Mzalendo Halisi..mpaka lini tutaacha kuwalaumu wazungu kwa ujinga wetu? we should get life people!!!! Leo bongo matumizi ya kawaida ya ikulu na ofisi nyingine..ni makubwa kuliko health services na mengineyo...kesho watu wakifa (as they always do anyway)..unajua tunapoint vidole wapi? to the policies of IMF and WB!! Indeed Africans are DUMB!!! Mugabe is just a failed human being and he should accept so. Yaani na hardship ya wazimbabwe bado watu wanamtetea BOB? lets have solidarity with Zimbabweans and not Mugabe.. I earnestly believe..Mugabe has honourably and willingly presided over the death of his own country-as it is for many African leaders.... HE SHOULD GO AND BE TRIED IN THE HAGUE! If need be.
As for reemerging of Zim as a giant...History has testified that, with zeal, selfless dedication, and visionary and responsible dictatorship, another world is possible-unfortunately not in Africa and I dont think Zimbabwe will be the exception of the failed policies and vision of African leaders!
Naona wewe ulikuwa unamsupport dictator ukaamua kumwaga manyanga kwa hiyo mimi naweka vitu jinsi vinavyoendelea. Huyu kibaka alikuwa na heshima hadi pale alipoamua kufikiri yeye ni MORE than Zimbabwe, hilo ni fundisho hata kwa viongozi wetu Tanzania ambao wanafikiri wao ni more than Tanzania.
Viongozi wa Afrika lazima wasikilize maoni ya wananchi.
Midhali umerudi mwaga vitu na wewe. Nilisema huyu bwana aondoke mapema at 83 years hana jipya.
more propaganda
depends on whose persocetive and definition of freedom of speech
bado mnajibizana na articles za magazeti? Etc.
DrWHO
Acha kuwa na porojo motomoto mara ya mwisho kwa kumbukumbu zangu nimeangalia just a few kama hivi:
Nikakuuliza
Where is the freedom of speech?
Ukaandika
Nikauliza
What language is this: persocetive
Ukaingia mitini ukaja na hadithi chungu nzima za abunuwasi ukajibu
Swala la ardhi hakuna anayebisha naona umelikumbatia kama vile ni sala. Wazungu wengi walirudisha ardhi na kuondoka Zimbabwe kwenda Zambia, Australia, New Zealand na hata wengine wamerudi Tanzania etc. Kama unakumbuka baada ya 1967 wengi walikimbilia South Afrika na Rhodesia, Mugabe alikuwa anawakamua na walipoondoka na kumwachia ardhi akaanza kuwakamua raia wake kwa vitisho ambavyo vinaendelea na muda wake umekwisha hivyo inabidi aachie wengine waongoze.
Mwafrika yoyote aliye ulaya na marekani lazima atamtetea Mugabe kwa sababu ya ubaguzi ambao wazungu wanaufanya kwa waafrika lakini ni lazima uwe mkweli na uwe na upeo wa kuona mbali (ndugu zetu Zimbabwe ambapo damu ya WTZ ilimwagika wanashida na huyu mdudu).
Robert ameshindwa kazi na tunahesabu siku tu ataondoka baada ya kuharibu uchumi wa nchi yake, vile vile ameshindwa kuweka umoja ambao ulianzishwa na father of that nation (Nkomo) kabla ya kufariki around 1990s ingawa wengi watabisha hili lakini ukienda Zimbabwe wenyewe wanakubali kwamba Nkomo ndio real father of that nation.
Mugabe alikuwa ni opportunist ambaye aliwaburuza wananchi on a borrowed time na muda wake umefika atakuwa salama kama atakimbilia kwa rafiki yake Mahadhir kule Malasyia sivyo atakuwa another Sadam Hussein. Mambo ambayo unaona ni propaganda ndiyo ukweli on the ground, iko siku utaona ukweli kwa sababu ukweli siku zote hushamiri.
Vile vile lazima ukumbuke kwamba hata wakati wa Ian Smith pamoja na vikwazo vya uchumi waliweza kuishi na nchi haikuporomoka. Ian Smith alikuwa hauwi wazungu wenzake lakini huyu babu anauwa waafrika wenzake na sisi tunakenua meno tu kama vile hatuoni.
Police have evicted some 4,000 students from the main university in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, after violent clashes. The students were given just 30 minutes to leave their halls of residence but lectures are expected to continue, with exams set to start next week.
Sunday's protests came after the university authorities charged extra fees because the term was extended following a strike by lecturers. This is the latest sign of Zimbabwe's economic crisis. "It's not our fault that the lecturers went on strike and we were saying why should we be made to pay," student Chadwick Rugube told the AFP news agency.
The students say they should not pay for the lecturers' strike
'Heartless'
While the university authorities say lectures will continue, student union spokesman Benjamin Nyandoro said many students had nowhere else to stay. "The majority of those who stay on campus have no homes, friends or relatives in Harare so they are going to sleep in the open," he told AFP.
"It just shows how heartless the authorities are. Some of us are starting examinations next week and this is going to affect us psychologically." University of Zimbabwe Vice-Chancellor Professor Levy Nyagura told the state-owned Herald newspaper that the students were paying almost nothing and so should not complain.
"These are unbelievable students who want to live on a Z$1,000 meal [US$4 at the official rate, 1 US cent on the black market]. Where in Zimbabwe can you get a meal for Z$1,000?" Zimbabwe has the world's highest rate of inflation at more than 3,700%.
