As Mugabe likes to remind us, under Ian Smith, whites ate steak while blacks ate sazda.

What he does not like to see mentioned is that, under Mugabe, Mugabe eats steak, the other "war heroes" eat sazda, and everyone else in Zimbabwe eats dirt.

anD AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED THERE WAS FOOD ON THE TABLE FOR EVERYONE NO ONE STARVED AND HOSPITALS WERE NOT CLOSED WHILE IN NEIGHBOURING ZAMBIA THERE WAS A SHORTAGE OF FOOD WHEN THE BORDER BETWEEN ZAMBIA AND RHODESIA CLOSED AND ALL WE HAD WAS BASHED UP CANS OF CHINESE FOOD AND BUTCHERS WERE EMPTY

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and until then, Mugabe's thug will rape and pillage the nations coffers, and the poor will suffer. There's a reason why Zimbabwe is the 14th most corrupt in the world.

what we "Africans" MUST realized is that there's greed up in the Air by some of this racist and neocolonist who don't want to see any good leaders for Africa. Let's take one, the rescent president of South Africa in which the true behind his dismisser as president was NEVER told. Africans should STOP playing with fire and face their reality or else that countinent "Africa" will Never develop. And if you ask me why; that's just how they racist and neocolonists of the western world want it to be. They want Africa to be their bread basket and… [Read Full Text]

The talk about Ian Smith and his Rhodesia subjects does nothing to Zimbabwe nor it's future. Few people in Zimbabwe can relate to Ian Smith and his regime. Most people who were in their twenties or less during his regime either do not care who he is or view him as an oppressor. Hey, "Rhodes" I hear you, but I really do not care about Smith. Smith claimed once that entire villages would attend his funeral, that usual wishful thing! Alas, Smith died a lonely man in a nursing home in SA. With Smith, the question of race, land,… [Read Full Text]

Even Field Marshall Idi Amin had "professors" defending him to his last days as the Life President of Uganda, all in the midst of decay and death. Whatever these people profess, it must be sick and grotesque stuff.

There is decay and death all over the world.

And your point is?

Professors have been heavily involved in giving economic advice to the President in the USA and the PM in UK. Result: The current worst financial meltdown in USA since the World War 2.

We have western and Asian economies now in recession - widely believed to be a depression.

Do you suggest that village idiots were advising President Bush - so a to avert economic disaster?

Well. Maybe you have a different take on things: Whoever - professor or not - that advised Al Hajji Idi Amin… [Read Full Text]