Is Kenneth Kaunda nuts or what. Don't demonise Mugabe my arse, call a spade a spade. How can someone sensitive enough to write a poem in Blair's honour turn out to be such a horse's arse. Not that Blair inspired poetry is necessarily a sign of goodness.
Via bbc.co.uk
Now, let me reveal that when Blair was elected British prime minister, I wrote a poem in his favour, called "A Star Is Born To Us." Indeed, his feelings for Africa have been very good.
Mugabe's regime has been widely condemned in the West Leaders in the West say Robert Mugabe is a demon, that he has destroyed Zimbabwe and he must be gotten rid of - but this demonising is made by people who may not understand what Robert Gabriel Mugabe and his fellow freedom fighters went through, says former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda.
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Point of order, he's not being demonised for what he went through 27 years ago, he's being demonised for what he is doing now. In fact he's not being demonised enough, we keep giving the political equivalent of a pat on the back by allowing Zimbabwe to be a member of the United Nations Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. Can anyone tell me just where the Irony stops and the Farce starts.
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At the talks, the people of Zimbabwe were assured that they were going to be independent the following year, 1980. But that wonderful news was conditional. The new government of Zimbabwe was not to deal with land issues but was to "leave that in the hands of the British government".
Mugabe was a long-time opponent of Ian Smith. Nationalists from Zimbabwe accepted this rather harsh and complicated condition.
The Thatcher government had begun to deal with the land issue, as did her successor, John Major. But when Tony Blair took over in 1997, I understand that some young lady in charge of colonial issues within that government simply dropped doing anything about it.
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Hey Skeezit, if you're gonna sprinkle a few facts in, at least complete the story. The land distribution was indeed left in the hands of the British, who proceeded to purchase the farms from the white farmers on a willing buyer-willing seller basis, and passing them onto the government for redistribution. This was working well, until the British government realised the land was not being redistributed, but was being given to government ministers, with no interest in farming, who proceeded to use prime farmland as weekend retreats. In other words the common man was not benefiting, and in this situation it made more economic sense to leave the farms in the hands of white farmers who at least were farming the land, providing jobs and a input into the economy. And i suppose a bloke in the pub told you about the "some young lady in charge of colonial issues" dropping the land distribution thing.
Mugabe's regime has been widely condemned in the West Leaders in the West say Robert Mugabe is a demon, that he has destroyed Zimbabwe and he must be gotten rid of - but this demonising is made by people who may not understand what Robert Gabriel Mugabe and his fellow freedom fighters went through, says former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda.
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Point of order, he's not being demonised for what he went through 27 years ago, he's being demonised for what he is doing now. In fact he's not being demonised enough, we keep giving the political equivalent of a pat on the back by allowing Zimbabwe to be a member of the United Nations Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. Can anyone tell me just where the Irony stops and the Farce starts.
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At the talks, the people of Zimbabwe were assured that they were going to be independent the following year, 1980. But that wonderful news was conditional. The new government of Zimbabwe was not to deal with land issues but was to "leave that in the hands of the British government".
Mugabe was a long-time opponent of Ian Smith. Nationalists from Zimbabwe accepted this rather harsh and complicated condition.
The Thatcher government had begun to deal with the land issue, as did her successor, John Major. But when Tony Blair took over in 1997, I understand that some young lady in charge of colonial issues within that government simply dropped doing anything about it.
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Hey Skeezit, if you're gonna sprinkle a few facts in, at least complete the story. The land distribution was indeed left in the hands of the British, who proceeded to purchase the farms from the white farmers on a willing buyer-willing seller basis, and passing them onto the government for redistribution. This was working well, until the British government realised the land was not being redistributed, but was being given to government ministers, with no interest in farming, who proceeded to use prime farmland as weekend retreats. In other words the common man was not benefiting, and in this situation it made more economic sense to leave the farms in the hands of white farmers who at least were farming the land, providing jobs and a input into the economy. And i suppose a bloke in the pub told you about the "some young lady in charge of colonial issues" dropping the land distribution thing.
Let's also recall that in the referendum by the Zimbabwe government on whether the land should be reclaimed, the Zimbabwean people voted no to forcibly taking the land from white farmers. The Zimbabwean Government went ahead and started taking the land anyway.
Any good news article should end with a prayer, and KK does not disappoint:
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It is also my humble prayer that South African President Thabo Mbeki and his regional colleagues will meet Robert Gabriel Mugabe, who will be ready in his soul, mind, and body to respond to the advice they give him and the people of Zimbabwe
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Not liking the odds of the "Right Honourable Comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe" being ready in his soul, mind and body to respond to advice. Even if he is named after one of the Archangels.
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Mad Bob is evil.
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