22 December 2008
Major Western powers have given up on President Robert Mugabe ever agreeing to share power in Zimbabwe.
Mugabe had become an "absolutely impossible obstacle" to power-sharing, a senior British government minister said on Monday.
Mark Malloch-Brown, Britain's minister for Africa, agreed in a radio interview with remarks made by his American counterpart, Jendayi Frazer, who told a news conference in Pretoria on Sunday that the power-sharing deal signed by Zimbabwe's political leaders in September could work, "as long as Mugabe is no longer the president."
Speaking to the BBC's principal morning radio news programme, Malloch-Brown said Mugabe was "so distrusted by all sides that I think the Americans are absolutely right, he's going to have to step aside if Zimbabwe is to get a government."
He said Mugabe's political allies and neighbours needed "to go to him in one of those kind of famous political delegations and say, 'You've got to go.'"
Remarks Mugabe made at a party rally at the weekend showed that he "really just doesn't understand... the state he's brought his country to."
Frazer suggested that the Southern African Development Community - South Africa in particular - could secure Mugabe's removal from office within a month through the exercise of its political and economic power.
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Time is up for Robert Mugabe. Everybody knows when their time has come, so he he must be aware that his time is now. If he wants to be remembered well as the founder of his beloved nation, he must go now and let other people take the responsibility of sorting out the terrible mess the country is in.
Regarding Zimbabwe, Mugabe, cholera, and nearly anything else you can say about the country; who cares? Who is to say anything negative about this situation when most African countries approve of what's going on. When SA, SADC, and the AU say everything is OK. Mugabe was absolutely correct the other day when he said that African leaders were afraid of him, that they couldn't stand up to him. African leaders don't have the backbone to stand up to Mugabe. Lets be realistic, I don't live in Africa, what happens in Zimbabwe has little or no affect… [Read Full Text]
What a big headed loud mouthed Mugabe is for a man of his age and supposedly education
We don't give a rat's tail what the REACTION 'thinks.'
Cheers from the City of HUNTERS WITHOUT A COUGH, HARARE
"J-hollow............let's come out to play"............
If you want to argue, let's argue facts! Despite the fake words you use in your posts, you never seem to find the room in them to post FACTS!
As I posted previously, J-hollow answers a post with name-calling, he never actually gets around to disputing the actual FACTS when it comes to Zimbabwe, does he, he just goes on spouting his invective or hatred to any poster who accuses ZANU-PF/Mugabe of malfeasance..........
J-hollow - like the other defenders of the ZANU-PF/Mugabe regime cannot actually explain the factual shortcomings of the government of ZANU-PF/Mugabe… [Read Full Text]
"30% of your population have not left your country, USA" ... you say. Actually you are a European. You moved to the USA to take advantage of the infra structure built on the backs of the millions of Africans enslaved and turned into beasts of burden by you Europeans....not to mention the slaughter of native Americans. In the early 1980s l lived in the USA and l moved a lot around rural areas and small towns of the country, what surprised me was the psychological damage that had , and is being still,inflicted on American Africans. I accompanied on visits… [Read Full Text]
J-hollow: This is "New Year's" so I should be more magnanimous.......but I resolve to take the folllowing actions: I've thought about it some more and I've decided (as a New Year's resolution):
Tomorrow I will wake, and I will gather the local paper that sees fit to insult the President-elect Obama. or George W. Bush.
I will sit on my toilet and read the paper (which is NOT. published by the government!)...... when I am done, I will flush the toilet, and it will work! I will not worry whether this action causes thousands to contend… [Read Full Text]
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