Posted on 08/06/2018 12:37:05 AM PDT by robowombat
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for calm after intense violence between protesters and military troops left at least three people dead.
The president said he has opened lines of communication with MDC opposition leader Nelson Chamisa to discuss how to "immediately diffuse the situation" and "protect the peace we hold dear".
In a series of tweets, he added that an independent investigation into the deadly clashes in Harare that led to troops firing live rounds and beating protesters would be launched.
Violence broke out in the Zimbabwean capital after soldiers moved into Harare on Wednesday as protests escalated amid allegations of electoral manipulation and anger at election result delays.
Zimbabwe's electoral commission has said presidential election results will be announced at 9pm local time.
Good time for Obama to go to Z-Land and broker a peaceful solution.
Show off his great leadership skills which were lacking while president of our country.
Should take his co-conspirators against America with like Rice, Lynch, Jarrett, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Mueller, Rosenstein, Yates, McCabe, and McCain to be his support group.
And Feinstein’s little yellow driver is available to drive them, I hear.
What a “$hit hole” country”,
Maybe the days of White rule when it was Rhodesia weren’t so bad after all.
Travel Advisory; avoids any /all Mc Donald’s fast food joints inywhere in Africa until further notice....
That is all.
You forgot Hillary...…...
After they get done there they should get ready to go to the next stinkpot South Africa.
The Marxist, MSM, Hollywood should all be very happy.
Evil Rhodesia was the ‘Breadbasket of Africa’.
When Zimbabwe was the bread basket of Africa: Fascinating pictures show flourishing but divided nation before Robert Mugabe took control and left it impoverished
Pictures from late 1890s and early 1900s show farms, mines and railways being built in southern African state
Images also show the growing calls for independence from colonialist rulers as the 20th century progressed
Zimbabwe was once considered the bread basket of Africa before Robert Mugabe led it to economic ruin
Mugabe facing uncertain future after he was placed under house arrest and put under pressure to stop down
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5092693/Images-Zimbabwe-Africa-s-bread-basket.html
From the article you linked:
“In 1965, when most remaining European colonies in Africa were obtaining independence under black majority rule, the tiny white minority in Southern Rhodesia broke away from Britain, forming a racist regime similar to that in neighbouring South Africa.
The declaration by Rhodesia’s white minority government led by Ian Smith was the first such action taken by a British colony since the American declaration of 1776.
It sparked a bloody liberation war from 1972, led by Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, in which at least 27,000 died.
The war culminated in the country’s independence, negotiated under British auspices, in April 1980 and Southern Rhodesia was renamed Zimbabwe.
Canaan Banana became president.”
How appropriate, to inaugurate a new Banana Republic, with a President Banana.
Like Venezuela, was once Africa’s richest and most prosperous nation......funny what happens when Marxists take over........
Rhodesia was a stable, first-world country that carried a disproportionate share of the weight of the hot portion of the cold war, only to be betrayed by Britain, South Africa, and the US (Kissenger brokered the internal settlement for majority rule). The military was volunteer (conscription came very late, after everything was over but the crying) and 2/3 black. Why were all these Shona and other native Africans fighting for a "racist" regime against a "liberator"?
Of course Rhodesia wasn't perfect by any means in handling racial issues, but neither was any country. Rhodesia was moving forward, blacks were participating more and more as their prosperity grew and they met the income requirements for voting. But for some reason, the world deemed it better to immediately hand power over to a hardcore Communist faction that shot down multiple airliners and butchered the survivors at the crash site, among other atrocities too numerous to list.
Now whites (and blacks of certain tribes and occupations) are harassed, displaced, murdered, but does the world care? Rhodesia carried on and prospered despite crippling sanctions. Zimbabwe can't find it's ass with too hands and a map despite billions and billions in foreign aid.
It's vital to remind people that this isn't black vs. white. Many blacks of certain tribes are treated terribly in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Stupid, condescending, RACIST liberals see a black African face and feel good about themselves, without understanding any of the complex tribal tensions that exist.
I'm not endorsing Apartheid. But unlike Zimbabwe, Rhodesia at least had a roadmap for racial equality and national stability. Zimbabwe is built on hatred and Maoism.
Hmmm...... I didn’t remember that.
What do we call Northern Rhodesia
“What do we call Northern Rhodesia”
Zambia.
thanks
“Zimbabwe can’t find it’s ass with two hands and a map”
Good one. Made me spit out my coffee.
Still laughing as I type.
Zimbabwe is McDonald’s writ large.
It’s about trying to preserve an organized society when the average IQ of the population is 70 (functionally retarded), also known as Mission Impossible.
“It’s about trying to preserve an organized society when the average IQ of the population is 70 (functionally retarded), also known as Mission Impossible.”
Yep. Only an idiot would not see this as the retarded yet again taking control and destroying their own civilization.
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