Friday, June 13, 2008
New depths reached
The world (and particularly South Africa) watch on as Mugabe sends his country deeper into hell.
Wife of Mugabe rival burned alive after having feet hacked off
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Finally the end?
Could this be Mugabe’s last stand?
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s opponents have vowed to unite to drive him from office, saying his government already is at “war” with dissidents.
Thursday, June 1, 2006
Destruction continues
Dictator Mugabe, having driven out all the productive white farmers, set
his guns on the poorest blacks, with these results.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Rock bottom
You have to wonder what it will take for the West to save Rhodesia. Obviously not dead babies.
Monday, September 26, 2005
Fateful step back
Looks like South Africa is going down the broken Zimbabwean road.
Well, I can not say this bad story came as a total surprise, given the near-total lack of respect for property rights and the rule of law in Africa:
South Africa says it will for the first time force a white farmer to sell his land under a redistribution plan.
Africa is going the wrong way if it wants to join the first world anytime soon.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Descent into hell
Zimbabwe sinks closer into the abyss, as noted here.
Via Instapundit
Saturday, March 5, 2005
Zimbabwe update
Things are getting weird in the Marxist backwater of Zimbabwe.
I have long believed that Robert Mugabe, ruler of the hapless Zimbabwe, will die before he ever admits to having made a mistake. Yet the Telegraph now offers this report, about how Mugabe has admitted to making a mistake!
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Help him
Zimbabwe is a mess, still, and injustices like this are still going on.
If you are one of the average Canadians or Americans who responded to Canadafreeepress.com’s request for emails of hope and encouragement to Heather Bennett during the recent holidays, it worked.
Canada should be sponsoring this guy to come settle here. We need people like him.
Friday, September 24, 2004
Why the UN is useless
Here’s another word for the UN - disgraceful, as illustrated here.
In fact, there were large bursts of applause by the almost two-thirds of U.N. members for Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, when he said that his country which has been denounced for human rights abuses against its own citizens, told the assembly that he needs no lessons from the West on human rights.
Saturday, July 17, 2004
Operation White Cleanup
A disturbing article on what’s really happening in South Africa. Could it be the next Zimbabwe? Not likely. At least, not yet. With no effective opposition, however, the black power will most certainly run amok. Any white farmer should automatically be on our most desirable refugee list. I’m sure they’re not.
Rayford also said Mbeki relies on controlling the mostly foreign-owned media of South Africa, the educational system and the nation’s economic policy to keep a huge, disenfranchised mass of people ready for a war against the whites if and when that sad day should come. (According to this South African rumor, during “Operation White Clean Up” all of the nation’s whites will be killed on the night of Nelson Mandela’s funeral.)
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Banning the colors
This must be a joke.
“Red is just the start,” said Solly Solinga, spokesperson for Zimbabwean Television, when I phoned him about the decision to ban that colour from the country’s TV screens because it symbolised the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party. “We have other colours in mind, too.”
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Cave men
It’s back to the stone age for Zimbabwe.
The introduction of ox-drawn ambulances is a sign that President Robert Mugabe is taking Zimbabwe back to the stone ages, the opposition says.
All for the vanity of one ruthless, racist, dictator.
Where is the useless saviour of humanity, the UN? Busy condemning Israel and doing nothing in Sudan, that’s where.
Only one country could possibly help, and they’re too busy being hated by the rest of the world. Who can blame the US for not wasting their time.
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Whither South Africa
South Africa could easily be the next Zimbabwe.
Jacob van der Westhuizen, 74, didn’t suspect a thing when a stranger came up to tell him a small deer, a duiker, was tangled in the fence down by his creek.
Thursday, June 10, 2004
Zimbabwe sinks
Cafe Hayek says that hell is not far off for the people of this once prosperous nation.
Monday, May 24, 2004
Hope far on horizon
Challenging Crouton’s longest goodbye, Mugabe announced he probably won’t run again.
