Who in their right mind would believe that a billion dollars given to the Zimbo Zapus would ever reach the poor citizens for whom it was destined?? You'll be lucky to get enough to pay the light bill. The rest must be doled out those in need in the form of goods, not money. We may be generous, Obamma may be black, but, we're not stupid. Get rid of Mugabe or get used to it.

Get used to what?

And, who is "we"? You mean the thieves at Wall Street, whose generosity is painted in human suffering in the US?

We denounce representative democracy as contrary to the African Tradition. We condemn the political tradition of the West. A fortiori, we condemn its financial values.

And, what does Obama's skin color have to do with the price of tea in Kenya? Obama bailed out US corporations, mostly owned by "whites." Heck, he bailed out "white" thieves in the banks. So, Obama is a moment in an institutional structure we denounce.

When China buys worthless US Treasuries, does the US distribute the money to the starving millions in California, New York and Washington, DC?

Generous? The West has never been generous: it is the apotheosis of greed and fear. Capitalism without a human face.

richerson88 you are the one who has made the issue a color issue b/c you hate whites and just read your comments before you start denying what you truly believe. Sorry there are man successful black businessmen in the states as well as actors, sports starts, etc.... so once again you trip over your own feet. It is better to say nothing b/c with every word you write the easier it is not to believe you.

As to the millions starving in New York City, Washington D.C. and California well you for sure are way off with that one I think you were thinking about Zimbabwe. Again your opinion is useless so unless you have facts you have seen with your own eyes just say nothing more. You have defeated yourself with your own words..... I hope no one is paying you for this!!!

Color? We don't don't subscribe to the racialization of the human species.

Color, my foot. There are human bodies; your addition of 'color' to the human body is a POLITICAL DECISION, refuted by by science.

We have never called THE INVADERS 'WHITE', rather they call themselves "white" to justify their perfidy: the dehumanization of human bodies they choose to call "black."

Accordingly, it is pure nonsense to hang the shingle of color on our house of anti-color talk.

Races don't exist. Or, are you wiser than biologists?

richerson88 regardless of your worthless comments color exists here in Africa trust me all over Southern African I hear the names refer to me by so do not give me that bull and you say we dot do this just b/c you do not say it does not mean you do not believe it... Trust me I have read the words of you and your very few buddies here and it clearly shows you are racist and have an extreme hatred for whites. It is good to know that not all Africans think like you and others but you do look at a color of a person's skin here and make assumptions about that person....

richerson88 none of your comments make any sense and stop repeating the same thing over and over but reply to the relevant subject we are discussing!!! I live is Southern Africa so do not give me this crap the whites are the one who makes skin color an issue b/c well many Africans do here also and add that along too tribalism (one tribe is superior to the other) just makes this issue worse...

The wife of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has been granted diplomatic immunity over an alleged attack on a British photographer who took pictures of her shopping for designer clothes while her home country descended into financial chaos and starvation.

Grace Mugabe, 44, faced a possible wounding charge after being accused of repeatedly punching Richard Jones while outside an upmarket Hong Kong department store in January. The diamond ring she was wearing was said to have caused several cuts to his face.

The alleged incident happened while Mrs Mugabe and her entourage were on a £63,000 five-star Asian tour, reportedly paid for with US dollars withdrawn by her husband from Harare’s central bank at a time of chronic poverty, a cholera outbreak and hyperinflation in Zimbabwe. Grace Mugabe in Hong Kong moments after Richard Jones was assaulted Richard Jones, 42, after being attacked by Grace Mugabe

Grace Mugabe (left) attacked photographer Richard Jones, seen here with blood on his face after the assault. But Hong Kong authorities have allowed her to escape prosecution

Two witnesses gave statements and police concluded there was sufficient evidence to prosecute, sources close to the investigation said.

But Hong Kong’s Department of Justice said last night: ‘Grace Mugabe is not liable to arrest or detention and enjoys immunity from criminal prosecution.’

The department declined to say if Mrs Mugabe had requested immunity or whether it was granted automatically.

Mrs Mugabe, who married the 85-year-old Zimbabwean president in 1996 after his first wife died, flew home before Mr Jones reported the incident and was not interviewed by police. Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe and wife Grace

Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe and wife Grace, who had no qualms going on an extravagant shopping spree in Hong Kong while her country starved

Welshman Mr Jones, 42, who works for The Mail on Sunday, said yesterday: ‘I’m disappointed. It’s appalling this woman can behave like that without being held to account.’

He claimed Mrs Mugabe had acted like a ‘mad woman’, hitting him at least ten times in the face and head.

International law expert Simon Young, of the University of Hong Kong, said Mrs Mugabe was entitled to diplomatic immunity – recognised by the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations – but could still face arrest if her husband were forced out of power.

And invoking the protection could yet cause a headache for the Mugabes as protocol dictates that those using it should stay away from the territory in question.

The Mugabes have a daughter at university in Hong Kong and are said to have bought a £6million house there.

