8 December 2008
Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan has urged Southern African leaders to play a more active role in bringing about a transition to an inclusive government in Zimbabwe.
President Robert Mugabe's government "has not demonstrated the ability to lead the country out of its current crisis," Annan said in a statement issued in Paris Sunday. "There is bitter disappointment in the current leadership."
The statement was issued after a meeting of the group of former leaders known as "The Elders." A delegation of from the group comprising Annan, former President Jimmy Carter of the United States and former Mozambican education minister Graça Machel was recently denied entry to Zimbabwe.
Carter said in Sunday's statement that "the [Mugabe] regime has been in denial about what is happening in their country, and the region has not really wanted to know either." He too urged "the rapid formation of a workable government."
Another "Elder" former Algerian foreign minister Lakhdar Brahimi said said that a liberation movement and its leaders "lose their legitimacy when they not only ignore the suffering of their people but actually act in a manner that increases their suffering dramatically."
Brahimi said African leaders - and Southern African leaders in particular - had a duty to come to the aid of Zimbabweans.
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Chokora,why dont you just continue enjoying spending the forex you are getting from these idiots Mugabe and the crew and save us some space by not making such ridiculous comments...we know who is paying you to write these stupid comments,so you and your masters will definately get whats coming to you,its only a matter of time sucker.
Mugabe ain't the one dishing out forex... that's the authors of regime change in Zim...
BRUNOMANEX........I AM BEHIND YOU BRO.I FEEL YOU VERY WELL.CHOKORA IS STUPID.I LACK WORDS TO THE IGNORANCE HE WROTE.LIKE YOU SAID,THEIR DAYZ ARE NUMBERED.
it is apparently clear that we do not value human life as i see some comments from people. the Zimbabwe crisis is appaling when the common man is going without food, the economy is at a standstill and the president and his cronies are living at bliss holding on to power, it shows how they are leading, that is if they are leading at all a nation that was once prosperous to teh dogs. if annan can assist to bring the situiation to rest so let it be. this has nothing to do with where he is from. we… [Read Full Text]
Gijo,thanks man you are a true Zimbabwean unlike that idiot chokora who thinks of himself and his other tsotsis in Zanu.we have suffered enough and we urgently need all the positive influence we can get from outside our borders because our situation has gone beyond repairable measures and we sustain people like Annan and his crew for their efforts to restore our country where it should be,because as Zimbabweans we have done our share to change this evil government through our democratic right of voting but we have been denied our freedom by these evil people as they had continuosly… [Read Full Text]
If Afica has to be disappointed in any leader from anywhere regarding the Zim crisis, that leader has to be first and foremost Kofi Annan. For some of us the man's hypocrisy makes us sick. Zimbabwe was and still is being battered left right and centre by sanctions that were imposed by the US and EU in carhoots and at the behest of the UK that the se countries and block imposed without the mandate of the UN which Annan was leading at the time in 2001. Now he wants to pretend not to know what the root of the… [Read Full Text]
Now please tell us what sanctions you are referring too. Do you mean the ones banning arms from entering Zimbabwe, or do you mean the sanctions on travel for Mugabe's thugs? Or the ones on the 4 companies that prop up this murderous regime (one I think makes army uniforms). Which sanctions are you referring too? Surely none of these if removed could help Zimbabwe, because they didnt cause the problems in the first place. Ever wonder why Mugabes government is listed as 14th in the world as most corrupt? I think you need to take a look within and… [Read Full Text]
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Dear Mr. Annan:
You either know something you are not telling us, or you know very little, in fact, you may be ignorant.
1)" ..bringing about a transition to an inclusive government in Zimbabwe. ..." For that, Mr. Annan, you will have to change the constitution of Zimbabwe since it does not specify that the loser in the elections must dictate terms in the formation of the government. Neither is thge name "Annan" mentioned therein.
The people of Zimabwe may not let you ride roughshod over them, their constitution and their sovereignty the way you did in Kenya… [Read Full Text]