Zimbabwean Pastor Wison Mugabe, left, speaks as Bishop Paul Verryn, right, looks on during the launch of a hunger strike campaign in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday Jan. 21, 2009. Mugabe, a member of the National Pastor's Forum, said he would start a 21-day hunger strike on Wednesday. Pastor Mugabe said the people of Zimbabwe were already on a "forced fast by the government".
Zimbabwean Pastor Wison Mugabe, left, brakes down in tears as he is comforted by Bishop Paul Verryn, right, during the launch of a hunger strike campaign in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday Jan. 21, 2009.
Desmond Tutu has long been among Robert Mugabe's sharpest critics.
Human rights activist Graca Machel speaks during a media conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday Jan. 21, 2009. Machel, who is also Nelson Mandela's wife, spoke Wednesday at the launch of a hunger strike campaign by South African and Zimbabwean activists. The activists hope the campaign will pressure their leaders to take action about the situation in Zimbabwe.
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A very noble idea but it wont do anything to change anything in Zimbabwe.
The fight that is going on now has nothing to do with caring for the people ....it is a power struggle and screw the people....
Spoke to my sis in Masvingo tonight and the situation is really bad....nomealie meal in the shops at all they have to go the Wimpy and wait for the big trucks coming from SA and see if they have any for sale.....
Land line charges are mental....no matter what the phone bill is now 300US$ a month and has to be paid in forex.....
The Municiple water bill is R50 and has to be paid in forex......
Something that is really frightening her is the way people are just invading homes in the hope of getting offered a meal.....family,friends even your nextdoor neighbor comes calling in search of food.....
She said the people go around in such confusion ....it is so sad....
All this and still Zimbabweans do nothing to get rid of ''mugabe and the zanu mafia''....MDC is useless,unreliable and weak at the knees......maybe if the people had a strong leader then they would rise up.....
2 comments:
Seeing an equivalence between Mugabe and Tsvangirai is either dishonest or misinformed.
Tsvangirai knows that if he joins Mugabe in a GNU before all of the details are agreed then he will be unable after the event to get the authority he needs to start the process of change.
Ask yourselves this . . if Mugabe , as he says, is quite content to resolve the details of the power sharing after the event then whats his problem in doing so before the GNU starts?
When Mugabe unilaterally changed the terms of the GNU agreement between the 11th Sept and the 15th he demonstrated he is not to be trusted.
On that basis alone Tsvangirai is fully justified in calling for the agreement of the power sharing details before commencement. What argument does Mugabe have for not doing so?
No, dear people, Tsvangirai is trying with all the democratic means he has to try and bring democracy to Zimbabwe. Mugabe is simply trying to retain power and continue with his incompetent, criminal , government despite losing the elections to the MDC.
That is just a load of bull......he ain't doing anything except listen to a lot of ''white farmers on a mission'' who know nothing ......
The man never ever does what he says he is going to do.....he dithers around and ''mugabe and the zanu mafia'' know it and are using it to their advantage that is why they agreed to the GNU in the first place because they knew nothing would come of it because of his beack tracking and dithering......
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