So richerson88, chokora and your fellow comrades go begging to China for help or may Grace better know as Disgrace.... or your Zanu-Pf harliners who are living it up while most suffer in Zimbabwe..

I wonder how amazing grace feels at night when she goes to bed with a dictator who is old enough to be her grandfather. I've heard of incest but this is going just a bit far.

carlos4...your insight and comment is to be commended. Yes you are correct...all that money will end up being used to purchase new Gulf Stream private jets for the ministers, Limos, and the spare change will be divided amongst the band of thieves and spirited into Swiss Bank accounts. So please appeal to your fellow americans not to part with a single dime till Ali Baba and his 40 thieves are well and truly down the road!!!!

You, Samba, and carlos4 are both wrong, and worse, incapable of education on these matters that you simply cannot understand, much less judge.

Sorry, your education is plainly sub-standard, a necessary consequence of the rentier culture of the DEFEATED CULTURE OF RHODESIA.

Ignoramus and, still mmmmmmmSamba-Ding, and worse, in fact the worst person in the world.

Ok, rhodesia88. we hear you. mugabe can do no wrong. Now let us that have eyes make up our own minds please!

So you say, Sambo: "mugage can do no wrong."

You may continue to wallow in your obfuscative pig sty, but keep your RHODESIAN crap between your legs, for a mind you don't have, thanks to the cognitive toxicity of the archaic musuem relic: the rotten and barren cultural tradition of DONKEYS, like you---THE BARBARISM OF RHODESIA.

One more essential thing: Still mmmmmmSamba, the rhodie riff raff.

A fair characterization, even under the moribund standards of Western crappy 'objectivity.'

Yawn.......don't waste any more time on this, richerson88. Your resorting to personal abuse simply highlights the fact that you have no answer to the argument.

You are only talking to yourself.

Michael...I think I will take you up on that bit of advice. I really am wasting my hard earned intelligence on this pea brained idiot when I could be engaging intelligent folk such as yourself on here. I think I will try my best to ignore him and his frantic posts that are full of hot air and say nothing of substance. If we all ignore the idiot he will evntually go sulk elsewhere and leave us alone.

Jallohlaw / richerson, the word 'Sambo' or "Uncle Tom" are very derogatory names used on people of colour. Calling anyone Sambo is not cool.

Context, baby, is everything; in THIS context, the locution is cool with us.

Our use of SAMBO in this site is rhetorical, and that it bites is demonstrated by your uninformative exposition: there is nothing wrong with calling rhodie obscurantists SAMBOS or African-American sell outs, UNCLE TOMS.

Moreover, since we don't buy into the narrative of skin color, your exposition gallops without a horse.

Jallohlaw/ richerson/, when you've been called names such as jelly boobs etc, you have gone into a tiz-woz and yet you are happy calling others names. So derogatory that if you were in America your arse would be kicked to the curb side by black Americans who find "Sambo" very offensive and rightly so. Your response to my post has now opened the door to numerous names that you will now find yourself being called. Teach you a lesson Rickety rickshaw. I can't wait.

Pesonal abuse, my foot.

Private/public, bla, bla, bla, what a joke: try disassociating the private from the public in the Western Tradition. Not even medieval European Scholasticism can bring the bacon home.

These distinctions that you parrot are contentless: zones of aporia, which are hidden from the ignorant Western masses, made ignorant by the Western Propaganda Media.

Now, one does not normally "answer" an argument; one either admits its validiy or soundness or rejects the same with a counter-argument.

We have had meaningful exchanges before; I urge you to stay at that level, for below that level, dude, it can get really ugly.

Michael, Rhodesia88 always likes to talk about himself in the third person.

is this money going to be for the 71 member cabinet they need to reduce the size of this cabinet ????

===== off topic? Before all that appeal, repair the house

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With regard to the Tsvangirai accident, we read the following out of Zimbabwe:

That there is an ongoing investigation of the accident by the police/security departments.

That investigation by The Herald (newspaper) has indicated that the contractor in question was Crown Agents, a British colonial company ....

That members of Zimbabwe's parliament have vigorously been questioning USAID's involvement in the tragedy... "

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Meanwhile Roy Bennett has a lot to say about the accident, the justice system in Zimbabwe, the people of Zimbabwe and how the rhodies will continue to enjoy their loot and the ancestral lands that were violently commandeered from the natives.

In an interview heard by millions on Saturday March 14, 2009 on NPR (a government-financed, quasi-official propaganda mouthpiece like the UK's government-financed, quasi-official propaganda mouthpiece, the BBC) Bennett had the following on of Zimbabwe( and I shall valiantly try to withhold my comments):

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- That the Tsvangirai accident was very suspicious and the Zimbabwe government prevents anybody from doing investigations and follow-up.

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- That he was spirited from the airport into jail when he landed in Zimbabwe without charge - which is a breakdown in the rule of law in Zimbabwe.

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- About the less-that-five-star prison system in Zimbabwe, he had a lot to say:

. That there is horrible overcrowding in the prison system of Zimbabwe which he termed human disaster and crime against humanity.

