May 7, 2008

Mugabe is famous for many sayings - including the above where he was openly acknowledging that Zanu PF not only used violence as a weapon but actually boasted that they were violent people. He also once said he admired Hitler for his ruthless establishment of a dictatorship in Europe that nearly dominated half the world.
There [...]

May 6, 2008

The BBC got it right the other day; in news broadcasts they described the Zimbabwe elections and the aftermath as “bizarre”. The elections took place - after a vigorous campaign by all parties and voting was peaceful - as it always is on polling day. Funny how violence is switched on and off in this [...]

April 21, 2008

David Miliband, the British foreign secretary today said that “the constitutional crisis in Zimbabwe continues as President Mugabe persists in his ambition to steal the election.”
Miliband noted in his statement that “it is over three weeks since the elections were held but the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is yet to announce the Presidential results.”
“More worryingly President [...]

April 20, 2008

In the late 70’s I was appointed Chief Executive of a major corporation and about six months into the job I noticed that although we had about 3500 employees and an internal audit department, I never saw anyone being disciplined or prosecuted for theft. I have been in business for about 40 years and in [...]

April 19, 2008

Dear Family and Friends,
Behind every tree, under every bush and around every corner, it seems there is a British enemy waiting to invade Zimbabwe.
“We must maintain the utmost vigilance in the face of vicious British machinations,” Mr Mugabe warned as he spoke at his celebration of Zimbabwe’s 28th anniversary of Independence.
No one that I’ve spoken [...]

April 16, 2008

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon remarked on the post-election situation in Zimbabwe on Wednesday, expressing concern about the failure of the election commission to release the results. He believes the delay could have “serious implications” for Zimbabwe’s people.
At a summit in New York City, which was attended by the UN Security Council and African Union [...]

April 14, 2008

Can you believe these guys! Mr. Mbeki flies into Harare where inflation is raging at 500 000 percent. The wife of the President has fled with enough foreign exchange to feed the whole country for 6 months, an election has been held under totally unacceptable conditions. The results legally due in 6 days, are 14 [...]

April 13, 2008

Dear Family and Friends,
I received a call early one morning this week from a friend in a small country town. Speaking quickly and quietly for fear of being overheard, he told me of the frightening events that were going on all around him. Eight double cab vehicles had arrived in the town. Armed men in [...]

Who said change was easy? Here we are, 14 days after the election and a complete stalemate exists. Tonight Mugabe has announced that he will not attend the SADC summit on Saturday and this completes his admission that the election has gone against him and he is now acting completely outside the law and violating [...]

April 2, 2008

Two foreign aid workers attached to a United Nations (UN) project were kidnapped in southern Somalia on Tuesday. The UN stated that the two men, one British and one Kenyan, were abducted at gunpoint while conducting a survey of local rivers. The men were taken hostage on a road leading to Bu’aale, in the southern [...]