Pot calling the kettle black!
Robert Mugabe: UK to blame for Zimbabwe's starving
Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, today blamed the fact that millions of Zimbabweans are facing starvation on Britain and the West, as well as on climate change and soaring fuel prices.
He said "our former colonial masters" had imposed "illegal sanctions" and tried to impose "regime change" by supporting the Zimbabwean Opposition. He did not mention that the Opposition claims to have won March's presidential election - a vote he had been accused of trying to rig.
Speaking with slow deliberation Mr Mugabe, bespectacled and in a crisp white shirt with a striped tie, said there was a "marked disequlibrium" in world food equations" which threatened disaster for "all that humanity has achieved over the centuries".
"The trend towards global food crisis should be a cause for concern to all global leaders," Mr Mugabe said.
The Zimbabwean leader said that global warming and "the use of agricultural commodities for biofuels " were linked to the crisis and needed an "urgent response". Southern Africa was one of the regions most at risk from global warming, even though the continent as a whole accounts for just 5 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.
Soaring oil, chemical and fertiliser prices had also contributed. The result was that countries which were net food importers were "failing to achieve food security for their citizens". This was against a backdrop of "numerous challenges affecting agriculture in southern Africa" including the HIV/Aids virus and declining soil fertility.
"My country's prime agricultural policy objective remains ensuring national and household food security through our own production" Mr Mugabe declared.
In a reference to the violent seizure of white-owned farms he said Zimbabwe had "democratised land ownership" over the past decade. Zimbabweans were now the "proud owners" of land previously owned by a few thousand white farmers, "mainly of British stock".
But although these reforms had been warmly welcomed by "the vast majority of our people", they had elicited only "wrath" from Britain, which mobilised friendly governments in a concerted drive to "cripple the Zimbabwe economy".
eventually............
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
hey guys,i have a dream that one day africa will be free.
killing ,hunger ,illness will finish even if it will take time.
It's like europe countries before they killed each other before have peace,specialy during Hitler period.
Africa will be free , believe
No apology necessary. All taken lightheartedly.
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diamond, I apologise for saying darlin, I would have reacted if someone had said that to me......sorry...
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Terms of endearment go both ways, right ;)
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darlin lol
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
It wasn't clear. It is now 'darlin'.
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what i mean by 'these' people is the 'people' that are leading the country at the moment....i knew someone would comment....for your piece of mind darlin, i don't mean black people before you kick off......
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Supernurse, who do you mean by 'these people'?
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AIDS is the leading cause of death in South Africa. That is outrageous.
Sorry Britexpat, gone off topic.
Could write War and Peace about the calculated calamities of Mugabe.
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pure, idiots, these people are unable to lead a dog let alone a once prosperous country!....
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Take Mbekis initial stance on HIV, for example. He questioned the link between HIV and AIDS and in doing so delayed and deprived treatment for millions of his people who subsequently died.
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I find Mbeki to be ineffective and weak on many fronts.
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What I find amazing is that the African leaders put up with his antics especially Mbeki.
mmmm these people couldn't run a pi$$ up in a brewery.........
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Mugabe is a racist nutter. He despises white Zimbabweans. He's completely bonkers. He wasn't always like that. When he toook over from Smith as Rhodesia became Zimbabe there were high hopes for him and initially he did a fair job.
Now he has reduced his people to starvation. A country which once was the bread basket of Africa is now on it's knees in every way.
I'm surprised someone hasn't put a bullet through him by now. He must have great security.
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