This is long anthropological and historical chronology of what happened, which is a typical African story of Africa untangling its self from the debacle of colonialism. Unfortunately many socalled liberation "heros" erroneously thought raising flags on independence meant the problems had ended so it was time to sit back and party, when it was only the beginning of the challenging work of nation building. It is should be a lesson of many Africa countries, including South Africa.

Reading through this piece the one conclusion one can draw is failure of leadership on the part of Mugabe: from the time of… [Read Full Text]

Mugabe is mental forever accusing countries of trying to invade Zim. WHy they invade a wrecked country

This article is excellent. It appears that Pres. Bush recent proposal to appoint the Zimbabwe Reserve Bank chief to the IMF as a senior VP could be construed as an olive branch. As a VP of the IMF, he would be ideally situated to help relieve the credit crisis brought on by the IMF's participation in sanctions (specifially credit for infrastructure).

This a brillian piece. If Al Gore were to write this he would have headed it "An inconvenient truth."

This is the story most people prefer not to hear. And for some reason many people would like to think that South African circumstances here are vastly different from Zimbabwe. But mark my words, the land problem remains a time bomb and it's not a matter of if but when it will explode. Polokwane was just a small dress rehearsal. And like they say, Just watch this space ..........Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980, but… [Read Full Text]

Well researched article, but there is a key issue that the writer fails to recognize, and as a result he seems to come to the conclusion that the situation in Zimbabwe is all concocted by the West. It is without dispute that colonialism is at the root of the problems, but at some point a people have to own their own destiny and deal with issues. Here is my point: Firstly Mugabe would have lost every election since about 1996 if it had been a free and fair election with proper unbiased voter education and registration. He would even… [Read Full Text]

You have hit the nail on the head,drpanashe -that this well researched article misses out the glaring failure of leadership by Mugabe as the real tragedy of Zimbabwe. Mugabe has subverted the people's republic by creating a ZanuPF monarchy and that is really the reason for the country's spectacular decline. Respect for party democracy would have produced more competent leadership within ZanuPF itself and the Western sponsored opposition movement would not exist.