Posted on 03/18/2002 12:21:54 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The ANC / Mbeki and Mugabe / the ZANU PF are different ? Mugabe is RACIST and Mbeki isn't ? IN WHAT UNIVERSE ? Certainly not this one ! They are irds of a feather. Oh, and the oh so " lovely " stinking white Communists , who foisted the Anc, Mandela ( A CARD CARRYING COMMIE ! ) , and now Mbeki on South Africa ? They have , one by one, been KILLED by ANC goon squads ; sort of Stalinstic chickens coming home to roost.
Will Mbeki do anything to stop Mugabe , call for sanctions, actually sanction him ? Probably when Osama bin Laden becomes president of the USA. I may be wrong ; however , I have , unfortunately , yet to be so, concerning my prognostication about Zimbabwe and South Africa. Would that I were.
Mbeki and Obasanjo will vote against the Aussie. America and Europe will have a fit. NEPAD ( all I can think of, when this annacronim, is KNEEPAD , a la Clinton ! ) will implode, and the dictarors / tryrants / so called " leaders " of SubSaharan Africa will scream " RACISM " ! Of course, it is THEY , who are the racists; but so what ... in this PC world, even where blacks are the majority, have ALL of the power, and are incapable of not only running Republic , but stinking Communists / Marxists and Stone Age TRIBALISTS , ro boot, it is and will always be " whitey's " fault ; never theirs.
That's why it caught my eye. I expected you to correct the spin.
The Hollywood Left and the D.C. Socialists are sitting pretty silent on this. SHHHHHHHHHH, the word communist is a big No-No. No one is supposed to know about that.
Up to now it always has worked. They go Boo! (Racist!) and they all scatter. Will they finally see it is hurting those black and white people who stood in line up to 48 hours (risking bodily harm and death) to vote? Will they think about them and grow a spine or will they give the communists another victory? The world is watching.
What we must do, is continue to get the word out ! As you know, I am a stickler for facts and truth.
No one's more sticklier!!!
The two sets of numbers were produced by two separate government offices. The opposition alleges that the concealed figures are consistent with past voting patterns and voter registration statistics per district and support the possibility that its candidate won the election.
The documents emerge at a critical and fragile time. Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria were due to arrive in Harare today in an urgent attempt to broker a negotiated settlement between Mugabe and his main rival, former trade union leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
The two African heads of state are in a pickle. Seen as leading visionaries of renewal on their continent, Mbeki and Obasanjo are eager to demonstrate that Africans can be their own keepers. They, along with Prime Minister John Howard of Australia, form a Commonwealth panel on Zimbabwe and are due in London tomorrow to determine whether the 54-state assembly of former colonies should impose sanctions against Zimbabwe over the flawed ballot.
They don't have a lot of room for maneuvering. Both Mugabe and Tsvangirai have rejected suggestions of forming a government of national unity. And Britain's Lord Carrington and the New Zealand prime minister, Helen Clark, both have said publicly in recent days that failure to suspend Zimbabwe would threaten the Commonwealth's existence.
In an uncharacteristically harsh condemnation of the actions of a member state, the Commonwealth election observers concluded last week that Zimbabwe's vote ''did not adequately allow for a free expression of will by the electors.''
On the morning of his swearing-in, despite the cannon fire and air force flyover, Mugabe struggled to hold a brave face. Sheltered from the public on the manicured State House grounds, the 78-year-old leader took the oath before a crowd of party stalwarts and supporters. His arrival brought no pomp and circumstance and hardly any cheers. Only five of his regional counterparts sat beside him on the podium. [End Excerpt]
This formulation presupposes that they care about the blacks.
Of course, they don't.
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