[MadIvan]

Zimbabwe, where cruelty and absurdity go hand in hand.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[modest proposal]

god thats terrible

to tell you the truth i woulda just shut up about the tampons rather than get tortured about it. less painful bleeding

[SlowBoat407]

Ah, another "benefit" of driving out the evil Europeans. The joy-joy times in Zimbabwe just keep on rollin' ever since the bad ol' white man was driven out.

[Minutemen]

with all due respect, what did women in the 3rd world do before Johnson & Johnson invented the "tampon"?

[This Just In]

I am one who enjoys light hearted just, but this image is callous, considering the suffering and humiliation involved.

One thing is not clear to me regarding the article, which fails to explain exactly why Thabitha Khumalo has been treated in such an inhuman way other than the fact that she is speaking publicly about their crisis.

Does this expose government corruption? Is it against their country's law or traditions for a female to speak of such things publicly?

My prayers to those individuals.

[LeoWindhorse]

at what point is that ape Mugabe going to dragged out into the streets and strung up from meat hooks like Mussolini ?
Actually better than he deserves.

[Anti-Bubba182]

The only thing that will cure Zimbabwe's problems is military intervention and a new goverment. Zimbabwe has no oil. It won't happen.

[winner3000]

This is what happens when the eeevil pharmaceutical companies are forced to pull out.

[AnnaZ]

Poor, poor woman. Poor, poor women. What a horrible hideous country. One of, unfortunately, too many.

[neodad]

When I was on active duty and we visited foreign ports, one of the most popular items that the chaplain and volunteers took to schools and orphanages were tampons, pads, etc. Never really understood why, but I guess this story helps explain it.

[river rat]

All cultures are equal..
There are no absolutes, like right or wrong - or good and evil.
Africa for the Africans...

This is what Africans and the World's leftists wanted - The whites robbed and evicted and the Africans "reclaiming" the land......

I'm happy for them....

Semper Fi

[Rastus]

Later this month they will launch “Dignity. Period!”, a fundraising campaign to buy sanitary products for Zimbabwe’s women. It will start with a night of entertainment at the 20th Century theatre in Notting Hill, west London, hosted by Stephen Fry.

This is a nice gesture and will probably make these celebrities feel good about themselves, but I imagine the situation will be similar to the one in Ethiopia where the Derg took the food donated by all of the Band Aid/We Are the World efforts and let it rot. If they're torturing a woman for speaking out about the conditions, are they really going to turn around and pass out tampons? I don't think Mugabe has really shown that international shame has any effect on his actions. Much as the liberals hate the military, any serious effort will require violent action.

[VeniVidiVici]

Since this is by the Sunday Times, I'm sure much of it was taken out of Kotex.

[JennysCool]

I'm sure our "feminists" will be quick to protest this ACTUAL horrendous abuse of women, just as soon as they're done decrying pay scales for female college diversity studies professors. First things first.

[Bobalu]

Sea sponge tampons... Just tie a string to them...seriously

[backhoe]

-Pity About Africa...-- -South Africa - The sellout of a nation-- -Cry, the Beloved Country-- -Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power-- -A Capsule History of Southern Africa-- -Rhetoric of blame is now a white lie-- -First it was Rhodesia then SA now America paying the price of silence-- -Parallels between Apartheid SA and USA-- -Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight--

-Pity About Africa...-- -South Africa - The sellout of a nation-- -Cry, the Beloved Country-- -Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power-- -A Capsule History of Southern Africa-- -Rhetoric of blame is now a white lie-- -First it was Rhodesia then SA now America paying the price of silence-- -Parallels between Apartheid SA and USA-- -Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight--

[sure_fine]

Later this month they will launch “Dignity. Period!”, a fundraising campaign to buy sanitary products for Zimbabwe’s women






don't want to rust those AK-47's

[ikka]

The crisis began in 1999 when Johnson & Johnson, the healthcare manufacturer, pulled out of the country because of the worsening economic situation.

Uh no, the crisis began when they allowed Mugabe to stay on as Thug-For-Life.

Rather than donate tampons, they should be taking a few hundred thousand and hiring a professional assassin to take out Mugabe.

[bert]

Guns or butter

Medicine or rent

Tampons or rice

The beat goes on.....

[Fawn]

The don't have toilet paper in Iraq. I was told never to shake anyones hand over there....especially the left hand?