africawinsagain...
Posted on 03/23/2008 12:28:42 PM PDT by george76
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has vowed that Zimbabwe's main opposition party will never rule during his lifetime and threatened to expel companies from Zimbabwe's former colonial ruler Britain ...
Britain, which has led international criticism of Mugabe for violating political and human rights in his country and plunging it into a disastrous economic crisis, says only 40 British firms remain operating in the country.
Mugabe's relations deteriorated with Western nations after he embarked in 2000 on a controversial land reform scheme that saw about 4000 white-owned farms seized...
Mugabe also urged Zimbabweans yesterday to help acquire a majority stake in mining and manufacturing firms after a new equity law that only allows firms to restructure or merge if locals hold 51 per cent of shares.
There are fears the law could plunge the country even deeper into the economic mire.
Once a net agricultural exporter, Zimbabwe is reeling under food shortages, while the economy buckles under a mind-boggling annual inflation rate of 100,000-plus per cent.
Both unemployment and poverty rates hover above 80 per cent and at least a quarter of the population has fled misery to seek economic refuge elsewhere.
Mr Tsvangirai has warned that the March 29 polls could be rigged in favour of Mugabe and has threatened to pull out of the elections if presidential ballots are counted at a separate venue from concurrent legislative and local votes.
He told a news conference last week that independent investigations had revealed that 90,000 names appearing on the roll for 28 rural constituencies could not be accounted for.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
The people should have killed Mugabe long before this.
He has to rule until his death. If he stepped down, he’d probably get executed.
My heart goes out to the [b]good[/b] people of Rhodesia. (Still refuse to acknowledge it as "Z---")
It’s past time for Mugabe to DIE!
Don’t the electors have some say in the matter?
africawinsagain...
Yeah, didn’t Stalin and accidentally smother himself in a pillow or something?
He knows when he’s had enough. When he’s dead.
This is actually good news.
As long as Mugabe clung to the threadbare cloak of the democratic process, his liberal apologists and supporters could at least point lamely to the elections and say it was all an internal Zimbabwe affair.
That’s gone now. Mugabe, who owes his initial climb to power to those same liberal apologists and supporters has fully revealed himself to be what almost everyone else knew he always was.
A typical African dictator thug in the same mold of Idi Amin Dada, Mobuto, etc. etc. etc...
Don't have to be a smart thief if you have this; http://www.zimplats.com/pdf/AR2007.pdf
-ccm
ok
He must have writers.
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