Published by the government of Zimbabwe
23 June 2009
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Harare — PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai concluded his tour of Europe and the United States yesterday without raising a penny for the inclusive Government though he acquired £124 million (US$202 million) for NGOs, which are mostly British or US-based entities.
The PM undertook a six-nation tour of Western capitals, with a brief from President Mugabe and Cabinet, to call for the lifting of economic sanctions and press for financial assistance to bankroll economic recovery.
The tour which covered the Netherlands, United States, Germany, Norway, and Sweden wound up in London yesterday where PM Tsvangirai met his British counterpart Gordon Brown who hailed the progress made by the inclusive Government and pledged five million pounds in aid while vowing to monitor political events in Zimbabwe.
The money he pledged would also be made available through non- governmental organisations.
The West read from the same script in refusing to either lift economic sanctions or offer any economic assistance to the inclusive Government.
International news agencies quoted Mr Brown as pledging full support once the reform programme on the ground "gained momentum". Nearly all the countries visited by PM Tsvangirai said their money would be channelled through NGOs.
AFP yesterday quoted Mr Brown as saying: "There are great signs of progress: a budget and economic plans are in place; schools are reopening; children are once again filling the classrooms.
"As a result of the progress, we will increase our support to help Zimbabwe move from mere survival towards a genuine recovery."
Mr Brown said his government was "prepared to go further in offering more transitional support, if the reform programme on the ground gains momentum".
"I want to see the Government taking further steps forward," he added.
Speaking at the same occasion, PM Tsvangirai defended the inclusive Government describing it as irreversible.
"Although this is not a perfect arrangement, we realise that it is a workable arrangement. I want to assure you we are in an irreversible process towards consolidating the democratic values."
He took a swipe at Zimbabweans in the Diaspora for not appreciating progress achieved by the inclusive Government so far.
"It is unfortunate that those living in Britain, because they don't see (President) Mugabe disappearing and therefore conclude that nothing has changed. I want to assure you that that is not the case," PM Tsvangirai said.
Zimbabweans living in Britain booed PM Tsvangirai over the weekend when he called on them to return home and help rebuild the country as the situation had significantly improved.
Despite pledging support, Britain, the United States and other European countries refused to scrap the illegal sanctions they imposed on Zimbabwe.
Government has already embarked on a number of reforms with the constitution-making process having already started while Parliament has started recruiting members of independent commissions among other developments.
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Tacky,
You still havent answered my question. Do you still think the CIA invented homosexuality?
Now what you are trying to say is that you want Brown's money, but you dont want him to make sure it doesnt go into your back pocket.
Why should Brown give Zimbawbe cash if its only going to support a tinpot dictator?
Sure you "have never said we want to know how he is running his affairs and how the British MPs are defrauding his government by submitting non-existent claims." but what business is that of yours if you arent paying for that very government to exist?
Why should he give himself the duty of being our supervisor?
Because he would be funding your government! Money doesnt come for free!
As for Brown's unelected position, you are clearly showing your uneducated view of the British parliamentary system. No Prime Minister is elected. People elect a party who then chooses a Prime Minister.
This post was deleted because it contravenes AllAfrica's commenting guidelines.
ON THE EDITORIAL DICTATORSHIP OF ALLAFRICA.COM
I wouldn;t wanna think that allafrica.com is pulling for pot belly, incompetent Brown of INNVADER BRITAIN, or that it supports the imbecile rants of the DONKEY OF ZIMBABWE, red, smithy, idiotic and rhodist, awt-independent, the fool who had the gumption to call Zimbabwe "crap," or that Ian Smith was a terrorist, and a dictator, to boot, or that NGOs are tools of fiscal and ideological policies of INVADERLANDS, or that the sagacity of the moron awt-dependent on rhodist discourse, which, is of course, the sewer of obscurantist xenophobist discourse, STINKS, not unlike the fart of a DONKEY or, even Ian Smith, the terroris;
Or, that allafrica.com stifles freedom of speech under some amorphous, opaque "guidelines" which are deployed mostly against butt busters of rhodists.
WHAT THE ...!
I NOW CHALLENGE THE EDITORS OF allafrica.com to specify with the required level professional jouranalistic specificity the policy or policies that my deleted post contravenes.
"Contravenes" my pinkie!
The revolution will not be on-line, as the case of Iran shows. Or, do you disagree?
Get on the mat, and let's rumble! Or, is awt-independent, THE DONKEY OF ZIMBABWE, your proxie on this sight, allowing him to make personal attacks on anyone who kicks the butt of rhodism and the heads of the butts of INVADERLANDS?
Now, come clean!
ON THE AMORPHOUS, BLIND COMMENTING GUIDELINES OF ALLAFRICA.COM
This capitalistist media firm, like all capitalist media firms, subscribes to the bourgeois dogma of "freedom of speech."
