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This might tempt them to subscribe to the informed view of Theo- Ben Guribab, Namibian Foreign Minister, who told us at the end of February that there is no crisis in Zimbabwe, just "manageable violence". Now there's a concept for the twenty-first century.

Mugabe Talks of Retribution After Zimbabwe Vote: Places Army on High Alert [Excerpt] HARARE (Reuters) - Just over two days before Zimbabwe's closest-fought presidential election, Robert Mugabe warned he would pursue his challenger once the voting was over.

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been accused of treason over a secretly recorded video purporting to show him discussing Mugabe's assassination with Canadian consultants who were actually working for Mugabe.

A private Zimbabwean newspaper reported Thursday that Mugabe's government had placed the army on high alert, recalled soldiers from leave and ordered those who live outside military barracks to stay home, ready to deal with possible trouble after the elections next Saturday and Sunday.

The weekly Financial Gazette also said the government had withdrawn some troops from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to beef up security and repeated remarks made by one Mugabe's senior officials early this week that the ruling ZANU-PF party would support a military coup if Mugabe lost power.

Mugabe told a rally in eastern Zimbabwe Wednesday that Tsvangirai would have to answer for the alleged murder plot after the elections.

"No murderer will go unpunished. No one we know to have planned such deeds will escape," said Mugabe, promising post-election retribution against those he said had committed crimes against Zimbabwe, though he mentioned no names. [End Excerpt]

...("I do not like the assumption that unless Mugabe or Zanu PF loses the election it will not be free and fair" - President Mkapa of Tanzania.)...

Good catch, Clive.

Let's call a spade a spade. Not one other African 'leader' has been critical of, or remonstrated, with Mugabe. They all share responsibility for his tyranny and crimes. It's sad to see that the Commonwealth has this week proven as impotent as the OAU. I wonder which African 'president' will be the next Mobutu, Amin, or Mugabe?

As in 2000 Mugabe's thugs will be sauntering around the polling booths just to make the point. Unlike in 2000 they will also be inside doing their patriotic duty as members of the Electoral Supervisory Commission and, where necessary, turning away voters who have mysteriously disappeared from the electoral rolls in the last few months. In this capacity they will also have responsibility for the supervision and transportation of boxes. This should give them ample opportunity to stuff the boxes with fake votes or, better still, just ditch the original box and replace it with one they prepared earlier.

I'd been wondering where Donna Brazille and those vote counters in Palm Beach were off to.

Perhaps the continent of Africa should be left to simmer in its own juices for a century or two.

In his mighty wartime poem "The Stars Go Over The Lonely Ocean," Robinson Jeffers writes:

"The world's in a bad way, my man,
And bound to be worse before it mends.
Better lie up here in the mountains
Four or five centuries
While the stars go over the lonely ocean."

...and the longer I look at the the mess the rest of the world has made for itself, and seeks to impose on us, the more strongly I feel that Jeffers had exactly the right idea.

Let's start with Africa.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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