. That in Zimbabwe's prisons, many people die and that the living sleep with the dead. And that it could be months before a dead body is removed from the cells.

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- That IF anyone did any wrong (!), then he/she should be brought to court, charged AND then forgiven so that there is reconciliation (No retribution, please. No reparations. No restitution. And the rhodies can continue enjoying the ill-gotten loot and blood-soaked ancestral lands AS BEFORE.)

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- That Tsvangirai is trying to bring decency to Zimbabwe. [What is "decent" to him? With regard to what seems to be the source of his anger, has Tsvangirai promised him that he will grab Zimbabwe's ancestral lands from the natives?]

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- That the people of Zimbabwe are filled with hatred and vengeance - and that he has lived his life at the brunt of it. [Shouldn't he thank his rhodie gods - on a day to day basis - that the natives let him live and move around, nay trample upon, their ancestral lands of Zimbabwe?]

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You can hear the audio version of the interview her (if it stays there for long ..)

http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&id=101914 662

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As of the date of the interview, MDC was part of that government that Bennett trashes among foreigners. And Bennett is (in fact supposed to be) in that government - and work with the natives he denigrates. Where is the collective responsibility?

And he provides this interview - while serious charges of, among others, treason and sabotage are pending against him. (Is that foolhardy or is it racist insolence arising from years of unfettered and unpunished denigration of Africans, their leaders and their governments? We suppose that, like the rhodies in South Africa, he expects to get away with it - and prosper.)

There are ongoing hostilities between USA/UK/EU and Zimbabwe. The imposition of economic sanctions would be considered by western countries and Zimbabwe as tantamount to a declaration of war. Zimbabwe is in a state of war with the western countries - and the actions by western countries has maliciously inflicted hardships starvation and death on the people of Zimbabwe.

And here is an insolent, supremacist Roy Bennett, a citizen of Zimbabwe, palling around with the enemy AND providing comfort and solace - in wartime - to virulent enemies of Zimbabwe.

How does MDC and Zimbabwe define "treason"?

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It seems to me that the MPs, Cde Mugabe and Tsvangirai have to answer to the people of Zimbabwe - and at least assure the people that this angry, antagonistic, racist rhodie, Roy Bennett, is unique and indispensable to the government and the people of Zimbabwe.

It seems to us that he is an unwelcome distraction and a possible national security risk at this critical time in Zimbabwe.

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[ For anyone interested in how the people and the democracies of the west, say USA, would deal with such a case, start your online search with USA's Japanese internment camps of WW2; then Jane Fonda's comments in Vietnam; "McCarthyism" in USA; Dixie Chicks in London; to the ongoing targeting of Muslims, their pronouncements, their madrassa, Imams and mosques in USA ..]

Sorry, the updated link:

http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=fa lse&id=101914662

I have contacted every congress person who represents me, and asked them to NOT give one nickel to Zimbabwe until Mugabe and ZANU become irrelevant. And it is interesting, the expat's are all behind this effort.Maybe those dumb, hated Rhodies y'all bitch upon all the time still have some power....Think about it.

While you are at it, tell them to keep off Zimbabwe - and NOT meddle in its trade, banking and politics. You can do that, can't you.

In case you haven't noticed - even at this AllAfrica site - the foreign bloodsuckers are falling all over each other trying to "lend" Zimbabwe money. [Of course, the creeps are after the lands and wealth of Zimbabwe .. The rhodie vultures smell tremendous plunder in a struggling Zimbabwe. Yes, the rhodie.]

Keep on calling.

Now if we call on Nigeria to stop exporting any crude oil to the USA ... Where will Texas go to fill the gaping hole in its budget - amounting to several billion dollars a year in windfall profits from its oil companies operating in Nigeria?

Chokora first of all , if you tell Nigeria to stop her oil exports to western counties, Nigeria will tell you to stick your finger up your arse because they have a nation to feed. Secondly name those countries that are all lined up to lend Mugabe money, keeping in mind that many posters here are well informed. No lies.

chokora...please please promise me one thing...when you make that special trip to Nigeria to order them to stop flogging their oil to the States can I please be in the same room. I could do with a really good laugh mate....LOL And when we are finished take me back to zanu headoffice where you are fending off gullible westerners begging you to take their billions to splurge on shopping trips to hong kong etc. That ought to sober me up after the good laugh with the nigerians.

Texasbob, the SAS Man Strikes again with his hatred for the main stream people of Zimbabwe. His world is that of the confused white minority Rhodes. The USA does business with Zimbabwe to the tune of $400 Million every year. You are a very confused "redneck" and largely uneducated whiteman. Even, I would not want you in Zimbabwe. There are so man KKK in the USA and the NAZI that you could join them. You are a 70 year old bastard!

Phiri if USA does $400 million business with Zimbabwe annually, why the accusation of sanctions from some people?

Kjrs...I see no reply to your good question. It just confirms what we all know already anyways..there are NO sanctions against zims per se..but mugabe and a handful of his murderous ministers are barred from entering the west to spend their ill gotten gains and that is what they are bitter about!!