After 24 years in power, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe said in an interview broadcast Monday he will stay in office as long as his people want him to, but he does not plan to seek re-election in 2008
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Cricketing while Zimbabwe starves
Samizdata post on if it were not for cricket, the world may have totally ignored the death spiral that is Zimbabwe.
With the minds of the world’s intervening classes fully occupied elsewhere, Zimbabwe is now a problem too small for those who might otherwise have done something about it to be bothered with, yet still too big and difficult for anyone else to be able to handle. So, Robert Mugabe’s monstrous and murderous political machine will continue to churn its way through what remains of the country and its institutions.
Where is the UN again when it comes to saving the people of Zimbabwe?
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Cricket journalist sees evil
Even an open-minded (and perhaps naive) journalist knows evil when he sees it.
Seven hours later, I boarded a flight for Johannesburg. As the plane took off, a rainbow appeared in the sky - after the wickedness of Robert Mugabe’s regime, South Africa seems like heaven.
The people of Zimbabwe suffer more every week, and the UN does nothing. More proof of the UN’s irrelevancy.
Monday, April 5, 2004
Tribes killed Rhodesia
Trudeaupia talked to a white Rhodesian about what would happen once the blacks took over, and it turned out, he was right. Similar things are happening in South Africa - who knows what will happen in Iraq. I’m not sure the Americans can/will completely let go.
Many years ago I had an argument with a white Rhodesian about the prospect of democracy in his country (now Zimbabwe). He gave me an appalling lecture about the tribal nature of black society there and how the tribes would undermine the stable government institutions that had been created under white rule, resulting in corruption, nepotism and tyranny.
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Small crack
Things can hardly get worse in Zimbabwe, but it’s good see its dictator threw a tiny crumb to its media starved serfs.
Zimbabwe’s only independent daily newspaper hit the streets Thursday for the first time in nearly four months.
Now if they could only get some food…
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
Good riddance
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Mugabe!
It’s about time the useless Commonwealth did something useful - even though Mugabe did it for them. I don’t think any country other than the US can save Zimbabwe now, and I really doubt they want to. Why bother?
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Welcome step
From the better late than never files…
Closing ranks against Zimbabwe’s authoritarian leader, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said today that President Robert Mugabe will not be invited to next month’s Commonwealth summit in Nigeria.
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
We can only hope…
The people of Zimbabwe should pray Mugabe doesn’t recover.
President Robert Mugabe collapsed yesterday and was flown to South Africa for emergency medical treatment, sources in Zimbabwe said last night.
VIA Being American
Saturday, October 18, 2003
Deeper, Darker
Africablog has an entry about the further descent of Zimbabwe.
Just when you thought Zimbabwe couldn’t sink further without the outbreak of a bloody civil war, things get a little bit worse. Zimbabwe’s state-controlled oil company doesn’t have fuel to distribute to critical service providers (police, military, health care) much less to distribute to individuals.
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Mugabe throws fit
Big deal. The Commonwealth may split on racial lines because Australia doesn’t want Mugabe to come to the next meeting.
Australia’s prime minister, John Howard, angered Pretoria by announcing that Mr Mugabe would not be invited to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Nigeria in December because Zimbabwe’s record on human rights had not improved.
It’s time the Commonwealth be declared as useless as the UN. Really, what do the countries have in common besides British history? The Commonwealth serves no useful purpose in this day and age. Even the games stink.
It’s time for a new alliance, as I mentioned here.
VIA Jay Currie
Saturday, August 30, 2003
Feed the king
Mugabe feasts, while his peasants starve.
Furnishings and security for the President’s new residence are expected to send the cost to $15 million at a time when nearly half of Zimbabwe’s population is dependent on international food aid.
I’m sure it’s all Britain’s fault, too. Glad to see the South Africans are helping out (another prosperous country destroyed).
Sources in the building industry say landscaping and interior decoration - supervised by Mrs Mugabe, renowned for her expensive tastes - will be carried out by South Africans.