Posted on 04/18/2008 3:33:47 PM PDT by george76
President Robert Mugabe devoted his first major speech since the unresolved election three weeks ago to denouncing whites and former colonial ruler Britain, an attempt to convince Zimbabweans their political and economic troubles stem from abroad.
The scene at the official 28th Independence Day celebration Friday had all the pomp of old, with air force jets sweeping overhead and Mugabe, bedecked in sash and medals, striding past soldiers at attention.
But any private observances by ordinary Zimbabweans were likely muted _ prices for food, gasoline and drinks have more than doubled just in the past week amid an economic meltdown that has emptied store shelves and idled four of every five workers.
Whites "want the people to starve so they think the government is wrong and they should remove it,"
The farm invasions were a dramatic example of Mugabe's familiar tactic of demonizing whites...
But after repeated attacks on the white community, the seizure of most white-owned farms and a dwindling of the white community's size and power, the effectiveness of scapegoating whites may have dwindled.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
Another pupil of Rev. Wright? Mugabe sounds like Al Sharpton.
“that suffered under white minority rule until 1980,”
MSM following the same old mindset. This must be killing them, to report this stuff.
I don’t believe in racism of any kind. But it sounds to me like they lived fairly well under “white minority rule”, and it’s NOW, under black racist marxist rule, that they are really suffering.
Were it not for Great Britain and it empire, no one today would have any expectation of living in a civil society with a free and accountable government.
The media is very quiet on this.
Frankly, I hope the Chinese take over. It will keep them busy for quite awhile, IMHO.
Methinks that Obama will, if he hasn’t already, start to bond with Mugabe.
Heck, American blacks are still not graduating from free, $20,000/year/student (and more) public high schools because of, um, slavery.
Blame anyone and everyone but themselves.
They use to feed themslves and other nations with capitalism.
This communism is not working.
They have tried the democratic way by voting and that didn’t work. I would suggest that a bullet in the head is just the ticket now.
What chutzpah! Mugabe and his henchmen murdered and ethnically cleansed all the whites in Zimbabwe. Now he’s blaming the non-existent whites in Zimbabwe for the country’s ills?
A CHINESE cargo ship believed to be carrying 77 tonnes of small arms, including more than 3 million rounds of ammunition, AK47 assault rifles, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, has docked in the South African port of Durban for the transport of the weapons to Zimbabwe, the South African Government has confirmed. It claimed it was powerless to intervene as long as the ship's papers were in order...
Crisis? What crisis, says Mbeki on way to summit
this is the FIRST thing in the last eight years NOT blamed on Bush!!!
Were it not for Great Britain and it empire, no one today would have any expectation of living in a civil society with a free and accountable government.
White Man's fault Burden.
Update:
http://www.bigpond.com/news/breaking/content/20080419/2221564.asp
The An Yue Jiang, a Chinese ship, had been at anchor off Durban on South Africa’s Indian Ocean coast since Monday, turning into a flashpoint for trade unions and others critical of President Thabo Mbeki’s quiet diplomacy toward Zimbabwe.
The 300,000-strong South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) refused to unload the weapons because of concerns Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s Government might use them against opponents in the post-election stalemate.
Several hours after Durban High Court Judge Kate Pillay gave her ruling the ship lifted anchor and left, SAPA said, citing sources that requested anonymity.
It was not clear where it was going.
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