
Nice try, but you only missed the bullseye by a few hundred miles there:
Agreed that most of the businesses that are propping ZANU and Zimbabwe up at the moment are foreign concerns, and yes, they are in touch with the realities in Zimbabwe ..... but what they are doing by propping Mugabe up is throwing in with a murderous dictator for the sake of money.
He loves his country so much that he wants it all for himself, and by the looks of it his plans for that include wiping out anyone who even dares to voice disagreement with... [Read Full Text]
The article is the biggest load of rubbish I have read in really long while.
Businesses will not be targetted for sanctions because there is no reason nor justification for sanctions. This is a load of hot air.
The day Zimbabwe's detractors dictate to the global giants like Barclays Bank, Anglo-American Corp and British-American Tobacco is the day the world will stand still.
You are so PATRONISING, to use litotes. Were you ever an african in rhodesia??? l dont think so !!! You cant imagine the abuse and crudity you imposed on us africans. Clearly you are a rhodie ....you want us to forget the 100 years of abuse and racism but you do remember a few years when your UNFAIR system is being reversed. The so called decamped in 1980 or earlier. How did these settlers thought that they could have their cake and keep it ??? Of course, the ruling class in Great Zimbabwe is dishing land to like minded people,... [Read Full Text]
akafunboy, you still havent answered my question. How can you condone and support someone that is happily murdering, beating and torturing his own people to keep power?
You are so PATRONISING, to use litotes. Were you ever an african in rhodesia??? l dont think so !!! You cant imagine the abuse and crudity you imposed on us africans. Clearly you are a rhodie ....you want us to forget the 100 years of abuse and racism but you do remember a few years when your UNFAIR system is being reversed. The so called decamped in 1980 or earlier. How did these settlers thought that they could have their cake and keep it ??? Of course, the ruling class in Great Zimbabwe is dishing land to like minded people,... [Read Full Text]
and I'm thinking you should probably use a dictionary to find out what litotes are too! haha. Get yourself an education boy!
You are so PATRONISING, to use litotes. Were you ever an african in rhodesia??? l dont think so !!! You cant imagine the abuse and crudity you imposed on us africans. Clearly you are a rhodie ....you want us to forget the 100 years of abuse and racism but you do remember a few years when your UNFAIR system is being reversed. The so called decamped in 1980 or earlier. How did these settlers thought that they could have their cake and keep it ??? Of course, the ruling class in Great Zimbabwe is dishing land to like minded people,... [Read Full Text]
As a rhodie, you migrated to rhodesia in the 1970s, a racist country whch was fighting a war to uphold their racist beliefs. l am sure you shot and murdered a couple of natives when you or your parents were in the rhodie army. My question is are you still fighting your 'bush war' or are you merely carrying on missionarying to the natives about everything ... politics, religion, economics, banking, family planning, giving European names to native children as their chances of ENTRY to heaven is NIL if they present themselves before GOD with an African name, and etc... [Read Full Text]
akapfunde1, i am wondering if you have been sniffing glue or drinking battery acid? You do no make much sense. You still have not answered me as to why you parents called you "akapfunde1".As you said i did not use my real name which means you must! "akapfunde1" is an interesting name for parents to call there child, are they Rock singers or actors?
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