The Herald reports that "almost 10" top businessmen remain in police custody after being arrested for selling goods above official prices. Some major firms were fined for not displaying prices, as the government has ordered as part of its attempts to reduce inflation.
Tabasamu,
Western interests to Zim are historical- it was a British colony- and if you happened to visit Zim in 1990s you would agree Zim was economic hub of South African Region after SA. Western interests in terms of many aspects including population, agriculture, infrastructure, investment, sports (rugby) ... you name it.
I am not trying to be a reductionist- to attribute all problems of Zim today to West. Mugabe and other Zimbabweans have a share to contribute.
In a nutshell the western interests --if you ask me--- herald more weight than other internal dynamics which occurred in Zim. And caused by Mugabe and his associates per see!
Remember in Africa, there are so many other dictators- but they have been 'a darling to the West' that is why they are there! If you will recall Mobutu and Siyyed Bare used to be close friends of US- until when after cold war, when they were seen useless- and later on deposed!
We can not blame West for everything- on the situation in Zim- I will stand with Mugabe- may be because of his age he has to look for a successor!
Mzalendohalisi!
By Peter Biles
BBC News, South Africa
The economic crisis in Zimbabwe is having a severe impact on its neighbour, South Africa. An estimated three million Zimbabweans are thought to have fled to South Africa to escape the chaos and they continue to flood across the border at Beit Bridge. The Limpopo River, famously described by Kipling as "great, grey-green and greasy", forms the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa - two close neighbours, but now a world apart. Zimbabwe is on its knees. Its people are starving and desperate. South Africa is seen as the land of opportunity. And the bright lights of this economic giant beckon.
The original Beit Bridge was erected in 1929 and a new one built in 1995
Old barriers
It is winter here now and this is the dry season. That is good news for the thousands of mainly young Zimbabwean men prepared to take the risk of crossing the Limpopo. They come down to the river bank on the Zimbabwean side, sometimes in large groups. Then they disperse. They are able to wade across, but they need to keep a look-out for crocodiles in the shallow water. When they reach the South African side, they dry themselves down and edge nervously towards South Africa's triple-layer border fence.
This is a barrier that was put up in the days of apartheid - when the country's white rulers tried to stop the guerrillas of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the ANC, from infiltrating from Zimbabwe.
Border jumpers
But these days, the security is not as formidable as it looks.
The illegal migrants from Zimbabwe approach the first fence and cut the wire mesh or burrow in the sandy soil to open a gap underneath. Then, using their bolt-cutters, they make their way through rolls of razor wire. And finally, they penetrate another layer of fencing. By this stage, one of the Zimbabweans is probably leading the way as a scout. But the "border jumpers" are rarely deterred.
In daylight, with my car parked on a quiet narrow road that runs along the border, a man suddenly appears. He leaps over the nearest fence with unexpected agility and vanishes into the South African bush. All this happens within a few hundred metres of the Beit Bridge border post, the only official crossing point between Zimbabwe and South Africa. Under the noses of the South African police and soldiers, this is as brazen as it gets.
I carry on watching with fascination. A few minutes later, a group of six men come surging over the security fence. They look left and right to see if there is any approaching traffic, cross the road and dart out of sight.
A little further along the border, I meet a workman in red overalls. Donald's job is to repair the holes cut in the fence by the Zimbabweans. "Sometimes, I have to fix 100 a day," he says. "The situation is getting worse and worse. Our army isn't patrolling enough."
Donald, a workman, says he repairs about 100 holes a day
"Perhaps what we need," suggests Donald, "is for Robert Mugabe to put up a fence on his side of the border."
Peter Biles examines the gaps and holes in the wire mesh
Looking for work
I make my way back to the petrol station at Beit Bridge. This is the first stop for Zimbabwean motorists who have crossed the border legally and need to fill up their empty tanks. There is precious little fuel in Zimbabwe these days. But in the car park, it is not long before I run across some of those who have come across the border by less orthodox means. "Yes," says 23 year old Tony, "I swam the Limpopo. We have no food, no money and no jobs in Zimbabwe."
Promise is also 23. He is from Harare and has come to South Africa to look for a job in an attempt to support his family.
He thinks he might find some work on a local farm, but many have made the same journey ahead of him and a record number of Zimbabweans are now being picked up by the South African police and deported.
Zimbabwean motorists who cross the border legally are short of petrol
Determined young men
It is thought that about 1,000 Zimbabweans are being arrested in South Africa every day and sent home, but as many as 3,000 a day may be coming into the country. So that means plenty appear to be slipping through the net. Some of the more circumspect Zimbabwean migrants enter South Africa under the cover of darkness. Most want to head south to the big cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria. All this is the consequence of what is happening in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe
As the early morning mist begins to burn off, a teenager approaches me and asks for a lift. Others are hitching on the main road, the N1 highway. The local farmers are getting more than a little jittery about this influx. They are hardly enamoured with large groups of poor, hungry and determined young men, traipsing across their land.
Game farmer Gideon Meiring sees himself living on a frontline.
He says the police can not cope, so with military precision, Gideon now runs his own patrols and tells me he comes across Zimbabweans on his property almost every day. All this is the consequence of what is happening in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, a country that was once a jewel of Africa. And from all the Zimbabweans I meet at the border, there is just one simple refrain: "We are suffering."
The lure of plentiful South Africa
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When one of our chosen leaders makes almost half of the population refugees, and the entire country go hungry he should just do the wise thing.