Then, voila! It buries the bourgeois prejudice in a mist of "guidelines" that guides nothing.
They guide nothing because they are posited at a such a ridiculous high level of generality, that they virtually and actually give the editors the power to delete whatever does not comport to their personal ideological prejudices. And, don't even drop the rubbish of "journalistic objectivity crap" on my shadow, for such a beast does not exist.
They guide nothing because a rational grid of a commenting site should RIGOROUSLY preempt any and all comments that do not engage the SUBJECT MATTER culled from African newspapers, which are only African in name only, for the real proprietors are in INVADERLANDS. Or, do you disagree?
Line on the sand: until and unless you preempt posts that fail to engage the subject matters proffered for commentaries---BEFORE THEY APPEAR IN YOUR 'PAGES' your guidelines are nothing but sub-rosa tools for stiffling BOURGEOIS FREE SPEECH, and you know that, absent the real capitalistic foundations of bourgeois rhetoric, not a buck will you make.
Finally, and this is the eigth hundred guerilla in the room, they are not guidelines because they are tools of DECISIONISM and IRRATIONALISM.
DickinMother
You really have imploded havent you.
If you dont like the way allafrica.com administers this site then you have every right to go and start your own site. Maybe you could call it Soupists.com or I'mAKnob.com or IBelongInaLoonyBin.com or GodSaveMugabeFromTheDonkeyoFZimbabwe.com or something like that.
You cant use a site like this to get your views across, abuse other commentors and expect the site to put up with it.
You're like a 10 year old bully crying to your mother becuase the headmaster at school gave you a smack you deserved.
Time to grow up and play by the rules!
Haha.... I did laugh though when I saw your posts deleted. All that hard work with your thesaurus gone to waste!
THE LAUGHTER OF THE BUTT OF THE DONKEY OF ZIMBABWE, RED, SMITHY, LOONEY COMRADE AWT-DEPENDENT RHODIST
"Wonders never cease, I can never imagine that a Donkey can laugh. But, I did laugh, which shows that I am the arch Donkey. Of course, on that issue of the deletion of DicksMother's post, everyone knows that my posts have never been deleted, never, and never again, for I cant doubt that I am the darling of allafrica.com. At a bar the other day, the ladies of the ... were saying just that, throwing free kisses at me: me, THE DONKEY OF ZIMBABWE AND ZIMBABWE BASHER; ME, who thinks that Zimbabwe is "a pathetic piece of crap."
This pathetic heap of rhodist loosey goosey clap trap, patriotic Africans, is the moronic voice of THE DONKEY OF ZIMBABWE, THE BASHER OF ZIMBABWE, and whose master is the GREAT DICTATOR AND TERRORIST, IAN STUPID SMITH, a dyed in the wool racist.
This, patriotic Africans, is the IDIOT.
DickinDog
I see you are still making up quotes for me. Again the readers of this site can plainly see that your attempts to discredit me just make you look like someone who has thier dick firmly stuck in a dog.
As for your comment "everyone knows that my posts have never been deleted, never, and never again, for I cant doubt that I am the darling of allafrica.com."
Haha... read above... Author: richerson88 Tue Jun 23 17:51:15 2009 This post was deleted because it contravenes AllAfrica's commenting guidelines.
THIS POST WAS DELETED! plain to see you have just lied again. This game with you is simple really, I beat you everytime. But I guess God really does love a tryer.
And yes, Zimbabwe is a pathetic piece of crap at the moment... schools closed, begging for aid, hospitals closed. After having so much potential, its pathetic realy, all due to Mugabe. Good to see the MDC is on its way to making Zimbabwe great again.
"This pathetic heap of rhodist loosey goosey clap trap is the moronic voice of THE DONKEY OF ZIMBABWE, THE BASHER OF ZIMBABWE, and whose master is the GREAT DICTATOR AND TERRORIST, IAN STUPID SMITH, a dyed in the wool racist."
Dear oh dear... I think you need to jump straight back into that straight jacket...
DickInDog - the master of imploding oneself.
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Who is Brown to want to see "Government taking further steps forward"? Forward to where? Who is he to tell us how to move? He should be reminded that we do not want and do not Brooke any unnecessary interference in our domestic affairs. We have never said we want to know how he is running his affairs and how the British MPs are defrauding his government by submitting non-existent claims. Why should he give himself the duty of being our supervisor?
We are not interested in him superintending over us as if we are children who do not know what is good for them. Any reforms that are taking place in our country are for the benefit of Zimbabweans and not the British. The people of Zimbabwe are fully aware of what they want for their country and so do not require any advice from former colonizers like Brown. He should just leave us alone and concentrate on securing his unelected position which is under threat because of MPs' claims scandal.